Transplanted Trees

During the seven years we've lived in our current house we've lost many of the native trees due to drought. I have enoyed transplanting "free" trees from Mississippi to help replace them. We now have two pines near the back of our yard that are approximately 25' feet tall that we brought from Mississippi in 2001. They were approximately three feet tall then.

Since those first trees we've brought many more from Mississippi and some from North Carolina. All the North Carolina trees died after the first year. Of the Mississippi trees the survival rate hasn't been that high. The ones that have made it, however, are really pretty.

In 2004 we brought a Water Oak and a Live Oak, both just seedlings, from my dad's house near Laurel, MS. In 2007 they're both healthy. The Live Oak is approximately 5 feet tall and the Water Oak is six or seven feet tall.

This year a friend sent me a bundle of pine seedlings from Mississippi. There were 30 trees in the bundle. Some survived a few weeks, some a few months, and we have seven survivors that look like they'll stay with us.