Pacific Northwest Gardening: One Billion Trees, 1 by Soferdig

Soferdig wrote:
Oops I have sinned again. I am so self absorbed. Any way I have been planting since early childhood. I was taught by a couple of people in my life the name, characters, and value of trees. One is now a famous mother of Dan Hinkley. We traveled the forests of Michigan and learned the names and propagation of trees. She took us to many of our local specimens and with help of a Mrs Neuman taught us how to plant and care for the trees. This has resulted in my planting trees in many locations. Several replants in clear cuts, each of my 8 homes, even in medians of Bellevue Washington roadways, and now my 3 acre garden where I plan on living out my life caring for my trees. They here alone count now at 64 specimens of every type that will thrive here in Montana (and maybe a few that won't). Pray for my Parrotias and Hamemelis. I have preserved on my 3 acres alone a total of over 80 Ponderosa pine, and 62 Douglas Fir that were here when I arrived. I collect carbon (sawdust/manure/bark) from all over the valley and turn it into soil ammendments that will become tree mass here on my property. On Billion trees would be easy if only I could live another 40 years. LOL