What kinds of trees do you have at your place?

[southsoundtree]

Just curious what people have. What came with your place? What have you planted/ transplanted? What do you want to plant/ transplant?

Pics?

 

[mdvaden]

Most were poorly placed at the home we bought about 2 years ago. Planted around 1968 or so.

We removed one Douglas fir and two spruce in a small bed next to the driveway, dripping pitch and dropping needles and cones on the cars. About 50 feet high. Took out a big sweet gum lifting a wood deck, and with weak unions. And a Norway maple hovering over our roof and shading too much back yard. Will remove a deodar cedar and grand fir, about 60' tall, too close to the power lines and back fence. All of them, poorly placed.

Planted 3 purple beech, 3 vine maples, 3 apple trees, 2 Asian pear, 1 Hinoki Cypress, 1 red leaf Japanese maple.

Kept one magnolia, 2 Douglas fir (big) and a Coral Bark Japanese Maple.

Still to come, 2 more Hinoki cypress, and maybe one Cameo apple, and maybe a few mountain hemlock.

 

[tomthetreeman]

Our place came with a large multi-stemmed Linden (6-7 trunks!), which I have since cabled, 4 Colorado Blue Spruce (lost to storm damage, replaced with Junipers), a small stand of 40-60 foot Sugar Maples, a 28" Black Cherry, which we removed bc it was directly over the house, dropping black fruit all over everything (and it was crowding the Sugar Maples big time).

I have planted a Katsura, Tupelo, Star Magnolia, Kousa Dogwood, Hinoki Cypress, Prairiefire Crab, some Witch Hazels, some Rhodies, Judd Viburnum, Rose of Sharon, PeeGee Hydrangea, Corylopsis, Skimmia, Bayberry, Tea Viburnum, Allegheny Viburnum, Ninebark and Itea. I also have a large bonsai-ed Autumn Olive that we have dragged around with us for sentimental reasons. I know, I know, it's invasive.

I have also planted some things for my immediate neighbors including Japanese Maple, European Beech, Cornus Officinalis and Leyland Cypress.

Whew!

-Tom

 

[macrocarpa]

I inherited a bunch of dogwoods, 1 southern magnolia, and a topped gray birch. Removed the topped birch because it sickend me to look at.

Planted:
green mtn sugar maple
2 legacy sugar maple
1 october glory red maple
leyland cypress (wish I would have planted cryptomeria or red cedar)
2 yoshino flowering cherries
crytomeria japonica yoshino
5 skip laurel
8 pragense viburnum
3 allegheny viburnum
serviceberry
forsethia
little gem magnolia
queen elizabeth hedge maple
nuttal oak
2 dogwoods
some other various shrubs

 

[JeffL]

I've got a 16' circumference double stemmed red oak, 15' CBH single stemmed red oak with a HUGE spread, another 12' CBH white oak thats pretty squatty, a probably 60' x 24"dbh Norway maple, 50' multi-stemmed hemlock, a 30"+ dbh White poplar with the ugliest lean you've ever seen, that ones coming down in the next few months, a few small kousas, a bunch of holly and pjm, couple of miss kim lilac, bunch of other small red oak and norway bordering the property, a few medium sized red oak, a few crappy black cherries and some half-dead small ash trees. Also this horrendous "hedge" if you will of dwarf euyonymus along the front of the property.

Have a "nursery" of saplings I pulled up and transplanted this past summer, looking to see what leafs out in the spring, including a few small chestnut oak, american beech, katsurra tree, sassafras. Also planted a bunch of azalea, a few more pjms, "Blue Eyes" Blue Spruce, smokebush, some as of yet unknown variety of crabapple, taxus media "Hatfieldii", another few small yews, a couple of pyramidal hollies that yellowed up pretty good in the nursery, I'm waiting to see how those bounce back, and then theres a bunch of common lilac scattered around here and there. All the stuff I planted I got as less than sellable nursery stock from work, see how some of it does moving from B&B in the yard to actually in the ground and planted here!

 

[pajeepman]

my house has a sweet japenese red leaf maple, kinda looks like a massive bonsai tree to me, doesn't look like any I have ever seen before. 1 sickle pear, 4 apples.(used to make cider from the apples when I was a kid(50 gallon a a year at least), was my grandfathers house- nothing like fresh cider - apple to glass in the same hour!). A big white pine that we took down. A really nice magnolia, dogwood, buterfly bushes, wedding bells, lilac, forsythia, mock orange, yew bushes, snowball bush, smoke tree, rose of sharon. I have planted another dogwood, and have 2 volunteer sweetgums, one that I should cut down before it screws up my driveway. A few burning bushes have "appeared" also.

 

[treegazer]

I inventoried and labeled all the plants in my yard in Oly when I sold my house. I had over 200 species.

I'm working on a new landscape now.
I removed : 1 silver maple, 1 mulberry, 1 siberian elm, and 1 pear.
I've planted:
2 eastern red cedar, 1 Black dragon Cryptomeria, , red twig dogwoods,1 redbud, 1 witchhazel, 1 bottlebrush buckey, native (to KY) bamboo, 1 Cherokee Brave Baldcypress, 2 blackgum(tupelo), 1 button bush, 1 blackhaw viburnum, 1 cornelian cherry(Cornus mas), gooseberries, currants, blueberries, raspberries, asparagus, strawberries, 1 Bladdernut, 1 sweet shrub, 1 fothergilla, 1 yellowwood, 1 wahoo, itea, 1 baldcypress, 1 chinquapin oak, 1 winterberry holly, 1 oakleaf hydrangea, 1 serviceberry, 1 bur oak, 1 low grow sumac, 1 wine & roses weigela, 1 Korean lilac, Autumn joy sedums, 3 New Jersey teas, 1 nandina, epimediums, coral berries, mayapples, native grasses: little bluestem, big bluestem, indian grass, some carex spp. and a slew of perennials.

Now I'm battling weeds and acquiring more plants to fill in the gaps.

 

[robinia]

We have 3 silver maples and 3 bur oak, all mature. I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a HUGE selling point. I just hope they outlive me!

Backyard:

Not much sun though. We've planted lots of shade stuff: Amelanchier, Cornus alternifolia, Betula alleghensiensis, Fraxinus nigra, Staphylea, Dirca palustris, and some young Quercus macrocarpa to someday replace the giants.

 

[GregManning]

I've got ~12 acres that were logged 50+ years ago. They left some nice 3 ft diam. trees (maples, beech, tulip, oak).

Current varieties - Existing:
Tuliptree
Maple - Red
Maple - Sugar
Beech
Hickory – Pignut
Hickory – Shagbark
Hickory - Bitternut
Oak – Pin
Oak – White
Oak – Red
Oak - Bur
Birch – Yellow
Birch - White
Ironwood
Hornbeam
Aspen – Quaking
Cottonwood
Basswood – Am
Cucumber - Magnolia
Cherry - Black
Chestnut – Am (Sprouted from old roots ???)
Black Gum

Planted:
Hemlock – Eastern (200 seedlings in 1999)
Pine – White (200 in 1999; 95% lost to deer)
Pine – Korean Nut (2)
Cedar – Incense
Ash – Black

 

[southsoundtree]

Rob-

Looks like the climber to the left is tight rope walking that limb and is about to make the leap of faith to the other tree.

TreeGazer-

That's interesting about the bamboo. I just went to a lecture on timber bamboo at The Evergreen State College. She indicated that there used to be huge native bamboo in the mississippi river area and extending up the Ohio River valley. Cut out for farming. There was a 60 year old picture of people hunting cougars in mature bamboo forest somewhere out thatta way.

We have three elms, species yet to be ID'ed, so many things to do. One elm of the four original has gone away. One has 3 leads with bad inclusions, but not over immovable targets (vehicles don't get parked under it in significantly windy weather). Would like to cable and brace, but haven't gotten a long drill bit machined. One on the left in the picture is the Nightmare before Christmas elm, Tim Burton-y. May not really show in pic. Its had one large trunk removed and has some fungus growing in it, but I haven't taken the time to ID it yet either.

Topped Blue Spruce under the power lines, another 5 trunk spruce, '96 ice storm??? and another spruce.

Flowering cherry, 2 flowering plums that have been butchered

Two apple trees producing, one cherry tree with armillaria,
couple recently planted apples, a transplanted apple, transplanted persimmon, transplanted peach.

A bunch of doug-fir, western red cedar, some oregon white oaks, grand fir, all recently planted.

A wildlife tree--noble that is dying.

One english holly that will be going away in time.

Just planted 15 coast redwoods. I think that I'll make a micro redwood grove, after reading the Wild Trees. Allow some to grow up taller, some coppice for fairy rings in 5 years, "storm damage" others, maybe harvest some in 20 years if we still own the property.

Lots of shrubs.

 

[Worthaug]

1 dead scarlet oak (34" DBH, 110', with targets)
several 28-32" healthy white oaks (100-120'/ 80-85 years
old)
Tons of young towering yellow poplar
3 sourwood (1 impressive canopy competitor)
1 beautiful, tall, pignut hickory
red maples, flowering dogwoods, black cherries, catawba rhodos', 1 mimosa, 2 carolina hemlocks, several harvested (firewood) dead black locust, a couple lonleaf pines and ...
1 giant 150' 47" dbh eastern white pine that I haven't climbed yet but I yearn to everyday, and will
Surprisingly all natives (except for the mimosa but my wife won't let me cut it out, oh well, it's pretty)without too much PI or oriental bittersweet.