apracticalman
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might be rose of sharon.
Depends on how they are pruned early on, they can be cut back enough to produce leaves similar in size to a Catalpa but I don't believe they will do it on their own.
After looking at the close up pic I may have called those wrong, the leaves do look to small be Empress tree's unless that's typical of their growth in that climate. Here in the Midwest near the Great Lakes region they grow unbelievably fast year two and naturally have a much larger leaf than that picture shows.
Far as them being invasive, I have planted them before and it's been my experience that they simply just outperform most everything else, not to the extent that they just reproduce all the over the place and become a problem. For landscape use I think they are a good choice, you certainly wouldn't want them for your wood lot.
If you are far enough south to grow magnolia then some of the evergreen oaks (willow, peach, etc) might be up for consideration. They grow pretty darn fast in S Mississippi, no blooms but color all yr round. Mimosa grow fast, pretty but messy and wood is harder than I realized. Never burnt any. Sunlight and soil moisture/type is really going to dictate what does best. Might want to talk to your local extension agent or forester.
Call that BBQ joint up and ask em!
Maybe if storm upgraded from that 1 megapixel camera she was using, we could get some nice detailed pics
From what I could gather, the firewood is only so-so. Not enough to really get the house warm, but I don't think you would be freezing either. The stinky tree you might be thinking of is what I think is called Tree of Heaven. Never cut one myself, but apparently others have and say it smells like cat piss.
Not Magnolia. Not Paulownia.
Crabapple or apple is the best guess so far.
i wouldnt worry about good firewood for planting beds...dogwoods make great planting bed trees as well as firewood but who would cut down something like that in well established landscaping. btw i have 3 locust trees in a large bed in my backyard, they send up suckers that you have to pull out but its not much more maintnence than the normal weedeing and pruning/mulching. they have nice fragrant flowers that you can smell from the deck 140' away
might be rose of sharon.
That's what I keep hearing, but then I heard the same for the Mimosa. Going south I did notice quite a few of them, but locally I have only seen two. So maybe it is an environmental thing.Don't plant a paulownia, you'll regret it the rest of your days.
It looks like my Rose of Sharon hedge I have along my fence line in the back. They are kind of wild a$$ growing things too; they always pop up in the yard and I rip them out where I do not want them.
I know next door my neighbor has a 30' Rose of Sharon tree that looks a lot like that; mine are only about 8-10' high though.
I did look and have kept on looking and it does seem to be as you said. For grins since the bloom looks like Foxglove, I put Foxglove Tree in the search engine and though the majority of the pictures I found were the Empress Tree the trunks and leaves didn't match. There was one though that the trees shape including it's trunk did match. So it is possible that there are other variations of the same tree "foxglove tree (Paulownia tomentosa)"
Random Bloggages: Foxglove Tree
I do plan on putting in at least one willow and possibly an apple tree or two. (to lure the deer onto the property so I can shoot em ) There was a couple of peach trees here, but they weren't doing well at all, so I cut em out. I also put in 4 Mimosa late in the season last year since I have seen a couple in the area. I won't know for a bit yet if they survived the winter.
If you are far enough south to grow magnolia then some of the evergreen oaks (willow, peach, etc) might be up for consideration. They grow pretty darn fast in S Mississippi, no blooms but color all yr round. Mimosa grow fast, pretty but messy and wood is harder than I realized. Never burnt any. Sunlight and soil moisture/type is really going to dictate what does best. Might want to talk to your local extension agent or forester.
You are 100% right on the Mimosa tree. I had one sprout out of nowhere and in 2 years its taller than house and about 6 to 8 inches at base.Mimosa like wet areas.
I also have crab apple trees and I cant stand them. They do bloom nice pretty flowers but you have to deal with all the little apples that fall. Very messy tree.
I think deer love persimmons above all things(well, maybe pecans)! Buddy planted 100 on his 60 acre deerhunting property. Probably very fine firewood also, hard as a brick.
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