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Fuad, mine are ahead of yours, where are you in the world? That said I agree yours look like they'll be fine. I see buds green all the way up the trunk.

My 2 Dawn Redwood plantings from last fall started swelling a week ago. Leamington area. The larger pot grown started first; the bare root was slower. i have a bare root Pin Oak I put in same time and it is still completely asleep. I am wondering if it did not make it. I have not scratched it to see if there is green cause I don't want to know yet.

I've had several dawn redwoods growing in my property over the last 10+ years. You trees looks fine. I would expect that it may take a bit more time for it begin to leaf out.

Hi guys,

I am at Etobicoke, Toronto.

I have bur oaks in ground and few daimyo oaks in big pots and they just started to make buds greener-thicker; still hard to notice.

"buds green" trees on picture are new seedlings which I bought a week ago, they even have green bark visible.

Very first picture is old tree, I suspect two seasons old; it overwintered in a pot and about 1-2 month ago I planted it in the ground, it was alive at that time, I trimmed side branches and removed second leader. I also noticed its' roots didn't develop at all since I bought it last year in October. And it was big heavy rootball with trimmed thick roots.

Perhaps it dried, I planted it too early, we had freezings, roots are short, etc.; I watered it only twice. But soil is always wet.

Remaining two pictures are *new* seedlings which I recently bought from the same nursery in Quebec, they look *very* alive in comparison, zero branches, zero trims, thick bugs.

Anyway I planted seedlings close to old dying trees, I always prefer as much young as possible (for example, single long root for seedlings) and I've read younger trees will establish much faster. If old trees wake up I'll let it grow and I'll give it to someone for free.

This week freezing temps coming to the Southern Ontario; including below zero temps and even snow. Including Toronto.

Your weather has been similar to ours Fuad.

In my neck of the woods, we routinely get a night or two of frost/freezing weather in May and yes, many perennials and woody plants that have already sprouted new leaves, will sometimes sustain some damage but not always.

If your trees are small, newly planted, either this spring or last fall, you should protect them from the freezing weather. They don't have enough energy stored to come back very well if damaged. We drive in a few stakes and lay an old bed blanket or quilt over the area (stakes keep the blanket from crushing the plants).

Larger, more established trees, will re-spout new leaves if the initial ones get damaged so no worries there.

I'm in 6b and mine are in their second year, in the ground, and have had green on them for about three weeks now. My gold ones are way ahead of my green ones but I gave them the better spots (more light) so I guess that's to be expected.

The planted pics are showing swelling buds.

lone_elm_z6 1st pic is under concern, no swelling buds

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