Yay trees!
and your banner makes a wonderful statement today Leon! too bad it wasn't timed with your article for bonus
Yes, I have been accused of being obsessive about trees.
Where I lived before in the frozen North, I had acres of wonderful wild-woods but not near enough evergreens--so I planted a flatbed full of pretty good-sized Austrian and Scotch pines, and an Oak and a weeping willow and a bunch of crab apples and hazelnuts and some other stuff...too bad I had to move
Upon moving here, a much smaller space with some very unfortunate 'weed trees', I was rather forlorn. When we lost our 80+ Norway Spruce in a bad storm, I kinda went nuts for "replacement trees". In fact, I went so far nuts as to have a bald cypress dug in Oregon and shipped to Utah and placed gently in a very expensive hole via crane
I just absolutely
this tree and it has lovely fall color too
...and I got a Ginkgo and a Beech and an Ironwood and an ornamental Prunus and two eating cherries and an apple, a peach, a pear, and a nectarine, and a dogwood (but I killed it) and a Japanese Maple that I'm trying to save and a Calocedrus and an Atlas Cedar and a Nootka Cypress and I'm not done yet
I have a few baby seedlings too. Oooh, and I really think that I got a great bird gift in a less than ideal spot--I swear this sapling is a redbud! I hope in a few years it will prove me right and then I'll move some of the other stuff
