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Bed Bugs. Beneficial Organisms. Garden Pest Control. Rock Gardens. Welcome to Dengarden! Related Articles. By precy anza. By Rachel Darlington. By Audrey Hunt. Be sure to water them until they are well established. Protect your oak from deer. I use five-foot-high wire fencing material and form a cage about 5 feet in diameter around the oak. This might seem like overkill at first, but your oak will fill the cage in just a few years.
This scrapes the bark off and can easily kill the tree. Be sure to remove the fencing before the tree grows into and around it, and remember that young bark can get sunburned too. Oaks are adapted to soils low in nitrogen and doses of fertilizer can trigger rapid growth periods that split the bark or stimulate lush leaf growth that is prone to insect infestation.
Use the right soil. If you are worried that your soil is poor, inoculate the planting site with a little soil and litter from under an established oak of the same species. This introduces the mycorrhizae species that aid nutrient exchange in your oak. Create the right-size planting hole. The most common source of transplant mortality is from planting a tree below the root-line.
Many people dig a deep hole and back fill to the appropriate depth. But the loose soil in the bottom of the hole usually settles a few inches, just enough to sink your tree into the danger zone. White oaks are considered slow growers, climbing only 12 to 14 inches per year, compared to other trees such as Monterrey oak Quercus polymorpha , which can grow 48 inches in one year. Because of white oak's slow growth, some nurseries are hesitant to stock the tree, and you may have trouble finding a specimen to add to your landscape.
But many consider the tree's longevity and beauty good reasons to invest in a white oak. The stately, mature white oak displays a wide-spreading growth habit, with heavy, horizontal limbs. The hefty white oak — a member of the beech family — can have a trunk diameter of up to 6 feet. The tree's name comes from its light-colored, beige wood that is almost white when freshly cut and from its light gray bark.
Leaves of the white oak are 4 to 9 inches long with between five and nine lobes, or finger-like parts. The leaves are bright green on top and light-green-almost-white underneath. You can find an oak tree for almost all of the planting zones in the United States. Many oaks can and do grow well in southern climates with many of them extending to zone 9. The Live Oak can be planted in the most southern zone in the United States, zone How do you grow an oak tree from an acorn?
How to grow your own oak tree Collect acorns. Gather some acorns from the ground. Add acorns to compost. Fill a small flowerpot, yogurt pot or plastic cup with peat-free compost mixed with some sand or sawdust. Place the containers in a cool place out of direct sun, such as a garage, shed or unheated spare room. Re-pot your seedlings. How much are oak trees worth? How much water do oak trees need?
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