TREES, REGIONAL and SEASONAL, HandDrawn/HandPainted ATC Swap, Due June 4

I made trees today. I'll mail them tomorrow.

Coconut Palm tree found in the tropics
Lone Cypress at Cypress Point along 17 Mile Drive, Monterey, California
Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) native to the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. This is my FAVORITE tree, and is one of the things I miss most after having moved from CA.
Rock Juniper Bonsai Tree
 
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Mybrokenart, I love your “tree emoting”! I’m right there with you! Signing you up now.
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Shelly r, You are a speedy one! I will send my address.
 
Leyda , I am learning about the unique trees you chose, some from other countries. Thanks, they look great!
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Welcome, JustJayne! Will sign you up now.
 
Made it to the post office and popped them in the box today. I call this set "Trees of my Mother." I painted trees that meant a lot to my mom (we're finally burying her in Santa Barbara this coming Friday so she's on my mind, as always).

Crape Myrtle - Her favorite tree

The Morton Bay Fig in Santa Barbara. When I was a kid we were still allowed to play all over the tree, but I hear it's fenced off now.

Orange Tree - my mom had the greatest orange tree in her backyard in SB, and I was the one who would climb it to pick oranges, then squeeze the orange juice.

Liquidambar, aka Sweet Gum. My mom had one of these in her front yard. She and I both would turn our ankles on those darned seed pods frequently. Liquidambar was the only tree to change colors in autumn in SB.
 
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AP, thanks so much for those great pics and interesting stories! Though I now live in AZ, I was born and raised in So CA. Shortly after I married, we moved to Northern CA, where I had a Liquidambar in the front yard.. it was strong and healthy and offered homesites for the robins. It was one of the few trees in the area that had Fall color, along with the Aspens.
 
Anyone, please feel free to chat and share tree memories, they don’t even have to be about the trees you illustrate. Once when I was about 12, Mom and Dad bought a Gingko Biloba tree from the nursery. They used to say the name and laugh, they thought it was so funny. The nursery man told them it was a very old tree species, around when there were dinosaurs!
 
CiCi - I learned about Gingko trees when I was taking dendrology (study of trees) when I was in college. Yes, they are an ancient species, one of the few in which there are male and female trees. I think it is the female trees that are especially stinky and for that reason the females are often cut down when they mature. Of course without the females, they can’t reproduce, so more ginkgos aren’t growing in cities which often only have male trees.
 
CiCi- Alan and I plant Ginko trees (male, of course) whenever we move to a new house. We’ve only been in our home in Bremerton for 2 years and are still working on landscaping it, so we haven’t planted the latest ginko yet. We’ll get around to it.
 
Jo - Thanks for the interesting information about the Gingko trees!

AP - I know you will eventually get that Gingko planted! Landscaping always takes a while to do all the steps and stages, and sometimes depends on the best planting time, and the weather.

Welcome to the swap, Holly! You have a great “Christmas name”, along with Noel, Merry, Joy, and Carol. I recently saw a picture of a tree that had leaves like Holly, maybe that’s what it was. I was confused since I had always thought holly and holly berries came from low bushes!
 
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