Fuddy1952
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Forty years ago I planted a long row of white pines along the road, tiny now as you see fairly large. Great thing is privacy and needles kill grass on embankment so no weed eating.
Power line (7.2kv) crosses road up to our transformer. A pine died under lines years ago, stump rotted away. Trees planted 10 ft. apart.
I noticed one died (red arrow, 2nd from left of lines). I was going to cut it but called power company, it could fall on lines or out into road, etc. Guy shows up yesterday and said they should cut it and other healthy one close to line (to right). They will cut firewood length, chip everything into mulch even grind stumps no charge. They left a brochure I can pick out two replacement trees from also free. I'm thinking about pink dogwood, dogwood is our state tree, we have lots of white ones.
My question is of these choices which would grow fastest, give most coverage/privacy?
Also I put in some islands around here, a tree+bushes+flowers mulched. I was thinking have them dump pine mulch right there making an island, maybe trees with forsythia bushes?
Tree choices are: dogwood, Kousa dogwood, prairifire crabapple, sugar tyme crabapple, redbud, amur maple, paperbark maple, Japanese maple, autumn serviceberry, weeping cherry, okame cherry, Kwanzan cherry, white fringetree, saucer & star magnolia, winter hawthorn, sourwood, pyramidal arborvitae, leatherleaf viburnum, Holly, laurel, magnolia, crepe myrtle.
A few pictures from brochure. It will face South, acidic soil (clay+pine needles), fairly shady.
Thanks...
Power line (7.2kv) crosses road up to our transformer. A pine died under lines years ago, stump rotted away. Trees planted 10 ft. apart.
I noticed one died (red arrow, 2nd from left of lines). I was going to cut it but called power company, it could fall on lines or out into road, etc. Guy shows up yesterday and said they should cut it and other healthy one close to line (to right). They will cut firewood length, chip everything into mulch even grind stumps no charge. They left a brochure I can pick out two replacement trees from also free. I'm thinking about pink dogwood, dogwood is our state tree, we have lots of white ones.
My question is of these choices which would grow fastest, give most coverage/privacy?
Also I put in some islands around here, a tree+bushes+flowers mulched. I was thinking have them dump pine mulch right there making an island, maybe trees with forsythia bushes?
Tree choices are: dogwood, Kousa dogwood, prairifire crabapple, sugar tyme crabapple, redbud, amur maple, paperbark maple, Japanese maple, autumn serviceberry, weeping cherry, okame cherry, Kwanzan cherry, white fringetree, saucer & star magnolia, winter hawthorn, sourwood, pyramidal arborvitae, leatherleaf viburnum, Holly, laurel, magnolia, crepe myrtle.
A few pictures from brochure. It will face South, acidic soil (clay+pine needles), fairly shady.
Thanks...