On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:43:09 GMT, "Texensis"
wrote:

"ratSenoL" wrote in message
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| Thanks for the responses; although somewhat pretty, it doesn't sound
| like something I want in my landscape.

We had one, two stories tall, that had to be taken down, here before
we were. They do invade the creekbeds and crowd out the native
understory, but the berries produced by our specimen did attract the
most beautiful flocks of cedar waxwings twice a year.

One of the first things I did when we moved here was to chop down the
huge ligustrums shading out what was then a very young possumhaw. The
possumhaw is now 12' or so, and set a good crop of berries this year.
Its a good example of how ligustrum may not be offering more food for
birds, just displacing previously available wild food sources that
local and migratory bird species have adapted to and depend on.

On the eastern corner we have a near monoculture of small ligustrums,
where nothing like a new possumhaw would ever have a chance. I'm
cutting and pulling as fast as I can. :-)