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Weiser
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Re: Image of the day
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Reply #1410 on:
October 07, 2011, 11:14:34 AM »
Tenaciously clinging to life.
Pinus contorta ssp. murrayana - Lodgepole Pine
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I've always been fond of pines. They tolerate almost everything!
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Trond
Rogaland, Norway - with cool, often rainy summers (29C max) and mild, often rainy winters (180 cm/year)!
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October 07, 2011, 04:28:06 PM »
Wow! Struck by lightning, I presume. So the heartwood of the living branch must still be part of the original (dead) trunk, or else it would have broken off long ago. I suppose it is not so amazing that a new structural trunk has not formed to the ground. It doesn't need structure with old mast there. Still, it does look a weird. Isn't nature grand!
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Rick Rodich zone 4a. Annual precipitation ~24 inches
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Re: Image of the day
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Quote from: Weiser on October 07, 2011, 11:14:34 AM
Tenaciously clinging to life.
Pinus contorta ssp. murrayana - Lodgepole Pine
Fantastic! Shows exactly what the Bonsai masters are trying to recreate with their "jin" technique
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Aberdeen , North East Scotland, UK
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Weiser
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Thought since you like that photo I'd post several of a natural Bonsai growing on a shear cliff face. The cliff is an ancient pyroclastic flow that is slowly crumbling on it's face. Most of these flows are quit acidic and nutrient poor.
Here is a Pinus jeffreyi, that is literally clinging life.
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Located in Reno/Sparks,NV zone 6-7
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Some amazing photos of an amazing tree!
Thanks, John!
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Rick Rodich zone 4a. Annual precipitation ~24 inches
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Pines are happy with less, it seems. Did you climb, John?
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Trond
Rogaland, Norway - with cool, often rainy summers (29C max) and mild, often rainy winters (180 cm/year)!
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No Hoy. The surface face is almost vertical and crumbles easily.
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Located in Reno/Sparks,NV zone 6-7
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October 13, 2011, 09:06:05 PM »
All these gnarly trees have prompted me to catch up a tad on image of the day: since many days have elapsed since there was an image...and since I haven't posted in ages....I shall post a flurry of pix I took 2 weeks ago on Mt. Goliath, the Alpine Unit of Denver Botanic Gardens on the slopes of Mt. Evans, one of Colorado's highest peaks (over14,000' and 4000m high). I have had the pleasure and privilege of leading many great horticulturists down this trail including quite a few attending NARGS conferences in 1982 and 1986. Two Britons stand out: some fifteen years ago I took Roy Lancaster down this trail, and two weeks ago I took Adrian Bloom and his wife down that rocky trail: it was a warm, windless day and the aspen (
Populus tremuloides
) were in golden glory. Needless to say, I was thrilled and I think the Blooms were too. I know this is shameless namedropping, but what the heck! You only live once (at a time anyway)...
You all haven't heard much from me because of a number of trips around the country (California, North Carolina and most recently SW Colorado)... but I am back (with a vengeance) so WATCH OUT...
I know you West Coasters are going to point out that
Pinus longaeva
is much older and gnarlier than
P. aristata
...I do not deny this! They were (incidentally) considered identical until some 40 years ago when Dana Bailey, a neighbor of mine in Boulder, distinguished them...I am content to admire our merely 2000 year old behemoths!
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For every minion of the peaks there are a dozen steppe children growing in the dry Continental heart of all hemispheres still unknown to horticulture.
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Re: Image of the day
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October 16, 2011, 07:49:22 PM »
Season winding down for many. Photos from Oct 9
Charles Swanson NE MAssachusetts USA
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Re: Image of the day
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Charles, that's an awesome patch of Allium thunbergii alba!
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Mark McDonough
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Lots of colour there, Charles. What's the brilliant fuchsia flower? (I thought of
Callirhoe
but not sure... ?)
Quote from: Kelaidis on October 13, 2011, 09:06:05 PM
You all haven't heard much from me because of a number of trips around the country (California, North Carolina and most recently SW Colorado)... but I am back (with a vengeance) so WATCH OUT...
We're all very glad to hear that and can't wait to see some pix!
Those are some very picturesque old bristlecones for sure.
Continuing on that theme, here are some gnarly old limber pines (
Pinus flexilis
) from a trip to Waterton N.P. in early September... or at least I assume the skeletal ones are the same species as the living ones that were nearby(?)
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Zone 3
-30 C to +30 C (rarely!); elevation ~1130m; annual precipitation ~40 cm
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Lots of colour there, Charles. What's the brilliant fuchsia flower? (I thought of Callirhoe but not sure... ?)
From a couple of posts up. Yes Lori, bought as Calliroe involucrata. (one of the more cut-leaved forms) Much loved by my rodents, but now doing well.
Charles Swanson
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October 17, 2011, 04:15:47 PM »
Speaking of old trees: Some Swedes declare that this spruce:
http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2008/04/19/533050.html
is 9550 years old (or at least its roots! It is growing near the Norwegian border and germinated soon after the last glacial period ended.
Not so old but fancier: The Chinese lanterns, Physalis alkeengi, have gottentheir bright colours.
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Trond
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Just going through some initially rejected Dolomite images and found these two ...
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Usually wet, often windy, sometimes cold ... and that's just me!
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