The I hate "insert tree" thread
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I'm with you...
Had two in the backyard when we bought our house, they were gone after the first time they dropped their prickly little balls...
Saddler
Chumono
Balsam Poplar
Populus balsamifera ssp. balsamifera
Drops enough sticky residue you have to peel your windshield wipers off with your now sticky hands. The pollen can get so thick it becomes difficult to breath without coughing. There is no commercial use for it. When you burn it, it doesn’t burn hot and it leaves a lot of ash. You don’t want to cook over it. They love to hide widowmakers, dead half rotten branches that fall with the littles disturbance or just because you are near. I’ve had two very close calls, one broke small branches on me as it fell with the 25 cm thick branch land less the then two meters from me. You can’t use any dead wood for a bush fire because it is always rotten. So yea, I’m not a fan.
Populus balsamifera ssp. balsamifera
Drops enough sticky residue you have to peel your windshield wipers off with your now sticky hands. The pollen can get so thick it becomes difficult to breath without coughing. There is no commercial use for it. When you burn it, it doesn’t burn hot and it leaves a lot of ash. You don’t want to cook over it. They love to hide widowmakers, dead half rotten branches that fall with the littles disturbance or just because you are near. I’ve had two very close calls, one broke small branches on me as it fell with the 25 cm thick branch land less the then two meters from me. You can’t use any dead wood for a bush fire because it is always rotten. So yea, I’m not a fan.
It's Kev
Omono
Money trees. They’re ugly as hell, yet every single household and business establishment has them. It is also the only thing you can buy in any nursery out here. I love trees, but this is the only thing I’ll burn if it comes into my house
skyrat
Sapling
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Oh man, Bradford Pears are the worst. Aside from their weak branch structure and smelling horrible, they cross-breed and spread like wildfire. And they bloom earlier than the native trees so they crowd out the other understory trees and wipe out native ecosystems. They are a disater for the balance of the environment. You can see whole fields completely choked with them along the highways where I live. I don't just dislike them, I find them upsetting.
amcoffeegirl
Masterpiece
Fukien tea-carmona retusa
Can't keep them happy to save my life.
I can bring them back from the dead only to kill them off a few months later.
Throw the whole species away.
Can't keep them happy to save my life.
I can bring them back from the dead only to kill them off a few months later.
Throw the whole species away.
Clicio
Masterpiece
just.wing.it
Deadwood Head
Dang, @Lazylightningny and @Wires_Guy_wires !
Awe, jeez...
Hating on my favorite one man!...
Taxus are AWESOME!
LOL! ?
As for my shitlist...I think the top spot has to go to Picea Abies....for no other reason than I can't even look at them without them committing suicide....
Awe, jeez...
Hating on my favorite one man!...
Taxus are AWESOME!
LOL! ?
As for my shitlist...I think the top spot has to go to Picea Abies....for no other reason than I can't even look at them without them committing suicide....
Wires_Guy_wires
Imperial Masterpiece
@just.wing.it no offense towards you, but taxus are creatures from the depths of hell and should be treated as such. The myths, the folklore and the traditions surrounding taxus are drenched in death and decay.
Those things are satanic to say the least.
I like myself some good death metal anytime. But not embodied in a plant with the corpse paint to show for it.
If you're a fan of intelligent design, I think this is how it played out: "Let me make a tree that rots from the core outwards, make it toxic, make its leaves look like a spruce.. but in 2D! Give it satanic looking protrusions and it's wood colored like mixed molten crayons, hard enough to break expensive tools, oh and sticky berries! But instead of the berries being round, I want them to be suction cup-shaped, and toxic as well, but in a delicious appetizing color. People shouldn't fuck with me and i want the taxus to be an example. Make it look permantently sad. And every story that incorporates these trees will have like, super evil things happening."
Those things are satanic to say the least.
I like myself some good death metal anytime. But not embodied in a plant with the corpse paint to show for it.
If you're a fan of intelligent design, I think this is how it played out: "Let me make a tree that rots from the core outwards, make it toxic, make its leaves look like a spruce.. but in 2D! Give it satanic looking protrusions and it's wood colored like mixed molten crayons, hard enough to break expensive tools, oh and sticky berries! But instead of the berries being round, I want them to be suction cup-shaped, and toxic as well, but in a delicious appetizing color. People shouldn't fuck with me and i want the taxus to be an example. Make it look permantently sad. And every story that incorporates these trees will have like, super evil things happening."
just.wing.it
Deadwood Head
Lol!, great summary!
Yeah I'm aware of some lore from the small island nation of England, regarding the hedgerows and the witches and churches...
Maybe it was meant to be, for me...
I've always been sort of intrigued with death and what may be waiting for our souls on the other side....its certainly a topic that I think of often.
I'll list the pros:
-hardy as hell
-sun or shade
-strong dead wood (rivals juniper, imho)
-beautiful red bark, contrasts well with dead wood and foliage
-beautiful neon green spring shoots, contrast well with mature hardened foliage
-foliage growing upright is "3D florets" and horizontal foliage is "2D flat"
-disease and pest free, largely
-male plants (which I have) have wierd flowers and no berries
-most of all, I think they like me...I have great success with them so far.
Wires_Guy_wires
Imperial Masterpiece
I have one too, got is as a gift. This "Pine" is indestructable. Dried multiple times, unrooted, dug from its pot, drowned, scourched by the sun.. It just does not give up. It doesnt care. It's satanic.
Lazylightningny
Masterpiece
He said prickly little balls. Hehe hehe.
Lazylightningny
Masterpiece
I've had bad luck with picea so far, but I have 2 that I just bare rooted and they seem to be doing well. I love the way they look, but have not done well with them so far. New tactics, new results.
just.wing.it
Deadwood Head
I'll try that!
Thanks!
The 4 or 5 that I've killed never got to the root work...they died in their nursery soil.
Lazylightningny
Masterpiece
That was also my problem. After a thread with @Osoyoung, I'm experimenting with bare rooting a variety of plants.
milehigh_7
Mister 500,000
I HATE Oleander! I am not super fond of Schefflera.
cbroad
Omono
I hate Birches, Weeping Willow, and Magnolia grandiflora...
All are beautiful trees from a distance, but I hate constantly cleaning up after these trees; talk about trash trees.
After raking up all of the fallen debris, come back an hour later and you have to clean up again. Literally endless time spent picking up the huge magnolia leaves, and fucking birch twigs and 6' willow branches.
Guaranteed, at least every other house in Richmond has either a birch or magnolia
All are beautiful trees from a distance, but I hate constantly cleaning up after these trees; talk about trash trees.
After raking up all of the fallen debris, come back an hour later and you have to clean up again. Literally endless time spent picking up the huge magnolia leaves, and fucking birch twigs and 6' willow branches.
Guaranteed, at least every other house in Richmond has either a birch or magnolia
just.wing.it
Deadwood Head
I've had great luck fully bare rooting many of my trees, and I am an advocate of getting the nursery cheap out asap.
Think leaving them in nursery soil is contributing to my terrible success rate with overwintering trees?
I usually think I'm one of the youngest forum members, and then I see stuff like this...