I was tired of looking out at a bare spot up where our tree used to be so since it's finally tree planting season I ended up purchasing one over the weekend!!!
The guy at the nursery really wanted me to get a Weeping Beech tree, but unfortunately they didn't have any available I loved the idea of one and considered waiting or looking elsewhere, but prefer the look of them when they are old an gnarled and fun to climb to what they look like when they are young. I ended up going with a lovely Dura Heat River Birch! Since it's not as large as some of the other options I was considering, I think I'll also have space to grow some Paw Paw trees up there too!!!
I also bought a spicebush while I was there in the hope of getting some spicebush swallowtail caterpillars down the road
Thanks again for tall the ideas. It was so hard to choose!