Skylands Oriental Spruce - Planted in Island Bed - Front Yard - October 2024
Picea orientalis ‘Skylands’. This is the second, small conifer tree that I put in our front yard in the past week - with the first one being the Oregon Green Austrian Pine.
I extended (back towards the house) the island bed that features the Northern Glow Korean Maple and the Spring Grove Ginkgo. Now, there's a Skylands Spruce.
But...this is also my 103rd tree planted on our small property. Kind of wild to think.
We (now) have 70 of 103 trees that we've planted. 67.9% success rate over eight years. I think that's ENOUGH to say that most gardens will see a 65% to 70% success rate on trees.
103 trees planted/8 growing seasons = 12.875 trees on average planted each season
69 trees alive/8 growing seasons = 8.75 trees on average survive each season.
Almost 13 trees planted per year (on-average). I had four seasons that were UNDER the average: 2017, 2019, 2022 and now 2024. Last year - 2023 was W I L D. 21 trees. If we pull those out - 82 trees over 7 seasons, the average doesn't change much (11.71 per year), so there's enough data here to NOT have a small year (this year with 5 trees) skew the average too much. Going to take a few years of low numbers to drop the average.
1. Flowering Pear in backyard on north side.
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4 and 5: 2 Lindens that I espalier'd and placed by the south fence line near our kitchen windows.
6. A Dawn Redwood from Earth Day 2017
7. Nat's Saucer Magnolia in our front yard
2018 (17 planted. 6 Dead):
14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. These Frans Fontaine Hornbeams.
22. A replacement Chanticleer Pear tree (3" caliper) out front by our garage
25. Our replanted/replacement Dawn Redwood. Same spot as the first.
26. This teeny-tiny Bald Cypress that I planted in the front yard, in between our driveway and our neighbor to the north.
33. My new Weeping White Spruce that will only grow about 4' wide placed near the fence line alongside the espalier'd Lindens.
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46. A small Northern Red Oak tree - our first Oak tree planted.
47. A 'decapitated' Lavender Twist Weeping Redbud that I planted on a whim.
49. A tall(ish) London Plane tree that suffered some transplant and frost shock, but seemed to recover.
79 and 80. Dwarf "witches broom" Ginkgo trees - Spring Grove - planted on either side of our back stoop.
81. A (very small) Acer palmatum Emperor 1 Japanese Maple planted in the kitchen window bed by the row of Astilbes.
82. A low-grafted Waterfall Japanese Maple tree - Acer palmatum dissectum 'Waterfall'.
84. The first of three trees from Mr. Maple - a one-gallon Acer palmatum 'Firefly' that is planted in the Understory garden in back.
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89. This two-year-old Northern Catalpa volunteer that is on the corner of our patio.
90 and 91: A pair of Kousa Dogwood Trees planted to espalier against garage sidewall.92. A dwarf conifer tree: Baby Blue Spruce - planted IB2DWs near the sidewalk.
93. A Weeping Norway Spruce 'Pendula' planted IB2DWs - west of the Bald Cypress.
94. A second Weeping Norway Spruce - in my new "Conifer Garden". IB2DWs extended.
95. A narrow, upright conifer tree - Montrose Charm White Spruce in the 'Conifer Garden' IB2DWs.
96. The 2nd Baby Blue Spruce tree planted IB2DWs in the new 'Conifer Garden' closer to the Bald Cypress.
97. A 3rd Baby Blue Spruce tree planted in back by the Lindens - viewable from the Kitchen.
98. I'm calling it a tree (not a shrub) - a Royal Purple Smoke Tree planted IB2Dws.
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