What A Difference A Couple Of Decades Make

I use Google Earth on a regular basis nowadays to check out places from the air before making a real visit, and I am surprised daily by the tree plantings I stumble across that I haven't visited in many years.  This project is from 1992, and it is doing pretty well.   It has mostly white oak, swamp chestnut oak, cherrybark oak, northern red oak, and Shumard oak.  The swamp chestnut and cherrybark oaks are growing faster than anything else.

This cherrybark oak is over eight inches diameter in less than twenty years, from a seedling.  The owner sprayed glyphosate and simazine herbicides along the rows when he planted to control the grass and weeds during the first year.