Thank you for risking your life to bring us fellow oak tree lovers some very awesome informative video 😎🍻. Saw some at my local nursery 1g for $12 think I’m going tomorrow to purchase what they have! 🙏🏽
I'm about 12 miles from the South Gate of Yosemite and my neighbor has an enormous Kelloggi. I've been picking up leaves for the last couple of weeks. They make the best wreaths when they are preserved. Thank you so much for telling me what this tree is - I knew it was an oak, even a black Oak, but I thought they were all East Coast & in the South, so I'm really happy to know they grow in California (and that I can find more of them.)
You have convinced me, Brave Sir Knight. I've gone straight out and bought a seedling Black Oak, because ... "The Black Oak Always Triumphs!! Have At You!!"
Interesting video! I didn't know that valley oaks and black oaks grow together in some areas. In my region of Southern California you find valley oak literally in the valleys, and black oak much higher up in the mountains. The valley oak is much more likely to be a lone huge tree, while the black oak usually grows in mixed forests. The coast live oak also has its charm; it's probably the best tree for providing shade here :)
Came across your video looking for native California hardwoods to make bows from. Thank you for helping me be able to identify this beautiful tree! I will find one that has fallen and seasoned and make a bow from it!
@@Orchids.and.Endlers It's very hard to find a long enough or straight enough section of that for a bow, there are competitions for the best bow made of manzanita in Northern California. The black locust bow I am currently making is going to turn out sweet tho!
You said that there’s nothing to write back home about when it comes to fall colors....am I to assume that Hairry G. Is not an indigenous Californiano🤷♀️?. I viewed you removing a prehistoric looking gigantic palm from the earth once ...removal of this black oak would be child’s play for you lol.😉
No, I am a proud very native 4th Generation Californiano, in fact 4th Generation in my little town. Dairy farmers they were. Machados. Portuguese. The family Ranch was just below my garden and is a luxury home neighborhood now. Being the country boy I am, I don't fit in as well in my town in this century as I would the last with my flatbed trucks, dirty hands, and agrarian philosophy and lifestyle. I would have felt right at home (at home) a century ago when my grandma and her 7 siblings were being born and raised in the very modest 800 square foot wooden farmhouse on the 300 acre ranch less than half a mile from my backyard orchard. Now, Mercedes Benz and occasional Bentleys own the road and those who drive trucks, work with their hands, or worse, grow things, are looked on as odd curiosities. A dying breed in this town. But I am a rebel and revel in the juxtaposition I find myself within. www.altacrestfruitcompany.com/our-history
@@ScaryHairyGary 4th generation, Wow!....a true native👍🏻. Do not fret Hairry, For We who don’t mind getting our hands a little dirty massaging our Mother Earth for her bounty are the ones who will survive and thrive in the Viral Armageddon that’s looms ahead on the horizon. Nothing sweet or good to eat ever came off a Bentleys branches...so good luck to their owners when the manure hits their twin radiator fans...I’ll take 40 acres and a mule any day lol.
