Jeff and I spent several hours on Sunday planning where we're planting trees on the AL property next week! He has around 80 trees being delivered, think the biggest ones are in 20 gallon pots, smallest in 3 gallon, everything from oaks to a fringe tree. We used the map we got when we had our land surveyed and marked circles relatively to scale on it based on the maximum size for the type of tree. Tried to position them so we had a good mix of huge trees (eventually!) mixed in with spring flowering ones and fall color...I was surprised at how much space those 80 small (now) trees will eventually (I hope and pray) cover when they mature. Don't know if I'll see most of that, maybe Alayna (daughter) will see them in her lifetime!
These trees will be next to the road and across it, we don't plan to put anything in our build envelope until the house is up. Figured we can get more bang for the buck planting smaller trees now that will hopefully be growing well when we build, then bring in larger trees around the house when we're actually there to take care of them! The smaller ones we're doing now should have less transplant shock, hopefully they'll do okay. A bit anxious to see how the test peony garden is doing, they have had so much rain down there from fall until now....
