I have 2 more thingscompliments of the squirrels! Guess theyre good for somethingmaybe! I was gonna pull these out and just throw them away, but........... The first one I pulled out came with the acorn still attached to it, so I dug up the second one and theyre both now in pots! I have 2 oak trees! I assume theyre Gamble Oaks (Quercus gambelii), just because thats the most commonly found oak in this area, but I really dont have any way at all to be sure! If they are Gamble Oaks, they could wind up being anything from a single trunked smallish tree to a multi trunk bush kind of thing that looks more like scrub oak! There are two of them planted in one of the display gardens at Paulinos (they sell them), and one looks like a tree and the one right next to it is more "bushy!" Since I dont even know for sure what they are, theres no way to tell what theyre gonna look likebut they do have oak leaves!!! They will also spread somewhat, underground, I believe, and when they produce acorns, they will reseed fairly easily! So if somebody wants to take a chance on what they are and give them a try, Ill bring them along. I recommend them for somebody with a bigger yard, rather than just a tiny residential yard. Theyre still attached to the acorn and have very few roots. I would recommend growing them in the pots for a month or two so you can control the water better than if they were in the ground, and Id recommend you use a wet/dry cycle. Theyre completely saturated now, let them dry almost completely, then resaturate, let dry, resaturate........ Assuming they are Gamble Oaks they like it dry, and letting them dry almost all the way before watering again should help them form roots. Anybody interested? Skybird

Hi Oceanna, Unfortunately, I am unable to see any of the gallery pics at this time. *sigh* I posted about this little problem in the Computer Forum here at GW last week and I've tried all (almost all) of their suggestions and still can't see the pics you've posted. *double sigh* I know I'm missing out on some great inspiration! I emailed you last week (your Yahoo) but not sure if you received the email?

Did do just that Dax. We shall see. This time around, via the site's "Contact Us" option. Ed, I've got a message into that outfit too-Windbreaktrees.com...so we'll eventually learn what they have to say. I have little doubt it is one and the same, albeit no two such hybrids are necessarily alike. I was able to generate quite a list of sources to look into late last week. I'm at the point in my working year however where, if this doesn't fall into place quickly and relatively painlessly, it will have to get shunted off to 2016. I don't really have enough time left in this year to necessarily get all of my projects into play, but I do have those items which must happen. So honestly, I'm already starting to look at this as a project for next year, which would essentially mean a spring 2017 planting. We have things like budgets, etc. lol. Can't just shoot from the hip all the time! If I don't line this up basically this week, I'm putting it aside for next year, which again, would actually mean 2017 planting. So it goes. Have to admit, it was kind of a sudden inspiration on my part-not something I've been planning for months. +oM

Plant (Agave weberi) and geek (me) in Mesa, AZ last month. This plant was adopted soon thereafter, though not by me (I PIG'd a smaller one).