Planting a Tree for LIFE today...
Pictures later when it's all done. It's a big tree...2 1/2 inch trunk and already about 12-15 feet tall (it will eventually reach 30 feet)
Many hugs, Vicki
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Never too many trees...
Hey, Vicki
I have never heard of a Sterling Silver Linden tree before? Is this a native tree for your state or one that is popular where you live? What type of tree is it similar to? Looking forward to checking it out.
It's a great idea and shade trees are a welcome in the heat where you can run to them for cover.
-Craig0 -
Trees
GREAT IDEA and can't wait to see the pics.
I hired a professional landscape company (Meadows Farms) to landscape our new WV home in 2004. After 5 years, my trees are doing GREAT and are huge. I have 1 October Glory Maple and Kunzawia (sp?) Cherry in front, 3 Cleveland Pears & 1 VERY LARGE Black Walnut Tree (existing) in backyard.
I love to watch the birds nest in our trees0 -
Sterling SilversSundanceh said:Never too many trees...
Hey, Vicki
I have never heard of a Sterling Silver Linden tree before? Is this a native tree for your state or one that is popular where you live? What type of tree is it similar to? Looking forward to checking it out.
It's a great idea and shade trees are a welcome in the heat where you can run to them for cover.
-Craig
Craig,
Linden trees are common in Colorado, but I don't think they are native. They do well in our dry climate, and handle wind...which is a daily occurrence! The Sterling Sliver was developed in about 1988. It resists Japanese Beetles, a real problem here. And the leaves are so pretty...thye come out silver, turn green on top and stay silver on the bottom.
You can see it here:http://www.littletongov.org/publicservices/trees/treedetail.asp?treesID=1
The city of Littleton CO was selling small starts for $30, but if you want a mature tree (I did)they can normally run in the hundreds. We got lucky...a local tree farm was overstocked and sold us a $500 tree for $199...but don't ask what they charge to plant it! LOL!
Vicki0 -
Black Walnutsnudgie said:Trees
GREAT IDEA and can't wait to see the pics.
I hired a professional landscape company (Meadows Farms) to landscape our new WV home in 2004. After 5 years, my trees are doing GREAT and are huge. I have 1 October Glory Maple and Kunzawia (sp?) Cherry in front, 3 Cleveland Pears & 1 VERY LARGE Black Walnut Tree (existing) in backyard.
I love to watch the birds nest in our trees
I LOVE black walnut trees...even though they are messy! When we had our farm in Illinois, the house was on a ridge covered with them. Our farm was called "Walnut Ridge Llama Farm". I miss those trees....
Our house there was built in the 1840's and all the woodwork was walnut from right off the farm. WaaaaH! I am homesick!
Vicki0 -
I Love....VickiCO said:Black Walnuts
I LOVE black walnut trees...even though they are messy! When we had our farm in Illinois, the house was on a ridge covered with them. Our farm was called "Walnut Ridge Llama Farm". I miss those trees....
Our house there was built in the 1840's and all the woodwork was walnut from right off the farm. WaaaaH! I am homesick!
Vicki
...Weeping Willows, and want a few of those in my yard, but what a great thing to do, plant a tree, in starting a new life, I think I want to do that, even though I'm not NED, it's a new life living with cancer, and wonder if I can even afford to get this tree...I'm going too look them up now! Great idea Vicki, a wonderful thing you are doing!
Hugsssss!
~Donna0 -
Cherry TreeShayenne said:I Love....
...Weeping Willows, and want a few of those in my yard, but what a great thing to do, plant a tree, in starting a new life, I think I want to do that, even though I'm not NED, it's a new life living with cancer, and wonder if I can even afford to get this tree...I'm going too look them up now! Great idea Vicki, a wonderful thing you are doing!
Hugsssss!
~Donna
i am glad that you planted the tree and can look at it, appreciate it's beauty and your life.
I planted a bing cherry tree, and said I was going to see it bare fruit. Well little did I know I would get cherries the first year......well, four cherries, and the dang crowes ate them! ;-)0 -
Vicki
What a wonderful thing to do. This spring we planted 2 weeping willows. I planted small ones because they grow quickly and because I will be here to see them mature. My real statement was that I planted asparagus. It takes 3 years to mature and you harvest in the spring - the season of hope. I will be 4 1/2 yrs from my original diagnosis when I harvest and I intend to have an asparagus party.
A symbol of hope is a powerful thing.
Congratulations,
Kimby0 -
A great reminder
Vicki, I too have a tree for life. Shortly after my last chemo treatment, a nursery delivered a red split leaf maple to the house. It was a gift from sister who also had cancer years previously. Her husband had bought her a tree for life when she was clean and she now passes the tradition on. It is beautiful and alsways there as a reminder that life goes on. Mine is in the front flower bed outside my dining room pisture window. I see it everyday. The Wiz...0 -
My tree is on my avatarwizarddr said:A great reminder
Vicki, I too have a tree for life. Shortly after my last chemo treatment, a nursery delivered a red split leaf maple to the house. It was a gift from sister who also had cancer years previously. Her husband had bought her a tree for life when she was clean and she now passes the tradition on. It is beautiful and alsways there as a reminder that life goes on. Mine is in the front flower bed outside my dining room pisture window. I see it everyday. The Wiz...
So you can see it here! It is doing well, and I enjoy it so much. I can look out my kitchen window and see it.
Vicki0
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