what tree?

[JJ21]

well, tomorrow my dad is hiring someone to cut down a sweet gum tree in our front yard(I think it's called sweet gum. It drops those pokey balls). When I pull the stump out I am planning on putting another tree in it's place where it stood. I was thinking maybe an elm or trying my luck with a giant redwood. What tree do you guys think I should get?



edit/ This is going to be in the spring by the way

[Misled]

White Birch, done in three trees to a spot. I'll get a pic of mine to show you.

[JJ21]

do they have to be in groups of three?

[Misled]

Here's what mine looked like last year. They are about 7 years old now and really just beginning to show the white bark.

[Misled]

They don't have to be, but after a few years the trunks will grow together.

[JJ21]

but isn't that like keeping a puppy in a small bottle for it's entire life and as it grows it get all stunted and stuff?

[Misled]

They grow like this in the wild!!!

[2fishy]

They do! We just had a 3 trunk birch tree(s) cut down from the corner of my mom's house before demo where the trunks were easily 20" across. It was sad to see them go but they were dying. As are most of the big birch in this area.

[dc]

Check to see if they grow well there first. I love them, I had one in Utah, they don't do well here.

[Misled]

He's in the same zone as I am. They are all over the place here.

[pnosko]

They do well in colder regions, and the are one of my favorite trees. It almost seems like a rule to plant them in twos or threes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Birch

[dc]

Originally posted by Misled
He's in the same zone as I am. They are all over the place here.

LOL, well I'm in the same 'zone' as a lot of places, but that doesn't mean the same things will grow.

[Misled]

Originally posted by dc
LOL, well I'm in the same 'zone' as a lot of places, but that doesn't mean the same things will grow.

Ok he's out in the Philly vacinity, I was born in south Jersey just accross the bridge, where we have one in the front of my mother's house. I now live on the other side of the state from JJ. Same climates. I have mine in my back yard here.

[pnosko]

Originally posted by dc
LOL, well I'm in the same 'zone' as a lot of places, but that doesn't mean the same things will grow.

Distribution and Conservation
Paper Birch bark

Paper birch is found in all provinces and territories of Canada, except Nunavut, as well as the northern United States, south to Colorado, Tennessee and North Carolina.

Paper birch is considered vulnerable in Indiana, imperiled in Illinois, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming, and critically imperiled in Colorado and Tennessee.

[dc]

Originally posted by Misled
Ok he's out in the Philly vacinity, I was born in south Jersey just accross the bridge, where we have one in the front of my mother's house. I now live on the other side of the state from JJ. Same climates. I have mine in my back yard here.

Ok, I might cut you some slack then...

[dinoman]

Originally posted by dc
LOL, well I'm in the same 'zone' as a lot of places, but that doesn't mean the same things will grow.

I believe our problem is that its hard to get anything to grown on top of rocks.

[Misled]

Hey JJ, here's where I get most of my trees from. My birches were bought as 1 year old bare root plants. Very cheep and they are up in Indiana County and sell anything for this area. On bare root shipping is cheep also.


http://www.musserforests.com/Default.htm

[Rock Anemone]

I believe we have one in our back yard. Very beautiful trees.

[JJ21]

what about elm trees? I'm not to concerned about dutch elm as I think it's just like the bubonic plague. It just had to run it's course and that the worst is over.