112—Uncuttur Fanning, Saturday, July 14,1984
Summertime is flower time and
it’s also prime time for annuals.
Annual flowers are easy to grow in
all areas of Pennsylvania and
there are varieties suited to almost
every growing condition. The most
popular are marigolds, petunias,
geraniums, ageratums and zin
nias, but there are many others to
choose from, depending on your
landscape needs, according to C.
R. Bryan, Jr. Delaware County
cooperative extension service
director.
If you can get to it right away,
there still may be time to start
annuals from seed sow them
directly into your garden where
you want them to bloom. You can
also buy started plants from
garden centers and greenhouses.
Many of these have already
begun to bloom so you can select
the colors you want. One of the nice
things about annuals is that if you
make the wrong decision about
color, form, or height you can
always change your mind and
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plant something else next year.
Here are some general guidelines
to help you have color from now to
frost:
• Start with vigorous, healthy
plants or seeds. Either buy quality
plants or sow fresh seed this is
not the time to look for weak and
spindly bargains.
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• Prepare soil in flower beds
thoroughly and spade it deeply.
• Set out plants or sow seeds
according to packet recom
mendations or advice from the
garden center. Young plants set
out too early may be killed by late
frost and seed sown into cold soil
may rot.
• Allow enough space between
maturing plants so they can
develop to their full potential.
Selecting annuals requires a little
thought. Before your buy, decide
what will do best in a specific
landscape area. Too many flowers
used at random can destroy your
garden theme, while well chosen
colors, textures and sizes can
complement your permanent
shrubs and trees.
Used in mass, annuals can
brighten the dark foliage of
background shrubs and are at
tractive as filler between small
plants in a planting area. Annuals
are also good to overplant in beds
of spring bulbs that have flowered
and faded. As you make your
choices, consider height at
maturity so that you place tall
annuals behind low bedding
varieties.
Sow seeds directly if you want to
cover large areas with annuals or
if you have a tight budget. For best
results use fresh seed.
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The state with the largest
number of national champions is
Florida, followed by Michigan,
Texas, California, and Oregon. The
biggest trees of all, the sequoias,
and the tallest, the redwoods, are
m California.
Once it is champion of a species,
a tre stays on the National
Register until it dies, is destroyed,
or as in most cases, is dethroned by
a bigger tree. Only six trees on the
original list, published in 1945,
have never been toppled from their
positions.
One of them is the biggest tree of
all, the granddaddy giant sequoia
known as the General Sherman.
More than 3,500 years old, the
California tree stands 275 feet tall
and is more than 83 feet around.
In the East, Maryland’s 400-
year-old Wye Oak on the Eastern
Shore of the Chesapeake Bay has
never lost its original title as
largest white oak. With branches
spreading out 158 feet, it is wider
than it is tall.
Another original, the largest
California nutmeg-141 feet tall
was chopped down by vandals in
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1982. There’s no way the National
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for its champions, says Frances A.
Hunt, director of the Forestry
Association’s Big Tree Program.
But calling attention to their size
may help save them.
Affinity for Champions
One of the champion hunters of
champion trees, Richard Salzer,
an Annandale, Va. home
improvement contractor, has
found about a dozen of the current
national champions, including the
largest fringetree, growing on
George Washington’s Mount
Vemon estate.
“I’m always out in the woods,”
Salzer said. “I’m just a tree lover
from a way back. I don’t know
why, but I seem to be attracted to
big trees. I’ll be walking through
the woods, sit down under a tree to
eat, look up, and usually find that
it’s some kind of champion.”
There have been thousands of
trees in his life, Salzer estimates.
And to him “nothing is more
beautiful. Trees are just like
humans, they live and breathe.
I’ve been told I’ll be a tree in the
next life. If that’s true, I would
want to be an oak.” A champion, of
course.
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