Dav4
Drop Branch Murphy
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- USDA Zone
- 6a
I found this tulip poplar leaf in my backyard while putting some smaller trees away this afternoon, and that’s a size 12 sneaker next to it. I’ve got a love/hate relationship with the species… Magnificent, fast growing and extremely large once mature, so perfect for a large area, but weak wooded and extremely messy, with seeds and leaves clogging gutters and getting tracked through the house for 4 months starting in the late summer. every year, I’ve got to pull out or chop down scores of volunteers in my yard, that if left unchecked, will be 30 feet tall in less than four years. Anyway, I do not have a tulip poplar in my bonsai collection and never... ever... will.