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[ellyssian]

Eleven more trees in the ground - two each of Goldenraintree, Washington Hawthorn, White Flowering Dogwood, Redbud, and Flowering Crab along with one lilac. Had to place some of them in different places than I planned on originally - Verizon apparently lost a phone line and they need to dig up the whole front bank and stream to locate it. Several of the trees were going to be within bounds that they've marked off.

Worse than that, however, is the three forsythia - one of which they stepped on and snapped while painting the lines - an andorra juniper, a flowering crab, a dawn redwood, four native pitch pines, and a number of 60' plus oak trees, along with an assortment of native plants.

We'll see what happens - they didn't show up at all today while I was working from home. I'm also fairly concerned that whatever they do will cause more erosion problems than I already have.

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[opakele.livejournal.com]

Dawn Redwood. Aren't they the evergreens that loose their needles? Ancient trees? I may be confused.

Nice choices. You should do pictures, I bet it is just gorgeous.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

The dawn redwood is a deciduous conifer (ditto bald cypress and American larch, amongst others), so it does loose its needles in the fall, after they turn from a rich green (chartreuse?) to a bright to light pink. They were around in dinosaurian days, and thought extinct until, I believe, sometime in the 1950s, when they were found growing in China.

No digital camera, so picture taking and posting takes a bit of effort - plan to get some posted eventually! =)

Most of the trees are quite small, but I figure the place should be really beautiful in three or four hundred years... ...planting is a long-term investment, donchaknow!

[opakele.livejournal.com]

The place we have in Raymond, is an old tree farm, harvested and replanted about 30 years ago. It is right in the heart of timber country. It is mostly Douglas Firs, Cedars and Hemlock...oh, and Alder. Twelve years ago I bought 10 Black Walnuts. It is amazing how big they've gotten.

Flowering quince is pretty. I tried two Ginko, but they didn't make it. We have deer and elk and they are very hard on baby trees, despite the fencing we put around them.

Nightsky is Keeper of the Forest. He takes his job very seriously. That 64 acres in timber country will not be harvested again...or at least not in our life time.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Deer are rodents. It's as simple as that.

Big rats with fairly good PR - I mean, hey, they have Bambi as a spokesdeer...