Beginner Gardening: fast growing shade trees, 1 by pastime

pastime wrote:
Medinac: My Autumn Blazes were growing in a neighbors "going out of business" tree nursery. They were about 10' tall when spaded and transplanted to my yard in the spring of '07. They've grown about 1' since then. I have not seen any seeds. They are doing well considering they're growing in an old driveway. I think they are still recovering from being transplanted. A landscape company bought all the trees from our neighbor, and we allowed them to stockpile the spaded trees on our property until they could ship them to their own site. They only had a month to dig up a couple hundred trees. As a thank you, they let me pick out 3 and planted them for me. I could never have afforded to buy such big trees, let alone dig the huge holes required. The picture is the one planted in the old driveway. You can see the new growth on top. It's looks like about 1'. Considering it's only been a year it's doing ok. I can't wait to see the red, fall color.