[smoothsailing]

The hickory sounds interesting.

I have mostly maple and a few oaks.They are all well over 50 years old and healthy except for one oak that I will be cutting down soon.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Until this past weekend, I thought the hickorys were dead. Now I see a large bud emerging from one of the sticks and a tiny leaf and a bud on the other. Boy, are these slow pokes !