How many trees have you planted in your lifetime?

[Dirtyhip]

We are at 21 so far.

4 at Chickenville. It was already in the forest so not many were needed.

2 at the city lot.  it was small and we had a gigntic elm already.  

15 here at our current place.  We have 10 trees on order right now and we will likely add a few more to the planting this year. I want some aspens and maybe a few friot trees.

[Wilbur ★]

I don't know but it will be in the hundreds. 

[Longjohn ★]

I didn’t count them. Probably over 200. When we bought this house it was built in the corner of a corn field so first thing I did was plant 100 white pines around the property line. I also planted apple, peach, and cherry trees. I planted a black walnut tree that I got from my dad. I planted trees at every house we lived at. I planted trees when I worked at the retreat center and I planted trees at the clinic and the doctor’s house where I did the landscaping.

[groupw]

We planted a windbreak on my parent’s acreage when we were growing up. Probably 100 then. I planted 2 at my previous house. None needed at our current property. 

[Kirby]

Trees, probably zero.  But then I've never owned a home. I've planted a bunch of bushes here at the condo including a high bush cranberry that looks like a tree.

 

[Allen ★]

Quite a few. 

[Airehead]

50 at the old house but only one here.   Prior to that, too many to count. I worked for a landscaper and lived on the property while I was in college. The all female crew planted stuff for lots of people plus we had a Christmas tree farm so we were always planting something new. 

[UglyBob]

I would guess somewhere between 150 and 200. 

[MickinMD ★]

I've only planted trees at the other house I owned.

At my last house, I planted dwarf red and yellow Japanese plum trees, a semi-dwarf sweet cherry tree, a dwarf nectarine tree, a dwarf pear tree, and a dwarf 5-in-one apple tree (red and yellow delicious, Macintosh, Cortland, and Northern Spy.

All did well except for the Apple tree, which was in a corner of the yard that didn't get as much sun as the others and needed more spraying.

I had the last of four Canadian maples that were planted in my current yard around 1948. The other three had developed problems and I decided not to wait for 30 feet-high #4 to do so. I want to plant some dwarf or semi dwarf trees, some flowering bushes, and  build a trellis over a picnic table for grape vines.  If I plant a fruit tree, it will probably be a self-pollinating sweet cherry, though the wax (less attractive to birds) cherries I love usually require two trees to cross-pollinate.

 

[Ralphie ★]

I would guess 10-50. I kept trying to grow weed trees as bonsais but they never lived long.:(

 

[Kzoo]

I never counted.  Probably more than 50 but less than 100.

[maddmaxx ★]

0

[Digital_photog ★]

9 hours ago, Wilbur said:

I don't know but it will be in the hundreds. 

^^^^ The year I planted the most was after we finished the pond.  100 white pine, 50 tulip poplar, 50 river birch, 5 buckeye, 20 arbor vitae, 20 red maple

[bikeman564™]

zero

[Ralphie ★]

I want to up my guesstimate to 50-100. 

[Razors Edge ★]

I used to be chief hole digger when I was a teen and my mom wanted some stuff planted.  More bushes, but some trees.  Never fun in rocky or clay soil.

[Ralphie ★]

2 hours ago, Razors Edge said:

I used to be chief hole digger when I was a teen and my mom wanted some stuff planted.  More bushes, but some trees.  Never fun in rocky or clay soil.

I met one of my neighbors decades ago as he saw me struggling with digging a hole for a Purple Leaf Plum in very tough soil in the front yard.  He lent me a digging bar, something I never knew existed.  Turns oot we both went to the same college 350 miles away.  It's a Small World After All!

[Razors Edge ★]

Just now, Philander Seabury said:

I met one of my neighbors decades ago as he saw me struggling with digging a hole for a Purple Leaf Plum in very tough soil in the front yard.  He lent me a digging bar, something I never knew existed.

Yeah - I had the normal "post hole" digger (sort of clamshell thingie?), and an assortment of shovels and picks.  Nothing else.  My "labor" was FREE to my mom, so she wasn't going out and getting me anything to make my life easier

[jsharr ★]

I worked in the nursery industry for about a decade.  I was involved in the planting of thousands and thousands of trees.  We would bring in bare root trees and plant them in containers to root and resell.  

[12string]

Can we count the apple cores I've thrown out car windows?

[team scooter]

1000s. I was a landscaper for thirty years.  

[Square Wheels]

>1

[shootingstar]

2 hours ago, Square Wheels said:

>1

Same here.

One plants trees....when there is money (which my parents didn't have much) and when there is logical space on property again I never lived anywhere on large plots of land. That's ok, I'm still whole as a person.

[Longjohn ★]

On 10/4/2021 at 12:04 PM, 12string said:

Can we count the apple cores I've thrown out car windows?

A regular Johnny Appleseed.

[KrAzY]

I have planted FAR LESS than I have cut down over the years 

[Further]

Hundreds 

My Boy Scout troop when I was a kid got involved with planting pine plantations 

Since then I’ve planted several, no idea how many 

But I also have probably cut down more than I planted 

[MoseySusan]

5 trees and lots of shrubs and plants. 

[Kzoo]

2 hours ago, KrAzY said:

I have planted FAR LESS than I have cut down over the years 

This ^

[Prophet Zacharia]

7. Always as a visual block against a neighbor’s expansion of his garage space.