Back when I was selling and had open garden hours, visitors etc - I called the place Shagbark Ridge Daylilies. We had the land, then built a house, and we called the "someplace" Shagbark Ridge. So naturally when I needed a business name, it became Shagbark Ridge Daylilies. I have a fraction under 17 acres. Some fields, some woods. Right in front of my house is a patch of woods that is full of Shagbark Hickory trees. There is one that is HUGE! Someone from an arboretum around here said it is probably 250-300 years old. They do produce LOTS of nuts - they are great to eat, but horrible to crack! So, we don't gather them.
I was to chicken to put my real name on Facebook.
So I put in my first name as Shagbark, my last name as Daylilies.
This is the large Shagbark.
This last photo was taken from my bedroom window, after the big ice storm in 2005. We lost 17 hickory trees that were between 1 and 2 feet in diameter. The tops broke, but because Hickory is stringy wood, the tops stayed attached and just hung there. I have had all the trees other than hickories that are tall enough to fall on my house cut down, but the hickories pose no danger because of the way they break and hang. I was SO sad by having all those trees break in the storm.
If you look in this photo, back behind the little woods, there is a row of pines. Look just to the right side of the last pine on the right, and you can see the trunk of the big hickory. All the tree trunks in the little woods are Hickories, except a big old walnut that was dead and they cut it down a couple days later.
