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| 10/7/12 |
Planted another in fall 2007.
Unique branching pattern; lower branches pendulous, middle, branches horizontal, upper branches upright and spreading -- dense and twiggy 5 gal. plants from Lowe’s.
They all started out with very arching trunks and tops, but straightened up in their second year.
I got all of these from Lowe's as 5 gal. plants and put one on the back hill and two at the road cut in 2007.
I lost one closest to the road, but the other nearer the house is doing fine and turned gorgeous deep red in Fall, very shiny lustrous leaves, which held late.
In 2010 it got hit by the drought, and dropped leaves, but should be ok.
The one on the back hill is growing great. Because it holds its leaves in winter, it screens some of the road traffic, and will do more as it gets bigger.
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| 11/2/13 |
I have no idea what kind of oak I dug up from the back hill and moved to the meadow in 2007, but here it is, growing up tall in 2014.
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| 5/17/14 transplanted pin oak (?) in the field |
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| 10/17/14 pin oak by the road cut |
Here is the pin oak by the road cut in early June, mid October and late October, 2015. It's getting to be a beautifully shaped tree.
I'm still not sure if the transplanted volunteer oak in the meadow behind the bottlebrush buckeyes is a pin oak or a red oak or something else. It has the sharply dissected leaves that both pin oaks and red oaks have.
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| 5/20/15 |
It's getting tall and look at how it lights up in the morning sun.
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| 7/23/15 |
All the oaks had beautiful color in fall 2015, and the oak in the meadow was no exception.
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| 10/26/15 |
