The old, cow pasture is pretty bald...devoid of anything taller than a weed. This is the year for basic surround trees. Yeppers, the fast growing Brooks #6 Poplar. We chose the male cultivar so we won't have to deal with all the fluff. In my over exuberance, I managed to buy 200 plugs...the roots are about 3-4 inches long and the tree is only a small stick. We only needed 75...oops. We ended up planting 90 as we thought we might need some replacement trees. Turned out we were right...those rotten pocket gophers have eaten 2 and one was run over by the truck while we were fencing...no not with sabres. Our neighbours gladly pitched in and gave homes to the remaining 110.
Then, just when we were about to drop from all that planting one of our neighbours came over with two white spruce trees as a gift. They required a little more effort as they are 4 - 5 feet tall but they seem happy in their new home.
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