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0.82" +RA and 43F This has to be in the top 3 all time for worst afternoons for this time of year.

If anyone wants a rare birch look for a betula uber (Virginia round leaf). That is probably the most endangered tree in the nation...it’s only native to Smyth county in VA.

Yeah...gotta keep it away from the septic, well, foundation, etc. But I have one out back and wish I had another to suck up all of the excessive moisture I get out there. Those broken branches propagate easily too. I have a dozen of them in a bucket of water right now with roots shooting out of them.

Good to know...thanks for that. I'd been afraid to plant it too close to my run for fear of that.

If you want to wait a year or two, SUNY ESF is waiting for government approval of their slightly gene edited american chestnut. I'm on the waiting list with them and I'm growing mother trees to pollinate with them. Only 2 of the 40,000 genes have been edited with these trees...1 gives the tree blight resistance and the other is a marker for the blight resistance gene. https://www.esf.edu/chestnut/ If they get government approval they will be available to the public and reintroduced into the forests to hopefully fill back in across the eastern US. Joining the NY chapter of the american chestnut foundation would probably get you some if/when they're available. I have a coupe of hickories that I planted out back, but those take awhile to grow and don't do well with transplanting since they have a monster tap root. I laso planted a yellow birch and a tulip poplar, but the tulip is another fast growing tree that drops a lot of branches over its lifetime. I got a lot of my native trees from here. They're about 3hrs form you, but they ship smaller trees. Maybe this list will give you some ideas. https://www.gonativetrees.com/PriceList.pdf This catalog from a place local to me has a bunch of different maple varieties with descriptions which may be of some help. http://www.brochunursery.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Brochu-Nursery-2019-Catalog.pdf

If you want a fast growing maple I think silver maples tend to grow like a weed.

Rich Massholes coming up to the Lake to their lake homes.

Gilford Lowes at it again this year with the $1500 ~100 gal japanese maples.

Oaks are fine here. Big ol’ leaves.

The honeylocusts and local huge catalpa downtown seems really slow to leaf out this year. It still looks like stick season on those trees although I did see some signs of buds breaking on them last night.

Bring in a foot of fertile soil and plant a garden.

Hell of a boundary up in Coos this afternoon. HIE up to 73F while the Pittsburgh stations are U40s.

Holy pollen. Sneeze city this morning. Must be the white pines?

Could be worse.

I need to do my first mow ASAP...getting a little long in spots.

What are the bushes with the pink flowers? The lawn looks great although my chickens would hate it.

I love bees, but yeah...no thanks. Is that near the house or walkways?

The same thing that happened to 4 billion of them a century ago. The wet, mank spring didn't help. I planted them late last summer so they've been battling a lot of moisture. The root systems are pretty tough though...they'll probably throw up new growth later in the warm season.

Most trees are beginning to leaf out. The maples and oaks are in the very early stages, but the beech, willow, aspen, and birch are well ahead. Of my 5 chestnuts, only 1 looks healthy. Of the 4 shaky ones, 1 is definitely dead, 2 show some life to them but the buds aren't swelling, and 1 is leafing out but has a canker around half of the stem which will probably choke off the upper portion of the sapling at some point. Definitely need to mow, but everything is waterlogged.

Try Craigslist?

I'm not an expert on weeds, but looks like a couple of different ones there? The ones that look more like a seedling (not the stringy running thing) looks like something I get in the torch spots of my yard near the house. By early summer they start to get very woody with their stems. They're easy to completely pull out at that point after a rainfall, but you risk them going to seed. Maybe it's something different though. Do you have a lot of it or just that patch? Looks like a lot of that would pull out easily right now.

Sounds like a dry summer with low dews would help. Seriously though, I’ve noticed the same thing on the north side of my pear trees. Lots of newly formed moss.

That may be it. Looking it up now the leaves look similar to some trees I've seen over there on that side.

Can @tamarackor anyone else ID this tree? I thought maybe hophornbeam, but those catkins (?) look pretty spiky.