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Re: Acquiring/Planting Bur Oaks

At 06:58 PM 8/6/99 -0500, J. A. Raasch wrote:
> When is the best time to plant bur oaks and other woody  oak-opening and
>oak-savanna plants? Can someone suggest a  source of such plants? (Dane
>County, Southwest Wisconsin)

I've always had my eye on an undeveloped lot sandwiched between
several businesses that you can see as you head east on the
Madison beltline, as you cross onto Hy. 18 towards Cambridge.
There are a number of 3 to 10 foot young oaks that will probably
someday get run over by a bulldozer in the name of development.

As others have said, pick up acorns, keep them moist, and stick
them in the ground in nice soil and they'll sprout.  I did this with
a dozen or two burr oak acorns I found in a parking lot.  The hardest
part is getting them before the squirrels. 

In Madison, the oaks at the Capitol square and the oak on the
Union terrace drop viable acorns, too, with the added cachet of
coming from trees everyone recognizes.

- John

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