Weeping Willows are trash trees.
On a side note, in a few more years, they won’t be an Ash tree left in the state of Indiana due to the Emerald Ash Borer.
I’d like to know how and why they got here from NE Asia.
Chinese pallets.
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Someone has probably researched that!
I understand they got here by shipping containers.
The same way all the other invasive foreign insects got here.
Didn’t they get here in furniture or shipping crates?
Shipping containers usually. They bring in lots of tainted/contaminated and other nasties in with them. Then they put them on trucks to all points..
Michigan's already been hit. It was bound to happen sooner or later since a great many communities planted Ash trees exclusively due to their attractiveness.
When the epidemic was in full swing here in S.E. Michigan, most of the trees in the boulevards along my route to work were ash as were giant ones in the yards of homes. They were all dead........