Every year at this time I wander around the property measuring the heights of select trees, to see how much each has grown. Here’s a post about this last year.
Once again, the incremental growth throughout the year becomes more obvious when compared with measured heights from the previous year.
Here’s my spreadsheet recording the heights (in inches):
As you can see, some trees didn’t survive, and some got shorter (due to damage by deer), but many grew quite significantly.
Here are a few examples, in the same order as last year’s post; compare to last time to see the growth.
Firstly, the Sweet Gum:
The “behind white gazebo fir”:
The weeping willow is looking really good:
A field leyland:
The coral bark maple: