California Gardening: CA friends...I AM SO SAD!!!!!, 1 by SingingWolf

SingingWolf wrote:
I'm a tree hugger. Proud of it. My absolute favorite is the California Live Oak. We have several living with us here on our property that all have names. Since we grow Christmas trees for the choose and cut market, we always are happy to find a new oak, even when it is growing with the Christmas trees. Guess which ones get sacrificed? I wish that they werent' so hard to transplant.
The visitors to our farm always have to go and visit Grandmother Oak. She has a group of dedicated people who have put her up for historical tree status, which will help prevent shortsighted people from chopping her down. You know this tree may have been alive when Columbus landed in the Americas. We only know of one other that is bigger than Grandmother. Her name is the Great Oak, and she is on Pechanga Tribal Lands. Beautiful trees, provide habitat for all kinds of birds.
Sending a photo I took recently of younger oaks growing in amongst the pines.
Will send one of Grandmother too.
WIB,
SW