Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Soliciting suggestions for large unusual conifers, 0 by shortleaf

shortleaf wrote:
Thats neat. Thats really an admirable thing to do, hope the plan works out for you guys.
It sounds very similar to a friend here and what he and his wife started doing around 04'.
Its been a few years since I talked to him but he was planning on building a nice brick home on the 20+ acres of former cropland. I believe he also had planned to plant nicer, expensive trees around the home and have like a big "yard".
He rented a tree-planter (I think from the MO. Dep't of Conservation) to go behind his (old, but very good) Ford 9n tractor. With him driving the tractor and me planting thousands of seedlings on the planter, from that Missouri program.
I ought to look him up, its been since 04' when we first did that, he might have the house built or being built and a growing forest. When he was mass planting he just made sure to plant in zig-zag rows, so as not to look like "planted rows", because heirs down the road might curse him and the rows!
I see, you could save on shipping possibly by going to pick it up. I don't know if IA. is the same, but I think MO. did the shipping different, I think $5.00 shipping on a whole bunch of seedlings.
Heres a photo from the "cropland to forest" we were doing. The friend went to IA. State Univ. up there. -


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