Trees

This morning we heard from the guy we've been growing TreeProject trees for this year. As he has had some rain and more is forecast he was coming to collect some that are ready to plant out.

Rather than go outside and photograph the trees before he arrived, I took this picture through the window, which you can see was not a good idea:

Reflection of my hands rather spoiling the view! But hopefully you can see that some of these trees are very large. The tallest ones are the manna gums, Eucalyptus viminalis.

When the landholder arrived we sorted through the trees, giving him three boxes of mixed seedlings,

These two plus another one.

The left-overs look a bit sad by comparison:

A couple of boxes of small and very small seedlings, and not quite in sight off to the left a couple of boxes where nothing has germinated yet. The larger plants on the left of this photo are actually from the previous year's batch of TreeProject seedlings. They had only just germinated last May when the rest went to be planted, so we hung onto them to grown them up. Now they are well and truly ready, but we have not been able to contact the landholder we grew them for.

A few trees around our garden this afternoon.
The ginkgo still has a few leaves, despite the strong winds today:

 The liquidambar is colouring up nicely:

One of several new trees planted:

Acer rubrum "October Glory". Obviously named in the northern hemisphere. I don't think it will look this colourful in October.