Tree ID / arborist?

[DSB OUTDOORS]

This reminds me I have several trees that need to be identified that I haveto picture and send off to the county or something. I am afraid I have a couple Russian Olive trees.

Russian Olive trees are defiantly on the "Obnoxious Weed list" and should be removed if you get a chance.

[Jim B]

If you are looking to replace it, check out Maple trees "Autumn Blaze" to be more specific.

Awesome trees. I also have a Bowhall maple (columnar) that's turning out to be pretty nice. A good choice if there isn't a lot of room around the tree.

[rbeau30]

Russian Olive trees are defiantly on the "Obnoxious Weed list" and should be removed if you get a chance.

The people that owned the house let a billion saplings/seedlings sprout underneath these two. I reclaimed the space, but at the expense of my skin. The friggin thorns are a PITA. And they have some coating that makes them extra ouchy.

[mcjhr]

This reminds me I have several trees that need to be identified that I haveto picture and send off to the county or something. I am afraid I have a couple Russian Olive trees.

If you do have Russian olives and plan to tackle them yourself you can probably only take the brush to a landfill. Most organic/recycle places won't take it.

OP, I'd keep it until it starts going south then call to get it removed. Company I once worked for loved to prolong the inevitable, costing the client money.

[mcjhr]

You bet. If you are looking to replace it, check out Maple trees "Autumn Blaze" to be more specific. Also ornamental pear trees would be a good choice.

+1

Or hackberry tree.

[DSB OUTDOORS]

The people that owned the house let a billion saplings/seedlings sprout underneath these two. I reclaimed the space, but at the expense of my skin. The friggin thorns are a PITA. And they have some coating that makes them extra ouchy.

Ohhh ya they are. When we were kids, my younger brother started climbing our tree. A year later he was complaining about his hand hurting. Had some X-Ray taken and he had a 2" thorn that had gone into his hand from the side and through the pinky bone, and it heeled over the thorn. At the time it happened he didn't say anything as he was afraid he'd get in trouble. Has a very nice scar from the removal surgery.

[BPTactical]

So if it dies and you dig it up do you have an "Ash hole" in the yard?

[Hummer]

Russian Olive trees are defiantly on the "Obnoxious Weed list" and should be removed if you get a chance.

While there is an effort to remove Russian Olive because they are non native and invasive in some habitats, I disagree with blanket removal of existing trees. Russian Olive is an outstanding wildlife resource tree, which is why the Colorado State Forest Service sold and planted them widely for windbreaks and wildlife shelterbelts.

The olives are used by mammals and many birds like turkey, quail, pheasant, robins, waxwings, mockingbirds and more. Russian Olive is also attracts insects which bring in warblers, finches, etc. There are shelterbelts all over eastern and western CO that are full of wildlife principally because of Russian Olive and other berry producing plants sold to ag land owners by the State Forest Service.

The thorns are nasty for sure which is why nobody wants wood chips from them. I've had many tractor tire flats from the thorns. But, Russian Olive on my property are not invasive, they only grow where I plant them, and I'm not taking them out.

[DSB OUTDOORS]

While there is an effort to remove Russian Olive because they are non native and invasive in some habitats, I disagree with blanket removal of existing trees. Russian Olive is an outstanding wildlife resource tree, which is why the Colorado State Forest Service sold and planted them widely for windbreaks and wildlife shelterbelts.

The olives are used by mammals and many birds like turkey, quail, pheasant, robins, waxwings, mockingbirds and more. Russian Olive is also attracts insects which bring in warblers, finches, etc. There are shelterbelts all over eastern and western CO that are full of wildlife principally because of Russian Olive and other berry producing plants sold to ag land owners by the State Forest Service.

The thorns are nasty for sure which is why nobody wants wood chips from them. I've had many tractor tire flats from the thorns. But, Russian Olive on my property are not invasive, they only grow where I plant them, and I'm not taking them out.

That's fine to each his own. I just know they had been Ban for sale for about 25 years in Colorado. And the Colo. Dept. Of Agg. would like to see them gone. Just saying.

R
ussian olive
is designated as a
“List B” species in the Colorado
Noxious Weed Act.
It is required to
be either eradicated, contained, or
suppressed depending on the local
infestations.
For more information
visit
www.colorado.gov/ag/csd
and click on the Noxious Weed
Management Program. Or call the
State Weed Coordinator at the
Colorado Department of Agriculture,
Conservation Services Division,
303-239-4100.

Here's a link for the rest of the article.
http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite...&ssbinary=true

[rbeau30]

Are the olives, olives I can eat? Cuz, I have other fruit producing trees in the yard, and it looks like the previous previous owner had a desire for fruit producing trees. I caught the Plum trees on the late part of the fruit season, and they were very very yummy.