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Those trees will eventually grow, hopefully. Some trees do better in some areas than others. I tend to like to get larger trees to plant. Usually the largest I can plant myself, but this last house I had a couple of maples planted that were too large for me to deal with without heavy equipment. I let the nursery do it so they had a guarantee too. My son has something like 65-70 Japanese Maples of various types in the backyard at the moment, but he is starting a tree farm to raise ornamentals and some herbs and the like. He got tons of seeds to plant last year and there are flats everywhere on our outdoor patio now.

Around here too many people plant trees without doing any research on them. The Bradford Pear is popular because it grows fast and is pretty for a short while, but they are relatively short lived too. I have no pears, but I do have some natural oaks, birches, willows, maples, dogwood, redbud, and one sycamore. All but the birches, sycamore, and one Japanese Maple I planted since we moved in. I did remove several tall pines first though.

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When we moved to The Springs (heh.. everything here is called "The Springs".. ) we couldn't find Key Limes anywhere.. so we decided to grow our own tree. Instead of ordering one that would grow limes in the near future we got an itty bitty thing that may grow limes in about 100 years.

This is our lime tree..

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I can think of a better use for them.

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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. - Mother Theresa

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"Yes like I said it all boils down to morals. What you think is right doesn't make a person wrong because they think different " X-Black

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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. - Mother Theresa

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"Yes like I said it all boils down to morals. What you think is right doesn't make a person wrong because they think different " X-Black

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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. - Mother Theresa

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With friends like Guido, you will not have enemies for long.

“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none”
Arthur Schopenhauer

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein

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"Yes like I said it all boils down to morals. What you think is right doesn't make a person wrong because they think different " X-Black

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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. - Mother Theresa