Dkozi

Hey Earthgirl great finds and I'm glad to see native trees being saught after. You mentioned you didn't have much on Pinions. Well I'm not sure as far as how my fascination started but I wound up growing some I got out of the supermarket. They orignated from Demming New Mexico. Now that I think of it, it was after getting some inspiration from reading off of Jerry Meislic's home page where he talks about seeing what you can grow from the super market. Any way not to get too side tracked. But I wound up getting a book by the name of "Pinion Pine A natural and Cultural History by Ronald M Lanner". Quite fascinating to read. He is a professor out in Utah I believe. I actually got a chance to talk to him on line and told him how much I enjoyed his book. You might find it equally fascinating. It goes into distiguishing between the species of Pine nut producing pines of which there is only about 12 world wide and 8 of which are in North America. There is some talk about hardiness of particular species and if I'm not mistaken soil might also be in there. Have a look if you get a chance you might find it helpful. -dkozi