This is a small tree that I bought several years ago. Those are the original photos. The tree has not grown much due to deer pressure. It is inside a tomato cage, but the opening (4"x4") may be too large for offer good protection.
The leaf stem shows red color. Leaf turns to yellow in the fall.
I believe so and you got a small oak tree in there.
That is great. I found my record of Basswood. Yes, that is an oak seedling I dug up.
That Basswood Linden never grow tall. May need to get a better deer fence this year.
Basswood is deer candy here
Get a deer license, a good bow and arrow set, and lots of practice. Eat well then come to my home and bag our deer.
Great honey plant too!
My grandfather’s favorite honey was “Lin”. What he called native American Basswood/Linden trees.
Where was your grandfather from? Basswood doesn’t hardly grow in Tennessee, does it? Lin makes me guess your grandfather was from West Virginia. I feel like they call it Basswood in northern states. I think of Linden as the European species, but maybe some Americans call the American species Linden, too. I’ve been wanting to get a few little seedlings of the native American basswood from trees growing in the southern part of the basswood’s native range, hoping they’d adapt best to my location, but maybe any basswood or linden would adapt just fine here. I do know of a few locations well south and east of their native range (in North Carolina) where planted basswoods or lindens – I don’t know how to tell the difference – are growing well.
I’m in the far NE corner of TN, about 1600’ elevation. There’s a native “Lin” in the woods a few hundred feet past my back door that I can’t reach all the way around. To be fair though I do not often see them other than in fertile and mature forest areas. Where I am thankful to live…
My grandparents were in southwest VA and in fairly similar growing conditions to here, only 40 or so miles away. Looking at the range map it looks like they’re present on down the Appalachain mountain chain to at least the Smokies. They appear to stop where the terrain flattens out and is likely warmer. On the southern edge at least.
