Quercus Urban Pinnacle oak tree
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Comments (37)well, ummmm, is that a natural area for that type of oak, or have you pushed its boundaries? if it's just heat stressed, and disease has not sat in, I would say give it a tap more irrigation, but seeing it's in lawn, hummmmmm. if it doesn't eventually convert over to the area its in, you might have to take it out. if its diseased, I would take it out now, and treat the area around it. don't want to chance trees that get BIG , for when they fail, the failure is normally BIG too....See MoreBuy 100 Northern Red Oak Trees--4' Diameter
Comments (36)I actually love Northern Red Oaks. (1) The Chinese city is a Southern coastal town of mildest climate. I think they should talk to city planners of Charleston SC before choosing exotic plants. There are so many in the tropical list. (2) I think they should buy seeds instead. (3) I link some images of Hangzhou. I have a hard time imagining the Northern Red Oaks in the landscape. However, it would be interesting to see :-) Here is a map showing the location of Hangzhou. It is a Southern coastal city with mild climate suitable for many exotic plants....See MoreHelp! Need trees for a semi-urban garden!!!
Comments (4)I grew up in an 3-story English Tudor-style house with a similar yard (my mother is still there), although the back yard is turned ~90 from yours. Ie., it is ~30ft wide by ~50ft deep. Because the house is at the bottom of a hill and the houses from the intersecting street have their rear yards extending perpendicular (crosswise) but on a higher grade (about 7ft - 8ft above my mom's grade), anyone in the closer houses can look down into the yard. The people who owned the house before us installed an aluminum/wrought iron covered patio connected to the back of the house and that helped some for privacy in the back, from anyone looking down from "above". But eventually that had to supplemented. What's currently at the rear of the yard against an 8ft retaining wall, are a 40' Eastern white pine and a 40' Norway Spruce - one in each corner. The spread of both trees covers the width of the yard (without imposing on the center). The trees were eventually limbed up to about 12' above the ground and the remaining branches droop down to near the top of the wall to form a wall of conifer branches. But it took a bit of time for them to get there (30-some years from young 4' trees). ;-) But before they reached that size, my mother had Blaze climbing roses there to supplement the existing old New Dawn climbers left by the previous owners. My concern for that size yard is your considering a maple. Except for maybe the Japanese maples (and even those eventually grow over time to have a good-sized canopy depending on the variety) or perhaps a dwarf red maple, the maples themselves tend to quickly outgrow a small space. After almost 40 years of my mother dealing with her neighbor's Norway maple trees, the new owner who bought the neighboring house finally removed the largest - an 80-some year old one that was in the center of their yard (which took the landscape guys 3 days to take down when they found its canopy easily 100 ft. wide). They also removed most of that tree's half dozen 10 - 20 year old "seedlings" (that themselves were 40 footers). This all happened last week to my sheer amazement. Basically over the years, that yard had become a forest of these massive trees that were WAY too large to be in a typical city lot. Nothing could grow under them and they became a nuisance with the yellow pollen when blooming, the seed wings, the continual threat of lightning strikes and constant fear of tree trunk-sized branches that could hit the house. A large branch had already cracked off a couple years ago and damaged the chainlink fence between the properties. The trees became a bridge for the squirrels and racoons to the roof and OMG the leaves that piled half a foot thick in my mother's yard. I've seen Autumn Blaze in action and it is a beautiful tree in fall but IMHO, it would be the kind that might be planted in one of my sister's yards (1/3 acre) rather than my mom's. Granted - it's not a Norway maple but it can become as large as one. As an alternate to the thuja, you could consider an Easter Red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) which has a columnar to pyramidal habit. Along the back, just as a what-the-heck since I've seen them planted for similar reasons, is an upright english oak (Quercus robur 'Fastigiata'). This particular one is columnar and somewhat slow growing but is also narrow. There are a couple planted along the back of my apt. building, probably when the building was built ~1960 and they are now about 7 stories high. I've seen a few downtown here as street trees in the historic part of the city. Another alternate might be a thornless locust (honey or black). There are some that are slow growing, have a beautiful shape, and produce thin compound leaves that don't mat like the larger hardwood leaves. Just some suggestions and thoughts......See MorePouring Concrete Around a Quercus Rubra Oak Tree ?
Comments (81)Your tree is getting some width growth compared to the last pic. The subject of fall color above has me wanting to mention that I have added a Nyssa Sylvatica to my yard, Black Gum or Tupelo tree. They get great fall color or so I've read. I bought 3 by accident. I have 1 in the ground,1 in a pot and 1 is in a raised bed, and I am going to TRY Bonsai with it. I will transplant the potted one this fall. I am not sure where it will go yet. My yard is getting very crowded, I wish I could give it to somebody. I meant to buy only 1 of them. That Regal Prince will get how wide in maturity? About 15 feet? I forget, sorry. My oaks are doing fine, a few have had Japanese Beetles really eat alot of leaves. Like my Q. Velutina. It has had some issues with what LOOKS like "Butt rot" or a fungus type thing at the trunk bottom. I've been using a fungicide on it, and it seems to have healed the original scar. That is the only REALLY decimated tree (Japanese Beetle infestation) in my yard, and, I am guessing because of the Fungus problem making it weaker than all the other trees in my yard. The rest just had some leaves eaten that didn't harm tree. I need to do an update about that tree (the Q. Velutina) on GW BUT, I can't post pics anymore. I had posted and taken a pic or 2 showing the tree wound. I want to do an update, but, I can't. My computer didn't recognize the disk when I put it in my computer. Anyway, enjoy the rest of summer Dmac, I am waiting for Fall, and it's cooler temps, I can't take this 90"s F crap having. Later....See MoreD McElhaney Sr
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