As someone who is new to the site, I was wondering what naturally grows around where you live. I am fortunate to live in the middle of a forest on the side of Lookout Mountain in GA. The variety of trees around us is astonishing. I have been taking pictures of some of them. I’ll share them but I would love to see what grows around you in the rest of the country. The pictures below were taken from my front deck this morning. They are White Oak, Post Oak, Pignut Hickory, several Chestnut Oaks, and a dogwood.
Mostly red oak and black birch on my property. There’s a couple hickory, few beech popping up. And tulip poplar mostly along the wetland perimeters.
Welcome aboard Howiff . Interesting state spelling. Our property has lots of White Pine, Spruce, a bit of Red Maple, variety of Oak, and Aspen/Poplar. We have a few Beech as well. Very few. The area in general has all that as well as Ash, Birch, Cherry. I've seen some Locust. Probably more, but I don't know what they are.
We are fortunate to live 1/4 mile off the main road in a heavily wooded lot. Small grass yard surrounded by woods. In Winter, when i look out there is not a conifer to be seen. Only the one arborvitae that was planted i guess 25 years ago on the edge of the woods. Mostly red oak, beech, red and sugar maple. Couple huge tulip (yellow) poplars and white oaks.
white oak; red oak; pin oak; white pine; scotch pine; red pine; cedar; popple (aspen); cottonwood; willow; elm; white ash; beech; sassafras; blue beech; ironwood; witch hazel; soft maple; bass; white birch; yellow birch; cherry; and others that I'm presently having trouble bringing up as my RAM is not working properly at the moment.
When you really start paying attention I think most would be surprised at how diverse our forests are- at least here in the northeast. When I was in college I had a tree ID project. I correctly identified around 65-70 trees and got a low B on it. As an environmental science teacher I had my AP kids do something similar but less intense. We have found there to be over 25 types of trees just in the woods on school property which is probably less than 50 acres.
It is amazing the diversity of just hardwoods on my 6 acres. Elm, beech, poplar, ash, 4 types of oak, 2 types of hickory, locust, hop hornbeam, mulberry, dogwood, and maple. Probably loads more.
Mainly Black Locus and dead or dying Ash. Some maple and mulberry. There is also some popular coming in. I just found some oak sapling , which excited me, when I was cutting the other day. Haven't seen a mature oak on the property. Seeing some squirrels. They were none existent when I bought the place 23 years ago.
Welcome aboard Howiff Have several species here, predominantly Ash and sugar &red maples, some pines ( unsure of species), hemlock, hop hornbeam, few oaks, hickory, poplar, beech. I'm sure there are many others I'm forgetting, and many that I lack identification skills to name. Oh, and a few elm and "highly valuable" black walnut trees.
Lots of cherry, ash, black locust, numerous species of maple & oak & hickory, , beech, american elm, red elm, ironwood, poplar, aspen, numerous species of pine, willow. Those come to mind but have others.
White pine is number one, followed by red and white oak, and sugar and red maple. Also lots of white birch, black locust, and cherry. Some aspen, ash, tulip poplar, and hemlock as well. And I'm forgetting some, no doubt.
What I can see on the back hill and the little ridge behind it.. Sugar maple Ash Beech Apple (wild and cultivated) Poplar (Aspen) White pine Honey locust (only one, it has lots of thorns, total outlier..) Red oak (only one in shouting distance around here, and it's a biggie!) White birch Got a spruce in the yard, too. Pretty sure it was planted. Deeper in there's some black birch and Red maple.
On some of the Ancient Oceans that did not get disturbed/percolated. Not much, but I take joy in the caragana's. There is also salt bush and something resembling sage brush, like dwarfed. We have a lilac here, neighbors russian olive is next to our fence. Very interesting lake grass. It's crazy, a couple miles in any direction there is fertile land, and trees growing by waterways. No doubt yooperdave fisherman could tell you about the big fish fresh water in alkaline enviroment grows
