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Jan 10, 2012 3:46 PM CST
Name: Kathleen Tenpas
Wickwire Corners NY (Zone 5a)
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Ok, ladies, I am math impaired and can see woods out windows on all sides of the house, so you get no numbers from me! Let me just say that we are at the point that any tree has to have a specific site picked before it comes in the yard. The previous owners planted a goodly number, in mostly bad places: on the south side of the house is a plantation of evergreens that block the winter sun. On the western side are a cedar break - good wind protection and an acre of evergreens that block the sunset most of the year. They did plant a nice native rhododendron in front of the house ( I know most people think of them as shrubs, but this one is 20 feet high - tree status I'd say). I have a red bud that's more shrub than tree, the main trunk died and it has come up from the stump. It only bloomed once as a tree, I'm waiting to see what it will do as a shrub. There's a sourwood tree at the sw corner of the house, a Japanese maple and Chinese dogwood in front of the front porch (northside). I have the least Japanese looking Japanese maple on the face of the earth I think, but Stan likes it, so that's ok. There are oak trees, sugar and red maples, ash trees (just a note, ash trees do not live long anywhere, they are generally relatively shortlived, but very generous with their children and even after cut will sprout little trees from the still living roots), black walnut, apple, one new little peach tree, sycamores from Kentucky, a tulip tree, an American elm and one nasty Norway variegated maple that just won't die, some native hardwood cherry trees, red spruce, red pine, pear trees and quince, and that's just the yard,

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