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To: Red_Devil 232

Anyone with experience with

Catalpa trees
lead trees (mimosa)
black locust
or seaberry (buckthorn)

please relate. Thanks.

4 posted on 11/11/2011 5:11:45 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)

Are you planning to raise Catalpa worms?

6 posted on 11/11/2011 5:30:20 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)

Catalpas - they grow up north, my parents planted one 30 years ago and it is maintenance free. Not trashy other than the seed pods that are easily chopped with the mower. Don’t seem to be invasive. Bees love the flowers.

Mimosa - can’t grow them here but they are my favorite tree. Loved them at my aunt’s house in Alabama when I was a kid, don’t know much about growing them. Love the blooms. Hear they are invasive. Supposed to be highly nutritious fruits that have an orange flavor.

Black locust - if they’re like any other locust, maintenance free and good burning wood. Not trashy, puts off seed pods that are highly poisonous I believe.

Seaberry - takes two to pollinate, male and female so get both. Gets 6 to 8 feet in height. Maintenance free, we haven’t gotten any off ours yet because or male died and we just replanted it last year.

22 posted on 11/11/2011 8:56:41 AM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)

I’ve got everything but the seaberry. Do you need to know anything in particular?

34 posted on 11/11/2011 5:57:30 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)

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