I have two of these trees. I planted the first one, a 15 gallon tree from Forever Green Nursery in Angleton, in January 2015, and had the second one (30 gallons), from Barbers Nursery in Alvin, planted in October 2015.
I wanted a Nuttall Oak because the ones I have seen growing around this region give a nice yellowy-orange color in the autumn. In my yard neither Nuttall Oak has done anything more than turn yellowish brown in the autumn. Both Nuttall Oaks in my yard did well in 2016. The second Nuttall Oak, unlike the first one, puts out a mass of fragile purple leaves in spring - they then slowly turn green - unfortunately I neglected to take a picture of this in 2016. On March 25th 2017, Nuttall Oak #2 leafed out again - the leaves were again purple. I'm thinking that this tree is probably a "Sangria" cultivar. On April 1st 2017, the leaves took on a coppery appearance.
On April 8th the leaves had a reddish color again.
On May 14th, the leaves of both Nuttall Oaks were covered in yellow blotches. As usual I could find nothing like this on the internet or in my massive book on Diseases of Trees and Shrubs. It's not oak-leaf-blister as there are no depressions or deformed leaves. Many of my other oak (and other) trees had a similar issue. Perhaps it was some kind of weird virus. It looked like it was gearing up to be an exceptionally bad year for the trees. Although there were 100X less june-bugs that year, the diseases were more than making up for it.
On June 11th, both Nuttall Oaks were putting out vigorous new growth - perhaps due to the fertilizer I gave them about 3 weeks prior.
On April 22nd 2018, the second Nuttall Oak had nice bright red growing tips. In 2019, Nuttall Oak #2 was one of the trees that lost a lot of leaves during the brutal month of August. Nuttall Oak #1 however, continued to look very healthy.
In late March / early April 2020, both Nuttall Oaks leafed out as usual. Nuttall Oak #2 has the familiar purply green spring leaves. |
Nuttall Oak #1 (early July 2021)
Nuttall Oak #2 (late June 2021)
Nuttall Oak #1 (early July 2020)
Nuttall Oak #2 (early July 2020)
Nuttall Oak #2 (end of June 2019)
Nuttall Oak #1 (end of June 2019)
Nuttall Oak #2 (July 2018)
Nuttall Oak #1 (July 2018)
Nuttall Oak #2 (July 2017)
Nuttall Oak #1 (July 2017)
Nuttall Oak #2 (July 2016)
Nuttall Oak #2 (October 2015)
Nuttall Oak #1 (July 2016)
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