Very nice for a dry climate. One would guess it needs water at times?

For me, certainly weeping willow was a monstrously fast grower (grown from a stem in the ground) -- so fast the utility crews had to cut it down and I was happy they did and I didn't have to. Second is a tie between tuliptree and dawn redwood. Slender tuliptree is near 70' after 20 yrs -- dawn redwood not as tall, but more massive as the trunk is over 2ft diameter at ground after 20 yrs. Third is honeylocust, about 60'. 'Kreider' bur oak is quite fast for an oak -- aggressive and sticking long branches into all the surrounding trees and killing most of the grass under the canopy which gets replaced w/moss.

I have previously mentioned my Metasequoia 'Ogon', that was a 30" whip in 2010, and is now at least 50'. So that's a little over a yard a year.

Nice place you have there, LC. We need a tour. ;-)

Yes, weeping willows are among the fastest growing trees in North America most likely the King.

Fastest for me has been Larix Laricina.

Started from seed, winter of 2020, then planted outside June of 2020, grew to 22" the first season and had a year or two of 40+" of growth for those seasons.

My Betula papyrifera, had to be next, since expatriated from my yard was growing 3-4ft a year in its early stages.

The tallest tree today, planted in my front yard as a 5' whip, circa 2015-16, is Acer rubrum (possibly an A. rubrum x saccharinum natural hybrid). has been putting out 24"+ annually the last few years (20ft?).

Oh, almost forgot.

The sugar maple, woods dug and planted as a 7' sapling, Fall of 2016, after a rough start, the first couple years, it began growing ~2 ft. annually, maybe more. It's really becoming a nice 'Shade tree' centerpiece for the yard. Over 4" caliper & nearing 20'.

:-)

I lost a few inches off the leader on my L. laricina too Heruga.

No reason why that I know of. But last season it did the same thing, and the top sprout below the dead part eventually took over and became the new leader.

No ladders involved. ;-)

Holy cow! Is that all your yard inside the white fence?

Ok I guess certain winters could do that. Time to cut that dead leader off then. Yup, there's more that you can't see though. Behind the picture is my wetland garden and way ahead in front of my house is my main lawn and several others gardens.

Here's my near 70', 20 yr old tuliptree in the center -- forest white pine behind it is slightly over 100 ft. It came as a little mail-order bare-root stick from Direct Gardens -- cost 2$ as an extra in an order. There's stream water at the very bottom of the pic -- the base of the tuliptree is just a couple ft above the stream level.

Nice beng!

You have such a nice setting for trees like that. You don't even have to water! ;-)

How's the Manchurian fir doing?

The Manchurian fir has all kinds of crazy shoots going out in all directions. You can actually handle the soft shoots until they later harden and become sharp and painful.