Has anyone planted or seen Paw Paw trees growing? I planted two today. I think they're in a good spot where they will get enough water and have good soil.
Here's a link I found with some good information that seems like they will grow in West Texas Zone 7.
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March 13, I ordered from Burgess seed at
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and expected then in two more weeks, but got them Monday and have been rushing to plant.
6..Chestnut trees
4..Hazelnut trees
2..Paw Paw trees
2..Standard Elberta peach
2..Russian Mulberry
A nice selection. However they sell very young specimens, seedlings really... I hope you are very young. I would have bought from a local nursery, you'd spend a little more but at least you'd have trees. Even decent sized balled/burlapped saplings (1" caliper) can take 3-4 years to begin growing after the shock of transplanting and then some need half a lifetime to become large enough to sit in their shade. I planted a couple of sycamore seedlings nearly ten years ago, they are still not really trees and sycamore is considered a very fast grower (I planted London plane trees actually). Hazelnut can take at least ten years to produce nuts, and it's not really a tree, hazelnut is more like a bush.
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trees produce a lot quicker, but still I'd buy more mature nursery stock, peach trees are rather inexpensive so why plant a seeding and wait so long. Peach trees are also not very long lived, something to consider if a specimen tree is what you have in mind. For stone fruit trees I strongly recommend semi-dwarf.
Mulberry can be quite messy... don't plant near driveways/patios.
I had thought of planting paw paw trees but upon reading there was something about them I didn't like, can't remember right now.
I planted a flowering chestnut last summer, I'm now waiting to see if it leafs out this spring:
Has anyone planted or seen Paw Paw trees growing? I planted two today. I think they're in a good spot where they will get enough water and have good soil.
Here's a link I found with some good information that seems like they will grow in West Texas Zone 7.
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March 13, I ordered from Burgess seed at
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and expected then in two more weeks, but got them Monday and have been rushing to plant.
6..Chestnut trees
4..Hazelnut trees
2..Paw Paw trees
2..Standard Elberta peach
2..Russian Mulberry
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I've seen lots of them along the eastern seaboard (DE/MD/VA) mostly understory but I've seen a couple that got huge. Up here in WI the only place I've seen one was at the local botanical gardens. I don't own any property here or I'd have already planted several.
There are other trees big enough to sit under. I like a challenge.
The peach are already starting some serious leafing. I know of some peach trees well over 60 years old. Somewhere I heard the dwarf are shorter lived, so that's why I got standard.
These are planted rather far away near the marsh I started twenty something years ago. It doesn't really take a lot of water to have a good marsh, especially when the cattails die back in winter and make a mulch that keep water from evaporating. Cattails are almost like weeds in the way they spread when I keep the area wet down.
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