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Turtle_35206
Cordele, GA
January 27, 2008
8:42 PM Post #4462313
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I spent about an hour out today looking at spots where I had seen possible plants. I dug up the wild roses, at least I hope that is what I dug up. They had amazing twisted roots that I think can be raised to form a stem if they survive transplanting. The leaf looks a lot like a dew berry leaf, but there are differences. The dew berry plants around here have a white reverse and my collected rose is greenon the reverse. Also the rose has some leaves that have five leaflets and the brambles have only three.
I also dug up (yes, you can laugh at this) a honeysuckle vine that has been cut back so repeatedly, that it had a basal stem of over an inch in diameter topped by a rosette of sprouts. That one is going to be fun to play with this spring. I also found a tiny winged elm that was growing in the dirt that had accumulated over the concrete apron along a fence. It is almost perfectly shaped for one of those tiny mame pots that need to be watered ten times a day in warm weather. I believe I will pot it in a very porous soil and put it on a wick like the African violet growers do.
Out of pity, I purchased a fig walsai and repotted it, I know that warmer weather is preferable for repotting, but I can't stand that glued gravel. Since I had to take the fig out of the pot to get that stony junk off, I combed the roots and repotted it in a clay pot.
It has a n ice curve to the trunk, but also has one humongous scar on the upper trunk. However, it will make a fun beginners tree to play with styling.
Beth
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