Lombardy Poplar Tree - Added May 2020
A couple of weeks ago, I posted photos of one of our Earth Day 2020 trees (a Chanticleer Flowering Pear) that we planted in the side yard as a screening tree for our Screened Porch . That was our 36th tree planted in the yard, this post is about the 37th tree: a Lombardy Poplar. This was an inexpensive tree that I bought at an online nursery that is about six feet tall from the soil, but very thin - caliper-wise. I didn't measure it when I planted it, but I'll do a new-tree roundup for calipers later this Summer. It was a bareroot tree based on the root structure. We planted this one all the way in the back - where I've been putting the wood chips - and it is located just to the north of where I planted the Corkscrew Willow three years ago . That tree died, but you can still see the trunk of it on the left side of the photo at the top. When I dug up the hole for this tree, I seem to have left some of the soil/loam on top of the chips tha...