Name that tree

[hw]

Hi everyone. We took a day trip to Sequoia yesterday, it was beautiful. My question is does anyone know what those trees are called with the beautiful purple/pink blossoms? They are scattered throughout the evergreens. Would these trees survive in the Central Valley with our 100 degree plus weather in the summer? Outdoorbare, do you know? Thanks for any help.
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[hw]

Hi everyone. We took a day trip to Sequoia yesterday, it was beautiful. My question is does anyone know what those trees are called with the beautiful purple/pink blossoms? They are scattered throughout the evergreens. Would these trees survive in the Central Valley with our 100 degree plus weather in the summer? Outdoorbare, do you know? Thanks for any help.
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[bigbird]

The Larch.

ROFL!

*looks around*

Oh, forget it.

I pray somewhere, a Monty Python fan is reading this. Otherwise, I'm looking like a complete moron here.

[hw]

Yes Bigbird, and your point is ??????????????????
Gamblefish, Suntied, Outdoorbare, ercNY, anyone, explain please. My blondness is coming out again. /infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif

[gamblefish]

Uhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmm...if I had to guess, I would say it's a Monty Python thing.

Oh yeah, DUH!! It says so right at the bottom of post...I must be blonde too...

[hw]

Good answer gamblefish, I knew I could count on you. It's just so obvious, Monty Python, why didn't I think of that? Now what about the tree? /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[bigbird]

Yep, I'm looking like a moron right about now.

Sorry.

[Bob S.]

bigbird, your not a moron yet, your getting better!

OK, so my Monty Python knowledge is basically limited to a very few scenes from "Flying Circus" and the movies, "...and the Search for the Holy Grail" and "The Life of Brian".

Now that would be an intersting group, Nudist Monty Python fan club.

Bob S.

[gamblefish]

OK, I'll join...but there will be NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO singing, understood!?!

[gamblefish]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by hw:
Good answer gamblefish, I knew I could count on you. It's just so obvious, Monty Python, why didn't I think of that? Now what about the tree? /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Well, of course they are "beautiful purple/pink blossom trees"...DUH!!!!

OK seriously hw, I have no clue. Who do I look like, Professor Gumby?!

[wannabenaked2001]

Do I need to bring a shrubbery? /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

[bigbird]

Must...not...make...tasteless...bush joke!

[tarsus]

well i guess that rules out naming it the "dubya"
tree.

[hw]

No, gamblefish, you look like Alfred E. Nueman to me! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[gamblefish]

No, Alfred looks like me!!

[tarsus]

gamblefish don't you hate it when your cover gets blowed like that?

to h.w. i do not know the name of your tree, but most likely it would not live long in your area.
like dogwoods and pawpaw's it most likly needs moderate temps and shady areas to grow.
hope that is some help to you.

[hw]

Thanks Tarsus, You made my day. Guess I'll just have to go back to the mountains to enjoy these trees. No down side to that. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Hi Hw ...The Trees you mentioned are Redbud ...Cercis canadensis ...even though they are more purple than red. I have some growing across the street from my home here in the lowlands where it gets up to 105 in the Summer.They are fairly easy to grow.They can be spectacularly beautiful in March along Hwy 140 leading into Yosemite too

[EricNY]

These tree's sure sound nice!!

HW, could you or some one take a picture and post it. Would like to see what your local forest and yards look like.

I have never been to California and would love to see some of the landscape. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

ercNY

Sorry..I just looked it up in my plant manual and the California native is Cercis occidentalis...Western Redbud...also known as the Judas Tree.

[hw]

Thanks outdoorbare, so it can survive in hot temps. That's great.
*************************************************
ercNY, everything here is pretty and green, for now. Come summer, most of it will be brown. My roses are starting to bloom, will try to post some of them. I have one that blooms both yellow and red roses! We also have some beautiful pictures of a beach on the coast. Will try to send those also. We have mostly agriculture here so there are lots of fields here. Hope to here from y'all soon. /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

[tarsus]

a redbud? this just confirms what i have always known,all trees look alike. sorry about bad info, thank you outdoor bare. maybe i will just "stick" to jokes,not "bark" just to hear the wind blow,
and hope not to fall out of my own tree again, as it's an ugly tree and last time i hit very branch
on the way down.

tarsus...Actually the redbud is more like a bush ...but I thought I'd better not go there... /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[hw]

Outdoorbare......Why not go into the bush? I have 6 mature rose-bushes, and just recently added 3 more. They are just starting to bloom. Hope we'll have some of those beautiful colors for Easter. On a side note, my neighbor told me to prune the rose bushes in January so I could have a nice, full bush in the spring. I told her I already had one. /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[gamblefish]

Do NOT go into the bush, outdoorbare!!
There are voices in there and they will make you do terrible, terrible things!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAARRRGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[hw]

OK Gamblefish, Keep on making jokes about the voices and they'll take over your brain too!!!!
Oops! Too Late!!!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

hw ..Actually I was thinking of Pres Bush..but your bushes are much more interesting... /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif My roses are just starting to form buds..We still had frost a few days ago at the 700 ft elev. I did prune them in January...Much shorter than I usually do....Double Delight is one of my favorites. /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

[hw]

Outdoorbare, I do not know the names of many of my bushes(Gamblefish,new topic?), but I have one called sterling silver. The blooms are light purple color with very few thorns. I now have nine rose bushes in my front yard. I have some that are varigated orange/yellow/red with such great fragrance.
I hope to plant my backyard with roses some day. I think roses are my favorite flowering plant. Not only do they do well in the heat, it seems I have a green thumb with them. Houseplants are a whole other story. I have killed airferns and cactus! Duh! How hard can it be to take care of a plant that doesn't require regular water? I guess I'll just stick with outdoor plants for now.
Good Day! /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[tarsus]

rofl.
as a man soon to enter his 50's i enjoy being my childerns worse nightmare.
my fav shirt says "you are just jealous because the voices talk to me". after all i do have to wear something to work and the grocery. also,
i do wish someone would tell me why butterfly bushes are called that. have not seen one butterfly since planting three years ago.

[tarsus]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by hw:
Outdoorbare, I do not know the names of many of my bushes(Gamblefish,new topic?), but I have one called sterling silver. The blooms are light purple color with very few thorns. I now have nine rose bushes in my front yard. I have some that are varigated orange/yellow/red with such great fragrance.
I hope to plant my backyard with roses some day. I think roses are my favorite flowering plant. Not only do they do well in the heat, it seems I have a green thumb with them. Houseplants are a whole other story. I have killed airferns and cactus! Duh! How hard can it be to take care of a plant that doesn't require regular water? I guess I'll just stick with outdoor plants for now.
Good Day! /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>hw, my oldest girl kills everything she touches,
i think you and her may be blessed with a "browntumb". i will tell her she is not the last of her race. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[hw]

Tarsus Tell your daughter for me "You Go Girl". I only have luck with outdoor plants, not to be confused with oudoorbare plants. Pun intended.
I'm down with kids and nightmares. I also have a love of T-shirts that show off my attitude! I have one that says, "Talk Show Material". That one is so beyond true it's scary.
Good Day /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[fred950]

hw.. Yogo Girl, Why thanks for the suggestion. My 16 year old just asked me if I would buy her a car.

[hw]

fred950
No problem, the voices tell me what to say. They tell me you want to play the game too. They think Gamblefish and I are just too much alike. They said we need some new players.
............So will you come and play with us in the Poets Corner sandbox? Pretty Please? /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[gamblefish]

C'mon Fred
Don't get red
come play with us
and we'll put sand on yer head.

[Jochanaan]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by tarsus:
a redbud? this just confirms what i have always known,all trees look alike. sorry about bad info, thank you outdoor bare. maybe i will just "stick" to jokes,not "bark" just to hear the wind blow,
and hope not to fall out of my own tree again, as it's an ugly tree and last time i hit very branch
on the way down. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>All trees look alike, do they? Well, let me tell you, there's a huge difference between a scrubby oak tree in the Nebraska Sandhills, an exquisite cherry tree in Washington, D.C., and an utterly majestic Sequoia in the Sierra Nevada. There's even a large difference between a tall, straight spruce at 9,000 feet (about 3,000 meters for you Europeans) in Colorado and the same kind reduced to a bush at timberline. So don't go barking your shin on the wrong tree. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif Woof!

P.S. I wonder if the National Forest Service has branch offices? /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[tarsus]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Jochanaan:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by tarsus:
a redbud? this just confirms what i have always known,all trees look alike. sorry about bad info, thank you outdoor bare. maybe i will just "stick" to jokes,not "bark" just to hear the wind blow,
and hope not to fall out of my own tree again, as it's an ugly tree and last time i hit very branch
on the way down. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>All trees look alike, do they? Well, let me tell you, there's a huge difference between a scrubby oak tree in the Nebraska Sandhills, an exquisite cherry tree in Washington, D.C., and an utterly majestic Sequoia in the Sierra Nevada. There's even a large difference between a tall, straight spruce at 9,000 feet (about 3,000 meters for you Europeans) in Colorado and the same kind reduced to a bush at timberline. So don't go barking your shin on the wrong tree. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif Woof!

P.S. I wonder if the National Forest Service has branch offices? /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>well remember i live in centeral ky. nothing here
except open fields and horses it seems.eastern ky has all the trees /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif .
and yes they do have branch offices--but they are always "leaving" you out on a limb and will cut you off if you ask questions!
oh give me a break. i work 12 hour shifts and i am just dead wood right now; so bye. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[hw]

Dead wood, tarsus? Even after a 12 hour shift, you still got it! That was funny. Go get some sleep. /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

[tarsus]

thank you, thank you h.w. [standing bowing to everyone]. oak k, better leave em laughing. [is that rotten tomatoes i smell?] /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

[hw]

Tarsus, now see what good nights sleep just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy.....I did not mean you actually had to feel.......never mind.
Have a good one or two. /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

http://www.laspilitas.com/plants/pictures/a191.jpg

Cercis occidentalis

[hw]

Thanks, cyndiann.....I sure hope ercNY catches this post......He wanted to see what these trees looked like. We didn't take any pictures of the trees while we were there and I don't know when we'll get back up the hill. Thanks again. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[EricNY]

Wow!!! nice tree, do the flowers last long?
Also how do you spell cercis occidentalis?

[tarsus]

my final post here, i promise.
yes i do feel all warm and fuzzy just like an old bear[my childerns nickname for me].
although not directed toward me;your picture cyndiann is beauiful. do you have a large area for planting? i am finally off for two days so maybe if weather holds,i can mow, till and plant.
well off to sleep,perchance to dream.

[Naturist Mark]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ercNY:
Also how do you spell cercis occidentalis? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Very carefully... (http://joolsc.net/ftp/monty/sounds/DIFICULT.WAV)

[Bartamus]

Hw and Gamblefish: While I admire your clever repartee..I think your efforts would be much better appreciated under our "Jokes/Humor" thread down below.
Thanks the Mgmt

[Suntied]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by naturistmark1:
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Guess BORING = STUPID cause you didn't get it... or did you? /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif I got it... but I still can't spell "itt"... was that right, left, drivers side or passengers side??? /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Nice tree Cyndiann, us northerners have to spell all kinds of weird stuff to get blooms like that!

REBEL YELL!!!!
/infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif Suntied /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

[hw]

Hey Bartamus, thanks for the heads-up. I'm not complaining about anyone hijacking this post and I did start it. But did you catch that picture cyndiann posted? That tree is why this post was started in the first place. I really don't mind the humor and I can't spell the name either, Suntied. /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif
Have a good evening! /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif