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Recovering Workaholic
Join Date: Aug-2002
Location: Orange County NY
Country: USA
Posts: 647
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My Fat Honeysuckle
This is my fat honeysuckle which I collected from our backyard in Maine. I'd highly recommend this genus for anyone who wants something that will develop quickly. This specimen was in tough shape when I collected it. A main trunk had broken and was dead, and the interior of the tree, it turned out, had rotted and was hollow. You can see in the picture that you can see right through it where I carved out the rotten wood.
The tree is approximately 65 years old. All the growth you see is new this year. If I had let the shoots grow out untouched they would easily be over 3 feet long by now. The tree at present is 24" high not counting the pot, which is a 20" pot.
Craig Cowing
Zone 5b+
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I'm not finished yet, neither are my trees.
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