After losing a bunch of trees a couple years ago I decided to try and stick with trees that do well here. Mostly I've stuck with native trees or ones that seem happy here.
These aren't anything special now but I think they have the right bones at least.
I have no idea what this shrub is but it grows like crazy here.
Small base of 1" but it seems to be doing well. I'll cut it to these nodes if it continues well.
A Siberian elm chomped on by cows, mowed, and sprayed for the last couple years. Collected last year.
A gingko base. If it continues doing well I'll need to put it in the ground I think. Just to grow out believable chops.
This trunk is boring but I'd like a mulberry
some day, this one was lifted straight out of some leaf litter. If I get the roots right I'll try to grow it on. Mulberries are impossible to get rid of but hard as hell to collect in my (minimal)experience.
Two elms (Siberian I think, definitely volunteer plants) that came out with very few roots.
I'll be a happy camper if they survive. They were both 8' shrubs when I went at them and would've been cut down again.
My favorites. Hackberries and cotton wood are the most magnificent trees we have here. Cottonwood isn't something I want to mess with and hackberry have always been a huge challenge for me to collect. Happy hackberry are almost always connected by root to a mother tree which makes them suck to collect, I quit after killing a bunch. I found three growing on their own roots that had an established trunk and were in a good spot to be collected. They're budding back like mad and I really hope they keep doing well, they're the one species I'd take over any other for native to my area.
I have two more hackberries, one privet, several more gingko, and quite a few more Siberian elms growing in, but mostly this was just a cute pic of Gypsy.
These aren't anything special now but I think they have the right bones at least.
I have no idea what this shrub is but it grows like crazy here.
Small base of 1" but it seems to be doing well. I'll cut it to these nodes if it continues well.
A Siberian elm chomped on by cows, mowed, and sprayed for the last couple years. Collected last year.
A gingko base. If it continues doing well I'll need to put it in the ground I think. Just to grow out believable chops.
This trunk is boring but I'd like a mulberry
some day, this one was lifted straight out of some leaf litter. If I get the roots right I'll try to grow it on. Mulberries are impossible to get rid of but hard as hell to collect in my (minimal)experience.
Two elms (Siberian I think, definitely volunteer plants) that came out with very few roots.
I'll be a happy camper if they survive. They were both 8' shrubs when I went at them and would've been cut down again.
My favorites. Hackberries and cotton wood are the most magnificent trees we have here. Cottonwood isn't something I want to mess with and hackberry have always been a huge challenge for me to collect. Happy hackberry are almost always connected by root to a mother tree which makes them suck to collect, I quit after killing a bunch. I found three growing on their own roots that had an established trunk and were in a good spot to be collected. They're budding back like mad and I really hope they keep doing well, they're the one species I'd take over any other for native to my area.
I have two more hackberries, one privet, several more gingko, and quite a few more Siberian elms growing in, but mostly this was just a cute pic of Gypsy.
