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 […]
Propping Trees
Last year, we had a severe drought. Our golf course actually ran out of water. It was the first time in our 40 years of business that all of the creek beds that feed our course’s ponds dried up. By the end of the season, we looked pretty rough. In order to keep the greens […]
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 […]