Speaking of GRRing

Garden Railroading
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I sometimes feel that Dwarf Alberta Spruce trees just don’t grow.
BUT

here you can see the smaller one gal plants I just installed tonight, and the taller, going on three year old ones that have been trimmed and thinned some…
I find that you don’t “have to” make a forest all at once, each year buy a few plants and watch them grow.[:p]

I’m hoping in a few years this will be a thick , rich forest[:D]

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Hey Marty,
As usual…always interesting to see what you are up to. Canadian trees in Nebraska??? Right on. Have a few myself. Haven’t tried the trimming yet. Gonna’ let em’ grow a bit first. Later eh…Brian. [:D]

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Hey Marty,

Being a tree person, I’d suggest you add a few more species for variety (shape, colour and texture). [;)][:)][:D]

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marty
those tree’s look great on your R R your ideas are allways great .
your like a artist with a blank canvas i allways like seeing your new stuff its a real joy keep it coming!

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Marty, your definately a man of vision![8D] Thanks for bringing to the rest of us[X-)]

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Thanks, HJ, I have many other trees on the RR. This area I’m wanting a tall pine look mainly for snow shots. This is a full sun HOT area of the RR and I have to watch what goes on here. The ground cover was killed off last year and new stuff will be planted as time goes on. Again I was pleasently suprised to see how much the trees did grow.

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I’d like to get that look on my mountain. H-J, What species and varieties are you talking about, and would they survive mid atlantic coastline?

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Hey Marty those Alberta spruces are real nice . I just planted about 60 of them last week . We trimmed them before we put them in the ground . Gonna go over to Walmart maybe tomorrow and get a couple dozen more . Right now they have a nice selection and their only $3.33 each !

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Mike, 60 COOL.
I used to trim them but I lost a few. So after letting them root for a year I found they seem to do better. As I said , there is NO as in 0 shade on this Mt.
HEY, maybe I should name it ,Mt Rene???
Kinda has a "ring " to it.

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I got a mine in feb for 1:24 each ( 16 )
Don’t you just love a bargan

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Marty,
If you name that Mt. Rene, then you’re gonna hafta name the canyon under the big bridge Lewis Gulch??