Love Larch and all the variations. Any conifer that looses its needles in the winter has my attention. Thank you. Just love your presentations and education style.
Those are some huge Tamaracks. We have a lot on out property here in Michigan, but not many as large as those. The limbs on ours grow all the way to the bottom of the trunk. One of my favorite trees.
We have two larches on our school property (that was once a private estate) in Baltimore. I'm guessing they were planted there by the original owners. I enjoy your tree talks and am using them with my students. Thanks!
I absolutely love larches. My favorite is the Western Larch, native to my state (Oregon). I also love the Subalpine Larch found in northern Washington. I have a few of the different larch species: the Western, Eastern, European, Japanese, and Subalpine larch species. The Subalpine Larch is incredibly difficult to grow, and I already lost 2 out of 4 that I planted, and may lose the last two. Still, I love the species so much, I may keep trying to grow it. They just can't make the transplant despite watering all summer every year. Western Larch does really well, and I think it is the most beautiful larch species to grow in a garden setting. It is narrow, taller, nicely formed and conical, and has maybe the lightest and brightest green needles of all the larch species I have. Subalpine Larch on the other hand, is narrow and slow growing, more like a dwarf conifer (and goes well with Subalpine Fir, Whitebark Pine, and Mountain Hemlock). Though I do like the Eastern Larch too; it has a really nice form though it seems to be wider than western larch, and shorter overall. I'm only letting my Western Larches grow to full size, and the other larch species I will be pruning to a small size, to mimic the look of subalpine larches in the mountains. I just think it is neat to see some of these species formed to look more like mountain species, even if they are not, such as the Eastern Larch. And it provides me with more larch color variation and fall color time variation. I am doing the same with an Eastern White Pine and a Western White Pine, forming them to grow like subalpine mountain trees.
Terrific educational video, you are very well spoken and engaging. The quality and crispness of this video is amazing. I’m guessing partly due to being 60fps. I was trying to differentiate between black spruce and tamarack in my area of northern Ontario, (similar bark) and you helped me by describing the yellow needles in autumn and that they completely shed them. In October, the flourishing seas of forests tickled with yellow needles up this far north, is breathtaking.
Definately European Larch (Larix decidua) that you are looking at here. Larix laricina cones are much smaller, about the size of Eastern Hemlock cones.
The bark is another giveaway that we aren't looking at the native species. Tamaracks have flaky bark, too, but the flakes are smaller and rounder than what we see on these trees.
It's possible, but maybe unlikely to have shown up there without having been planted. The furthest south I've seen eastern larch is high-elevation wetlands in West Virginia and I think that's the furthest south they are on most range maps. But hey, stranger things have happened!
I've watched a dozen of your forestry vid's. Must say, they are well done - Thank You! I feel that touching on identification, ecology, commercial uses, and cultural lore, as you do, gives us a more holistic look into forest communities. Unfortunate, for all of us, you don't have a larger viewership by the looks of the thumbs-up count and sincerely hope that doesn't dissuade you from continuing. I found your talks because I was searching for a primer on understory plants - both woody and herbaceous - for our eastern forests. Any suggestions?. Though giving credit where credit is due, you have presented a couple - Bloodroot, poison ivy - it'd be nice to see something a little longer in length with a focus on just the understory. 😃
Thank you very much!!! This channel is just a small part of our forest stewardship outreach (most is in person or via our newsletter), so we're actually tickled at how popular it is! It truly is wonderful to share our knowledge and experience. I'm glad you've enjoyed the understory species highlights! We'll keep making videos on them for sure. We're working on someday putting out a second series that's more about broad ecology, wildlife habitats, and forest management. A focus on the forest floor would be really cool! I don't know of any other channels that have videos on that matter; I actually don't spend much time here except for working on this channel!
She was in the truck napping lol. This was after a long hike. I saw the larches near the beginning of the trail, so we dropped off our gear in the truck before recording. Newt hopped in and refused to come back out! The older she gets, the happier she seems to be to just curl up somewhere and nap
Love your videos man! Really helpful and well made, and have been great helping me learn more about trees. Thanks so much!
Love Larch and all the variations. Any conifer that looses its needles in the winter has my attention. Thank you. Just love your presentations and education style.
Thanks Steve! :)
Those are some huge Tamaracks. We have a lot on out property here in Michigan, but not many as large as those. The limbs on ours grow all the way to the bottom of the trunk. One of my favorite trees.
What a beautiful tree!
We have two larches on our school property (that was once a private estate) in Baltimore. I'm guessing they were planted there by the original owners. I enjoy your tree talks and am using them with my students. Thanks!
How lovely! We're thrilled that these videos are useful!
These are plentiful where I live. Up to 8 feet around in some cases. Makes really good firewood too. Back in the day, it was utilized in shipbuilding.
I love larch :)
I absolutely love larches. My favorite is the Western Larch, native to my state (Oregon). I also love the Subalpine Larch found in northern Washington.
I have a few of the different larch species: the Western, Eastern, European, Japanese, and Subalpine larch species. The Subalpine Larch is incredibly difficult to grow, and I already lost 2 out of 4 that I planted, and may lose the last two. Still, I love the species so much, I may keep trying to grow it. They just can't make the transplant despite watering all summer every year.
Western Larch does really well, and I think it is the most beautiful larch species to grow in a garden setting. It is narrow, taller, nicely formed and conical, and has maybe the lightest and brightest green needles of all the larch species I have.
Subalpine Larch on the other hand, is narrow and slow growing, more like a dwarf conifer (and goes well with Subalpine Fir, Whitebark Pine, and Mountain Hemlock).
Though I do like the Eastern Larch too; it has a really nice form though it seems to be wider than western larch, and shorter overall. I'm only letting my Western Larches grow to full size, and the other larch species I will be pruning to a small size, to mimic the look of subalpine larches in the mountains. I just think it is neat to see some of these species formed to look more like mountain species, even if they are not, such as the Eastern Larch. And it provides me with more larch color variation and fall color time variation. I am doing the same with an Eastern White Pine and a Western White Pine, forming them to grow like subalpine mountain trees.
Terrific educational video, you are very well spoken and engaging. The quality and crispness of this video is amazing. I’m guessing partly due to being 60fps.
I was trying to differentiate between black spruce and tamarack in my area of northern Ontario, (similar bark) and you helped me by describing the yellow needles in autumn and that they completely shed them. In October, the flourishing seas of forests tickled with yellow needles up this far north, is breathtaking.
Definately European Larch (Larix decidua) that you are looking at here. Larix laricina cones are much smaller, about the size of Eastern Hemlock cones.
The bark is another giveaway that we aren't looking at the native species. Tamaracks have flaky bark, too, but the flakes are smaller and rounder than what we see on these trees.
Thank you!
I love wood
Nr. 1 the larch
Artists/oil painters, may know of Venice turpentine this is turpentine made of Larch sap instead of pine sap.
Can you keep making these videos
Yep we'll keep making them!! I was too busy planting trees all fall to make a new one, but the next video should be out this week!
I’ve been enjoying your tree talks man! Don’t mean to nitpick, but is this with European Larch with those large cones? Looks too big to be Tamarack
I think I’ve seen this in Pisgah Forest in NC which is a rain forest so maybe? Let me know if I’m off base.
It's possible, but maybe unlikely to have shown up there without having been planted. The furthest south I've seen eastern larch is high-elevation wetlands in West Virginia and I think that's the furthest south they are on most range maps. But hey, stranger things have happened!
I've watched a dozen of your forestry vid's. Must say, they are well done - Thank You! I feel that touching on identification, ecology, commercial uses, and cultural lore, as you do, gives us a more holistic look into forest communities. Unfortunate, for all of us, you don't have a larger viewership by the looks of the thumbs-up count and sincerely hope that doesn't dissuade you from continuing. I found your talks because I was searching for a primer on understory plants - both woody and herbaceous - for our eastern forests. Any suggestions?. Though giving credit where credit is due, you have presented a couple - Bloodroot, poison ivy - it'd be nice to see something a little longer in length with a focus on just the understory. 😃
Thank you very much!!! This channel is just a small part of our forest stewardship outreach (most is in person or via our newsletter), so we're actually tickled at how popular it is! It truly is wonderful to share our knowledge and experience.
I'm glad you've enjoyed the understory species highlights! We'll keep making videos on them for sure. We're working on someday putting out a second series that's more about broad ecology, wildlife habitats, and forest management. A focus on the forest floor would be really cool! I don't know of any other channels that have videos on that matter; I actually don't spend much time here except for working on this channel!
Where's your co-host newt?!
She was in the truck napping lol. This was after a long hike. I saw the larches near the beginning of the trail, so we dropped off our gear in the truck before recording. Newt hopped in and refused to come back out! The older she gets, the happier she seems to be to just curl up somewhere and nap