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dado potato
8-30-18, 9:18pm
I share a plot of land with an oak tree. She is about 200 feet tall, and spreads a 200 feet radius. As the sun went down today, I sat out with this tree, and I felt such love and devotion. I felt she was secure, and that she was glad to be in my front yard. Her leaves, probably weighing a ton, are her solar collectors. I will rake her fallen leaves all in a couple months, when their job is done. I will be happy to serve. Her trunk and limbs are immense, and I just know that no wind can possibly break them. I am glad they are so strong, because my little house is situated beneath them.
From time to time, visitors have looked up at this oak tree and marveled at her. They say they have never seen a finer tree. I believe it is true:
they never have!
When the breeze rustles her leaves, I can hear the motion of time.
She is strong and tall and deep.
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I understand tree admiration. I so miss my twin oaks from the house we sold. I watched them triple in size over the years until they joined together and made a lovely canopy over the back of the house. Some years they would drop thousands of acorns and we came to know that meant a severe drought was on the way. I hope they are doing well and making the new owners happy.
Gardenarian
8-31-18, 12:13am
I am also very grateful for my oak tree!
Thanks for sharing the lovely thoughts.
Such a nice post! I hear ya.
Outside my new house I have a big, very old maple tree. It may. not be a Mighty Oak but it's a Majestic Maple. It's the beauty of the neighborhood. And it even has a swing.
Cheers to our beautiful trees!
I love my trees too. Especially the little delicate redbuds and dogwoods with their spring show of colors. I too have oaks holding things steady and a very large elm. I even like the tall junipers for their aromatic smell. All this plus a rocky glade on my 1/2 acre.
iris lilies
8-31-18, 10:23am
We have one beautiful tree on our city property, a pin oak that is fairly young by tree standards. It is around 25 years old.
We have shaped it and cared for it so that it looks good.
Trees are not always welcome inhabitants of my properties, but this one is a good guest.
catherine
8-31-18, 10:32am
We have one beautiful tree on our city property, a pin oak that is fairly young by tree standards. It is around 25 years old.
We have shaped it and cared for it so that it looks good.
Trees are not always welcome inhabitants of my properties, but this one is a good guest.
Whew! I thought that maybe when you saw this thread you'd close it down! :)
iris lilies
8-31-18, 10:34am
Whew! I thought that maybe when you saw this thread you'd close it down! :)
Well, it IS bugging me but
I think free speech is i portant! Haha.
This is the tree I love. My town is drafting a treasured protected tree list, and I submitted it. Pacific Madrone.
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Teacher Terry
8-31-18, 1:34pm
We have 3 beautiful fruit trees in our backyard that provide lots of shade. However, it is a love/hate relationship. They drop fruit that most years you can’t eat. We warm up early the trees bud, then it freezes and ruins the fruit. On a daily basis I fill up 2 Walmart bags of fruit to throw away. Ugh! I want to cut down the pear tree that doesn’t shade the house but pears are DH’s favorite in the years you can eat them. He said we could cut down the apple but that shades the back of the house. No clue what I want to do.
This is the tree I love. My town is drafting a treasured protected tree list, and I submitted it. Pacific Madrone.
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Nice, Kay! I was hoping someone would break the seal and post a picture!
Here's mine (unfortunately with the iris lilies curse)
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Here's mine (unfortunately with the iris lilies curse)
And here they are again with the Alan cure.
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We have a very large elm tree in our backyard. it provides so much shade for the yard and the house! We're pretty sure that it's protection has saved us hail damage on the roof over the years. I remember thinking years ago that I never wanted to move into a house that had just been built in a new development because there were no mature trees.
And here they are again with the Alan cure.
Thanks, Alan!!
We have a very large elm tree in our backyard. it provides so much shade for the yard and the house! We're pretty sure that it's protection has saved us hail damage on the roof over the years. I remember thinking years ago that I never wanted to move into a house that had just been built in a new development because there were no mature trees.When we built our house in a new development 23 years ago, we had the builder leave the existing trees in the back and side yard areas alone. Iris Lilly will hate this, but we have a veritable forest surrounding our suburban 3/4 acre.
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Love the devotion and all the tree pictures. My dd got a little oak sapling from graduation and planted it in the front yard (where we had a rotting tree removed). She is tendering taking care of it and so for the mower has spared it. If it ultimately survives, in about 10-20 years, I'll share a picture. lol
early morning
9-2-18, 10:58am
What a lovely thread - thanks for starting it dado potato! And lovey pictures, you all - "someday" I'm going to figure out how to post pix, lol. I love trees. Our pasture is mostly scrub, but it's just lying fallow and I want to put some trees back there. Our yard, though, is has quite a few - some small, some large. When we moved in there were three large maples, a huge hackberry, 5 dwarf fruit trees, and a good sized mulberry. Over the years, we've added a sycamore, a serviceberry, a pear, a tulip poplar, a walnut, a soft maple, a hard maple, and a swamp oak (our latest edition, which is really tiny!) When we had to have one of our giant maples removed earlier this year, I cried. Dh thought it was because of the check we had to write :~), but I was, and am still, mourning that tree. I want to plant a dawn redwood to replace it, but DD wants to put the redwood elsewhere and put an oakleaf hydrangea or other large blooming shrub where the tree was, since it's sunny there without the tree, and we have little sun for growing such stuff...so that's up in the air. I'm sure Iris Lily with empathize with her desire for some sun loving plants, lol.
I was always so comforted by trees, in my less-than-perfect childhood. I tell people I was raised by a grove of trees. :) Yes, I'm literally a treehugger.
We have hundreds, if not thousands of trees on our property, but a really special one was a burr oak in back of the house. What a beautiful specimen it was. It was fairly young. My guess is that it was about 25-30 years old. One night we had a terrible electrical storm. I heard a horrible loud crack out back. Well, the tree was hit by lightening. It has died. It's slowly splitting and loosing limbs. I was so sad. I like to think that it took the hit for us, to save our house. I am beginning to see little burr oak seedlings around the property. So at least it's children made it. Trees are special beings.
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