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Mark W.

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I am looking for suggestions for planting some fast-growing, hardy trees in Northwest Pennsylvania. I would like them to reach 20-30 feet eventually. I have planted some crimson kings(slow growers), aristocrat pear, apple, dogwood, and crabapple. Advice appreciated.
 

When I was a kid in SE OH, we lived on a river bottom and anyone that wanted a tree would go to the river bank and cut off a branch of a water maple or elm (when the sap was up), split the ground with a shovel, stick it in and water h$ll out of it. Never failed and grew 8 feet or so in the first 2 years. I made a little decoration fence one summer and used about 6 inch posts that I cut a tree from the river bank to make. The next spring they sprouted and are beautiful trees now almost 30 years later (saw them on google earth).

Dave
 
Are you on hill ground or bottom? Most of the fast growing have some drawbacks. Maple and Tulip Poplar really suffer in ice storms, but then again if the ice is real bad nothing comes out too good.

Pin Oak has a nice shape, grows pretty fast, and seems to be hardy.

May want to look online at something like the National Arbor day foundation. I would think some web sites would have maps to show what works good in specific locations.

Also you State University extension offices or web sites. State forestry web sites also.

good luck,, Gene
 
Autumn Blaze Maple it is a cross between a silver/soft maple& a rubrumn Red maple.But have been pushing some back to the native trees here in in mn hackberry, swamp oak,elm,&birch. maybe a river burch clump is what you want 20-30' fast grower.
 
Hey Metro Mn,
Do they have pretty good luck getting those Swamp Oaks to grow in Minnesota? I've been thinking of planting 2 or 3 this spring...the local nurseries have been selling them. I just don't know how hardy they would be here in Nebraska. But if they grow okay in MN the should grow here. I guess wild turkeys are really attracted to the nuts they put out and they grow fairly fast. Thinking of starting out with trees that have 3-4 inch diameter trunks.
Tom
 
Don't know how long you want them to reach that height, but here in NE Ohio Tulip poplars are a quick growing native to this region. My pop likes them and they will get to 100', plus their a good hardwood.
 
I don't know what kind of tree you need but I ordered some hybred poplars (not bolyard) from Minnesota that are fast growers. You get an eight inch stick that you plant. They grew about a foot the first year and most of them grew at least six feet the secon. The third year they started filling out more so didn't grew as much. They are supposed to be about a forty year tree.
 
Mark, my late wife enjoyed planting trees.This was the only item she wished to be included in her funeral service--
"A man can only begin to grasp the real meaning of life,when he plants a tree,under which shade he knows he will never sit."
Worth remembering!!
 
The number one tree I sell is an Autumn blaze maple. It grows very fast. I have gotten 3 foot a year out of them.

Bradford flowering pear grows pretty quick too, or a Thundercloud flowering plum.

Tulip tree is fast.

While Crimson kings are nice, I think glaciers move faster. After I sell off the ones I have, I doubt I"ll plant any more.

You didnt mention your soil conditions. But that is key with some trees.

Rick
 
Check with your county extension agent, he may know of a special deal from the state on windbreak trees. Some states sell trees from their state nursery.
 
I dont think you know what your doing.  If this is the advice you give out on line I feel bad for your customers.
 
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