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| For years, I've called this "my little red tree" because I forgot its name, and because it didn't grow very fast or very tall, but now it is about as tall as I am, which is about five foot four, and... |
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| today Dick and I planted this little fella, a "Red Baron Ninebark" which is now my little red tree and Whatsitsname is my bigger red tree. |
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| Another Whatsitsname. This is my mystery-berry bush. It might be some kind of cotoneaster, but its fruit is soft and is getting ripe, whereas... |
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| I know this one is a cotoneaster, because I remember its name, and I also looked it up online. Its fruit is hard, and stays hard after ripening to a very dark color. |
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| Blossoms on my "pink potentilla" bush. Most of the potentillas I've seen since moving to Alberta 10 years ago have yellow blossoms, so I'm very proud of my peachy-pink one, and... |
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| I'm also proud of my white potentilla flowers! |
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| I hardly have any fruit on my Nanking Cherry bushes this year, although the fruit I do have is... |
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| larger than usual. |
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| My squash garden is blossoming, but I don't seem to be growing very many actual squashes. |
Addendum: Thanks to two commenters, Carola B. and Jinksy, for suggesting my first Whatsitsname is a smoke bush. Jinksy further identified it as a cotinus coggyria Royal Purple, which indeed it is, but its common name"smoke bush" is easier for me to remember. Thanks, both of you!
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