Author Topic: Which tree for a tree lined drive? (Read 4763 times)

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #20 on:** February 22, 2010, 06:17:03 am »

This is one of those topics that is wide open to personal preferences.

Up my way folks plant sugar maple along drive ways and most farm fence rows will have maple come up on their own. Sugar maple was planted because of beautiful fall colors with every variant of orange you could imagine and folks at one time looked forward to gathering sap in the spring time.

Many of the old maples have been suffering the last few years mostly from snow removal and road work damage. They heal slow, and rot takes a hold before they heal over. But, you will rarely see a sugar maple blown over in the wind, even a rotten one. They just slowly die from the top down and drop limb sections. People hate to even cut a sugar maple yard or drive tree if it has any life at all in it.

thecfarm · « **Reply #21 on:** February 22, 2010, 07:26:41 am »

That's how alot of the old farm houses driveways are around here too,SwampDockey.I would prefer to see just about all the same kind of tree.But that's how it is in my area.Never seen how it's done in VA.I have seen it done in poplar.Sure did not look like the maple drives.I have oak and a few white maple that I drive under.Want some more white maple on the end,but need to build a stone wall there first.The deer and the turkeys really like the acorns.

Norm · « **Reply #22 on:** February 22, 2010, 08:43:13 am »

Sugar maple would be my choice also.

Ron Scott · « **Reply #23 on:** February 22, 2010, 07:03:04 pm »

Mine too!

Magicman · « **Reply #24 on:** February 22, 2010, 08:02:59 pm »

Two gallons that I picked out today.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #25 on:** February 23, 2010, 06:57:39 am »

Love pecans, I eat'm every day.

Magicman · « **Reply #26 on:** February 23, 2010, 07:33:30 am »

And, you can only get them from Pecan Trees....

Growing up, that was our Christmas "cash crop". They bought clothes, shoes, and Santa.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #27 on:** February 23, 2010, 08:01:28 am »

Quote from: Magicman on February 23, 2010, 07:33:30 am

And, you can only get them from Pecan Trees....

Or we can take'm from unsuspecting pecan pickers.

Magicman · « **Reply #28 on:** February 23, 2010, 08:24:16 am »

DanG · « **Reply #29 on:** February 23, 2010, 08:50:07 am »

I'm leaning more and more toward a reccomendation of pecan. You can buy little bare-root trees pretty cheap and they should begin to bear nuts in seven to ten years. If you don't want to wait that long and don't mind dropping some coin, there is a nursery in Georgia that is currently advertising "ready to bear" trees that are supposed to begin bearing next season.

As far as the limb dropping problem is concerned, you won't have to worry about that for a long, long time. They don't start doing that until they get pretty old, so unless you're directly descended from Methuslah, you won't have to worry about it at all.

nas · « **Reply #30 on:** February 23, 2010, 10:24:39 pm »

Sugar maple is the only good choice here

Jeb · « **Reply #31 on:** February 24, 2010, 02:55:25 pm »

Thank you everyone for all your very helpful advice. Tremendous!!

With apologies to those advocating for the sugar maple but I'm pretty sure I'm going with pecan trees. Maybe I'll plant a sugar maple on the property in honor of those who love this tree

Now I have to make a decision about the precise type of pecan tree. So, which one should I go with? I think I'd like to see (or should I say, I'd like for my grandchildren to see) tall, stately trees with no limbs low enough to be hit by vehicles driving on the drive AND I'd like to taste good rich pecan meat. Can I have both?

Any suggestions?

Thanks again!

--Jeb

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #32 on:** February 24, 2010, 03:47:34 pm »

Nas are they sapping in your area yet? Some have began here recently and said it was running well. It's been March-April weather the last 3 weeks.

Magicman · « **Reply #33 on:** February 24, 2010, 04:26:02 pm »

I'd go to the nursery, see what they have, and then read up on those varieties. They will probably all be grafted trees. I would definitely plant several different varieties, to be more certain of having a crop each year. Good luck.

Dana · « **Reply #34 on:** February 24, 2010, 09:03:20 pm »

Quote from: SwampDonkey on February 22, 2010, 06:17:03 am

Many of the old maples have been suffering the last few years mostly from snow removal and road work damage. They heal slow, and rot takes a hold before they heal over. But, you will rarely see a sugar maple blown over in the wind, even a rotten one. They just slowly die from the top down and drop limb sections. People hate to even cut a sugar maple yard or drive tree if it has any life at all in it.

This maple is in our yard and is a good example of what SD has said of maples. Like he said people hate to cut them down.

Wudman · « **Reply #35 on:** February 24, 2010, 09:45:17 pm »

Sugar Maple is a pretty tree and is widely planted. However, it is non-native to this area. Red Maple is the only native maple here. It too makes a very nice yard tree.

Wudman

sjfarkas · « **Reply #36 on:** February 25, 2010, 12:38:10 am »

Apple and peach make great barbque wood. I don't like cherry. Apple when mature has a nice look to it when cut into. I'm a little partial to apple because I manage an apple ranch. With the right rootstock apple is fast growing and will bear fruit quickly.

LAZERDAN · « **Reply #37 on:** February 25, 2010, 10:12:16 pm »

I'd go with the jaw dropping Autum blaze maple

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SwampDonkey · « **Reply #38 on:** February 26, 2010, 05:15:32 am »

My favorite photo from the back yard.

Ron Scott · « **Reply #39 on:** February 26, 2010, 08:11:53 am »

Many of the sugar maple lined drives here now become a homeowner sugar bush this time of year.

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