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What is a trash tree?
Hello,
I have heard and read the expression "trash tree", but I don't know what it means. If some trees are going to be offensive to my neighbors, I want to know before I plant it! (And it's not as simple as just asking my neighbors before buying. Lots of people don't know, for example, what a blackgum, buckeye, or Euonymus is.) So, (1) What does the expression "trash tree" mean? (2) How/where do I find out, before buying and planting, whether species XYZ is a trash tree? Thank you very much! Ted Shoemaker |
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"trash trees" are trees that have short life spans, grow very fast, and have
weak wood. You could also use the trem to decribe trees that drop a large amount of nasty fruit, large leaves, branches and the like. I dont know what area you are in, but here in the midwest, trees like poplar, willow, silver maple, sycamore, and paulownia fit this description. Toad |
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"Marley1372" wrote in message ... "trash trees" are trees that have short life spans, grow very fast, and have weak wood. You could also use the trem to decribe trees that drop a large amount of nasty fruit, large leaves, branches and the like. I dont know what area you are in, but here in the midwest, trees like poplar, willow, silver maple, sycamore, and paulownia fit this description. Toad Sycamores don't drop stuff. They throw it, and sometimes with alarming accuracy. :-) |
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Usually your county extension office can send you a list of trees NOT
recommended for your area (particularly for street trees). That list will include most trees that are "trashy" in your area. In the northeast, Norway maples are trashy - where I live they are behave relatively decently. Silver maples are on nearly everyone's list, because of their propensity to drop enormous limbs without warning - hence sometimes called widow-maker trees. Cottonwoods and other poplars have similar behavior. Other trash trees are in the eye of the beholder. No one who has ever stepped on a horse chestnut (buckeye), a sweetgum ball, or a sycamore ball with a barefoot would ever deliberately plant one in his yard. However, the fruit is not quite reason enough to cut down what might otherwise be a gorgeous healthy tree. I imagine that some people in the midwest have similar sentiments about osage orange. And catalpas, while gorgeous in flower, can also drop limbs occasionally, and for sure lots of big pods which don't go away by themselves... "Ted Shoemaker" wrote in message om... Hello, I have heard and read the expression "trash tree", but I don't know what it means. If some trees are going to be offensive to my neighbors, I want to know before I plant it! (And it's not as simple as just asking my neighbors before buying. Lots of people don't know, for example, what a blackgum, buckeye, or Euonymus is.) So, (1) What does the expression "trash tree" mean? (2) How/where do I find out, before buying and planting, whether species XYZ is a trash tree? Thank you very much! Ted Shoemaker |
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Here is a good site for checking out particulars on trees. http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/trees/index.htm Newt
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Newt wrote in message ...
Here is a good site for checking out particulars on trees. http://tinyurl.com/4s4f7 That is a very useful site. Thank you. Ted Shoemaker |
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You're very welcome. I use it all the time. Newt
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When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. |
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