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Your tree list is impressive indeed! Will anyone be helping you with the planting of all this, or will it be a work bee with family? (man, am I nosey). Also -- GOOD PLAN to have the lilac bush near your side of the bed -- these are heavenly plants, yes heavenly. What colour did you pick? I always thought that the deep purple smelled the best, though the white lilac is sweet, too .... ahhh, and speaking about heavenly smelling plants -- I want raspberry bushes next year, along the fence. When they flower, they are the poor-man's-roses, yes indeedy. My hubby isn't keen on this, for whatever reason...
Cheers!

That's a lot of planting to do!!!! Hope you are going to have help with this.

Good luck with all of the planting. I've been thinking of adding trees to my yard, but I'm not certain of what to get. Whatever it is will have to tolerate full sun well, and I would like it to grow pretty quickly. I was thinking of a couple maple trees, but maybe I should consider some fruit trees... Enjoy them all, and the lilac bush sounds beautiful.

Oh my father would be in heaven would all those trees. (Actually I assume he is in heaven. ) He loved trees and I do too. I love planting trees. For some reason I just liked digging a hole twice the the size of the root ball, loosening the roots, situating the tree propery, and filling it back in. Some tell you not to use composted soil. I just mix a little top soil with the original soil. If you give them too much nutrition the roots supposedly don't stretch out to find nutrition and in the long run stunts them. How do you plant trees Mom-H? I should try to show you pictures of my mother's trees. She's got a plum, a bartlett pear, and a parsimons. Oh and she had a fig tree but it just died this spring. Remmeber I told you her back yard was not draining well. Alas the fig tree was a casualty. She's got a new one now. That's a lot of trees for a city back yard but my father wanted them. Actually we had a couple of apricots at various times too but they never made it. The pear tree right now has pears larger than my hand. They will need to be picked shortly. One thing that's tricky is pruning the trees every spring. Are you going to be able to prune all those trees? That's a lot of work. Oh and I got my mother a dwarf lilac. She doesn't have the property for a normal one. But it gives the same beautiful smelly bloosoms in the spring. I envy the sweet aroma you will have in April outside your window. Happy planting. Now is a good time to plant trees.

oh wowow!! you must have a huge chunk of land!! My mom would sooooo envy you...I don't think I'm gonna show her this entry .

andavewe have 40 acres our here, but most of it is pasture. My yard is around 3 acres and I'll have the trees there. The fruit trees are all dwarf trees. virgilThey are from the arbor day society so they well only be around 12-18 inches long. Planting them is no big deal. When we put down large trees we use a tractor with a backhoe. There is a different attachment to dig corner posts that we use a lot more often. I should have fruit in three years. the pecan trees will take 6-10 years to mature.

Oh what a collection of trees!!! you should add a couple of ornamental to your garden like other Japanese maples and some dwarf weeping willows!

That would be pretty. I still have one section that I haven't decided how to landscape yet. I'll have to think how I can work that in.

virgilThey are from the arbor day society so they well only be around 12-18 inches long. Planting them is no big deal. When we put down large trees we use a tractor with a backhoe. There is a different attachment to dig corner posts that we use a lot more often. I should have fruit in three years. the pecan trees will take 6-10 years to mature.

Oh those are small. When I have bought trees they have been around 4-6 feet tall. I don't have a bcakhoe though. Where would I keep such a thing in the city? On the front stoop?

china makes some really tiny tractors with attacments. I can even drive them and you know I have a poor driving history. I say you should get one. Park it in the lawn and you'll draw a crowd of men. The neighborhood wives will all hate you because their husbands will want a tractor, too.

Sounds beautiful and so enticing! Can we all come for a week in the summer?

Of course! It will take three or four years for it to be really beautiful. My husband likes to remind me that if we had done this the first year we would be eating our own apples this year. He wants to do everything right now, and I like to do one thing at a time. I think spring will be beautiful with the flowering trees and fall will be lovely with the fruit. I'm very excited! I picked some apples last weekend and they were warm from the sun and they smelled so pretty.