Tom is back with a new tree. Here’s his next entry in the Trees of Toad Valley. If you’d like to check out all of the others, find them here. Author: Tom Brady Sweetgum, “Liquidamber Styraciflue” I first encountered Sweetgum in Harper’s Ferry National Park, West Virginia. I was there to learn about John Brown’s […]
Larch – Larix genus
It’s been awhile since we had Tom the Tree Man provide us with an excerpt about a tree located on the golf course. If you’d like to read others, check them out: Sawtooth Oak, American Persimmon, Tulip Tree, and the Chinese Elm. Take it away, Tom! Author: Tom Brady Larch, “Larix genus.” Rather than write […]
Tulip Tree – Liriodendron tulipifera
Here’s is my dad back with another edition of the Trees of Toad Valley. If you’d like to read others, check them out: Sawtooth Oak, American Persimmon, and the Chinese Elm. Author: Tom Brady As I have mentioned in the past, this is an article that originally appeared in the Iowa Woodland Owners Association newsletter titled […]
American Persimmon
Tom’s back with another Non-Native Tree found on the golf course. To find out about other trees, click here or here. Author: Tom Brady Persimmon Diospyros virginiana Persimmon is a deciduous tree with distinctive dark thick bark typically broken into small squarish blocks. When young, the bark is lighter brown with pale fissures. The […]
Sawtooth Oak – Quercus Acutissima
If you recall, my dad, Tom, is our resident tree guy here at Toad Valley. Over the years, he has planted nearly every tree you will find on our golf course. He writes an article for the Iowa Woodland Owners Association. In it, he shares information about trees that we have on the golf course […]
Smell-a-Site. If Only Computers Had Five Senses.
If you haven’t ever played golf in the spring, you need to make it a point to stop out sometime in the next week or so. The smells and beautiful trees only last a short while, but boy, do they ever smell amazing. As soon as you walk up from the parking lot, you are […]
A Little Tree Trimming
The trouble with having hundreds, probably thousands, of trees on your golf course is that they need care. They are forever getting hit with a disease, lightening or wind. When I was a kid, I would ride around the golf course with my dad and he would point out something that I believed to be […]
Tom the Trouble Maker
As mentioned here, my dad has planted basically every tree on the golf course. He has had some help from the birds and squirrels who forget where they bury their winter meal. Overall, however, they have all been planted by Tom and his tree spade. We ran into dad while we were filming our zombie […]
Chinese Elm “Ulmus Parvifolia”
This is Tom, Toad Valley’s Friendly Tree Guy, back with my first introduction to the trees of Toad Valley. If you recall, I earlier described how I have planted nearly all of the trees on the course. Over the years, I have planted almost 300 different varieties. Today I’m going to introduce you to the […]
Trees of Toad Valley
Author: Tom Brady To most golfers, trees are just an obstacle to be overcome, but Toad Valley is more than just that. Forty years ago, when we opened, there were no trees on the course. Every tree has been planted. Some by “critters” and wind (once a seed source was near enough), but most have […]