tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17422439.post3615649056800718066..comments2023-04-05T02:39:36.600-07:00Comments on Arboreality - Tree Blogging: Planting Live Christmas Trees for Winter SolsticeJade L Blackwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15321787298101881675noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17422439.post-43050185785744142282008-12-22T13:17:00.000-08:002008-12-22T13:17:00.000-08:00Greetings Anonymous, and congrats on your new tree...Greetings Anonymous, and congrats on your new tree.<BR/><BR/>Keeping in mind that I am not a professional arborist, my advice would be to hold off on watering your tree until the temperatures climb back above freezing, and the wind chill subsides. At the moment, your tree is focused on settling and surviving. Watering now may compound the stress of transplanting. If there is snow on the ground, future melting will take care of any immediate watering needs your tree may have.<BR/><BR/>I also encourage you to keep your tree protected if you have planted it out in the open. I've had hungry deer chow down on my unprotected evergreens when the winter gets tough, and as you've pointed out a lot of wind can be taxing on your new tree. You may do well to pack that mulch and/or some straw around the base of the tree, and generously over the top of the soil around the tree.<BR/><BR/>Best wishes and happy holidays,<BR/><BR/>JLBJade L Blackwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15321787298101881675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17422439.post-63843209230696266962008-12-21T14:51:00.000-08:002008-12-21T14:51:00.000-08:00We bought a blue spruce tree to plant in the yard ...We bought a blue spruce tree to plant in the yard in my father's memory. We purchased it yesterday, it was about 30 degrees at that time. We live in S.eastern Indiana and today is dropping to windchill of -20 and windy. We intended on bringing it indoors, but decided to plant it now because we didn't have anything to put it in. It was planted in a hole that was dug this morning before the ground was frozen but we weren't able to get it in the hole until the ground was frozen. We had it in mulch until planting it. Should we water it now as it is very windy and cold here now? We did mulch it and left the trunk uncovered.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17422439.post-88666843399220922182006-12-15T05:09:00.000-08:002006-12-15T05:09:00.000-08:00Thank you, JLB, for such an in-depth response. I l...Thank you, JLB, for such an in-depth response. I love the image of your carpet of trees. What fun if the floor coverings in our homes could surprise us so pleasantly, too... although I think we might get fed up with the pruning, unless we chose the rug equivalent of that <a href="http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=445&ArticleID=4852&l=en">white cedar at the Great Lakes</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17422439.post-87304073374086826212006-12-15T03:19:00.000-08:002006-12-15T03:19:00.000-08:00Pollen Nation, my inclination is to say YES, trees...<b>Pollen Nation</b>, my inclination is to say YES, trees CAN grow that quickly, and your grandmother was likely telling the truth. Depending on the tree species, some can grow incredibly fast - even the evergreens.<br /><br />By the sounds of your story, I'd estimate that you are referring to a tree that was roughly 20 years old. Where I lived in Washington State, we could count on certain evergreens like the Douglas firs and White pines to grow very rapidly when pioneering a new clear-cut. When we had moved into our home, we had a "carpet" of trees roughly 6 centimeters tall. Some six years later, dozens of them were already 3 or 4 meters tall!<br /><br />Rosemaries are just as fun to decorate in winter. When I haven't had the pleasure of a Christmas tree in my home, I've always taken to decorating the larger houseplants! :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17422439.post-71527207952389829932006-12-14T06:55:00.000-08:002006-12-14T06:55:00.000-08:00Too bad for us citylubbers! I'd love to try out yo...Too bad for us citylubbers! I'd love to try out your tips, JLB, but will have to settle with decorating a potted rosemary bush, which is similarish in shape with a slight stretch of the imagination (and some selective pruning). <br /><br />Perhaps you can help settle something I've been puzzling about recently... There was a two-storey-high tree at my grandmother's house, which she insisted, during my very early schooldays, was a Christmas tree that my mother had planted when she was the age I was then. Was she having me on, or can they grow so big so quickly?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com