Jay Mullaky

A few more pics

Another go.at uploading some pics

Have been trying  to upload new pics but can't so thread  finished.

What about the carbon stored in leaves? Is that released once the leaf decomposes or is some stored in the ground?

After checking it's not dogwood, has different flowers ro the other dogwood

Perfumed cherry
Black cherry
Choke cherry

So from an app these are some possible options, bird cherry was also.on the list but I have a lot of bird cherry and I doubt it's that.

greg mosser wrote:

Jay Mullaky wrote:Last year planted some dog wood, thought it was Alder, seem to be all growing well and nice flowers

those don’t look like dogwood flowers to me. they look exactly like serviceberry/juneberry flowers. did you notice any fruit following them?

No fruit on them, pretty sure it's some kind of dogwood, I have made the same mistake with Hazel and Alder as they are pretty similar in winter once the leaves are all off.

Alder is an amazing tree, every farm on the planet will have some wet areas that they avoid, wire it off and plant in Alder

Peter Ellis wrote:  Aside from the "neat" appearance, is there a reason you've chosen to plant in straight rows? I admit to not going back to read 3 years of posts, so I apologize if you explained this before.

The trees are being planted on a sheep farm and I want to be able to move machinery through the fields if I need to. Some fields are also along the main road so I'm
 thinking maybe other farmers who pass might see the rows of trees and think " they aren't really in the way of anything" and might copy me. This form of planting benefits sheep farms and is pretty easy to do.

I use my lawn mower to suck up all the leaves from my street,it sucks them up and shreds them, but watch out for stones

Planting season
First 14 oaks in the ground, deer are becoming a problem in the area, no natural predator/ no tradition of hunting/ mild winters = numbers multiply

Last year planted some dog wood, thought it was Alder, seem to be all growing well and nice flowers