Measuring tree heights

Every year at around 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), with columns to indicate the change from the previous year, e.g. the “19 ▸ 20 Δ” column shows the number of inches of growth between 2019 and 2020:

I only took photos of some of the trees this year. Here they are, in the same order and captioned with the name from the spreadsheet. If you compare to last year’s post, you can see some distinct growth in some of the trees. I hope you enjoy some unusual glimpses of the homestead.

Coral bark maple (by front of shop):

Field Leyland NW (corner):

Field dawn redwood (second row):

Field tulip (replacement) (second row):

Field scarlet willow (second row):

Field oak (replacement) (“Thorin 2”, center of field):

Behind white gazebo fir (N of gazebo):

Next to stream fir (next to pond stream):

Weeping willow (beyond pond, by cat graveyard):