A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2007 Please identify my trees

I have a total of 6 trees. 4 in the backyard and two in the front yard. The four in the backyard are of one kind and the two in the front yard are another.

Please identify them for me. Also do I need to feed trees? If yew, how frequently.

Type 1

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Type 2

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another one of the same kind but larger/wider leaves
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Mike moving these to The Mystery Section...

Can't really tell but is Type 2 either an 'Olive' or 'Eucalyptus' tree???

There's a willow in there, I think.

Could type 1 be a bradford pear tree?

Dianna

Type one looks like it might be a Ficus

Type 2 looks like a Willow Oak

Hope this helps!

tree #1 looks like Pyrus calleryana (there are numerous varieties available). tree #2 is difficult to discern, a close up of the foliage would be helpful. Happy gardening

Thanks for all who helped. I had a true green guy come in today and he said #1 is BRadford Pears and the second one is Oak tree.

It's always nice to know one of those 'true green' guys, Mike.

There's a fella' who lives in our building and he's the leader of the High Park natural species restoration and all that jazz. I pick his brains a lot - he once complained that he can't leave and come back to his apartment without being harassed.

Hee hee!

Do you mean the True Green Chemlawn guy? Those guys don't usually know anything except how to spray poison. I think that #1 is, a relative of the Bradford, one of the callery pears as Arc said above. It looks like it has signifigant damage at the base, thus the suckering at the base. #2 sure looks like russian olive, and the last pic is likely a water oak rather than a willow oak. The best thing you can do to fertilize your trees is to mulch mow, leaving the clippings to return to the soil. Also, if you fertilize your lawn you needn't give extra fertilizer to the trees. A mineral supplement such as "Ironite" every couple of years is very beneficial. The worst thing you can do is overfertilize.

Actually, the more I look at #2, it just might be a willow oak, but from the picture, it looks as though the leaves are grayish. If that's the true color, I'm going with the olive.