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NatureGround >> Just bought a tree
| 6/18/09 10:54 AM | |
cycklops
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Member Since: 4/26/03 Posts: 11087 |
We live in the desert. Front yard is well maintained well but very plain. We wanted a tree in the front yard to soften up the look as well as provide shade. It's called a Royal Empress Tree. Aparently grows fast and in the beginning the leafs are quite large. It's a flowering tree.    This is how it arrives.  |
| 6/21/09 4:23 PM | |
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Member Since: 4/16/04 Posts: 22750 |
Those things can grow around 12' per year, they make a really nice tree but because they grow so fast they are a pretty soft wood. Not a big deal but it makes them break a lot more easily in high wind than a slower growing tree. |
| 6/21/09 6:16 PM | |
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cycklops
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Member Since: 4/26/03 Posts: 11101 |
Good info. We don't have too many days a year here that the wind gets too crazy. Good info. |
| 1/11/11 3:29 PM | |
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cycklops
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I should update. This tree died before I could even plant it. Completely my fault though I blame my mother-in-law. Her being an expertin tree planting she brought something up. She did it in her passive aggressive way and I bought into it by doing nothing. I waited for her to leave so I could plant the tree the way I saw fit and by then I had waited too long. We bought another tree. A Mulberry. Planted it last summer. It's grwon a little so far and it looks like it's gonna take. |
| 5/21/12 1:25 PM | |
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cycklops
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Member Since: 4/26/03 Posts: 21011 |
The tree took |
| 5 days ago | |
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cycklops
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Member Since: 4/26/03 Posts: 24719 |
The tree is groing well. The trunk has doubled in diameter |
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