When I bought my land, there were also pecan trees already here! I love the shade that all my trees provide and I've seen a number of bird nests in them over the years. They make my yard a haven for me and wildlife. Most of all, I love looking at them because they are SO beautiful. List of my trees I planted. Earlier in April I planted a kousa dogwood, Scarlet Fire, in the small memorial garden I started last year in memory of my parents.
I have always loved dogwoods, especially the pink ones, but living in Maine makes them very marginal. The little memorial garden overlooks the vegetable patch my parents started many years ago and aptly named, "The Bee Garden".
I still farm their original original plot. Rutgers University developed the Scarlet Fire kousa dogwood as a hardy, disease and pest resistant variety and released Scarlet Fire in The National Arbor Foundation offered it in April of as part of their program to promote tree planting. Arbor Lodge is a wonderful place to visit in Nebraska.
It is a wonderful way to celebrate Arbor Day any day of the year. I was aware of Arbor Day as a young child as my Mother's birthday was on April 22nd. We have planted a lot of trees over the years.
Our farm now has apple trees, peach trees, black walnut, coffee tree, maple trees, Oak trees, Cottonwood trees, locust trees, weeping willow, blue spruce, rosebud tree, hackberry, red cedar and many more pine trees. We go almost every year to Nebraska City to get apples at the Morton Orchard. Love Arbor day but wish it still was April 22,. Arbor Day sounds like a fantastic opportunity to plant some fruit trees in my backyard, which is something I've been wanting to do for quite a while.
I do have one apple tree, and am thinking a peach and pear would also do well in my Zone 5 climate. Just reread article of Julius Sterling Morton. Enjoyed it soooo much. We have 2 very large redwoods in our backyard.
We planted 26 yrs ago. And have Modesto Ash in front yard. And a Japanese maple in front yard. Really enjoy them. And thank you for the wonderful article. Many schools actually plan tree-planting events for Arbor Day each year. Thanks to Morton and other passionate environmentalists, Arbor Day remains an important — though often overlooked — holiday. Deforestation and climate change are ever-present threats to our ecosystem, but simply planting a few trees every year could mean the difference between living in a hot box, and our planet becoming carbon neutral.
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Morton led the charge in the planting of approximately 1 million trees. Enthusiasm and engagement was aided by the prizes awarded to those who planted trees correctly. The tradition quickly began to spread. In , schools across the country started to participate, and more than a decade after its introduction, Arbor Day became an official state holiday in Nebraska in Within 20 years, Arbor Day had reached a large swath of the nation and was celebrated in every state except for Delaware.
The holiday spread even further with the help of fellow agriculturalist Birdsey Northrop. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed.
Although some states celebrate Arbor Day at different times of year to ensure that the trees are in the best environment to thrive, the national observance falls on the last Friday in April. And although Julius Morton died in , well before the holiday was given a formal day of observance across the country, he is still commemorated in Washington, D.
People often dedicate trees to loved ones. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. After the board passed the resolution, more than one million trees were planted on the first official celebration of the day on April 10, In , Nebraska moved the holiday to April 22 in honor of Morton's birthday.
The event eventually spread to all 50 states and other countries , including Australia, Brazil and Canada. Nixon recognized it as a holiday. However, some states have designated different dates to ensure the trees are planted at the best time for growth. Trees offer tons of benefits.
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