Tres bon. Merci.

tj

Nice branching structure for what I assume is species?

You’re welcome. :)

Whaas, this one is ‘Summertime’. It’s the only clone I know of. I had the species at the other place, which was a more vigorous tree. The canopy on the tree pictured has just exploded this spring. It was planted in 2013, and I’ve been patiently waiting (well, sort of) for it to show some vigor. This spring has not always been easy, but this tree seems to be fine with it.

Leafing out. Silvery.

Yes! The emerging foliage is definitely an ornamental asset. Pennlake, how would you describe the fall color of your tree?

I didn’t mean to make this all about Amur Maackia, and it is a new day, so here’s a conifer (Pinus sylvestris ‘Gold Coin’) that is feeling good this spring.

No fall color. Green leaves fall soon after the first hard freeze.

I saw both Summertime and Starburst at the Dawes Arboretum a couple summers ago, and as I recall Starburst had a rounded habit while Summertime was a bit more upright. We haven't planted either of those here, but we have planted a small number of species trees as well as a few sold as "Select", and more recently Maacnificent, which so far appears to be the most vigorous. Maackia seems to be quite hardy and adaptable to different soil conditions, but I have observed some Japanese beetle feeding plus some minor leafhopper damage.

The fall leaf experience is not a good one, but spring and summer are so good it doesn’t matter. The flowers are nice, if not spectacular, and I like that it blooms later in summer when there’s a dearth of flowering trees.

I had no idea there were that many cultivars. The seedling I planted several years ago was much quicker to establish than Summertime, but the conditions are not identical. I’ve seen some minor Japanese beetle damage, but we haven’t experienced a major beetle outbreak since this was planted.

Dave, do you work in the nursery business or maybe for a municipality? I obviously like this tree, and my hope is one emphasizing the exfoliating bark is introduced.. I have not seen it used as a street tree, which is kind of surprising. Must be the fall color thing.

Pin oak -- yes, overplanted in the past in areas, but not in my local area. Texture is very fine, even dainty. Planted around 2010 -- started slowly, but growing faster now:

Here is my very trimmed back Limelight Paniculata tree. After trimming it back so severely I wasn’t sure it was survive the winter, but it is leafing out nicely now.

debra

Ben, I actually don't get to see many Pin Oaks where I live. I know it is one of the most popular trees sold in in the nursery trade, and I think it's cold hardy in z4, but for whatever reason it has not caught on around here. A few years back I was visiting the arboretum at Woodward Park in Tulsa, which is all of three acres. The one memory I have of that place was an amazing Pin Oak. It was huge and impressive. Do you plan on raising the canopy?

Debra, I have a love-hate relationship with H. paniculate in tree form. We've got PeeGee, which can be spectacular in late summer, but is equally capable of looking like a worn out broom. I'm curious, why did you cut yours back?

Here's Magnolia sieboldii, which has flowered for the first time since planting about six years ago. It's wedged into a narrow site with a garage to the east and mature White Spruce to the west. There's only two flowers, but hopefully this is a prelude of things to come.

maackia, yes, I've already gradually been raising it (as I have w/nearby burr oak), tho I enjoy having some leaves/branches low enough to examine/touch them. Some go WAY too far "raising" trees to where you can no longer examine the stems & foliage.

maackia – nice Magnolia sieboldii, I’ll have to find a spot in my yard for one. Yes, I’m in municipal forestry; we plant a few hundred street trees each year. In the years after EAB we’ve been striving to diversify our plantings. Of the maackia cultivars I think Maacnificent in particular looks like it is well suited to street tree use. Here’s another good street tree (photo from my backyard) - but only if you can tolerate some litter – it has a pretty good acorn crop every year. Heritage Oak.

I believe SE MI was the epicenter of EAB. I can only imagine what it must've been like the first few years after it hit. It had to be horrifying to witness, but also gave a sense of job security.

Nice looking oak that Heritage. I should probably consider it as a replacement for Q. ellipsoidalis as they die off from wilt. How is the fall color?

Shax, rampaging kangaroo? Now there's something I don't have to deal with. :) Thanks for sharing it.

Pretty small but I have a nice start on a couple of Ostrya virginiana (hophornbeam). Started last season from seeds. One of the collection trees is about 20 ft tall and more narrow than it is wide. The other growing along the lake shore, about the same height. I'm not sure which these are from as the seeds got incorporated somehow when I collected them.

My Gleditsia triacanthos, also started from seed 2 years ago, is doing well. I thought there would be some terminal bud die back on the main leader but every bud extended right to the tip.

We've had 30-50 mph winds every few days here for at least a month and lost a couple branches on this one because of that.

We've had around 1" of rain since early April so if something doesn't happen soon, we'll be hearing the word 'Drought' shortly. There was some scattered T-Storms in the area last week where some in certain areas are claiming to have had 2-3 inches, we had 0.6" total out of that one.

eta: correction on honey locust start date.

Bill, I’ve got an Ostrya that is at least 20’ tall, but the stem is about an inch in diameter. Its strategy seems to be to get up in the air as fast as possible, even if the infrastructure is questionable. The horizontal branching is intetesting.

Bill - that's a two year old honey locust?

Yep,

Sprouted from seed beginning of June 2018.

There's some pics from last Fall at the end of the thread linked to in the above line.

It's gigantic. How tall is it?

Almost 7 ft.

Ran across this sugarberry (southern hackberry) today growing well in a dry, fairly compacted tree lawn. This tree (like the few other sugarberries that I've seen in the area) is noteworthy in that the foliage appears to be free from the galls that are so common on northern hackberry. Should probably be planted more often in our area.

Northern hackberry leaves on a tree just a block away from the sugarberry, for comparison

Arbordave, that’s an interesting foliar comparison between the two Hackberry species. Northern Hackberry in its finest form has an elm-like arching habit when mature, and I’m curious if the southern variety does the same? The tree in your picture looks like it’s getting wide fast.