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Sometimes just how the sun hits them can change the color of a same species or clone. You should be able to notice if they are similar when leaf out. Also some are more susceptible to willow cone galls as your red stemmed one shows, not sure if yellow one has those. Willows hybridize easy...

Don't know specifically, but as an example, I have both in a windbreak, and once the side branches were shaded on the Austrian Pines, they quickly died, and the white pines lower branches would stay alive a lot longer in the shade.

Thanks, not native here, but I've tried growing them from seed different times, but always ends up having a bad winter that eventually takes them out.

Here are a couple risks I can think of when planting in places colder than me at this time of the year. Most likely it will get cold again and snow again----- If not protected, leaves them vulnerable to being chewed up by vermin before they even have a chance to grow. Also if it warm enough...

i've had my wolverine spade for 10 years now, got the one with the longest blade and handle at the time. I've planted thousands of trees with it over the years. pictured next to my wooden handled one, which would be broken by now if used as hard as the wolverine.

lol you'd want a plant banned just because a few animals die from it, sounds like knee jerk reaction. In the article it mentioned that Idaho elk harvest could top 25k, doubt yew is causing much of a problem.

I'd imagine your native arborvitae could do good as it is called the swamp cedar.

Probably depends what wildlife? Turkey use them to roost in, herons build rookeries in them, deer graze young ones and bucks rub them, birds and squirrels build nests in them, raccoons and opossums use the cavities as homes. I'd imagine a lot of birds even use the cotton to line their nests.

They are growing to grow best in wet conditions. The one I have had hasn't done anything, sawfly larvae attacks it so bad and it doesn't have much vigor versus a lot of willows in my experience.

They have been more bush like than tree like for me. As with most willow bushes, a lot slower growing than willow trees, but serve their purpose well where you don't want something too tall.

Still would need to get the suckering poplar established, so maybe need to cage the momma, and let it sucker outside the cage. White poplar and its cultivars and hybrids are the main thing for stem cuttings that can sucker. Aspen sucker a lot, but propagated via root cuttings.

I haven't had much luck with tubes, maybe I needed 100s or 1000s to give them a good chance. Deer would just prune off the tops as they came out and in the fall the bucks just knocked them down.

Floodplain trees like the first ones you mentioned shouldn't have a problem. If any have a problem, the spruce would. If it floods often, I'd probably went with norway over black hills

Because it has uses in this country. A lot of plants can be toxic, even native oaks have killed animals.

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