Would you?

[Dav4]

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.

 

[coachspinks]

Nope. I have Tulip Poplars and a sweet gum that shade my deck. Cleaning crap off my deck is a year round chore. All are coming down in the near future.

 

[JoeR]

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.
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The floral anatomy is cool on the tulip trees, and the orange/green color combo is unique and nice. But we just had a massive one cut down from our yard because they're a disaster, branches snap in storms and in general very messy. But they are tough trees and pretty most of the year

 

[JoeR]

We all know this thread was just a flex for the shoe size though

 

[just.wing.it]

I tried....it died.
Liriodendron needs love!

 

[sorce]

Looks like 2 peeps that identify as a leaf.

Sorce

 

[penumbra]

I have a hard time cutting down any healthy tree and I mourn the ones we have lost. A weed species however, I can get rid of, but a weed is not a weed for everyone.

 

[Pitoon]

I got them all over my property. Seedlings growing everywhere.

Here's one that George Washington planted himself as a seedling at Mt Vernon......

 

[MrWunderful]

I have 10+ in a growing bed

 

[Pitoon]

Here's another large one, really impressive to see them in person.....

 

[0soyoung]

I have no reason to hate them other than than leaf is just not right = kill 'em.

I did discover a nice old one here in town. I almost changed my mind about them, but then my shoes were all sticky after walking under it.


Show me a piece of paper and you'll be showing me the only good use for any poplar.

 

[CWTurner]

extremely messy, with seeds and leaves clogging gutters and getting tracked through the house for 4 months

Get yourself a London Plane/Sycamore for comparison sake. About 9 months of messy. They drop leaves throughout the year, bark season sees sheets of bark raining down, then the seed balls disintegrate, and come spring there's a fuzz that clogs better than the leaves or bark.
Both interesting trees though.
CW

 

[Japonicus]

@Dav4 Would you what, kill it/them or attempt bonsai?
This one over 100' tall on my folks property sported a clear trunk to > 30 feet to 1st branch.
I'm positive it would've brought a decent price for lumber before being struck by lightning,
so it was a free lightning rod as well as other closer by trees.
I'm not much a tree hater, but understand 1st handed how soldiers sprouting can ruin a lawn quickly.
For instance, I love Aspen, but they don't belong in the lawn, in the foundation, under the porch, under the house...
so some weed killer fixed that.

 

[Dav4]

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@Dav4 Would you what, kill it/them or attempt bonsai?
This one over 100' tall on my folks property sported a clear trunk to > 30 feet to 1st branch.
I'm positive it would've brought a decent price for lumber before being struck by lightning,
so it was a free lightning rod as well as other closer by trees.
I'm not much a tree hater, but understand 1st handed how soldiers sprouting can ruin a lawn quickly.
For instance, I love Aspen, but they don't belong in the lawn, in the foundation, under the porch, under the house...
so some weed killer fixed that.

I've got a tulip poplar about the same size in the drainage easement next to my property, maybe 30 yards away from my foundation. It's probably the parent tree for 90% of the seeds that fall into my yard. Honestly, I wouldn't cut it down even if I owned the land it resides on. It's a magnificent tree and represents much of what I've loved about trees in general my whole life. I just wouldn't ever... ever... ever... give it's progeny any bench space .

 

[Gabler]

I've never thought of them as messy trees, but then, in my area, the three prevalent species are tulip poplar, sweet gum, and sycamore, and the tulip poplar is the cleanest of the three.

 

[Japonicus]

I've got a tulip poplar about the same size in the drainage easement next to my property, maybe 30 yards away from my foundation. It's probably the parent tree for 90% of the seeds that fall into my yard. Honestly, I wouldn't cut it down even if I owned the land it resides on. It's a magnificent tree and represents much of what I've loved about trees in general my whole life. I just wouldn't ever... ever... ever... give it's progeny any bench space .

Amen to that. However after seeing storm and fire damage over the last couple of years
it makes me rethink my safety zone and possible future property we retire to.

This poplar at my neighbors 2 doors down did SIGNIFICANT damage when a super charged bolt of lightning
hit it last Summer. Another free lightning rod, but not as attractant as Pin Oaks.
As you can see the tree exploded and caused damage to the garage his truck and windows in the house
and created a professional removal fee. Had it not split the trunk like this I would have taken it down for him.
The entire upper 2/3 of the trees mass/weight was resting on the smaller buckled portion of the lower trunk.

I've never thought of them as messy trees, but then, in my area, the three prevalent species are tulip poplar, sweet gum, and sycamore, and the tulip poplar is the cleanest of the three.

I second that. Sycamores are certainly atop the messy tree list in my neighborhood.

 

[hinmo24t]

We all know this thread was just a flex for the shoe size though

i was going to say - congrats on those size 12s

 

[Dav4]

Amen to that. However after seeing storm and fire damage over the last couple of years
it makes me rethink my safety zone and possible future property we retire to.
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This poplar at my neighbors 2 doors down did SIGNIFICANT damage when a super charged bolt of lightning
hit it last Summer. Another free lightning rod, but not as attractant as Pin Oaks.
As you can see the tree exploded and caused damage to the garage his truck and windows in the house
and created a professional removal fee. Had it not split the trunk like this I would have taken it down for him.
The entire upper 2/3 of the trees mass/weight was resting on the smaller buckled portion of the lower trunk.

I second that. Sycamores are certainly atop the messy tree list in my neighborhood.

For what it’s worth, when I bought the house I currently live in 11 years ago, there was a 70 foot tall poplar right next to our deck, along with several slightly smaller ones all within 20 or 30 yards… They have all been cut down at this point, and I won’t let any ones get close to mature size within that 30 yard radius if they’re on my property.

 

[Dav4]

i was going to say - congrats on those size 12s

Remember, it’s not the size of the shoe that matters, but what you put in it…

 

[hinmo24t]

Remember, it’s not the size of the shoe that matters, but what you put in it…

thank god lol