0020: Carob

Planted a carob tree by the body of my 21 year old cat and companion who passed away on June 2.

Family: Caesalpinioideae
Genus: Ceratonia
Species: siliqua

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0019: Coast Redwood

Family: Cupressaceae
Genus: Sequoia
Species: sempervirens

Hamilton getting mulch for around the trees. He was the hole digger on Mother's Day.

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0018: Box Elder

The fourth of four box elders we planted on mother's day.

Family: Sapindaceae
Genus: Acer
Species: negundo

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0017: Box Elder

The third of four box elders we planted on mother's day.

Family: Sapindaceae
Genus: Acer
Species: negundo

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0016: Box Elder

The second of four box elders we planted on mother's day.

Family: Sapindaceae
Genus: Acer
Species: negundo

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0015: Box Elder

The first of four box elders we planted on mother's day.

Family: Sapindaceae
Genus: Acer
Species: negundo

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0014: Buckey

Family: Hippocastanaceae
Genus: Aesculus
Species: californica

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0013: Indian blood peach

Saturday, we planted seven more trees at my parent's Potter Valley property. This is an Indian blood peach, the second of two peaches I planted.

Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Prunus
Species: persica

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0012: Montclar peach

Saturday, we planted seven more trees at my parent's Potter Valley property. This is a Montclar peach, the first of two peaches I planted.

Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Prunus
Species: persica

Me digging the two holes for the peach trees.

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0011: Arbequina

We planted five olives and two peach trees Saturday at my parent's Potter Valley property. This is a Spanish olive, the fifth olive of the day and the third of three Arbequinas along a hillside berm.

It's a table olive as well as used to produce a highly valued olive oil, a more buttery oil with a slightly peppery finish.

Family: Oleaceae
Genus: Sequoia Olea
Species: europaea
Cultivar: Arbequina

Me planting the Arbequina olive.

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0010: Arbequina

We planted five olives and two peach trees Saturday at my parent's Potter Valley property. This is a Spanish olive, the fourth olive of the day and the second of three Arbequinas along a hillside berm.

It's a table olive as well as used to produce a highly valued olive oil, a more buttery oil with a slightly peppery finish.

Family: Oleaceae
Genus: Sequoia Olea
Species: europaea
Cultivar: Arbequina

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0009: Arbequina

We planted five olives and two peach trees Saturday at my parent's Potter Valley property. This is a Spanish olive, the third olive of the day and the first of three Arbequinas along a hillside berm.

It's a table olive as well as used to produce a highly valued olive oil, a more buttery oil with a slightly peppery finish.

Family: Oleaceae
Genus: Sequoia Olea
Species: europaea
Cultivar: Arbequina

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0008: Maurino

We planted five olives and two peach trees Saturday. This is an Italian olive, the second of two olives along a new hillside berm at my parent's Potter Valley property.

Family: Oleaceae
Genus: Sequoia Olea
Species: europaea
Cultivar: Maurino

Ray dug the five holes for the olives. He's here digging the hole for this tree at the driveway end of the new berm.

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0007: Leccino

We planted five olives and two peach trees Saturday. This is an Italian olive, the first of two olives along a new hillside berm at my parent's Potter Valley property.

Family: Oleaceae
Genus: Sequoia Olea
Species: europaea
Cultivar: Leccino

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0006: Coast Redwood

The third redwood was from a pot that my mom had been growing, a Sequoia sempervirens "Coast Redwood", a bit paler in color than the Aptos Blues I bought, and not bushed-out from the nursery pruning.

Family: Cupressaceae (koo-press-AY-see-ay)
Genus: Sequoia (see-KWOY-uh)
Species: sempervirens (sem-per-VY-renz)

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0005: Sequoia Aptos Blue

We planted the three redwoods of the day, including this second Sequoia sempervirens 'Aptos Blue', or "Aptos Blue Redwood", in a row continuing from two previously planted smaller redwoods.

It's interesting that the Coastal Redwood is the Sequoia genus, though the Giant Sequoia are the Sequoiadendron genus in the same family.

Family: Cupressaceae (koo-press-AY-see-ay)
Genus: Sequoia (see-KWOY-uh)
Species: sempervirens (sem-per-VY-renz)
Cultivar: Aptos Blue

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0004: Sequoia Aptos Blue

The third tree of the day, and the first of three redwoods, was one of two Sequoia sempervirens 'Aptos Blue', or "Aptos Blue Redwood".

Family: Cupressaceae (koo-press-AY-see-ay)
Genus: Sequoia (see-KWOY-uh)
Species: sempervirens (sem-per-VY-renz)
Cultivar: Aptos Blue

The three new redwoods in the row planted along the cattle fence line and the road that runs along the irrigation ditch.

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0003: Italian Stone Pine

The second tree we planted today was a Pinus pinea "Italian Stone Pine" which I had used as my Christmas tree these last holidays. It's one of my favorite trees to use for small live Christmas trees because of it's pretty pale bluish green, wide bushy shape, and short needles.

We planted this two gallon tree down the hill from the house, between the greenhouse and the current trailer location, with the irrigation ditch behind it. In the photo you can see the cattle shelter.

Family: Pinaceae (py-NAY-see-ay)
Genus: Pinus (PY-nus)
Species: pinea (PY-nee-uh)

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0002: Mondell Pine

Ray and I made another trip up to Potter Valley, this time for the main purpose of tree planting. I got four little 2 gallon Christmas trees on a 75% off sale two days before Christmas.

The first one we planted was a Pinus eldarica "Mondell Pine" and we put it on the property line, between the neighboring vinyard and my dad's future driveway extension.

Family: Pinaceae (py-NAY-see-ay)
Genus: Pinus (PY-nus)
Species: eldarica (el-DAR-ee-kuh)

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0001: Pussy Willow

My mother had this Salix discolor "pussy willow" in a pot but helped me plant it on the steep slope below my parent's house. It looks like just a stick right now but will eventually have pretty little flowers (called catkins) and make nice cuttings for flower arrangements.

Family: Salicaceae (sal-i-KAY-see-ee)
Genus: Salix (SAL-iks)
Species: discolor (DIS-kol-or)

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