Last week I made up around 3 dozen super tress that are sold by Woodland Scenery. I was finally sick of making tress so I threw 4 back into the plastic shoe box I soak them in and let them sit for a week. There was just a tad of water in the shoe box.
Today, I was ready to make more tress and open the box. To my surprise, the tress looked a little white and odd? When I looked closer I saw the seeds where sprouting, looked like Bean Sprouts!
For the fun of it, what steps would I use to grow the tress? Tress I am talking about should be dead now, let them set out and dry. But, if I want to grow a batch what steps should I do? It is not to save money, tress are pretty cheap at my LHS. It would be neat to say I grew my own tress.
I remember reading somewhere that the Supertree plants were tricky to try and cultivate. Somebody had tried it and started a thread about the attepmt on a forum someplace, though that’s all gone from my memory now.
I never checked out the suitability of the boxwood shrubs under my dining room window because they keep their leaves through the winter, making the branch structure hard to make out. Right next to them, though, is a spirea bush that yielded the armatures for these home-grown trees:
Give it a try and report. They grow in the far north tundra, so need cold and water. The first step would be to find out what they really were. With the proper name, some florist or green house ought to know. Lets get some research going. I, too, like making trees from stuff I grow and find.
Here is a link I found, though it still does not tell the name of the plant nor how to grow it.
I heard them refered to as Scandanavian tumbleweed one time. Kind of make sense with the referal to the far north tundra. Maybe they will grow in Western New York then.Hmmm…
Haven’t delt with super trees, get some starter soil and let them grow and see what happens.
I have some sedum that I planned to use for trees. When I bought my plants last spring the fellow at the nursery let me clip off the dead heads from his from the previous year, said he was only going to compost them. They seem pretty good. Unfortunately mine didn’t do so hot this year. Can someone tell me (and everyone else reading this) when the best time to harvest the heads is. I thought I wanted to let them dry naturally on the plant and get them in the spring, should I have harvested in the fall or was I too late this spring? Maybe it was just a rough winter.
I believe that the plant in question is Sea Foam Moss. It isn’t really a moss, but a low growing shrub called Teloxys aristata ‘Sea Foam’ Chenopodiaceae that is found mainly in the Gobi desert area of China and Mongolia. Dried plants are imported into Europe where they have long been used by miniaturists of all kinds to model trees. It seems to be an annual plant that needs a semi-arid environment, so it might grow well in the southwestern U.S.
A vendor at a show told me the shake in the bottom of the bag was full of seeds.(WOW! flash back!)
I was under the impression that colder , arid climate was necessary. I planned to try it if I ever get around to ordering some.
Ivanhen, I am not a English Professor either, but I did spell Grew right! [:D]
Little shocked to see so many people answered this posting. Latter I will look over the links better. If I find the time I will take the trees that started to grow to local nursery and see what they think.
One thing that did cross my mind, with the seeds spouting roots there would be more plant to hold the foam. Make the tree look a little fuller.
