Ed, The one paw paw got mowed down might re-sprout. Paw paw usually takes about 4-5 yrs to reach 7-8 feet tall and to produce. Mango is the most vigorous grower of all paw paws. Grafted American persimmon will take about 3-4 yrs to produce. Seedlings of D. Virginiana will take about 5-7 yrs to produce. You may want to protect these trees with wire cages to prevent them from being mowed down. Good luck!! Tony

wisconsitom, the forested area I got it from is full of lots of mature white pine and baby elm, beach, hemlock, black spruce (I think?), paper birch, unidentified baby birch, maple, and red oak. Very few baby white pine...succession in progress, I guess. My parents bought the plot of land across the street from their summer place because it came with a narrow water access next to our property and new environmental regulations meant they needed more land to put a septic tank. It came with some forest. The empty space I was trying to fill it with has the salt/wind/ sand/clay problem, so I wasn't sure what saplings to try to transplant that would do well in that environment, and had trouble identifying what was what. I didn't want to dig up and kill too many saplings that wouldn't survive. Any suggestions? I also swiped a baby white pine, and a mountain ash. The white pine seems to be in decent shape. Ash less so. Oh, I did find an online deal on bare root American Beech, and am debating getting it. EDIT: This is where I ended up putting it. Here is a link that might be useful: Bluff View Nurseries American Beech This post was edited by edlincoln on Fri, Sep 19, 14 at 22:11

I knew the problem with that picture was it made the area look too good. I took that picture precisely because it was pretty, but other parts of the yard look more bare, including the part in front of the house. That's a mix of maple and (hidden behind the maples in this shot) Eastern Red Cedar that self-seeded along a fence line. When I was little there was a row of pine (Austrian? Japanese Black?) in front of them. Quite a few of the trees in the yard are getting long in the tooth...we lost a bunch of big limbs this year, and a few trees a couple years ago...I know another batch are going to go in a year or two. My thought was we'd plant a couple rows of trees to fill in the gap in front of the house, then thought of extending it beyond the house to provide "understudies" for those trees. My reason for not planting the trees farther back was because I wanted to allow some space away from what's left of that row, and to continue a line of trees the neighbors (on the other side) started on their property. Neither row is a directly beneath the power line, but the front row I was thinking of is close. The side I'm planting trees along is about 417 feet long. Here is a link that might be useful: Split Limb Salvageable

To edlincoln: Sorry, this is not about maples. I have been following your postings and plight about landscaping in the Cape and Island area of the east coast. Here I have a bit of experience. It is not easy. It should be noted that the whalers returned to their New England homes with all types of foreign plants with the hope they would survive the rigors of salt air and wind. This type of landscaping and plant selection requires trial and error, locating the 'quiet spots' on a property during a raging nor'easter where healthy plant growth can be encouraged and planting young, low stock that can grow and adjust to the wind. The later is very important. There are lots of tricks to baffle the wind. And some excellent gardening books dealing with your area situation. Now that I am way off topic, an additional bit of learning for those owning seaside properties where almost nothing will grow despite following all the "rules". That area is covered with sections of unmarked Indian burial sites. It has been my experience, and of others, that very few introduced plants will grow in and around such sites. It occurs to me that this may be your problem and a bit of historical research might be helpful.