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Obviously an eastern bias here, no west coast species on the list. We do grow silver maple as street trees, and you will find black walnut from time to time in yards, but that's it.
Nobody here would plant a black walnut in their yard. Have you seen the stuff you get to drive over in fall when you have one of those? I do know that folks will put the nut husks in a driveway to start to break them down to make getting at the nut easier but a tree dropping that stuff on a car roof or on your head is a bad idea. The nut, with the husk around it is about baseball sized. Folks thought I was crazy to plant a burr oak in my yard because the acorns on it were a bit too big for most of them to tolerate. The burr oak acorn is only half the size of a black walnut nut in its husk.
I hear you! I don't think anyone plants black walnuts. I think they sprouted from the cut-off trunks of English walnuts (which are grafted to black walnut roots for disease resistance), or something like that. Once you have one producing nuts then the vermin spread the around. Before you know it you have more. Speaking of burr oaks, I'd like to get a couple going. Any chance of getting a shipment of those monster acorns?
I have a carpathian walnut, the kind they sell in a grocery store, in my back yard. Wife loves the nuts so I planted two. Now the squirrels get them all before they really ripen enough to fall. Squirrels 1, wife zero. My walnut is not on black walnut root stock. I had it break off at the ground during a severe storm, might have been a low grade tornado since a neighbor's back deck cover moved past 4 houses to where it landed on the opposite side of me from where it started. The other carpathian walnut completely uprooted in that same storm and I had to cut it up to get it off my lawn. Both trees were about 6 to 8 inches DBH at the time. The regrowth on the surviving walnut is definitely not black walnut. As far as bur oak acorns, yes I can send you some but be aware that they are a part of the white oak family so must be planted almost immediately when they drop in the fall. Unlike the red oak group, the whites actually send out a small tap root in fall and begin to show top growth in spring. The reds overwinter before they sprout so they must be stratified until spring and then planted. Remind me around next October with an address and I can send you some fresh acorns. I have a monster bur oak that was the seed source for my own yard tree. Afterthoughts. I see you are in California. Is it even legal to import acorns across that state line? I know they are very particular about lots of ag products coming into the state. Most of California is not going to get cold enough or wet enough for these trees to prosper. I am in a zone 5/6 agricultural region with average annual rainfall of around 30 inches and spread out over the whole year. If you are high in the Sierras they might do just fine. My soil is a clay loam as compared to what I experienced when I lived in SoCal with adobe soils.
My first house had a black walnut towering over it. Thud as they hit the roof, an accelerating bonk-bonk-bonk-bonk as they built up speed rolling down, then a klink on the gutter, a brief pause and then thump as it hit the deck. Got used to it pretty quick.
Had a grove of it on my Grandparents farm. Had a hard time getting it id'd as we are on the fringe of its area.Great wood. It was the last to get leaves in the spring and the first to lose them in the fall. Gary
