One of my best performing hybrid white oaks.
Tag: White Oak
Chinkapin Oak Update
Back in January of 2019 I cut down the damaged Chinkapin oak at the base. Below are pictures of re-growth. In 2020 trimmed new growth back to two main stems. During the 2020 growing season kept both stems. December of 2020 I cut the left stem pictured above. Leaving one stem to grow in 2021. I didn’t…
Acorn Observations
Our woods has four types of native oak trees. Red Oak, Black Oak, Bur Oak, and White Oak. All of these native oaks are large and have good crops of acorns most years. In new plantings I have added Chinkapin Oak, Swamp Oak, and various types of hybrid oaks. Per the literature the native oaks…
Chinkapin 2020
I want to continue the Chinkapin Oak recovery story. Late last fall or early winter I cut back all the new growth which came from the Chinkapin Oak stump. Below is what it looked like then. I pruned back to the two best growing stems from the stump. Below is what the attachments look like…
White Oaks
My favorite trees are White Oaks. Now the term White Oak can mean a specific tree or a whole class of trees. I usually use White Oak to describe the whole family of trees. I wanted to post the feature image which is a picture I took at the Green Lake Conference Center in Green…
Stump Tour
After our timber sale it is interesting to see the stumps and which trees had rot and which trees were solid. The above stump was a large Bur Oak located low on a hillside. It was really growing out to the south toward sunshine and would fail at sometime in the future because of that…
Tree Sale Decision
In the fall of 2019 I worked with a private forester and decided to do a timber sale. With Brad the forester we walked all 30 acres and we agreed that a thinning of the forest was needed. The above picture was taken in the fall when leaves had been dropping. You can still see…
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