10 free tree Saplings

[alm4rr]

join in Oct and get 10 free trees

2 sugar maples
2 red maples
1 scarlet oak
1 sweetgum
1 red oak
1 silver maple
1 white dogwood
1 washington hawthorn

$10 membership fee
www.arborday.org


Your 10 free trees are guaranteed to grow, or the Foundation will replace them free of charge. Your six to twelve inch trees will come postpaid (Free shipping) with easy planting instructions.

If you wish, you can choose to have the 10 free trees sent to another address, such as your place of worship. You may also choose to receive the membership without the trees. You will still enjoy all of the great benefits of becoming a National Arbor Day Foundation member.

 

[marketsons1985]

Link for the Lazy

10 Free Trees

 

[TheCoop]

Nice find, you might want to edit the heading to say 10 trees for $10 since you have to pay $10 to join.

 

[mscdex0]

add "with $10 membership" to the thread title please or something similar. I thought it was going to be 10 free trees, no hidden costs

 

[BigEdMuustaffa]

The trees are very small, saplings in fact. You might want to edit the title to say Saplings instead of trees, or Sprouts or something...

 

[SagaLore]

That is awesome, too bad I don't own any property right now.

 

[Crono]

I did this, and it's good deal from good organization. Does take a while to recieve (still waiting after a month). Can't beat the price, even if they are saplings.

 

[daveshel]

Thanks.

 

[Calagari]

Could you tell me how tall these saplings were when you received them?

 

[Gast]

Originally posted by: Calagari
Could you tell me how tall these saplings were when you received them?

RTFA!!

Your 10 free trees are guaranteed to grow, or the Foundation will replace them free of charge. Your six to twelve inch trees will come postpaid (Free shipping) with easy planting instructions.

If you wish, you can choose to have the 10 free trees sent to another address, such as your place of worship. You may also choose to receive the membership without the trees. You will still enjoy all of the great benefits of becoming a National Arbor Day Foundation member.

You can also choose other trees besides the ones listed.

 

[Teego]

A word of warning. We received alot of junk mail after signing up last year. 3 weeks after receiving our trees, we were getting letters from the Arbor foundation
asking to join (We had just joined 1 month earlier) and then a slew of other charitable letters started to arrive. Mostly hippy save the earth types (save the wounded ducks, yaks etc etc)

We had 1 sapling survive, the maple.

 

[Basilisk]

The organization is worthwhile, but... the trees aren't even "sapplings" in my opinion : they're somewhere between stripplings and twigs. I don't know that any of my friend's survived, and she's a real green thumb. YMMV.

 

[gsellis]

If you have a choice, don't get the Silver maple. The only tree more evil is a Bradford pear.

 

[dds14u]

Originally posted by: gsellis
If you have a choice, don't get the Silver maple. The only tree more evil is a Bradford pear.

What's wrong with those trees? (I don't know anything about trees).

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: dds14u

Originally posted by: gsellis
If you have a choice, don't get the Silver maple. The only tree more evil is a Bradford pear.

What's wrong with those trees? (I don't know anything about trees).

They are very prone to breaking (grows very fast with weak wood). They also spread seeds everywhere (although the seeds are one of the best flying maple seeds - free toy helicopters for 8 year olds.)

 

[alm4rr]

made changes

 

[gsellis]

Just a note, it does say on the webpage that they are 6-12" in size. That would be 1 year old seedlings in most cases.

 

[MoboMojo]

Originally posted by: gsellis

Originally posted by: dds14u

Originally posted by: gsellis
If you have a choice, don't get the Silver maple. The only tree more evil is a Bradford pear.

What's wrong with those trees? (I don't know anything about trees).

They are very prone to breaking (grows very fast with weak wood). They also spread seeds everywhere (although the seeds are one of the best flying maple seeds - free toy helicopters for 8 year olds.)

And don't forget about their invasive surface roots.:disgust:

 

[kamranziadar]

Thanx, great free is free

 

[Lalakai]

yep, seedlings. and don't rush them lol. in fact, you'll actually want the seedlings to be shipped after they've gone dormant for the year; that really helps them survive the shipping and transplanting process. Use the time now to get the sites prepped. and if you feel inclined to add fertilizer, go very very light..........or use compost (best choice).

 

[Calagari]

Originally posted by: Gast

Originally posted by: Calagari
Could you tell me how tall these saplings were when you received them?

RTFA!!

Your 10 free trees are guaranteed to grow, or the Foundation will replace them free of charge. Your six to twelve inch trees will come postpaid (Free shipping) with easy planting instructions.

If you wish, you can choose to have the 10 free trees sent to another address, such as your place of worship. You may also choose to receive the membership without the trees. You will still enjoy all of the great benefits of becoming a National Arbor Day Foundation member.

You can also choose other trees besides the ones listed.

I read the ad and saw the size differences offered. That is why I asked specifically what size the poster received. WTF is wrong with that? I wanted to know if he received 6 inch tress or 12 inch trees.

 

[daveshel]

Has anybody got their trees? I ordered Oct. 13 and have not got mine.

 

[fastcuda]

I ordered the free one last year and it came deader than a doornail, poor tree, and what a waste of a tree to pack it.

 

[Ulfwald]

heck, free is free. plus as fast as developers cut down trees around our house, I would love to plant some more.

 

[shoRunner]

its not really free...its $10