Tree help (Serviceberry)/neighbor relations!
Anna S
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Serviceberry or Crabapple for patio tree?
Comments (8)Easy. At least one of each! :-) See how easy that was. Just playing a bit. But really they can easily be planted about every 15', so you just may find that one of each could comfortable fit there. As for crabapples, for feeding birds, smaller crabs are better as it is easier for the birds to eat them. Larger crab are more decorative, but much harder for the birds to eat. I just planted a Golden Raindrops Crabapple a couple weeks ago. Has numerous small yellow fruit in the fall, that is supposed to be readily eaten by birds. The downside of this cultivar is that it doesn't have much resistance to fireblight, so I'm taking a bit of a gamble. The tree is also more of a vase shape. Not trying to sell you on GRD, just make the point about characteristics to address if you plant a crabapple. Those being the color and size of fruit, flower color, possible disease issues, and of course tree shape. We also planted our first Autumn Brillance Serviceberry (funny what buy 1 get 1 free will convince you to do sometimes) a few weeks ago, but we are yet to see how they fair for us. Arktrees...See MoreMessy neighbor -- need trees to screen
Comments (26)Thanks, earthly. It's times like this that you learn how little you are protected by local codes. You can park anything on the street that has a current registration, no matter how crumby it looks. Boats on trailers can be parked in the street as long as the trailer is hooked up to a car or truck. I have the bad luck to live across from a slob (who is also mean and stupid) and now I have this mess next door. The neighbors are very much on top of things but the township can only do so much. We have a lot on our street where the guy knocked the house down three years ago and has left a mess ever since. We've been all over him about cleaning up but as long as he has a current building permit there is nothing we can do, excpet make the lot safe. As soon as one permit expires, he gets another. There are 40 house on my street and at least 36 of them are beautifully kept. Just my luck to be near two eyesores. Anyway, I am looking into bamboo in containers that will grow fast. I am concerned about planting in the ground since I don't want them to spread like mad. Looks like we're finally getting the rain we need. I just didn't want it all at once. Thanks for your supportive and helpful comments! Pam...See MoreRelating tree species to soils
Comments (5)Sujiwan, Plants can definitely be used as indicators of the type of soil and amount of moisture/flooding in a given location, but trees aren't always very helpful in this regard, at least in the Northeast. Certain trees do prefer certain types of habitats, but the trees may not precisely conform to the boundaries of the soils, and most tree species here in PA can grow in more than one type of soil and moisture regime. For example, Eastern Sycamore is typically found in moist soils, especially riparian areas (areas influenced by surface water). However, one can often find sycamores growing outside of riparian areas, particularly when there is a good stand of Sycamores nearby to supply seeds. Same goes for Black Walnut, which seems most common in deep, moist soils near rivers and streams, but can also occur in uplands. What's even worse, walnuts are often planted by humans and the nuts may be carried by squirrels. Trees are an indication of soil type, but not absolute proof. In addition to soil and moisture, another major influence on the type of trees in a location is recent history. If a site was cleared of all trees, for instance cleared for pasture, then the first trees that might recolonize the site might be trees with seeds that are dispersed by the wind, or they might be the offspring of whatever trees were left standing nearby. If you have a stand of young maples, that might be an indication that a few maples were the only trees left in the pasture and therefore were in the right place to supply lots of seeds when the pasture was abandoned. In fact the pasture might have had very few maples when it was a forest. Yet a third major influence on the type of trees growing in an area is predation - I'm talking about deer and perhaps cows. Lots of PA forests are growing black cherry and red maple after they are logged not because these are historically the dominant trees in the area, but because these trees are less palatable to deer and therefore are the only ones that survive heavy browsing by deer. Don't underestimate the impact deer may be having on the trees - they can be surprisingly hard to see even when very numerous. Cattle also can have an influence on trees - many former cow pastures are now stands of Red Cedar because cows avoid eating red cedar, allowing red cedar to repopulate the pasture even while the cows are still present. As soon as the farmer stops occasional mowing -viola, the baby red cedars can grow and you have a red cedar forest. Finally, there are many types of hickories and they favor different types of soils. If you have a stand of walnut and hickory on former farmland, I might suspect that the previous owner of the land selectively saved walnuts and hickories because he liked nuts or liked hunting. Walnuts and hickories are both good for squirrels and generally recommended by game management literature. I think if you want to use trees as indicators of the soil and moisture you should focus not on individual species, but on the communties of trees on your land. If you find red oak, white oak, chestnut oak, certain hickories, pitch pine and/or virginia pine dominating an area you might expect to find drier soils typical of uplands. If you have a stand of Eastern Sycamore, Silver maple, American Elm, and perhaps walnuts too, then you might expect to have moister soils and occasional to frequent flooding. If you see one set of tree species in the canopy and another in the seedlings, then you might either have a forest going through natural succession or some force (deer or the recent removal of a lot of the deer or cows) influencing the forest composition. Hope this helps......See MoreDoes anyone want to help us design our back deck/related landscape?
Comments (9)If you don't need space for socializing on the deck, I think you would be better served by a simple, 6' wide runway deck/walk that hugs the house and then devote the leftover space to planting. Split the steps with half at the deck and half at the entrance to the walk (from the drive.) It would seem a lot more luxurious to you if you made the step-treads 16" (front-to-back depth.) Use a conventional railing instead of seating. (You can't post photos by embedding code, but you can upload them directly from your computer by using the "Photo" button at the bottom of the window where you create the post.)...See Moreken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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