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["William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>]

> The strange thing about St. Lawrence Nursery is that they don't believe in 
> dwarf trees.
>   


That was a problem for me, too. But I still bought some plum trees from 
them, because I thought that plums would be just a small tree anyway, 
and that I would be able to summer prune them to keep them small. I only 
planted them in April, 2006, but I'm already wondering about my 
assumptions. They are VERY vigorous, and summer pruning has been harder 
than I expected (for one thing, I hate to keep pruning when it's 
horribly hot and dry - which describes the whole of our summers). Still, 
I seemed to have a hard time finding any DWARF plums.

Um,... and I must admit that I think I planted them on top of where the 
old outhouse used to be, which probably didn't help matters any.

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

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