I was at a nursery and fell in love with a variegated Norway Maple. My 13 year old son is participating in a football camp, and I convinced him that digging holes builds upper body strength. So, we planted the tree. I placed it near my bird feeder area in my back yard. The new tree is about ten feet away from the feeders, while the woods are around 25 feet away. Birds are flying to the new tree when they leave the feeders.
I have a new tree! In the backyard, and it’s just budding now, and it’s all slender and spindly and gorgeous–I’ll get the name of it and post some pictures here later…
Well Sir, I’m a tree aficionado…that is a beautiful specimen you have there - great way to get the young man to do some work too!
I’ve been an active member of our local (CT) large tree census for quite a while. Basically, we use historical docs and old photo’s to find trees that are 1,2,3,4 hundred years old. Really fun stuff!
I had an ornamental plum die 2 weeks ago . The soil here is horrible . It’s tough to get anything to live for long. I keep trying though . Congrats to you though.
Omegaman: I have a friend in Vegas who has trouble with trees, but her ancient grape vines produce some awesome wine.
My previous favorite trees on my property were some weeping willows that I planted last year, and three huge tulip trees that are growing in my woods. Along with the maple, I planted five hostas in my woods. My son couldn’t fathom why I put time/money into a planting that nobody would ever see.
Here’s a personal question: how much did it set you back? I’ve been obsessing lately about the price of trees, given that my yard is filled with unwanted weed trees, some of which, grown to a decent height, could be worth money. Maybe I should just chuck my office job and go into the nursery business.
Sorry, I didn’t mean funny in a bad way, I meant funny in that I’d take a good long look at such a tree if I ever come across one. It’ll be spectacular!
I’ve seen a couple Japanese Maples around town with decidedly pink leaves. Not reddish pink, or brownish pink as most of the linked pics show, but pink, all summer long. I don’t know if it’s a particular cultivar or not, but it might be what you’re looking for. It’d offset that white beautifully.
I have a Japanese Maple in m y front yard, although it is the common red leaved variety. I’ll have to look around and see if I can find pink, it sounds cool.
Here is another (small) tree, also variegated. It is a dogwood variety called Wolf Eyes (Cornus kousa).
It was my favorite at one time.
That is gorgeous. I’ll have to look into getting one of those next time we need to replace a tree.
We just had one of these installed. Our last remaining Leyland Cypress went over in a windstorm about 6 weeks ago. The serviceberry is native (well, this is a hybrid, but the basic tree is native to the area) which was important to me, it’ll look nice in the spring, and it’ll attract birds for the fruit. It will also fit our small yard a lot better at maturity than the Leyland would have. IIRC it cost about 650 to remove the fallen tree and install this. It’d be considerably cheaper to purchase and plant one myself but we didn’t have the time/energy/back muscles/chainsaw required.
I also fell in love with a Kalmia (Olympic Wedding) when I went to the garden center to pick up some more hostas. The flower petals have multiple colors, and even the buds look totally cool. They look like dollops of cake frosting made with a star tip. I went home, thought about it, did some research, and decided that I HAD to have it. Went back the next day, and (gasp) couldn’t find it. Fortunately, it had just been moved to another spot, so it went home with me They had other varieties of kalmia shrubs, but none of their flowers were as stunning.
1 Pear, Seckel Late Summer
1 Sweet Cherry Stella Mid-summer
1 Peach Red Haven Summer
1 Kasper’s Winter Late Fall-Winter.
5 Abies balsamea Balsam Fir
5 Majestic’ Colorado Blue Spruce
10 Gooseberries, Pixwell
4 unkown pine trees ( from my sons school Arbor Day )
Last year 6 apple trees. All still alive and doing well. Watered every day last summer.
Year before that 6 apple trees ( 2 have died), 10 white ash (several have died), 2 sugar maples, white oak (died, lack of water?. We had a dry summer and I was only watering once a week, most likely not enough.
I learned last year to water well 1st year thru Septemeber, aprox 7 gallons each day, rain or not, per instructions.
I bought my trees online from Arbor day, Fedco trees, and St. Lawrence Nurseries.
? Was I whooshed? That is the very picture that convinced me to get the tree.
They had other varieties of kalmia shrubs, but none of their flowers were as stunning.