What is currently your top 3 fav trees ????

This message was edited Jul 19, 2005 9:12 PM

Twisty Baby Blak Locust
Devil's Walking Stick
Tri-color Beech
All other trees

The tri color beech is very nice :))) ... but very slow ..I love all beeches too , Sari .

3rd place: Sassafras

2nd place: Magnolia

1st place: Although slightly overdone in the deep south, a long-time favorite of mine: Lagerstroemia indica (Crepe Myrtle).

That's my three. :)

dave

Very nice , Dave ...I love all of those ones !!! Crepe myrtle is a real challenge in our area because of the colder climate .

Sassafras is a fun tree. It doesn't flower (that I know of). It has roots like a sewer system - horizontal 6 inches below the soil. Every few feet a new tree will come up, so you can have a grove of 10 sassafras, all sharing the same root system.

They don't get very big, and most that I've seen are less than 20' tall. However: when we moved into our farm, there was an ancient tree that was dead as a doornail. We knocked it down, and cut it up with a chainsaw. While cutting it, I noticed that the cut wood was emmitting the unmistakable fragrance of sassafras. So, the largest sassafras I've seen was right here on my own farm. The trunk was so big I couldn't have wrapped my arms around it.

What's the meaning of this story? I really don't know, but I like sassafras.

This year I'm going to experiment propogating lagerstroemias by hardwood cuttings. I'm going to build a small wooden box, fill it with sand, and bury the cuttings till spring. Interesting method that I read about.

Dave

1st: Canadian Hemlock
2nd: Kousa Dogwood
3rd: Japanese Maple
4th: Golden Rain Tree
5th: Colorado Blue Spruce
..should I keep going?..lol

I really like all trees, however, these are my favorites :)
Trish

I'd love to get more conversation going about trees - it's the forgotten plant of the garden.

There are so many varieties of trees out there, and I feel like I've barely scratched the surface in my own studies.

Dave,
I think we could use a tree& shrub forum!
Thinking.........
Maybe not... All that would happen is that evil chooch would supply us with links to cool tree and shrub sites and more great tree and shrub talk. We would then begin to feed off each other... Heck there is only a few million acres here in northern michigan. I'm sure that wouldn't be enough land for me to plant all the cool trees and shrubs I would come to realize I couldn't live without! LOL!!

BTW I am in mourning today. One of my Twisty baby black locust tree seedlings pasted away last night. It was only 2 weeks old. My family is just devastated. I even saw a tear drop on some of my rose of sharon seedlings. Please don't send cut flowers as I'm sure that would just upset them more!
Sari

Yeah, evil chooch would have me turning my rolling pasture into woods in no time. :)

Please send my deepest condolences to your seedlings. The loss of their Twisty Baby Black Locust Tree will take some time for them to get over.

Dave

Is that a yes on tree & shrub forum?

Sure, that's a Yes. Dave's Garden (the real one and the website) can't be complete without trees and shrubs. :)

Dave

Tree Drooling time in the new forum !!! Yeeeee Hawwwwwww !! :)

1st - redbud - reminds me of the wild trees growing in the woods of my childhood
2nd - european birch - had 5 at our previous home & appreciated their grace
3rd - white dogwood - wonderful "pure" spring blooms, excellent horizontal branching and berries in the fall.

1st - Magnolia cultivars
2nd - Cercis canadensis 'Forest Pansy'
3rd - Any Oak (Quercus)

Well, lets see...

1st is by far The hardy Eucalyptus//and Crape Myrtles
2nd ..........Albizzia Juilbrissin Rosea and rubra
3rd...........Magnolia grandiflora

plus many others!!!!

Good to see ya EUC MAN !!!! My long time buddy from Cinci !!! ...THEY don't call him MR Eucalyptus for nothing ...he is one of the most knowledgable growers of Hardy Eucalyptus in North America !!!Rock On !!

Not in order of preference:

Bottlebrush buckeye
Redbud - Forest Pansy
All other trees except Alianthus

I thought redbud was Cercis canandasis??? i started 2 of these from little sticks,about 4 yrs ago. 2 yrs into the project i moved one zone further north(to 4 ) Of course i brought them with me. By this time they were 6 feet tall. Small enought to fit in the bed of pickup. I had to stop midway up and wrap the top in my jacket. The wind was a whipping. Anyway got them here,planted. Did not look good, but last yr was the first time I have seen them bloom. I planted them on a pure whim..I read somewhere how pretty they are. According to everything I've read its too cold here. Please don't tell them. I keep telling them its ok..its not too cold.
Last yr I planted a row of black walnut trees. I will be long gone before they are big. I squint my eyes and i can see them in 25 yrs. It will be worth the wait even if I never get to see it.
A third tree..got htere are so many..I have to think on it.
Harry Lauders Walking Stick if I must narrow it down. Mine is small (2 ft) it has twisty corkscrew branches.Nicer in winter as during leaf season its covered in Jap Beetles.

From my area? Sycamore, magnolia, Texas red cedar.

Cornus Florida Cherokee Sunset
Tri-Colored Beech (I just got a ten year old specimen last July)
Weeping purple Beech
Weeping Cherry 'Snow Fountain'

ohh this was a tough one to answer! There's SO many!! I have a new baby though (actually it's a couple of years old, just new to my yard, thanks to the Moorestown Arborist!), called a Parrotia Persica, also called an Ironwood tree. It's in the witch hazel family - grows to about 30 - 40 feet max and is a "four seasons tree", with pretty bark in winter, lovely flowers in spring, bright leaves in summer and multicolored leaves in fall.
Here's a website if anyone is interested:
http://www.canr.uconn.edu/plsci/mbrand/p/parper/parper1.html

I really love dogwoods as well (both pink and white), and I guess a sugar maple would be my third fav (close tie with a weeping willow though!).

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