Cotton wood Trees

[OK Corgi Rancher]

Red cedars are an invasive species, and not good for the micro environments they invade, plus they're horrible allergen generators, so they're fair game.

If they're good people repellent, I'm all for 'em.

 

[XYZ]

Can we add Bradford Pear to the tree apocalypse too?

 

[dennishoddy]

Can we add Bradford Pear to the tree apocalypse too?

Those invasive species are marked for elimination by more than one state.

 

[SoonerP226]

I have a wall of cedar on the back fence

Oh, one match will solve that problem rather spectacularly.

 

[SoonerP226]

If they're good people repellent, I'm all for 'em.

You haven't seen what happens when a grass fire hits one.

FOOM!

 

[dennishoddy]

You have t seen what happens when a grass fire hits one.

FOOM!

I threw a couple 20 foot tall eastern cedars on my burn pile last year when lighting it off. Thought the paint was going to come off the tractor and my skin melt before getting away from it. Only lasted a couple of seconds but it was one hot fire.

 

[DDriller]

My wife is so allergic to cottonwood her eyes swell and the lining sheds. I hate the things to trying to keep every thing cotton free.

 

[turkeyrun]

Hate those red cedars. Cottonwood don't bother me. Elms, on the hand, are terrible. Bradford pear are a fast growing shade tree, but very prone to wind breakage.

I would be content with only pecan trees.

 

[SoonerP226]

I would be content with only pecan trees.

When I was working in Mississippi a few years ago I ran across an old-growth pecan farm. I don’t know how old those trees were, but they were the biggest pecans trees I’ve ever seen; the only one I’ve seen near that big was, IIRC, declared a Witness Tree back when they were designating trees in Oklahoma that had been alive since before statehood.

It was somewhere in the north half of Mississippi, not far from the Mississippi River. It’s probably a pain to maintain, but it was a beautiful orchard with giant trees all in amazingly straight rows. It put the pecan place in San Saba to shame, and that’s a really nice place.

 

[SoonerP226]

Elms, on the hand, are terrible.

Elms are really bad if they’re next to your house (over time they’ll defeat both your sewer pipes and foundation), and they’re really hard to pull if they’re more than a few hours old. When I was a kid we had one that got started in the flower bed outside my bedroom window; it was no bigger around than a quarter of an inch, but we couldn’t pull that sucker out with a tractor. My dad and I stripped all the branches and bark off of it more than once, and I think he even got mad a cut it off at ground level once, but it was still there when my folks sold the place.

I swear we heard yelling in Chinese when we tried to pull that son of a gun. Those suckers send down deep roots.