If you have room for all of them, plant em all and enjoy the faster growing ones as they get big fast and the slower growing ones will in time be worth the wait. I have a BURR oak that grows faster than my 2 Q. Alba's have, BUT, it was a special kind that came from a HUGE acorn that a fellow Garden web person gave me. I have several Red oak family oaks that have grown sorta fast BUT I also have some white oak family oaks that grow about as fast as the red oak family oaks. I think the site they are growing on also matters a good bit also. My 2 Q. Albas are pretty slow growing though, I must say, BUT, everybody has different planting sites. Sometimes with certain trees I do wonder, "is it the area the tree is in, or genetics?" I have 2 Q. Robur's I got at the same time from the same person, and 1 of them has grown like a freakin Jacks Beanstock and 1 has just done "average". Now, the "Beanstocks" place used to have some horse poop near it, BUT, the OTHER Q. Robur is really close to a, area where another but OLDER source of horse poop used to be, I have a shrub there that has been growing like wild in that space from that same soil where we used to have a horse barn for about 25 years, in other words that other Q. Robur that hasn't taken off like the "Beanstock" one has is very close to the area where that OLDER pile of poop was many years ago, and actually, once that Q. Roburs roots get to wandering around I thi nk that IT will also tap into that very rich soil. My "Beanstock Q. Robur was basically planted about 5 feet from where the horse poop pile had been about 10 years before I planted it, so, it surely had a nice amount of rich soil to tap into from the get go, PLUS, it was close to the house and I had surely watered it when it hadn't rained very often. That "Beanstock" Q, Robur has also put out a few acorns as of the last couple of years and it is pretty young, maybe 7-8 years old, that is a guess, I do have a bunch of pics with dates on them, BUT, for now, I'll just guess.

The Red Flag Fire Warning has been extended to three additional counties: Alfalfa, Major and Custer. It is in effect through 8 p.m. for those counties. The text of the Red Flag Fire Warning is linked below. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: Red Flag Fire Warning Issued At 11:33 a.m.

I planted a bunch of different kinds of western red cedars (some nobody knows what exactly they are) and one incense cedar. The incense cedar is a lighter brighter green and more fluffy and feathery. It's really cute! The incense cedar is supposed to be slower grower but mine is growing faster than the western red cedars did at first. The incense cedar just immediately took off with no transplant shock. It's breathtakingingly beautiful. Several of my western red cedars were in sad shape when planted; some's leaders had been cut off from drought death. But they've all come roaring back sarting this spring (planted December 2005) and especially since late August have been exhiting a tremendous growth spurt. Both the western red cedars and the incense cedars are exceedingly lovely trees.

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