...and blue spruce.

I typically like seeing them in pairs..

wonder if they are more of a southern tree?

I see them all around this area...especially in pairs...although there are idiots out there that will not recognize the pairing and cut one down...

They typically grow around waterways, near streams etc...

He was a great basketball player!

if you look really hard!

I'm jealous!

I'll concede 15%, but that's definitely the limit!

But I have restricted myself to mostly planting native trees lately. I love great fall color so really any tree that provides beautiful fall foliage! After that, its evergreens to have winter coverage.
I love nature in all of its variations. Except earwigs and poison ivy; it's a personal thing :/

spring and summer. though. with their burgandy leaves and the Fire Balls.

The one we have usually bears abundant fruit (last year zero though). So much in fact that we must use a forest of struts and props to prevent it form tearing itself apart.

was a mess with rotten fruit so I cut them down. Thank you Codifer.

In 2003 I found a sprouted peach pit in my compost. I tended it, and 6 years later had peaches. Magic! In Maine! It’s still going, although I had to move. I always felt that tree was a perfect generous gift of the world to me.

peaches is that there is a small window of time in which they become ripe and the great number of them there on the tree.

This year was a very abundant year which was great. Our normal practice developed over the years was to distribute flats of them to our pub friends, the people we trade with, the class my wife teaches and the pot store. This year there was Covid in the house (although not me even though I am the eldest at 79.) which limited travel. Fortune was kind though and smiled. A young couple who live next door are expecting and the mom to be developed a craving for them (home peaches seem much jucier and more flavorful than store bought). I picked as many as I could for her as carefully as I could (gloves, masks etc). It feels good to give someone a beautiful and perfect and pleasure-filled bit of nature.

cheers

A friend here in Maine has a youngish peach tree that did well this year, and I helped her can them, 6 jars, something she had never done before. Then I drove 12 hours west to buy Niagara County peaches, about a bushel, and brought them back to Maine where I put up 17 quarts, while eating as many as I could just out of hand, over cereal, and in pie. Gave a few away, but only a few. I do love them, and the season is so short.

How kind of you.
Stay healthy. Covid surely isn’t done with us yet.

Swamp Chestnut Oak.

It is a species of oak in the white oak family. It is native to bottomlands and wetlands in the southeastern and midwestern United States, in coastal states from New Jersey to Texas.

It has large rounded acorns with a heavily scaled cap. Exceptional wildlife mast.

There are a lot of them in my neighborhood, and I really enjoyed just walking past them smelling their wonderful flowers.

For me, Linden trees also remind me of my Mom. She's been gone a long time but had attended Lindenwood University (College then) in St. Charles, MO when it was a bit unusual for girls to have attended. The school gets its name from Linden trees--which I had always assumed but never confirmed until I saw their Wiki page today. I also learned that Taylor Swift's grandmother was an alumnus of Lindenwood. LOL

I had never heard the alternate name, Basswood. Interesting.

"The foliage and flowers are both edible, though the tender young leaves are more palatable. It is a beneficial species for attracting pollinators as well. Bees produce excellent honey with a mildly spicy flavor from its blossoms." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilia_americana. There are a lot of online sources for the honey - it's really the best honey I know of. It always turns up at farmers markets locally.

I have several in my yard. Two are very tall, but one of those is getting taken over and choked out by a fast growing tree in my neighbor's yard.

I also like big oak shade trees (or I used to). We had a huge one in our back yard and one in our front yard. The shade they provided the house was great, but they were old trees and started dropping huge limbs so we had to have them cut down. My sister had what was probably the largest oak tree in town in her backyard (according to her insurance agent) - until strong straight-line winds blew it down on her house and crushed it! She was lucky to have not been crushed herself. She managed to crawl out from under the huge limbs and just had some scrapes. I've been afraid of those trees since then. They apparently do not have very deep roots - for their size, anyway.

enough.

... and for their sweet maple sap.

We had a huge one in our front yard when I was a kid and I thought it was so exotic, right out of a fairy tale, lol.

The Saguaro. I just have one, but it’s massive and stands proud in the yard.

realized why the Saguaro, and not the pine or other trees is my favorite. It is because a Saguaro does not block out the sunlight, the moon, or other objects in the sky because it grows up, not out like a pine, etc. No matter where you stand you can always see the sky. Not possible in a forest.

Japanese Maple. Their Autumn display is an orchestrated riot of color.

It has such beautiful leaves in the fall, it's worth raking the gumballs! We didn't plant it, it was here when we moved in.

Jane Magnolia Tree
https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/magnolia-jane/

or a

Knock Out Rose Tree
https://plankandpillow.com/all-about-the-knock-out-rose-tree/



Several years ago we had over towering White Ash trees that were too close to the house. The trees were planted before the house was built 70 some years ago, so I'm sure the trees weren't towering over the house when it was built.


Eventually, the trees were attacked by the White Ash Borer and both had to be taken down. I burnt all the wood in my firepit for bonfire nights.

With the following trees, they only grow so tall so they will never tower over the house. Plus, they have beautiful flowers on the them. It would be ideal for my yard.

Wish you luck. They are expensive to take down now.

It's merely a Knockout rose bush with the bottom growth removed.
They probably get 4 feet tall or so.


I swear that's a camellia in the picture and not a rose.

Here is how they look in the nursery :


Stock photo from Home Depot. You're paying for them to remove the bottom growth.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/KNOCK-OUT-3-Gal-Red-Double-Knock-Out-Rose-Tree-with-Red-Flowers-13560/315750016

I have a Knockout rose and they're patented.
https://www.knockoutroses.com/family

They aren't fancy roses, but they're popular because they're disease resistant.

This time of year, they look like they are growing a crop of tennis balls.

Good grief, nothing is sacred, eh?

that causes some kinds of plants to die. Some things just can't be grown near them - especially plants in the rose family. One of them killed my crabapple tree. Also, the squirrels get the nuts and they leave stains.

Of course, we have them everywhere, including the pastures. I also hate them because its like trying to walk on ping pong balls.

a kid, I also been hit by them the last couple of times that I walked Dolly. So has she.

They are some nasty things to prep but boy do they make fudge, brownies or divinity so good

We used to dump them in the driveway and run the car over them to get the husks off.

In Central Park we found a black walnut tree and took a few green "globes".
Tasty walnuts!

bc It's near the school we used to go to vote. Since I'm thinking, of course, about the election.

And their delicate leaves. Such pretty flowers! 🥰

the house sold. the new buyer had them all cut down. Bummer.

could pick any! They left a big mess afterwards, w/ their poop!

We had a 15’ one in our previous home. I planted one here. It’s about 10’ now.

Bald cypress are strictly aquatic here.

Montezuma will grow on land.
It's native from the Rio Grande Valley on south.


Native range:

Just a little east of us same latitude. At our last house we never had to water the cypress there. I knew it wasn’t going to develop knees but it was healthy. I was hoping for the same thing here. But it looks like I’ll have to soak the soil every so often. We were in drought conditions. It’s been doing good this year with the rain we’ve had recently.

Bald Cypress can be a yard tree in East Texas, but not here. We're too dry.

They are beautiful in the fall. Best autumn colors, IMHO.

Japanese maple. We have these trees in our yard and on our bonsai tables. Beautiful trees.

I particularly love cedar trees, but truly how can one choose a favorite? Choosing a favorite might be an insult to God, if I believed in one. Let's just say it is a likely insult to the splendor and mystery of creation. So much majestic, sheltering beauty. Trees boggle my mind, soothe my spirit and give me the inspiration to continue when my spirit feels weak. A bridge between heaven and earth, a presence and a being in every way and a reminder of the wonder around us. I think I love almost every tree.

Eucalyptus

I also appreciate the beauty of the western hemlock.

For me, it's very unusual.

Poison hemlock is an herb related to the carrot and that is relatively common but not native to North America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conium_maculatum

Hemlock trees are evergreen conifers that can grow quite large. There are several species of hemlock native to North America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuga

Note: The English-language common name "hemlock" arose from a perceived similarity in the smell of its crushed foliage to that of the unrelated plant poison hemlock. Unlike the latter, Tsuga species are not poisonous.[4]

Redwood, Port-Orford cedar, Douglas-fir, Dawn redwood, pepperwood, Brewer Spruce?

Educated and worked for years as a forester, retired over 20 years.

Live in National Forest just inland from Redwood National Park.

Native trees on 0.7 acre lot are Douglas-fir, canyon live oak, California black oak, tanoak (not a Quercus but related), madrone, pepperwood (aka Oregon myrtle or California bay laurel), western dogwood, western redbud and incense cedar; also cherry, pear and fig fruit trees.

I like the shape, the color, & the smell.

Japanese Maples (exquisite in fall)

Live Oak (I love the Spanish moss that often hangs from them)

Weeping Willows

Native to East Asia, its small orange flowers give off a wonderfully sweet scent when they blossom in the fall. It's one of my favorite smells in the world.

Nt.

We have a stick turning into a tree in our side yard

They support about a thousand species of native insects, which in turn feed many other species in the food web. Truly a lynchpin species.

There is something that happens when you are 'in' a Redwood Forest. There is nothing like it. I used to live in Mill Valley, surrounded by Redwoods, not far from Muir Woods. I really miss it. I think I need to do a Road Trip soon to go soak up some of the Tall Tree Vibes.

Walking under them is so humbling.

Thought to be extinct until rediscovered in China. It has a beautiful natural conical shape and dates back to the era of the dinosaurs.

I have a hard time choosing just one tree (White Pine, Sequoia, Redwood, White and Red Cedar, Hemlock trees all very cool too).

Amazingly, these trees repel insects and live hundreds of years. I suspect most people around where we live (shores of Lake Superior in MN) would have a hard time identifying these trees given that the bark is silver colored instead of the typical white people associate with birch.

Thanks for asking about trees (nice to talk about something other than the destroyer of worlds - Donald Trump). Trees are the antithesis of that man in that they seek nothing other than a chance to grow. I kept a cup my mother gave me that had a quote about an oak tree apropos to current times. It went something like the following Hallmark quote: “ Every mighty oak was once a nut that stood its ground.” We might be nuts for believing in a better tomorrow. But, it is better to be a nut than weird.

Every now and then I find a big one while wandering in the fields and woods here and am always amazed by the beauty.

Paper birch, which are another amazing tree, only live about 40 years. So, the yellow birch is in a class of its own when it comes to longevity. They also seem to have an incredible ability to regenerate and continue even when the tree's demise seems imminent.

I have to admit I am a fan of trees generally. They are among some of the world's oldest living things (especially the giants like the Redwoods and Sequoias). A long time ago I worked for the City of Minneapolis where we had an annual awards ceremony for heritage trees (largest of a species or related to a historic event or person). It was great fun to see people nominate these urban trees and to describe their value to a neighborhood or community (was also a way to protect these trees).

I agree that it is a beautiful tree - and low water, lots of shade, and fast growing. I absolutely loved it.