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New Trees at Our Little Acre – and a Giveaway!<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Fall is a great time to plant trees and we’ve been doing some of that here at Our Little Acre<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Last month, I drove over to another corner of our state, to Lake County.\u00a0 That’s almost to Pennsylvania, and don’t make too sharp of a turn left, our you’ll get your feet wet in Lake Erie.\u00a0 I had a nice three-day visit with my friend, Maria Zampini, and got to meet her mom, dad, brother, son, and two aunts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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\"Maria,If you’ve never met Maria, you may not know what a force in the horticulture industry she is.\u00a0 The woman makes me tired just watching her.\u00a0 In addition to being the founder of\u00a0Upshoot<\/a>, which provides sales, marketing, and licensing of new plant introductions, she works with her father, brother, and aunt in the family nursery,\u00a0\u00a0Lake County Nursery<\/a>, home to many familiar introductions, including those great Round Table Series crabapples, like Lancelot\u00ae<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and Guinevere\u00ae<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Maria is also a past president of\u00a0ONLA<\/a>\u00a0(Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association) – the only female to ever hold that office to date.\u00a0 Not only that, she is the Director of Plant Development for the\u00a0HGTV HOME Plant Collection<\/a>\u00a0and is a published author, contributing to many publications, and is a much sought after speaker, traveling the world to further horticulture in numerous ways.\u00a0 Oh, and she just signed a contract to write a book with my publisher,\u00a0St. Lynn’s Press<\/a>.\u00a0 See?\u00a0 And that’s only part of her schedule of activities.<\/p>\n

Lake County Nursery is responsible for the introduction of the very popular Snow Fountains\u00ae<\/strong>\u00a0weeping cherry tree<\/a>, which we’ve had for umpteen years (meaning I don’t remember when we got it), and we, in all of our then-uneducation wisdom, planted it a little too close to the front of our house. But selective pruning (to the point of bordering on abusive) has kept it looking good nonetheless. I doubt we amended our heavy clay soil when we planted it either. This is one tough tree.<\/p>\n

Maybe you remember this little video I made a couple of years ago, when that thing was a-buzzin’ with bees while it bloomed its heart out:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n