This will probably be of interest mostly to the homeowners on here, but I imagine some of yall's parents may be interested as well.

http://www.doubletreespledgetoplant.com/registration.php

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"No purchase necessary. Limit to one entry per person. Limit to 10,000 entrees. Delivered to addresses in U.S. and Canada only. Two tree seedlings per entry will be shipped by the National Arbor Day Foundation on or about June 15, 2007. Seedling trees will vary based on region of the country. Those residing in southern states with extreme summer temperatures will be contacted by the National Arbor Day Foundation via e-mail to determine appropriate shipment through fall 2007."

5/3/2007 12:27:59 PM

Awesome! Thanks.

5/3/2007 12:35:07 PM

what kind of trees?

It didn't say on the site, or i missed it.

5/3/2007 12:44:10 PM

it said it will send whatever is local to the area.

5/3/2007 12:46:02 PM

ah,

yeah i don't want pine trees.

5/3/2007 12:47:53 PM

sweet I just signed up. thanks for the info

5/3/2007 12:59:44 PM

sup

5/3/2007 1:00:22 PM

lol, great idea


but if people want trees, let me know


I'm gonna get rid of small ones before I move

5/3/2007 1:01:26 PM

success

5/3/2007 1:12:09 PM

My bank sent me one from the Arbor Day Foundation for Christmas. It was a Blue Spruce (Colorado Spruce.) Looked like it would be a sweet Christmas tree in the front yard, but it died pretty quickly after I planted it.
Here is a pic of what it would have looked like:




I have a question...Would ~2' Redbud trees have any value? I have a bunch around my yard and I don't want to just waste them. Was thinking of putting an ad on Craigslist saying people could come dig them up for $5-$10 each or something.

[Edited on May 3, 2007 at 1:14 PM. Reason : s]

5/3/2007 1:12:21 PM

^^^types?

Like BD, we aren't overly interested in pine trees
Smaller deciduous ones, we are.

^If you want them gone, just put up an ad. Don't worry about money.

When we got this house, there were irises planted EVERYWHERE. I hate irises. Many people like them, so they were gone in short order.

[Edited on May 3, 2007 at 1:14 PM. Reason : dfsglkaje]

5/3/2007 1:12:51 PM

you can get these at the state fair too, and they usually have multiple varieties. mostly pine and spruce but I thought I remember some hardwoods. just cycle back through the tent a few times and you'll have yourself a backyards worth

5/3/2007 1:14:49 PM

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"It was a Blue Spruce (Colorado Spruce.) Looked like it would be a sweet Christmas tree in the front yard, but it died pretty quickly after I planted it. Here is a pic of what it would have looked like:"

Those are pretty sweet trees, but they struggle in the summer heat here.

5/3/2007 1:20:36 PM

anyone know what the trees with the deep red/purple leaves are called?

I want to replace a couple of shitty trees that my builder planted.

5/3/2007 1:30:16 PM

http://www.arborday.org/trees/treeID.cfm

5/3/2007 1:33:44 PM

^^Thundercloud Plums or Red Japanese Maples?

5/4/2007 3:48:26 AM

lookin enough to make abouttt a city block worth

I have a piece of property that the road divides and on the other side there is a car repair shop/junkyard.

i want to block off the view from the road of that junkyard thus raising the property value a tad because out of sight out of mind.


what would be best? I figured something like Leland Cypress would grow fast and round...something to easily take up space but they are also prone to bagworms

Tall oaks would be nice and make it look good in a few years(30) or so...

i dunno, anyone got any ideas or any for free?

best time to plant a tree was yesterday
-chinese proverb

5/4/2007 4:24:02 AM

^Musk thistle

5/4/2007 4:37:42 AM

^^^

AH that's it, thundercloud plum!!

thanks bro.

5/4/2007 8:37:07 AM

^^^ I'd start with both bamboo and oaks. Maybe do the bamboo at the property line and oaks in front of it. The bamboo will fill in very fast. I've read that some bamboo can grow 15-20' per year. You fulfill the immediate need of blocking the junkyard and 20 years from now you will have a beautiful row of oaks for eye appeal.

5/4/2007 1:22:07 PM

leland cypress grows incredibly fast and gives good ground coverage. that or a running bamboo would be your cheapest options. you won't get any new shoots of bamboo this late in the season, but next year is should be taking off.

5/4/2007 1:31:29 PM

seedless

5/4/2007 1:35:53 PM

Do NOT put bamboo in your yard. It will spread like a weed and the young shoots are like razor spikes in your yard as it spreads. You won't be able to walk in the area that it lives in because the shoots can easily be sharp and sturdy enough to pierce shoes (and therefore your feet). I've heard nothing of horror stories of people who wanted to grow bamboo in a specific area of their yard...it ends up taking over a much larger section and creating a hazard too.

I would recommend Lelands as well, you can have a nice row of trees within a few years. Bradford Pears also grow very quickly but they are the first to be destroyed by an ice storm...

5/4/2007 1:57:15 PM

bamboo is fine for what he wants. people who bitch about the perils of running bamboo either plant it in stupid locations or are too lazy to do simple pruning.

5/4/2007 2:32:07 PM

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"My bank sent me one from the Arbor Day Foundation for Christmas. It was a Blue Spruce (Colorado Spruce.)"

For the most part the colorado blues want live in altitudes lower than Greensboro. even in asheboro we can't grow them consistently. they do great in greensboro though

5/4/2007 4:43:29 PM

^Did you mean Asheville? I didn't think Asheboro would be significantly higher than Greensboro.

Are you sure its the altitude that they don't like? Everyone I've talked to says Blue Spruces can't handle the summer heat here. That's why they're called also referred to as "Colorado Spruce." They grow in the mountains out west.


I'll throw this in while I'm at it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Spruce

5/4/2007 5:55:50 PM

I'm no tree expert, but if the Colorado blue spruce can survive at high elevation in Denver and the Rocky Mountains, why wouldn't it do well in Asheboro?

edit- whoa-that's what I was asking....

[Edited on May 4, 2007 at 5:59 PM. Reason : whoa]

5/4/2007 5:58:10 PM

from Wikipedia:

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"The Blue Spruce or Colorado Spruce (Picea pungens) is a medium-sized evergreen tree growing to 25-30 m tall...It is native to western North America, from southeast Idaho and southwest Wyoming, south through Utah and Colorado to Arizona and New Mexico. It grows at high altitudes from 1800-3000 m altitude...It is most commonly found growing along streamsides in mountain valleys..."

from NCSU plant fact sheets:

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"Picea pungens Colorado Blue Spruce Comments: More drought tolerant than other spruces; poor heat tolerance"

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/trees-new/picea_pungens.html

5/4/2007 6:05:44 PM

My mom still has a tree growing in her yard that I got from Lucky Charms when I was about 12 or so. I believe it's a spruce pine. It's only about 5 feet tall because some bushes started overtaking where we planted it and it didn't get much sun.

5/4/2007 6:15:33 PM

don't do bamboo


go with leyland cypress for a fast growing, evergreen, wall of tree to creat boundaries

bagworms aren't a big deal

once you've treated the trees once for them they don't come back

5/4/2007 7:04:03 PM

^^Spruce pine? There's no such thing. Spruce and Pine are different species. Its like saying Oak Maple or Cherry Dogwood.

5/7/2007 11:23:41 AM

bttt

for reference - message_topic.aspx?topic=504892

12/4/2007 5:05:23 PM

they never sent me mine
hopefully it comes soon

[Edited on December 4, 2007 at 5:15 PM. Reason : t]

12/4/2007 5:10:13 PM

I heard their trees are in pretty bad shape. They are seedlings and a lot don't survive. But a cool idea. I think if you join the national arbor day foundation you can get 10 'trees' for free.

12/4/2007 5:46:27 PM

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"Spruce and Pine are different species"

more precisely, different genera (Picea vs. Pinus)

12/4/2007 8:38:17 PM

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"^^Spruce pine? There's no such thing. Spruce and Pine are different species. Its like saying Oak Maple or Cherry Dogwood."

Look dude, I was 12, it could have been plastic for all I know

12/4/2007 8:52:21 PM

ive heard the term "spruce pine" many a time in my life... never gave it any thought tho

12/4/2007 9:02:46 PM

http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/4h/Spruce_pine/sprupine.htm



Spruce pine, also called cedar-pine or bottom-white pine, is a member of the southern yellow pine group. It is the most shade-tolerant species of southern pine and is scattered throughout the southeast in mixed hardwood stands, rarely occurring in pure stands.

Looks like our tree expert doesnt know shit.

12/4/2007 9:06:50 PM

BOOM GOES THE DYNOMITE!

12/4/2007 9:37:50 PM

god...ppl name trees sometimes for the way they look. ever seen a willow oak? its an oak tree that looks like a willow.

12/6/2007 12:00:56 AM

...or a pussy willow

12/6/2007 12:03:14 AM

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"For the most part the colorado blues want live in altitudes lower than Greensboro. even in asheboro we can't grow them consistently. they do great in greensboro though "

put the wrong word in there... should have been won't

12/6/2007 12:10:24 PM

We just got ours the other day.....

12/11/2007 11:25:41 AM

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"god...ppl name trees sometimes for the way they look. ever seen a willow oak? its an oak tree that looks like a willow."

Not to be that douchebag who corrects everybody, but not quite. Willow oaks have willow-looking leaves, but the tree looks like any other large oak. They're all over campus; look for the big oak trees with the skinny little leaves. Lots of folks (incorrectly) call them pin oaks (which are something different).

12/11/2007 12:28:00 PM

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"Not to be that douchebag who corrects everybody"

You succeeded.






















j/k, I find all this tree stuff kinda interesting. When the weather warms up and this whole water restriction craziness is over I need to spruce up our yard.

[Edited on December 11, 2007 at 12:39 PM. Reason : -]

12/11/2007 12:37:36 PM

Quote :

"Not to be that douchebag who corrects everybody, but not quite. Willow oaks have willow-looking leaves, but the tree looks like any other large oak. They're all over campus; look for the big oak trees with the skinny little leaves. Lots of folks (incorrectly) call them pin oaks (which are something different). "

Thats what I meant, they have willow leaves. They don't look like weeping willows but like regular willows.

12/11/2007 3:14:02 PM

I want a black walnut


bet they aint got one of those

alot of people in this thread dont know shit about trees and nomenclature...or even regional common names

there is no wrong name for a plant if you are not using its taxonomic designation, get outta here with that shit

[Edited on December 11, 2007 at 4:31 PM. Reason : ]

12/11/2007 4:29:52 PM

I know my Quercus

12/12/2007 1:04:51 PM

I got 2 white dogwoods

12/15/2007 12:33:29 AM

black walnuts are incredible trees we have one in our grandmother's yard and the branches are spread out enough and sturdy enough we can climb up it we would have built a tree house in it but its not inside her property line and technically belongs to the neighbor not to mention zoning codes in the area basically prohibit tree houses >.<

12/15/2007 8:55:40 AM