Trees from a distance

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no sir, but I was admiring some old post oaks today when a took my dog hiking.

Tom, what are your favorite oaks to plant in the residential landscape? I'm trying to decide what oaks to plant in my tree farm.
 
Depends on the site... White Oaks aren't commercially available, but oh how I love them. My next favorite is Pin Oak. An indestructible weed that turns into a majestic long lived specimen. Sawtooth are a nice change of pace as well, and an easier transplant that some others. Smaller tree at maturity.

-Tom

PS - Willow Oaks are along the same line as Pins, but I think they are at the Northern end of their range here, which is in flux, so I'm considering them more.
 
nope. i hear a lot of crap talk about pin oak, but they are the best commonly found mature shade tree we have in this area. When they are pruned every 5-7 years or so, they make great trees.I hear people complain about how long they hold leaves all the time though.

I have several clients with 2 mature pin oaks in the front yard and getting close to touching each other. I want to use a growth regulator soon to slow them down from crowding each other out. I have seen several example of 2 pin oaks that shaded each other out where the entire one side slowly becomes deadwood.

We have willows here too, but they need more pruning than pins IMO. I think they have problems with our clay soil and pH cause they seem to crap out. I planted a couple sawtooths and they grow fast!
 
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One of my favorites also. Why can't they be bought commercially. I had to dig the one I planted in my yard from an acorn in the woods.


And ficus on the id.
 
There's a native plants nursery we dump chips at that sells all kinds of oaks including Q. alba. Pin oaks do have potential to be nice trees, when planted in the right location and pruned periodically, but I think they're over planted. It seems everyone that wants an oak plants a pin because they are cheap and grow fast. If I had a nursery I probably wouldn't sell pins because I would love to see more of a variety of oaks getting planted. Such as scarlets, swampers, willows, shingle and bur oaks.

I'm gonna go with Quercus macrocarpa.
 
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I'm gonna go with Quercus macrocarpa.

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Wouldn't that be something?

That's cool that you found Q. alba at a nursery. I'm sure it's not impossible, but it's rare. Does your nursery (or the source) grow them from seed? In containers?

-Tom
 
not the Q. mac, this pic was taken at a park in Atlanta.

ya, pin oaks are common. but i'll tell why i like them. people plant pin oaks, red maples, b. pears, silver maples, white pines, leyands etc. cause they all grow so fast. then we get a wind storm and all the others commonly blow down, but the pin oak remains unrattled. with all the others blowing down every time we have a high wind come through it triggers a mass topping frenzy.

nuttall, shummard, sawtooth (questional included bark issues), alba (people think they are too slow), pins, scarlet, willow: are all goodies in my book. But I have to admit for growing in my tree farm, I do want a faster grower.
 
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