A Thread About Trees

[jerryse]

This will help . The first pictures are of the 1-3 pecan out of the catalog . Real height 7-9 inches. The next couple are the potted pecan. Real height 24" . That is a grafted variety Normal a selection from Normal IL . I would have loved another grafted pot grown variety for pollination but they had only Normal . So I settled for seedlings . Nut trees are seldom sold in pots around here and bare root ones are hard to start. The last picture is the English walnut height 36" . I only bought 1 so I will need a pollinator . I hope to graft pecan to hickory seedlings in the woods. English walnut to black walnut . These trees were too small to take scion wood from this year .

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Hello everyone, fellow tree lover here

We just recently moved to our new 48 acre property about 6 months ago, which came with a wide assortment of wonderful native trees of course, but I had to start over with all of my fruit and ornamental trees. The only thing tree wise that moved with us was a Rose of Sharon and 2 Japanese Maples. My Maples are doing wonderfully, but my Rose of Sharon still looks pretty rough

As soon as we could, we planted apples, peaches, pears and cherries and I've had a couple of figs growing in pots for a while now that are doing well (now that they've gotten over some frost damage).

What I'm really excited about though, is an order I finally received today that I'd placed back in January when I was longing for Spring and spending my time dreaming about landscaping and gardening. The mail man brought me:
2 Chinese chestnuts
2 Weeping Willows
2 Magnolias (though we have a lot of fraser magnolias on our property)
2 apricots
2 Paw Paws
a dwarf lemon, lime, tangerine, orange and Musa banana.

I got an assortment of other plants, including some Kiwis (which I'm super excited about), but the tree were what made me most giddy! It was storming when the mail carrier delivered (complete with hail, bless his heart), but I went out on the back porch and potted them anyway

Some of my haul hanging out on the porch.

My figs along with some daisy cuttings, bee balm and other assorted things.

One of my Japanese Maples.

And now that the sun is shining again, I'm headed outside to get some things in the ground

 

[Arielle]

This will help . The first pictures are of the 1-3 pecan out of the catalog . Real height 7-9 inches. The next couple are the potted pecan. Real height 24" . That is a grafted variety Normal a selection from Normal IL . I would have loved another grafted pot grown variety for pollination but they had only Normal . So I settled for seedlings . Nut trees are seldom sold in pots around here and bare root ones are hard to start. The last picture is the English walnut height 36" . I only bought 1 so I will need a pollinator . I hope to graft pecan to hickory seedlings in the woods. English walnut to black walnut . These trees were too small to take scion wood from this year .

WIll the English and Black walnut cross pollinate??

It looks like in the top pic that you prefer to pot the trees before setting them in the ground later . . . is this to develop the roots while the grafts are healing??

 

[jerryse]

WIll the English and Black walnut cross pollinate??

It looks like in the top pic that you prefer to pot the trees before setting them in the ground later . . . is this to develop the roots while the grafts are healing??

No English and black walnut bloom at different times. The potted pecan are seedlings . I potted them because I felt they were too small to survive without TLC . They can pollinate the grafted pecan should at least 1 survives .

 

[jerryse]

Got my trees from Summerstone today . Already planted them 2 apples and a butternut plus a free English Walnut . Nut trees were starting to bud . Now I will have a pollinator for the other English walnut . Butternut usually self pollinate . I have 2 small ones plus 1 planted 10 years ago. Got 1 nut last year . Blooming now and should be more nuts this year .

 

[Fancychooklady]

Autumn in Tasmania . Love it.

And this is the biggest holy tree I've ever seen

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Autumn in Tasmania . Love it.



And this is the biggest holy tree I've ever seen

Just lovely!
And that Holly is HUGE! I know lots of folks love them, but they grow like weeds here and I can't stand them. They're beautiful when they've got their berries but the rest of the time they're just a pain in the butt (or fingers, toes or any other body part they come in contact with). If anyone in Tn would like some hollies, I've got them!

Thanks for sharing your wonderful pictures!

 

[Arielle]

Got my trees from Summerstone today . Already planted them 2 apples and a butternut plus a free English Walnut . Nut trees were starting to bud . Now I will have a pollinator for the other English walnut . Butternut usually self pollinate . I have 2 small ones plus 1 planted 10 years ago. Got 1 nut last year . Blooming now and should be more nuts this year .

After 10 years of waiting, perhaps this year will have many more flowers . . . and nuts !!

 

[Fancychooklady]

Just lovely!
And that Holly is HUGE! I know lots of folks love them, but they grow like weeds here and I can't stand them. They're beautiful when they've got their berries but the rest of the time they're just a pain in the butt (or fingers, toes or any other body part they come in contact with). If anyone in Tn would like some hollies, I've got them!

Thanks for sharing your wonderful pictures!

I hear where your coming from. I had one in my garden, the leaves would hide amongst the other leaf litter and when you went to pick it up ' ouch '. Mines long gone, but it's still nice to admire from a far.
Here's another tree that can be a bit of a pest but none the less beautiful in its ' autumn glory '.
London plane.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

another cool website for Fruit and nuts is one green world