get pictures of the trees and shrubs with leaf, twig and bark details. Maybe do start your own thread next spring...... I'd also tell you to uproot any maples (or other large trees) which 'volunteer' (seed themselves) closer than 15 feet to your cabin. Looks like a beautiful bit of property!
Oz trees.......
Eucalyptus Globulose (blue gum)
Eucalyptus camaldulensis (red gum)
This is a "scar tree" Aust Aboriginals removed The bark from trees to use as canoes, shields and other usefull items.
small eucalyptus sideroxylon (red ironbark) in a plantation I worked on.
family and a burnt tree
I loved those blue gums, and the ones which had soggy waterlogged bottoms - what were those called?
littlek wrote:I loved those blue gums, and the ones which had soggy waterlogged bottoms - what were those called?
I dont know what you mean by soggy waterlogged bottom lilk. (dps dirty mind goes to work). were they growing in a swampy or waterlogged location? There are over 600 eucs.
What area of OZ?
I love Eucalypti. Remind me of southern California when I was a kid.
I've read there are some very tall (>100 m) gum trees somewhere in Oz, I think (gums are eucalyptus? eucalyptus is gum?). Anybody seen these?
patiodog wrote:I love Eucalypti. Remind me of southern California when I was a kid.
I've read there are some very tall (>100 m) gum trees somewhere in Oz, I think (gums are eucalyptus? eucalyptus is gum?). Anybody seen these?
The tallest I have seen was originally (reportedly) 95 m tall but the top was broken by a storm some years ago.
The alpine/mountain ash complex (E. regnans and E. delegatensis)are local to my area although 80+ meter trees are very few and far between these days.
These trees are the tallest flowering plants in the world.
Gums are eucalyptus but eucalyptus is not necessarily a gum tree.
Eucs are divided into gums, peppermint/stringybark and box trees usually by bark description.
Well, damn it, I learned something today.
I'd like to see those trees.
A sight such as this of a stand of old eastern white pines could have inspired the writer of Joni Mitchell's
Big Yellow Taxi :
I'm having my cottonwoods trimmed, apparently for the first time in their long lives, and it's definitely a nail-biter. I love these guys, they're the tallest trees in the neighborhood, about 70 feet I'd guess, very old (100 +?), probably there already when the house was built, and probably never messed with, at all. They used to be a trio but the last one was hit by lightning and mostly keeled over (about fifteen years ago), crushing a garage (oops) and leaving a stump about 25 feet tall. That was completely covered with ivy and was just cool-looking, but it could've toppled at any moment -- rotting from the roots up. So we had that taken down, too. Gone gone gone. I don't like the hole in the yard it leaves, but there are a lot of surrounding little trees and they'll probably poof out with the additional sun they'll get.
The two big living trees are much depleted, but the tree guy says that there will be a lot of new growth in the next couple of years, and it will make for a good balance between giant, mid-sized, and small branches.
And maybe E.G. can sleep during thunderstorms now. (One absolutely humungous branch was right over our bedroom, and he always worried about it going kerplop and us going kersploosh.)
I keep looking, getting distressed, and repeating "it's for the best, long term, it's for the best..."
sozobe wrote:I'm having my cottonwoods trimmed, apparently for the first time in their long lives, and it's definitely a nail-biter. I love these guys, they're the tallest trees in the neighborhood, about 70 feet I'd guess, very old (100 +?), probably there already when the house was built, and probably never messed with, at all. They used to be a trio but the last one was hit by lightning and mostly keeled over (about fifteen years ago), crushing a garage (oops) and leaving a stump about 25 feet tall. That was completely covered with ivy and was just cool-looking, but it could've toppled at any moment -- rotting from the roots up. So we had that taken down, too. Gone gone gone. I don't like the hole in the yard it leaves, but there are a lot of surrounding little trees and they'll probably poof out with the additional sun they'll get.
The two big living trees are much depleted, but the tree guy says that there will be a lot of new growth in the next couple of years, and it will make for a good balance between giant, mid-sized, and small branches.
And maybe E.G. can sleep during thunderstorms now. (One absolutely humungous branch was right over our bedroom, and he always worried about it going kerplop and us going kersploosh.)
I keep looking, getting distressed, and repeating "it's for the best, long term, it's for the best..."
cottonwoods are very bad for crashing (soft wood and all)
I love trees, especially the flowering ones.
Here is a nice lilac tree, and an very old oak tree
Your photos, Jane? They are both beautiful trees!
No littlek, not mine, but both are standing in Germany. In fact, we have
lots of lilac trees there. Unfortunately, I am in a hot zone where lilacs
don't do too well, otherwise I would plant one.
Oops the oak tree doesn't show - here is another picture of it
For years we had a big old catalpa in our backyard, something like this:
I loved it for it's size and exotic looks, with those heart-shaped dinner plate sized leaves, the spring flower sprays,
the foot-long bean pods,
and its architectonic winter form.
But there was one special day every fall that I loved it best. It's not a pretty tree in the autumn, but that's okay because I live in the land of sugar maples and get enough autumn colour. The catalpa is the last tree to drop its leaves and it waits until just the right coldness, and then all the leaves come down at once. If you're outside at that moment, all you can hear is a gentle
thwap, thwap, thwap as they hit the ground.
Ooh, I like catalpas too. And nice description!
Actually, Dys, evidently live cottonwoods are really strong. Built to survive, I think is what the tree guys said. They said ours are really healthy and look great overall. It's when the wood is dried out that it becomes super soft. The remaining sub-stump (~4 inches) of our big stump (formerly ~25 feet) is like dried natural sponge, or something. I can dent the hardest part with the heel of my boot, and the softest part comes apart in your fingers.
I'm coming around, the additional light will be nice. And the swing (from a very high branch) should be great.
