Yes, the theme this spring is trees. You may already have seen a photo-story on our community website of the first of two tree planting sessions that we had across East Lake Rd on the Glinodo side of our property. Next Friday will be session two and it will be planting a sort of nursery in which 100 trees will get a good start. So I thought it would be time for an update on the trees we've been putting in previous to this effort, albeit in a much more modest program.
Here are two evergreens that we planted about 6-7 years ago at the end of a long, long line of evergreens from the Glinodo cabins to the lakefront.It was like lining up high school senior boys and adding two from kindergarten at the end. But althought they started at about 12" high, they are now about 4' high and holding their own very well...among the giants.
This is a 12" Douglas Fir that is one year old. It survived the winter in a plastic tube and seems to be hanging in there. A smaller version is also still with us.
Here's the best of five others, I believe this is a Tulip Tree, that made it through last winter, too, and is doing very, very well. Here's hoping that next summer we can transplant them somewhere on the grounds. The two dogwoods that we transplanted along the path to Benetwood two summers ago are small, but alive! If they can survive the deer they'll be very pretty some day.
And that's the latest update on our tree-planting efforts!
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