[Magdalen] Horticulture.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

The Cedar Waxwings in MI loved the orange berries of the mountain ash
Lynn



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On Sep 4, 2016, at 7:50 PM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:

We always called them "hedge apples" growing up in Indiana, where they were
very hardy, too. Also on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. Ugly fruit
that looks like a green brain.

> On Saturday, September 3, 2016, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> We have Osage Oranges in our neighborhood here in the Shenandoah, and they
> are hardy as hell here (6b? although this summer was a 7 for sure!). One of
> my co-artists at the gallery makes a lovely dye from the bark. They do have
> a nasty thorn though.
> 
> We have seen a rare Cedar Waxwing at our feeder. It was either on migration
> or dreadfully off course. My friend Cathy's son once shot one in Tennessee.
> He did not intend to and in fact was shooting at a squirrel and missed. He
> felt dreadful because it was so pretty.
> 
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org <javascript:;>> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> It's amazing what they will pack into the little monthly, "Horticulture"
>> magazine.
>> 
>> There are articles in the current issue about:
>> 
>> (1) The tropical Abbey Gardens on Tresco, one of the Scilly
>> Islands off the Cornwall coast of extreme SW England.  There is
>> an immense collection of tender and often rare species.  I've
>> wanted for a long time to tour these islands which are frost
>> free secondary to being surrounded by the Gulf Stream.
>> 
>> (2) The Osage Orange tree (Maclura pomifera) which in its native
>> area is found only in East Texas and adjoining Oklahoma and
>> Arkansas.  A few specimens were planted in the Eastern USA
>> where the largest individuals of the species are found on the  properties
>> of some of the plantation owners (Jefferson, Washington, Henry).
>> I have a feeling this attractive tree would not be hardy here in zone
>> 6a, but I'm going to check into it.
>> 
>> (3) Cedar Waxwings (Bombycilla cedrorum).  I haven't had any in
>> this area of Pennsylvania, but they were commonly seen in the Upper
>> Midwest because of the great number of flowering  crabapples bearing
>> fruit there.  In their usual flock activity, they can strip a crab of
>> fruit
>> in 5 minutes.
>> 
>> David S.


-- 
Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu