cool and/or unusual trees from connoiseurs

[ropensaddle]

We have sorta wild tree here called monkey puzzle and it has a rose shaped pine cone kinda neat but the dern thing is a sticker like foilage!

 

[treevet]

We have sorta wild tree here called monkey puzzle and it has a rose shaped pine cone kinda neat but the dern thing is a sticker like foilage!

Like a holly tree with points on it or like a juniper with needles that drive you crazy if they get down your collar?

 

[ropensaddle]

Like a holly tree with points on it or like a juniper with needles that drive you crazy if they get down your collar?

Mix in between long needles with very sharp points but to this day I have yet to see one fail!

 

[jefflovstrom]

Here is a neat Catalpa tree on a late to mid 1800's property my wife grew up in and I have worked on for 30 years. This catalpa's huge bottom limb used to be airborn. One day it settled to the ground.

The current owners are elderly and have had illness for a while and I found the limb swallowed up by a myriad of species of vines. I created this area by cleaning the ground of weeds, vines off the tree and big limb and raising the branch level on the big limb to create an environment.

This limb has been used for many decades for wedding picts, graduations, etc, etc photo ops.

I also created the look on the century old Yew by taking the huge blocking globe and exposing the beautiful trunks which gave the appearance of more space.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsGrcTEHn_Q

Sorry man, I fell asleep. So what happened at the end. I heard a few saws revin' and almost woke me up! Nice scenery!
Jeff

 

[jefflovstrom]

We have sorta wild tree here called monkey puzzle and it has a rose shaped pine cone kinda neat but the dern thing is a sticker like foilage!

Hear ya! Don't park your car under one! Massive cones.
Jeff

 

[ropensaddle]

Hear ya! Don't park your car under one! Massive cones.
Jeff

Have you seen one die or fail?

 

[treevet]

Hear ya! Don't park your car under one! Massive cones.
Jeff

I have always been kinda partial to massive cones.

 

[ropensaddle]

I have always been kinda partial to massive cones.

Lmfao I like em big too

 

[jefflovstrom]

Have you seen one die or fail?

No, not yet anyway.
Jeff

 

[jefflovstrom]

Yous twoos crack me up!
Jeff
I remember a long time ago, a HO called one a shark-tooth pine. Weird, I knew what he meant.

 

[treevet]

this one of those puzzled monkey trees I saw last month in Jeffiewood?

Did they change the embedding procedure?

 

[derwoodii]

Wow Treevet a real Dr Seuss tree, do you know what Bot name is she we have Araucaria cunninghamii or Hoop Pine its kinda similar.

http://asgap.org.au/a-cunn.html

 

[treevet]

That's not my turf derwoodii. But I thought Mr. Lovstrom might come up with an ID since he works (errr I mean drives) in that virginity.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Looks like someone spent alot of time doing that to a twisted juniper.
Jeff

 

[treevet]

Looks like someone spent alot of time doing that to a twisted juniper.
Jeff

whatcha doin up at 5:30 pard?opcorn:

 

[jefflovstrom]

I get up at 4:30 everyday. I leave the house at 5:45.
Jeff

 

[ropensaddle]

I get up at 4:30 everyday. I leave the house at 5:45.
Jeff

Get to work by nine ehhhh all that dern traffic. crosstown traffic hendrix playing in background lol