Ah I gotcha, makes sense. I knew what you were doing but thought you were correcting the original quote and accidentally didn’t fully correct it. Sorry misunderstood
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Biggest disappointment so far for me has been the Royal Crimson cherry tree. And I still haven’t heard of anyone who loves this tree. It barely grows (could be at least in part due to the dwarfing rootstock), leaks sap, looks terrible, doesn’t set fruit, and doesn’t overlap in bloom much with royal lee, which I was hoping it would pollinate. It’s supposedly self-fertile but hasn’t set fruit. The tree is five years old, I will give it one more season.
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I had a giant red oak in my yard that was threatening my fruit trees and arbor and was only somewhat threatening the electrical lines. The local electrical company came by doing their annual tree trimming with their heavy equipment. I asked the fellow that seemed to be in charge if they would cut the tree down for me. At first, he declined but then his supervisor came by and agreed if all they had to do was cut the tree down. All I had to do was clean it up by burning the trunk after it was down. So, they had their super expensive crane with the blade and cut the top branches out and then a guy with a long chainsaw cut the trunk down. I’m sure that if I had hired a tree service company to do this it would have cost me over a thousand. The electrical company cut the giant oak tree down for free!
I admit that I got lucky, but you would never know until you ask. I don’t know if this is an option in your case, but I thought that I would mention it.
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Paulownia (Empress Tree) ìs a true trash tree. This invasive from eastern Asia grows prolifically here in the southern Appalachians and is multi-year project to get rid of since it suckers aggressively after being cut down. Not only does it sucker at the stump, but also for many feet away. These suckers can grow easily 10+ feet in a season.
I am on year 4 trying to get rid of this menace from the ones I cut down on my property. During the summer it is like a whack-a-mole as I go around spraying the suckers with glyphosate - and - they still come back!
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Seems like we get so many invasive trees here from Asia, it makes me wonder if there are any invasive plants from our continents that Asian gardeners complain about.
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I think Australia’s black wattle tree is an example of an invasive species in china. Not sure about the ones from the states or Europe though
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Black locust gets fairly invasive in China as well.
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Besides the non bearing tree,I mentioned earlier,there is/was another.A Hawthorn,that was growing near a narrow walkway.
When moving past,the thing’s spikes got me.I tried cutting it down twice,but suckers grew out of the stump,about eight feet in a season.
Then after finding out about Triclopyr,the misery may be over.It was applied last Spring,to freshly cut wood and then a black plastic bag put over the area,which is yet to be removed.
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We recently had a large red oak tree cut that was too near the house, plus had a fork in the main trunk. Two different tree cutter companies told us it would certainly be rotten inside at the fork. When it was cut, it was solid.
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Anymore our Mayhaws/Hawthorn seem prone to Quince and Cedar Apple rusts.
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I lived in Japan for 7 years and was amazed at how many trees and plants I would see that were native to the eastern US. For the most part, these were planted in home gardens or public spaces and seemed to be staying inbounds. Pokeweed was one that i saw growing all over my neighborhood. Sandspurs and other common nuisance weeds were pretty common as well.
In terms of fauna, bullfrogs, racoons, crayfish, snapping turtles, black bass, fire ants, and quite a few other imports were complained about by the locals after being accidentally or intentionally released into the wild and subsequently spreading.
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I know red bellied sliders (turtles) are invasive in Asia due to the pet trade also. When speaking of animals that’s one that comes to mind, they outcompete natives for sure
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try crossbow from southern ag. i find for trees it works alot better than roundup.
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Thanks! I will give it a try this summer when the Paulownia menace returns…
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We mix some diesel with the crossbow, makes it penetrate better.
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Be careful with crossbow, at high temps, it can volatilize and kill non-target plants around where it was sprayed.
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I’m very unhappy that my partner planted several black locust RIGHT UP against the house on the sunny side when he bought the place 20 some years ago
they are thorny, wrecking the foundation and difficult as hell to cut through. just a nightmare dealing with em. plus they shit out runners to make new trees ever time I cut them back! if I wasn’t on top of it there’d be a stand of them taking over and the house would be tilted by now
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Yeah maybe a good idea to get those removed, how close is close to the house?
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I find ironwood trunks so lovely with their muscular twists. Why am i going to regret not clearing them out? And surely they can’t be as bad as sweetgum?
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I believe you’re dealing with American Hornbeam while I’m talking about American Hop hornbeam.
I have both, the former can be an aggressive grower in moist soil but is not invasive on my acreage. I do not go out of my way to fight it. The latter is invasive on drier/lighter soil/glacial till at my place. I’d never be able to get rid of them all and wouldn’t if I could…but I do my best to reduce their numbers in pockets throughout my woods. Without doing so, nothing else will grow in the understory
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