Thought I'd got away with it hmmm let's see if I have owt..Tree thread boys...need to post pix. Nice crab Paul.
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You're in Florida. You can collect a whole bunch of better candidates along the roadsides. Put your snakeboots on and look around. Buy a digging fork and just upset the soil, which is what we call sand up here in the north country, and jerk the plants out, put them into a old bread wrapper and take 'em home. You can graduate to large garbage bags over time, but start small.This little juniperus virginiana cutting will be 2 years old this spring. I plan on keeping it Shito size if I can. For now just letting it grow but I did put a little wire on it.View attachment 278298
Oops! I believe you were supposed to post a picture of one of your trees when you comment. Here's another of mine - a small holly tree from seed.You're in Florida. You can collect a whole bunch of better candidates along the roadsides. Put your snakeboots on and look around. Buy a digging fork and just upset the soil, which is what we call sand up here in the north country, and jerk the plants out, put them into a old bread wrapper and take 'em home. You can graduate to large garbage bags over time, but start small.
This is the USF Data Sheets for Trees in Florida. Too useful to believe it's free. Look through it and fall in love with things that grow wild down there.
Paul, how tall is that? Difficult to guage from the pic (and thigh measurements can be very misleading!)It's too big really but I like the foliage in Spring (amazing burgundy, heart shaped leaves slowly maturing to green) and in Autumn, a burnt sugar smell wafts off it, hence the name the Candyfloss Tree
Nice Hawthorn, @TomB!Spent the evening tidying up my windswept hawthorn - thinning out growth, reducing buds to avoid knuckles, general tidying up. Had to put on a bit of wire which was painful (literally). Sorry about the crappy phone photo. I'll probably do a bit more work on it after studying the photo to see what's needed - middle is still a little congested - and I'll take a better photo after that.
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