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It is called "note to self". but you must have a bathroom Mirror that will be used for at least the year. So to remind you each and every day, The yard looks pretty darn lush. Unlike us in the golden hills of California. Dry 'golden weeds' dry valleys with treed hills, save for perpetual forest fires with 10% humidity the size of Rhode Island.
I used to work at an arboretum. If you like I can send you some Ginko Biloba seeds, one of my favorites. My all time fav conifer is the Noble Fir tree, awesome if left to grow without trimming. Peace out
Matt you are free to keep that snow up there next winter as well. Last year I walked around my property looking for samplings and I found 7 oaks and I have an endless number of maple so those little helicopter seeds that fall off the tree paid off with new samplings.
I hope that sycamore works out. My family has a sentimental one my great grandmother brought from Kansas to Nebraska.
That odd looking sycamore jleaf will grow as big as your head
A squirrel hid and forgot an acorn in a large pot we'd once had peonies in but abandoned. Eventually we wanted to remove the pot and decided to transplant the little oak tree growing in it in the back yard. It's done well surviving a couple winters there and is now something like 12 feet tall or more. We don't know the exact species, though its leaves say it's in the red oak family. We just call it our pot oak.
Keep the sycamores wet.
I can't wait to see the 10 year update on all the trees!
Man, I was just wondering how the arboretum was going a couple of weeks back, and I made a mental note to ask about it in the coments of the next video you posted. And then I promptly forgot to do that. Good to see you're on top of it! 😀
ETA: Watch out. I researched those Osage Orange trees when Matthias Wandell did a wood strength test on a bunch of samples and learned a few things. First, they're the trees around here that produce these big green balls that kinda look like green brains, and second, they're a sort of weed tree that propagates quickly. They were apparenty frequently used as barriers on the borders of farm properties because they grow really bushy and spread out if not pruned, and they multiply like crazy.
Boat trailers?
You will need a male and female osage orange to produce fruit. The only problem is, they don't flower till they're like 10 years old, so it's just luck if you got one of each lol.
i never had a grow tube when i was growing up…
If I might suggest, it’s less of an arboretum thing but plant some noble firs. Maybe 5-10 a year. In 6-8 years you and your friends/family can harvest some for Christmas trees, and whatever survives in excess of Christmas tree needs will add a beautiful evergreen splash to the yard.
Want to try adding some California redwoods? I have one in my back yard and haven't cut back the suckers in too long, I can dig up some of the more mature ones and send them to you if you want to try transplanting or rooting them depending on how mature they turn out to be.
Looks great. You really got lucky with that property, it's perfect for you in every way!
Greetings from the BIG SKY. I wouldn't go paddlefishing before Memorial Day here this year on the Missouri river.
you soil looks excellent
More walnut ! More orange osage !
Nice update on the Arboretum Matt! Thanks for sharing the video with us!????????????JP
Good luck getting the osage orange growing as a tree, They really like to send up shoots. Often used as fences due to the spikes. Another name for osage orange is bois d'arc. The wood was used to make bows.
Anything from Colorado we can add to the mix ? Be happy to send…
I thought at one point you said you were going to label them for the future? Should plant a monkey puzzle tree. Real cool looking tree!
you got hay to cut..Sycamores are water suckers,,here in Wv we have a lot of them by the creeks…5 to 6 foot across..big leaves and big trees..dont plant none near the house or barn…they block all sun,,and the limbs come off them..