j.w wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 1:39 am
@brokensword I water all the trees we planted on the property except the Leyland Cypress's. I do not water all the Douglas Firs and What I think are called Eastern Red Cedar trees and Filbert trees and Vine Maple's that the county planted around our common area. They are native and can live on their own w/whatever water they get.
Maybe you can tell me if this is an Eastern Red Cedar tree?
Here you can see where are driveway splits up the 80 trees:
Don't mind the grass, we don't water it and it turns brown every Summer. Always turns back to green when the rains return tho.
Lots of other trees all over the property like these:
Dayum, I kid re the size the Annex property but you really do seem to be on king'sland for sure! Lots of space, more than I'd have thought! I don't think I've ever seen/been around an easter cedar; around here, we have spruces and pines, but not a whole lotta cedar, eastern or otherwise, so you may have to sleuth that one yourself.
I've only sorta gotten more into trees around here, the past 5 years or so, having a basic yard with silver maples, Norway maples, some sumacs and choke cherry. Had poplar until I realized it was the tree that gives off the white cotton seeds every spring, and had it cut down; no mess like that in MY yard, despite some from other neighbors/the woods nearby, gives me some. I did plant a black maple upon building the house and we do have some sassafrass trees (a nice rarity for me).
Over time, added the redbuds, magnolias, liliacs, rose of sharons, a Colorado blue spruce, the dawn redwood, some sort of juniper from a sprig in one of my customer's beds I was clearing out, two French lilacs, a black locust, a white pine and 2 red pines and regular and laceleaf Japanese maples, 2 red maples, river birch, wisteria 'tree', white and purple crabapple, a Kwanzan cherry, a weeping cherry and a Bing cherry. Last year, got another spruce that's supposed to be yellowy but pics lie and it's lighter but far from yellowy. 2 years ago, grew some golden chain (laburnum, I think) and 3 survived though only 1 looks like a tree and is thriving. Also grew a Japanese lilac from seed; it's okay but not exactly taking off just yet. Got a Korean spice (more a bush but I let it grow tall and pretend it's a tree) during the ponding years, and ordered two small ones last year; one for the pondhouse and another just outside it; it's got one of the best scents you ever smelled and figured since the wind blows from the west, the smell would get INTO the pondhouse along with the one I planted. We'll see, both are maybe 30".
Oh, and last year too, I ordered 5 ginkgoes after I had one of my choke cherry trees cut down (had ants, was half dead) and they all survived their first winter. Might regret this but figure I'll be either gone or senile when they get old enough for ONE of them to be a female tree (supposedly, the fruit of the female ginkgo smells horribly!). They turn a very cool yellowy color in autumn and the shape of the leaf makes them a bit unique during this time, re fall color display. They CAN get very large and honestly, I didn't think all 5 would survive their first winter! Gonna be a ginkgo cluster for sure, in the future!
And I got into more trees later in life simply because on some of our 'fall color' tours, I figured we needed more variety around the place re color, so started thinking of needing less grass area (better when the kids were growing up as opposed to now). Used to have predominantly yellow color but now, some reds have been added. Went and got a sugar maple from the Arbor people but it didn't turn orange as the ones I'd see among my customers. Would be nice to finally add that color to the scenery each autumn!
I think that about sums up the various trees around here; I don't have 80, but there IS variety!
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