There appears to be no trees that I dislike. Now Squirrels and raccoons I hate.
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Get an Australian finger lime then haha likely that will be the one
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I would have one if they were always in 30-40 dollar range for a tiny little plant (citrus always cost more here because they have to be individuslly inspected before being sold). They are thorny monsters though, and probably stay compact and bushy. I got tagged by one at Lowes once walking through the aisles. Not fun.
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Lapins cherry… and EU Plum Mt Royal.
Both planted in 2018.
NO FRUIT YET !!!
That is the only reason I hate on them… once they start fruiting we will be best friends.
TNHunter
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Love the trees bro 
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Mulberries. Noxious weeds. Kill them on sight.
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arborvitae
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I am in a constant war with common buckthorn but am winning
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Me right now it is wild plum. Messy, trashy, heavy suckering scrub tree, thorny spurs, very inconsistent sour fruit, and it’s what I’ve been cutting at.
It’s not all bad when you can get fruit to make jelly, but that is uncommon due to late frosts, especially the patch I’m working at. Never seen fruit on anything for the last 5 years in this patch. In a rocky area that can’t be swathed and isn’t burnt, so replacing with fruit trees.
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Buckthorn and ironwood (American hop hornbeam)
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Eastern Redcedar / Juniper. It’s an allergen, host to cedar apple rust and bagworm. The wood is useful and it’s our only native evergreen, but I hate having to spray for CAR during full apple bloom.
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At least pear has lovely wood that, while a bit brittle, is great timber and firewood.
Sweetgum is pure trash. It’s such a con too, fast growing, disease free, huge trees with massive, straight boles, grows happily in swamps or on dry hilltops… And utterly useless.
As a bonus, it can form clonal colonies. Yay.
Another one that’s underrated for its wood. It’s a fairly close relative of mahogany, and the wood is very pretty with some wild coloration. It’s also fairly rot resistant once dry and extremely stable, the stuff just doesn’t move one it’s dry. The trees unfortunately don’t get especially big and are usually crooked.
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More like shrubs, but I hate Tatarian Honeysuckle and Russian Olive.
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You just have to catch the market right for sweet gum. Last year or maybe year before dad was getting more for the sweet gum than pine being cut off his place.
That said, it’s a fickle market. They stopped logging it altogether when the price fell.
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Holly and English Laurel — very weedy over here in the PNW.
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Pulp and fiber I assume?
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Railroad ties are the big driver for sweet gum in our area
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Buckthorn is very invasive here. Deer and birds love it. People don’t.
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Russian olive definitely deserves a spot. Sends runners everywhere and near impossible to get rid of. I got rid of 1 and fighting a second slowly, they spread to the vacant lot beside us though.
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When I saw my first pods of the sweetgum tree I thought it reminded me visually of the covid spike protein. With the concept of foods looking like the part of the body it treats, I was curious and looked it up. It turns out that “Sweetgum pods contain shikimic acid, which is used in the production of Tamiflu. Some herbalists make teas or tinctures from the pods to help with flu prevention and immune support.”
I don’t believe any plant is useless, and if it’s designed to be hard to kill there’s probably a good reason for that. How lovely that a tree that potentially aids in our healing is so persistent.
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