Natural Raft in an industrial park

[just.wing.it]

I think it's some sort of Locust....?
The one with thorns...
I've been admiring this tree for years, from a distance...decided to take a closer look the other day...
It's not too often that I see something like this...

 

[Rusty Davis]

Black locust... I believe. The thorns are in pairs. I started playing with one but it was evicted after the first year. I just wasn't feeling it

 

[just.wing.it]

Black locust... I believe. The thorns are in pairs. I started playing with one but it was evicted after the first year. I just wasn't feeling it

I took some early season cuttings of a Honey Locust (no thorns, smaller and tighter leaves) that is out front, this year...
Doing well so far...we'll see.
I love the bark on them.

 

[Velodog2]

I love the sweet scented flowers of the ones in my yard and their natural tendency for dying back and making elegant jins and sharis. I don't think I've ever seen a natural raft before. Thanks for posting.

 

[Rusty Davis]

I have a hiking trail that has a ton of black locust and some honey/golden locust. If the weather would get a little better I'll go for a walk and see if I can get some good pics. My fat dog needs it anyway

 

[just.wing.it]

Here's the one in my front yard, the largest limb broke off in a storm a few years ago, and fell on my old car, while a friend and I stood there and watched....
It has many new shoots on the trunk now, underneath where it broke off.

 

[Velodog2]

Here are couple in my front yard (along with my butt-head neighbors house).

And some more young ones that came up from roots of a dead one, getting ready to bloom. I love the slanting although I doubt my yard guy does.

There are better ones I look forward to seeing on my drive to and from work.

 

[herzausstahl]

Here are couple in my front yard (along with my butt-head neighbors house).

Sounds like a good time for a fence!

 

[Velodog2]

Sounds like a good time for a fence!

Lol fences aren't allowed. He's actually much easier to deal with than the dickheads behind us. I won't go into it. I hate people. I prefer trees.

 

[Wilson]

Black locust seem to have crazy vigor! I cut a few fairly big ones down in my yard, used some of the trunks as garden borders, one threw out branches and started growing! I was amazed to say the least, a 6' section of trunk sprouting branches.

 

[my nellie]

Have anyone ever tried to digg one of them up?
How do they respond?
I have done so (however I am not quite sure about it being a locust...) last November. It was an offspring shoot from a trees root, with diam. of the trunk at the base 2-3cm.
There were not many roots. But based on the fact that those are kind of invasive trees around here, I thought it would make it. But I was fooled.

 

[CasAH]

Black locust seem to have crazy vigor! I cut a few fairly big ones down in my yard, used some of the trunks as garden borders, one threw out branches and started growing! I was amazed to say the least, a 6' section of trunk sprouting branches.

They have planted thousands of black locust in Africa to slow the Sahara Desert from spreading do to deforestation for firewood. The black locust are used to hold the soil and fix nitrogen for other plants. Their fast growth and ability to resprout also allows for the locals to cut them for firewood with little impact to the planted areas.

 

[cmeg1]

Cool raft! I want to create some elms lime that.

 

[Velodog2]

Here are couple in my front yard (along with my butt-head neighbors house).
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And some more young ones that came up from roots of a dead one, getting ready to bloom. I love the slanting although I doubt my yard guy does. View attachment 143289

There are better ones I look forward to seeing on my drive to and from work.

Glad I snapped this pic when I did as the combined weight of the flowers and heavy rain last night brought the two closest trees down. I knew their lean was precarious and thought about building props for them last year but as usual decided to roll the dice, and lost. May still be able to pull them back up this weekend. That or pull them out. Oh well everything is temporary even bonsai.

 

[cmeg1]

Here is a sycamore raft at White Clay Creek.Looks to have been there awhile from the looks of the roots that had emerged and grew into the earth.Was a fallen tree.
Can see it growing out over the creek.Way cool.
Roots in second picture.

 

[just.wing.it]

Here is a sycamore raft at White Clay Creek.Looks to have been there awhile from the looks of the roots that had emerged and grew into the earth.Was a fallen tree.
Can see it growing out over the creek.Way cool.
Roots in second picture.
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That's a nice one! There is a Tulip Poplar like that nearby, I should go get pics...

 

[Velodog2]

Love that pic of the sycamore roots!

This thread isn't about my stupid Locust trees, but regardless I've made props for them from oak and got them back on their "feet". If it works they will have to be there almost indefinitely. I was going for Japanese garden but probably stopped at ghetto fabulous, as usual. Otherwise they well may end up becoming raft style trees (there, I tied back into the thread topic).