I feel like Marilla Cuthbert
Aug. 22nd, 2008 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_prime... at the beginning of Anne of Green Gables, when Matthew goes to the station to bring back an orphan boy to work with him on the farm, and comes home with a girl instead.
Last summer, when we realized we'd have to get our huge cottonwood tree taken out, I got to pick up what kind of trees I wanted to replace it: a Liberty apple, and a scarlet oak. So R. ordered both of those through the nursery. He brought home the apple in the spring, and yesterday he finally brought home the oak. It's a fine tree, 12' tall, very pretty... but it's a red oak, not a scarlet.
Red oaks have fairly broad leaves, and this one's are broader even than the one in the picture. Scarlet oaks have lacy leaves that look so pretty on the tree and on the ground.
I guess we couldn't even get a scarlet 'til spring, so we'll wait and see what this one looks like in the fall. Scarlets are consistently glorious, but some red oaks turn yellow, or yellow-brown, instead of red. Red oaks do have some virtues that surpass the scarlets, though (more tolerant of lawn watering?), and Anne did work out very well for the Cuthberts.
Last summer, when we realized we'd have to get our huge cottonwood tree taken out, I got to pick up what kind of trees I wanted to replace it: a Liberty apple, and a scarlet oak. So R. ordered both of those through the nursery. He brought home the apple in the spring, and yesterday he finally brought home the oak. It's a fine tree, 12' tall, very pretty... but it's a red oak, not a scarlet.
Red oaks have fairly broad leaves, and this one's are broader even than the one in the picture. Scarlet oaks have lacy leaves that look so pretty on the tree and on the ground.
I guess we couldn't even get a scarlet 'til spring, so we'll wait and see what this one looks like in the fall. Scarlets are consistently glorious, but some red oaks turn yellow, or yellow-brown, instead of red. Red oaks do have some virtues that surpass the scarlets, though (more tolerant of lawn watering?), and Anne did work out very well for the Cuthberts.