Judith: Peaches are self fertile so plant it wherever you like, preferably in a sunny location with well drained soil. Just for consideration of tree size and pruning, 15-20 ft apart if you have lots of room. But they can be closer if you are short on space. The Fruitnut

jen, Your soil type makes a big difference to answering your questions. What type of soil do you have? If you bury your drip line, which I don't recommend, you need to get your fingers in the soil to check what the system is doing. Gardening is not a set it up and leave it hobby but daily monitoring until you get a good feel of what is going on and the plants are thriving. You put the drip line close enough for the wet plume to reach all the plant roots for your soil type. This usually means you have to find the irrigate duration that gives the proper plume size by trial and error. JMHO Aloha

My wife loves the rustling leaves as well and we planted 3 of these aspens beside our deck. We really like them. Haven't noticed any diseases. In the last few seasons, they have had some bug of some kind that gets in the leaves and causes them to roll into little tubes. When I asked the local nursery about it, they said it was a cyclic thing and that there was not much one could do about it, but that it would not really harm the trees. This year, the leaf roll is quite minimal and the trees are doing great. Our experience with the first 3 trees was good enough that we got 5 more to plant on the north side of the house for a screen from the neighbours. These trees grow about 4 or 5 feet a year. The ones by our deck that started out about 6 years ago at about 6 feet are now about 30 feet tall. We planted them 5 feet apart. Yes, the roots go all over the place. Occasionally a sucker pops up in the lawn, but the mower takes care of that and after a mowing or two, we never see that sucker again. One came up in the neighbour's yard and he decided to let it grow. Likes the way ours look.

I have been reading the info about aspen trees. My wife's uncle brought back 5 sampling from the mountains around Boulder, Co. Over 45 years ago, we live in Southeast Missouri about 120 miles south of St.Louis. We live on a 300 acre farm. Those 5 original Aspen's are alive and doing great. They are over 50 feet tall. We have transplanted many samplings to different areas of our farm. Our 5 trees surround the edge of our lawn to the main house. We are always complimented on the beauty of our Aspen' s especially the sound there leaves make in a breeze. So I think some of you need to get out of Colorado and see that the Aspen s can thrive outside of the mountains. We have never experienced any disease on any of our trees. We have probably over 20 large mature trees in and around our lawn of our main house and a couple doing just fine near a cabin we have in a wooded area . So I have to contradict the fact that Aspen's can not survive at lower altitudes. We are at 700 ft. Altitude and our trees are going on 50 years old. So I say hogwash to most of the statements in this conversation. We have even transplanted saplings in mid summer were temperatures are in high 90's with heat indexes of 110 degrees. So I say if you want a beautiful aspen in your yard , then do it. Our lawn is immaculate so we have no problem with there root systems, the saplings come up in our cow pastures I guess our constant mowing of our lawn prevents any coming up in our lawn. We have alot of rain in our area so I assume that is why they thrive. Bill Davis Jackson,