Thank you! :)
Everybody here grows Bradford pears (I wouldn't like the smell so close to the house) and Yoshino cherry trees (which would get too wide for the space).
I think I might just need to pick a non-flowering tree for the shade aspect, then go with some red flowering, shade tolerant...
Ha! I haven't run across ANYTHING I couldn't kill. Except for kudzu and nandina. lol
Here's a pic of the space. This shrub (I'm leaning more toward tree now, for shading the porch.) needs to go on the left of the picture, in the corner of the house and the porch. Left side of the house is...
Border of 7 & 8. Central Georgia.
I'm looking at red flowering dogwoods currently (I didn't know they came in RED red). We have native dogwoods here that do great with a touch of shade, so clearly the soil isn't a problem for them.
Woah you lost me there. lol But then you came back to earth.
Ahhhhh - so... hormones do it all? How cool!
Thank you for the Wiki-link. Off to check it out!
Rooting tree cuttings seems to be a really inexpensive way to grow trees.
But after thinking on this a bit today, something puzzles me.
Let's say I want a fig tree. So I find someone with a fig tree, cut some twigs from it and root them.
Now, I should expect that little switch of a branch...
For the front of our house. I want a shrub or maybe small tree to go in front of the house, off the side of the porch. Height needs to be at least 3 feet.
Our house faces south, with no shade at all on this spot except for very early in the morning. It will need to take absolutely BRUTAL...