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If anyone wants a rare birch look for a betula uber (Virginia round leaf). That is probably the most endangered tree in the nation...it’s only native to Smyth county in VA.

I would only because of my chickens...they struggled last July. They’re loving this weather...outside digging and looking for worms. As for me...give me 93/75 with a nice breeze and sun. Down to 43.4° now. Gene is down to 42°.

43.6° +RA This is great

1.7" new snow on MWN in the past few hours.

44.8° and pouring.

You would almost think they factored weather into this too. The Maritimes save us from damage once again.

Did you pierce your lip and add black eyeliner yet?

46.4F and moderate rain. Nice summer afternoon.

The NAM says most of us may not even get a taste of this warm sector. Maritime wedgie through Thursday, cold fropa Thu night, and then deep into the CAA by daytime Friday.

Hot and dry finish to May for BOS.

Yeah...gotta keep it away from the septic, well, foundation, etc. But I have one out back and wish I had another to suck up all of the excessive moisture I get out there. Those broken branches propagate easily too. I have a dozen of them in a bucket of water right now with roots shooting out of them.

Man...you are really struggling this spring. I'm getting a little concerned about you...borderline meltish if this holds through all of June.

It always hurts when trolling backfires. The best defense mechanism is to spend time Googling new avatar ideas.

Really poor taste in humor. I bet you're a stable genius though.

Good to know...thanks for that. I'd been afraid to plant it too close to my run for fear of that.

Kinda funny how badly Wednesday failed. 95° in SNE a few days ago and now it’s doored practically down to BWI. Can’t wait for my 40s tomorrow.

If you want to wait a year or two, SUNY ESF is waiting for government approval of their slightly gene edited american chestnut. I'm on the waiting list with them and I'm growing mother trees to pollinate with them. Only 2 of the 40,000 genes have been edited with these trees...1 gives the tree blight resistance and the other is a marker for the blight resistance gene. https://www.esf.edu/chestnut/ If they get government approval they will be available to the public and reintroduced into the forests to hopefully fill back in across the eastern US. Joining the NY chapter of the american chestnut foundation would probably get you some if/when they're available. I have a coupe of hickories that I planted out back, but those take awhile to grow and don't do well with transplanting since they have a monster tap root. I laso planted a yellow birch and a tulip poplar, but the tulip is another fast growing tree that drops a lot of branches over its lifetime. I got a lot of my native trees from here. They're about 3hrs form you, but they ship smaller trees. Maybe this list will give you some ideas. https://www.gonativetrees.com/PriceList.pdf This catalog from a place local to me has a bunch of different maple varieties with descriptions which may be of some help. http://www.brochunursery.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Brochu-Nursery-2019-Catalog.pdf

MHT 86 ASH 86 CON 86 Casa 82.5

80.1° First 80s of the season.

If you want a fast growing maple I think silver maples tend to grow like a weed.

Rich Massholes coming up to the Lake to their lake homes.

Gilford Lowes at it again this year with the $1500 ~100 gal japanese maples.

Oaks are fine here. Big ol’ leaves.

The honeylocusts and local huge catalpa downtown seems really slow to leaf out this year. It still looks like stick season on those trees although I did see some signs of buds breaking on them last night.