I ripped out my fall bearing raspberries because they would just start ripening and a frost would end the season, they were called Double Delight. Your Butternut looks good, your going to have some digging to do. Mine from seed managed to get through the spring frosts with some male flowers intact, I am hoping for both male and female flowers next year.

Wayne - How old is your butternut? I read they start trying to produce fruit after 10 years. In cold climates I bet it's longer and even then would the nuts even have time to ripen?

1O years or so I think, the nuts were from local trees , it is the spring weather more than the fall that has the greater impact. The trees that produced the nuts are dead from disease now and only had nuts after the warmest winters, they were also shaded on the south side which did not help.

So it's possible to get nuts in a cold climate. /Interesting. Are you in MB or SK? I forgot

SK, but close to the MB border.

A very hardy rose I hybridized about five years ago, summer long blooming, though on the shy side. Photo snapped today.

Heck, why not a few more photos !!

Sure are some great intense colors coming out with potentilla! Here's 'Mandarin Tango' and 'Bella Bellissima'

My very best dahlia of the summer has been "Karma Bon Bini', a blooming fool !!

I love dahlia. beautiful

Inferno sugar maple turning early due to stress from being dug up to move!

Strawberry sundae hydrangea and weeping pussy willow standard.

Found some mushrooms in a provincial park.

My prairie splendour maple put on about 2 ft of new growth but I need to protect the trunk from sun this winter. It got some frost cracking last winter.

I have the same problem with fall-bearing raspberries. Just don't think they will make berries here. If none this year, I'll dig them up & replace with summer berries.

Hey Bill. Don’t you love naysayers? What a negative attitude eh? Which cultivar is it? My neighbours told me they couldnt grow cedars well so they kept pointing out when mine had some burn on them or they were shedding in fall. They made it seem like the 65 I planted, weren’t going to survive. Little do they know that I do this for a living and know proper cultivars and don’t buy from big box stores. Suffice to say, I’ve only lost two so far in the weirdest way. They fully burnt and none others in my yard did That winter. i Started my cedars at 3ft, four and a half yrs ago and now most are 6 to 7.5ft tall. They look incredible this year with all the rain we have got the past two summers and fertilizing. Yes some of them have had struggles from fighting with large trees for water but they recover. Only a couple aren’t very nice looking but they keep growing so I won’t let them go down.

dont listen to naysayers. I just planted a 12ft inferno maple. I’ll take pics tomorrow.

Thuja can burn even in my area. My new Thuja occidentalis (species) burnt sometime in the late winter but has rebounded nicely. The ones that do the best have shade/shelter to the South West and afternoon sun. The one on the NE corner of the house never burns, the one on the NW corner, with afternoon sun, burns regularly but recovers without noticeable permanent damage.

And trees can just die for no apparent reason, so unless it would happen frequently, you can't use that as a general description of the tree.

My neighbor across the street has a Red Norway maple that's not doing well. He told me how he planted it and it took 8 years for it to start growing. Weird growth and profuse suckering at the base and branches dying at the top.

Well, after him seeing my trees grow for a few years, he came over and asked if I would take a look. I could see then it was very sick, with leaves getting smaller as branches went toward the top and the elephant in the room was he had telephone poled it when planted (12-15 years ago?). I offered to get to the bottom of the problem but he didn't want to do anything. He acted like he was afraid we might damage it. :-) Oh well.

My Acer saccharum is not cultivar that I am aware of, it was a gift from a friend, who I ran into while searching the area around my old place for a tree to bring to my new place.

We drove several miles to his dad's old place and from there he showed me a spot where Sugar maples grew abundantly and vigorously, well into A. saccharums native range. So dug a sapling out, Fall 2016 according to my pictures, and brought it home.

So whatever kind it is, it's a product of nature. Guessing just species?

You’re lucky to have them growing native near you. It took our nurseries a decade to finally create a hardy one for my area. Three cultivars later and their newest one is apparently zone 2 hardy. We shall see. The fall colors it’s developing are incredible. It changed early due to being dug up. The other potted one I planted at the park is completely green still because it wasn’t dug up this year.

This is the closest I can get to have a sweetgum. Similar leaves and similar fall color. I would love to get a straight acer truncatum growing here. Almost identical to sweet gum leaves.

I like your trunk wrapping. I’m gonna do that to my prairie splendour maple this winter. I found out the hard way that they can crack. It didn’t do it the first three years.

For the low cost to buy tree tubes, it's worth it to protect the thin barked trees. I need to pick up a few more.

That's a 3" dia. tube (3 ft. L.) at the bottom of my tree. I only bought 2 of them and they are very thick/stiff and hard to get on when the weathers cool. I cut one in half to make it easier. I'll know what to look for next time.

You've probably seen this from last year, Acer rubrum in my front yard. Came through winter with flying colors.

Man, I'd love to give one of those sugar maples a try. Very cool

Yea. They were created via Jeffries Nurseries in Manitoba. They have trialed them all over the prairies and they performed flawlessly. I am looking forward to seeing how they do in my town.

Can you get them in the states? Or at least seed.? id go to great lengths to get one

Wayne & Douglas, I am a shade warmer than you in zone 4A. On average I get to harvest about 50% of my double delight crop before frost finishes them off. I just love the taste of raspberries and how easy they are to grow compared to many of the tree fruits. Raspberries are expensive at the grocery store so I am attempting to plant multiple varieties to harvest from early July through the first hard frost. Last year I planted Prelude - it is supposed to provide a floricane crop in early July. I only had a few berries this year so still to early to make a judgment on. I had forgotten, but it is now trying to push out a primocane crop. Obviously I won't get to eat any of this primocane crop. But what impressed me yesterday(a warm, calm fall day) is they were full of bees. I thought, what a great way to support my pollinators into late fall. Before you rip out your double delight I would ask, can they fill the same role for you, and feed your pollinators in the fall?

Lane. They don’t sell anything smaller than potted and they are seedless I believe. You could ask your local nursery if they bring trees in from there or talk to Montana nurseries if you’re willing. I’ve looked at Montana nurseries before and it seems they stock some jeffries trees. I know it’s a drive But if you want them that bad.... or pay for a photo syn. Certificate and I can send you cuttings in the spring if that works.

That would be amazing to get a cutting

Chinook, Yes to the bees, they seem to love raspberry flowers. Lane, I think that soil ph is a factor in how well Sugar Maple does, my soil is about 7 or neutral and they do good here until a bad winter or spring if they start coming out of dormancy. I dug out 2 Unity Sugar Maples that had died, there was dead area's near the bases but the tops were fine, they also did not want to send out suckers even though the roots looked good. I have a Lord Selkirk in a different spot that is doing fine and according to Sherwood it is a species tree that the graft had failed on. The trees here get their leaves ripped to shreds before they get a chance to thicken up. Green Mountain is one that has thicker leaves but not as hardy. I don't like how Inferno has such a pale color on the bottom side of the leaf. A Sugar Maple near the Canada/ US border in Minnesota should be hardy enough, north side of the Great Lakes would be a bit better, near Canora, Ontario.

One good thing. This year my Sugar maple finally showed some really nice colors. Fourth season in the ground. So I think it will have nice Fall color in the future. It didn't show all at the same time over the whole crown but I think that will come with a more mature root system.

Another new orange colored potentilla I've been really impressed with and showing off so nicely now is 'Lady Marmalade' ... WOW !!