Favorite Tree

“Maple”

“Oak”

“Willow Oak.”

“maple of course

maple”

“oh i forgot

treebeard :O

he is kinda cute!!”

“Birch”

“I had a ficus tree named "Pope". Friendly little guy who moved to NY with me and grew up to be a HUGE ficus tree. Finally had to plant him out in the yard.”

“He'll be dead come winter, unless you've moved to warmer climes.

I have a ficus too, been with me for ten years. She drops all her leaves every once in awhile but always comes back. Ficus are finicy things.

My favorite tree by far was an avacado my dad and I grew from a pit. It got to be eight feet tall. It suffered greatly once pruned, withered and died. Made me sad.”

“Ponderosa Pine

They leave great beds of pine needles, but also have some great "widowmakers".”

“I am preferential to birch trees.”

“Birches are nice. Loved them in Fairbanks.”

“Right now I really like Laurels. I can't grow Mountain Laurels here, but Bay Laurel does great. I'm trying to prune it from a shrub to a tree form, and it resists. Fresh bay leaves are so much better than dried. THere's not so much a more intense flavor as there is a more complex, pronounced flavor, something you actually notice.”

“I have an Alberta Spruce by my front door. They're tough to keep alive in Ga. at 200 ft. above sea level.”

“Hawthorne for some reason.”

“Tamarack

Their needles turn golden in fall and, like bald cypress, they drop their needles and look dead in the winter.
They have lovely soft green and soft to the touch needles in summer.

Tamarack/Eastern Larch are found from the Great Lakes states east to northern New England.

I brought some back from Maine in '96 and planted them around my front porch.
They are a swamp tree and I kept them alive here in Maryland with lots of water.
The current occupant thought they were dead last winter and cut them down :(”

“I like the bald cypress. I have two large ones in the back yard. I've always been partial to Redwoods. No chance of those growing here.”

“Yew trees, hundreds and even thousands of years old, spent many happy days climbing those as a child.”

“weeping willow

and of course, treebeard”

“My mother in law has a Japanese Red Maple that's pretty cool.

I also like these trees we have here that people call Old Man Walking Stick. Not sure what the real name is. With no leaves, they're the real gnarled creepy looking ones.”

“That one in the flood plain of the MO river. over 100 ft tall and HUGE. Nice climbing.”

“We've got Devil's walking sticks here. Big honking thorns all over the trunk and compound leaves, with small very fragrant white flowers and tiny red berries in the fall. THey grow justthe right size and diameter for walking sticks, too.”

“hemlock!”

“dogwood”

“Any that give me shade on a hot day.”

“Arbutus menziesii - Madrone”

“2X4”

“just kiddin.....

Any type of Evergreen”

“One in my fireplace warming me on a winters day.”

“Yew gotta be kiddin'”

“Trailing Arbutus?”

“Paper Birch
or
Jack Pine”