sycamore, London plane, dawn redwood,variety of red and white oaks,sequoia,norway spruce,1 peach, apples 2 blue spruce, Tulip poplar 2 Acers just planted American holly and sowed hemlock seed, hazelnut (filbert)white pine and I think that's all. Most of the trees are oaks.poaky1

American Elm âÂÂValley ForgeâÂÂ
Japanese Maple âÂÂHogyokuâÂÂ
Trident Maple
Persian Ironwood
White Oak
Dawn Redwood
Blue Spruce
Some kind of Fir
Eastern Hemlock
Eastern White Pine
European Pear âÂÂSeckelâÂÂ
Asian Pear âÂÂShinkoâÂÂ
Asian Persimmon âÂÂTam KamâÂÂ
Paw paw âÂÂMangoâÂÂ, âÂÂWabashâÂÂ, âÂÂSusquehannaâÂÂ
American Persimmon âÂÂEarly GoldenâÂÂ

That Japanese Maple is on the bubble, the fall color is a big disappointment. I'm hoping to replace it with a red maple (unknown cultivar) that I'm trying to clone.

Alex

These are the trees that I have growing in the yard....

- Ailanthus altissima
- Apple
- Birches
- Blue Oaks
- Cryptomeria japonica 'Sekkan'
- Japanese Maples 'Sango Kaku,' Trident
- Liquidambar styraciflua
- Nectarine dwarf
- Peach
- Pinus contorta, Pinus mugo var. pumilio, Pinus pinea
- Plum, wild Plum
- Sequoia sempervirens - 'Aptos Blue,' 'Filoli,' 'Soquel'
- Sugar Maples
- White Oaks

A lot of other varieties that are grown in containers, too.


Josh

alexander3, how to you grow your pawpaws? Do you have them under trees or in the open, i have been wanting one for quite some time.

Let's see here...I can't say much because I've only planted a single tree(the Metasequoia)in our Omaha yard - the others were here when we bought the place, but here's what we have:

Acer palmatum (1)
Acer rubrum (2)
Betula nigra (2)
Metasequoia glyptostroboides (1)
Pinus flexilis (~3)
Pinus strobus (~3)
Prunus virginiana âÂÂSchubertâ (2)

When I lived near Cincinnati, Ohio we started off with a single Callery Pear (which I removed) in our grass-only yard...in 3 years there I put in these:

Magnolia acuminata
Magnolia tripetala
Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Liquidambar styraciflua
Cercidiphyllum japonicum
Cercis canadensis
Parrotia persica
Zelkova serrata
Acer palmatum
Quercus alba

Between 1999-2004, in my favorite house/yard near Dayton I had the following ("n" denotes those growing naturally):

Asimina triloba - n (had a nice grove of these)
Magnolia virginiana
Magnolia tripetala
Magnolia xsoulangiana
Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Taxodium distichum
Oxydendrum arboreum - barely kept this one going
Juglans nigra - n
Platanus occidentalis - n
Acer saccharum - n
Acer palmatum
Cornus florida - n
Cornus kousa
Chionanthus virginiana - miss this one A LOT
Chionanthus retusus - miss this one A LOT
Parrotia persica - miss this one A LOT
Quercus alba - n
Quercus bicolor
Prunus serotina - n
Cercis canadensis - n
Gleditsia triacanthos - n
Malus sp. (crabapples....there when we bought the place)
Pinus strobus
Liriodendron tulipfera - n
Robinia pseudoacacia - n
Aesculus glabra - n
Ulmus fulva - n
Celtis occidentalis - n
Ostrya virginiana - n (had a beaautiful specimen of this)
-sadly I was constantly battling some Ailanthus altissima that kept popping up from a tree on the neighbors property

I'm sure I forgot a few...and probably misspelled a lot of names...in my defense I wrote this in about 5 mins!

Existing trees when I moved in:
Siberian Elm
Ash
Willow
Peach
I've added:
Apples - Golden Delicious and Granny Smith
Bur and Swamp White Oak
Aspen
Ash - Cimmaron and Patmore
Autumn Blaze Maple
Linden - American Sentry and Redmond
Eastern Red Cedar
Austrian Black Pine
Rocky Mountain Juniper
Shademaster Honeylocust
Colorado Blue Spruce
Canadian Chokecherry
Evans and Meteor Cherry
Kentucky Coffee
London Plane
Washington Hawthorn
Weeping Willow
I may be missing some, too.
I'd like to add a Catalpa, a Hackberry and more conifers.
Thanks for asking, it's good to take an inventory!
Barb

I forgot Willows and Chinese Pistache...although I didn't plant any of the Pistache seedlings... ;)

Josh

>alexander3, how to you grow your pawpaws? Do you have them under trees or
>in the open, i have been wanting one for quite some time.

They're pretty much in the open. Not the sunniest spots in the yard, but only because full sun is more important for the other fruit trees. The conventional wisdom is that 1 or 2 year old seedlings don't do well in full sun, but that productivity will be better with more sun.

BTW, one won't be of much use if you want fruit, since they are self incompatible. There is one cultivar, 'Sunflower' that can set fruit on its own, but even that one will probably do better with another variety for pollination.

Alex

Shagbark Hickory
Butternut
Chinese Chestnut
American Holly
Blue Spruce
Corylus colurna
Hemlock
Yates Persimmon
Meader Persimmon
Sugar Maple
Yellowood
Crabapple
Korean Mountain Ash
Ulster Cherry
Kristin Cherry
Hudson Cherry
Empire Apple
Liberty Apple
Santa Rosa plum
Shiro Plum
River Birch
Red Oak
White Oak
Willow Oak
Sawtooth Oak
Shinko Pear
Seuri Pear
Yoinashi Pear
Shinsui Pear
Kosui Pear
Harrow Delight Pear
Magness Paer
Moonglow Pear
Celtis laevigata
Medlar
Locust
Juneberry (multiple types)
White Pine
Red Maple
Norway Spruce

..............dutchess 12545 Z5B

Trees I inherited when I bought this house:

Siberian Elm
5 Arborvitae
Some pink variety of Crape Myrtle that turns scarlet in fall.
Kingan Fruitless Mulberry (Now in the process of removing it)
2 apricot trees. (One declined and died and was cut down, The other is aging and will be removed at some point too)
Lemon tree
Declining peach tree (Will be removed soon)

I have planted:
Juniper -Chinensis twisty type
Plane -Columbia (This variety showed superior fall color in gold and orange which was an utter surprise!)
Plane- Bloodgood (Nice gold fall color)
2 Crape Myrtle -Red Rocket
Crape -Dynamite
Crape -Zuni
Crape -Muskogee
Canary Island Date Palm
Mexican Fan Palm
1 Deodar Cedar

Already present on site:

Pin Oaks
Osage Orange
Tulip Poplar
Red Bud
Hawthorn sp.
Apple

I planted:

Eastern Dogwoods
Pseudolarix amabilis
Dawn Redwood
Ginkgo
Acer griseum
Sciadopitys verticillata
Paw Paw
Acer carpinifolium
American Smoke Tree
Acer palmatum - 'viridis' & 'osakazuki'
Acer shirasawanum 'Autumn Moon'
Pinus parviflora 'glauca'
Trochodendron araliodes
Red Buckeye
Aralia spinosa
Slippery Elm
Cunninghamia lanceolata glauca
Torrya nucifera

volunteer trees that need to come down:

Hackberry
White Mulberry
Pin Oak
American Elm
Ailanthus
Black Walnut

Too many to list.

http://community.webshots.com/user/phildert

Here is a link that might be useful: My garden

Would be interesting to see what your "must haves" are for what you planted.

Hopefully that would get others to explore options that others cherish.

My top five where (from my previous house)...

Cornus kousa 'Wolf Eyes'
Acer griseum
Ginkgo biloba 'Autumn Gold'
Aesculus x 'Homestead'
Quercus bicolor

Few other honorable mentions...

Heptacodium miconioides
Carpinus caroliniana
Magnolia ÃÂ loebneri 'Leonard Messel'

Sequoia sempervirens 'Filoli' is a must-have...the blue is so blue, and the foliage semi-pendulous.

I also highly recommend the Cryptomeria japonica 'Sekkan,' which has creamy/white new foliage.


Josh

Chamaecyparis nootkatensis 'pendula' - 3
Amelanchier x grandiflora - 1
Betula lenta - 1
Magnolia virginiana - 1
Quercus alba - 2

The only thing I planted that added to my Fall collection of leaves ( which I am still doing), is the Gingko.

Oak (think it's Northern Red)-1
Sugar Maples-2
Japanese Maple "Bloodgood"-1
Southern Magnolias-lots of culivars
Northern Tulip Magnolia-1
Dawn Redwoods-6
Bald Cypress-1
Gingko biloba-1
Canadian Hemlock-5
Nellie Stevens Holly
Tracycarpus palms-2
Crape Myrtles, Butterfly, and Japanese holly bushes that I try to keep as larger bushes not trees-several

botann,checked out your garden pictures---especially the fall shots of the maples---extremely beautiful pictures of a lovely garden thanks for sharing. my garden near bandon,oregon (south oregon coast) is nowhere near so nicely arranged---about 20 different types of eucalyptus, an equal number of different evergreen oak species (mainly from mexico) plus a variety of pines, true laurels, magnolias and various other conifers and hardwoods.

George, your garden is well known in Oregon. Last time we went through Bandon, we were in a hurry and didn't think we had the time to stop. Next time I will plan on it.
Mike......sometimes my wife is in charge. ;-)

You all have some very nice lists. Besides a gazillion native pines and oaks, I have acuired these over the years:

Chionanthus virginicus
Picea orientalis Skylands
Malus Indian Magic
Malus SugarTyme
Cercis canadensis
Heptacodium miconioides (2)
Carpinus caroliniana
Magnolia ÃÂ loebneri 'Leonard Messel'
Tsugas candadensis and a japanese one too
Nyssa Sylvatica
Betula nigra Heritage
Betula (drawing a blank on species.. the very white one that was supposed to be resistant to borers but is not!)
Betula 'Whitespire' (so they said but it looks like native grey to me)
Amelanchier grandiflora 'Autumn Brilliance' and'Robin Hill
Oxyndendrun
COrnus kousa 'Satomi'
Cornus florida 'Cherokee Brave'
Acer palmatum 'Emperor 1'
Acer shirasawanum Autumn Moon and Aureum (couldn't decide which one to get)
Acer mandshurican
Acer griseum
Acer palmatum 'Butterfly'
Acer palmatum 'Red Pygmy'
Sciadopitys verticillata
Abies koreana
Picea pungens 'Fat Albert'
Thuja 'Filiformis', 'Green Giant'
Chamecyparies thoides
Pinus strobus 'contorta'

A day ago I could have added Zelkova serrata to the list, but the town brush clearing machine came through today and demolished it. I'm kicking myself. I had planted a baby zelkova about 8-10 feet in from the road next to a perennial garden a few years ago. It was a scrawny $5 end of the season thing. It seemed like a great location for an eventual street tree. Recently, though, I decided it was too close to the road and I should move it. I was going to do it this fall, but never got to it. Too late. waaaa

Way too many to list, but a few of the more interesting things:
Abies firma
Acer fabri
Agathis australis
Alnus maritima
Araucaria angustifolia
Betula nigra 'City Slicker'
Callitris columellaris
Calocedrus rupestris
Cedrus deodara
Cunninghamia konishii
Cupressus gigantea
C. cashmeriana
Eucalyptus neglecta
E. viminalis
Exbucklandia populnea
Ficus auriculata
F. pseudocarica
F.sycamorus
Glyptostrobus pensilis
Juniperus bermudiana
Keteleeria evelyniana
Magnolia asheii
Michelia x 'Magnolia Blush'
Neolitsea sericea
Osmanthus fragrans
Pinus patula
P. devoniana
P. lumholtzii
P. pseudostrobus
P. yunnanensis
Podocarpus acutifolius
P. matudae
P. parletorei
Populus mexicana
P. monticola
P. guzmanantlensis
P. simaroa
Pseudotsuga sinensis
Quercus corrugata
Q. hypoleucoides
Q. pumila
Salix floridana
Sequoia sempervirens
Taiwania cryptomeriodes
Taxodium mucronatum

botann, are you referring to shore acres state park the public garden i used to manage near coos bay? the plantings i am referring to in the current postings is my own private garden and few have ever seen it let alone heard of it. nevertheless, thanks for the kind words. Salicaceae an intriquing collection of rare and unusual plants--are many grown to mature size? are there any commercial sources for the rare populus?

Yes George, I was referring to Shore Acres State Park. Didn't know you have moved on.
You live in a climate that can grow an amazing variety of plants. I always enjoy the southern Oregon coast.
Mike

George,

No - they are not in commerce. I can share some cuttings with you though. What Mexican oaks are you growing? Do you have the species with gigantic acorns - Q. insignis? I am also growing Q. macrophylla, Q. crassipes and Q. acutifolia (still in pots).

Jason

folks are growing alot of nice trees, surprised I don't see more people posting pics of their trees.

i grow many more mexican oaks. could you please email me at "dismalvista at yahoo dot com" and we can continue the conversation via PM.

here's a link to some pics of some of my trees over the years. I'm not as good with trees as I am with herbaceous plants for saving photos.
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wendyb, thanks for sharing! I really want to get an 'Autumn Moon'. How long have you had yours?

I got that one in 2008. It replaced one that got split winter damage. That picture is from this year.

(Good reminder for me to tie up the branches a bit before heavy snow and ice comes.)

We cleared a large area in the backyard with new borders and put in a lot of trees. I had never had a tree list before but after all that planting I decided to make a list of what trees and shrubs are in the garden. Here are the trees with I'm sure a few missing.

Acer ginnala
Acer griseum
Acer triflorum
Aesculus mutabilis 'Induta'
Aesculus parviflora
Sassafras
Amelanchier alleghany clump
Betula papyrifera
Betula pendula 'Trost's Dwarf'
Cercidiphyllum japonicum
Chionanthus virginicus
Clethra barbinervus
Cornus alternifolia 'Golden Shadows'
Cornus kousa
Corylus 'Rosita'
Cotinus coggyria 'Golden Spirit'
Crabapple 'Prairie Fire'
Cretaegus phaenopyrum
Evodia daniellii
Fagus sylvatica
Fagus sylvatica 'Riversii'
Gleditsia triacanthos
Japanese maple 'Beni Maiko'
Japanese maple 'Beni Schichihenge'
Japanese maple 'Bloodgood'
Japanese maple 'Crimson Queen'
Japanese maple 'Full Moon'
Japanese maple 'Garnet'
Japanese maple 'Orangeola'
Japanese maple 'Peaches and Cream'
Japanese maple 'Viridis'
Japanese maple 'Waterfall'
Juniperus virginiana
Larix kaempferi
Magnolia 'Jane'
Magnolia 'Leonard Messel'
Oxydendrum
Picea pungens-Colorado Blue
Sorbus aucuparia 'Cardinal Royal'
Stewartia pseudocamellia
Styrax japonica
Syringa reticulata

In the woods surrounding 3 sides of the yard are tons of:
Maples
Oaks-white and red
White Pine

I'm looking forward to collecting more evergreens in the coming years. Something really lacking in general in my garden.

Thanks to everyone who responded to my post. Many of you have some really interesting varieties I never heard of. This post has given me a bunch of ideas for next year.

thyme2dig,

Where did you get the following trees and how are they doing for you?

Evodia daniellii
Stewartia pseudocamellia
Styrax japonica

Also what are your top two JMs that your growing? I'm trying to fit one or two in my landscape and struggling with which cultivar to use. 'Fireglow' and 'Emperor 1' are the main choices as of now. I was thinking about
'Autumn Moon' and 'Aureum' as well.

whaas, don't know about Fireglow, but Emperor 1 is quite a large tree whereas the shirasawums (sp) are much smaller, slower growing.

I uploaded a few more tree pictures of Emperor 1 (and others) in the album above so you can see mature size.

The Maples forum might have better insight. (although your wishlist will double or triple easily - LOL)

At this point, I don't remember everything I'm growing, but its too many to list in this format. I started planting trees in '97, so no impressive sized trees yet.

My favorite tree this fall, was seeing my golden white poplar brightning up the dull landscape with its vibrant color.
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wendyb, thanks for adding pics! I just love that little 'Autumn Moon'!

How is the fruit set on Malus 'Sutyzam'? From what I've read its a heavy setter and its fairly persistant. Although a smaller cultivar, I can't chose between that one and 'Firebird'.

Here's what's growing on my 1.25 acre lot. These were already planted when I moved here, most of these trees are good-sized, 40-50 years old:

Acer saccharum (Sugar maple)
Acer saccharinum (Silver maple)
Acer platanoides (Norway maple - removed 4, 1 huge one left)
Acer ginnala
Quercus palustris (Pin oak)
Pinus strobus (white pine)
Pinus resinosa (red pine)
Cladrastis kentukea (Yellowwood)
Populus deltoides (eastern poplar)
Ulmus pumila (Siberian elm)
Tilia americana (Linden)
Prunus serotina (black cherry)
Prunus virginiana (choke cherry)
Fraxinus americana
Juglans cinerea
Juniperus virginiana
Taxus cuspidata (usually people shear yews into meatballs or meatloaves, these are a lovely tree form)
Sorbus acuparia

What I've planted, mostly understory trees and a few evergreens, these are smaller, 5-10 years old:

Cornus alternifolia
Cornus kousa
Cercis canadensis
Amelanchier canadensis
Amelanchier x lamarckii
Arborvitae 'Emerald green'
Tsuga canadensis
Picea mariana

Plus several unidentified medium-sized oaks, numerous wild Crabapples, and youngsters of several other species (Cornus florida, Platanus occidentalis, Sorbus americana)

Hey Whaas, the Stewartia and Sytrax I found locally. The Evodia I ordered from Arrowhead Alpines. It is about 2 1/2-3' and was $49.

I do like 'Bloodgood' a lot because of its size and fall color. 'Full Moon' is more orange/red in fall than 'Bloodgood' and seems to be a much slower grower. I think those 2 are probably closest in style to the 2 you've mentioned. I guess your decision could be narrowed down more to what leaf color in summer and fall you would prefer. If I had to choose between 'Bloodgood' and 'Full Moon' I would choose 'Bloodgood' because I like the leaf color all season long as opposed to the green (mine does not get too yellow) summer color of 'Full Moon'. The fall color on both is killer.

terrene: Nice list. Now I understand why you have so much shade! ;-) I do love trees!