OKC Area Source for Live Oaks
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Comments (3)I have tried twice with this tree. Ultimately, the ice storms killed them. I am slightly north of Greensboro, so I am in your same zone. The trees flourished as long as we did not have long stints of very cold and icy weather. They could not tolerate having ice stay on the limbs for very long. One of my trees was about 12', but the other was smaller. I also love this tree and am sorry that I cannot recommend it for our area. As for obtaining trees, Piedmongt Carolina Nursery found mine for me....See MoreOKC Metro Area Watering Restrictions
Comments (7)Leslie, I heard about Tom Steed but didn't realize the pipeline wasn't repaired yet. Moni, I know how to conserve as well and do a lot of it, including catching as much rainwater as possible and using it for watering. Of course, to catch rainwater, there actually has to be rain falling from the skies. It does bother me that the lakes are as low as they are in winter. We really need good, heavy spring rains to refill them and I am not sure that's gonna happen. It will be awful if spring rainfall stays below average and we don't get the extra rain needed to fill up the reservoirs before summer arrives. The big issue in summer won't even be just how much people are or aren't using. It is that the heat evaporates so much moisture from the reservoirs themselves and there's nothing you can do to prevent that water from evaporating. Everyone could have stringent watering restrictions and still the lake levels would drop and drop and drop due to evaporation. For those of us whose water co-ops rely on well water, the town of Wapanucka's recent experience should make us wonder how long we can pump out groundwater before the wells run dry. Wapanucka's well ran dry last week, leaving the town without a source of water. For a few days they had to close businesses and school, haul in drinking water, etc. while the city ran a water line to tie into another water system that serves Atoka. They've had water issues in the past, likely because the water level underground was falling lower than the depth of their wells, but now their wells are completely dry. A lot of rain will have to fall to recharge the aquifer their well draws from. If this weather continues to be as dry in 2013 as it was in 2011 and 2012, more and more city, county or private water systems undoubtedly will be in trouble like Wapanucka is now. You cannot pump water out of the ground if there's no water there. Dawn...See MoreSource for Blackjack and Post Oak?
Comments (10)My First response is, Yuk! Yuk! Yuk! Please do not take that as a personal afront to your opinion. You certainly have the right to yours as I have to mine. But are there not more stately and aesthetically pleasing native trees you could be planting? In Tulsa, and the surrounding wooded nature trails and historic hill areas around gilcrease Hills there can be seen many 100 + year old more worthy Oak species and wild pecan trees along with many other such stately and beneficial trees. Then There are also numerous native quality understory trees such as the redbuds and numerous other species that grace the land and betray visions of a time before so much of the land was turned into cities and towns. Of course if one enjoys the scraggly, farmer or rancher's field edge, or fence row look found in much of the area's meager once farmed or grazed parcels of land, or if one enjoys a marginally semi arid landscape, than more power to that one wanting to fill the area with Blackjack and Post Oak. Even the leaf shape of those more humble looking trees, fail to rise to the level of the more stately Native Oak species found in the Green country portion of Oklahoma in which the Tulsa area is located. If there are better specimans of Blackjack and Post Oak trees to be found growing in the area than those I have seen and described, I hope your parcel of land is able to support such better growing Blackjack and Post Oaks in a way that provides for them to reach the potential you described. Also, hopefully to benefit the environment better than most scraggly, struggling, looking like they are so battle worn from just trying to survive the elements seen in many such lesser native oak species that can be seen in many of the unurabanized areas,such as is often seen in some area fields, and country parcels....See Moregrowing a Live Oak
Comments (23)While on Vacation is South Carolina two years ago I gathered acorns from this beautiful tree. I live in coastal San Diego County. I planted them in pots for their first year and transplanted one year ago. My 3 acre property has plenty of room and I wanted a faster growing oak than Argrifolia which grows native here. I also read that Argrifolia can not take irrigation (turns out to be completely false) and I wanted something to grow in an irrigated landscape area. They are growing very well with constant beautiful reddish new leaves. You can almost see them grow. I feed the trees with Chicken manure, ash from the fireplace and bone meal. At 50 I do not know how big and majestic the tree will be before I die, but who cares. When asked what he would do today if he knew the world ended tomorrow, Walt Whitman said he would plant an apple tree. You Go Walt!...See MoreHFK123
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