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Clemson was giving away free native trees at the local park last week, provided you could show a picture of a Bradford you cut down. You can really see how they've spread this time of year when they are in full bloom.
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Out west we have one called Wisteria that people plant. The stuff is a really aggressive woody vine that takes over an area such as a big leaf maple grove. It will kill the maples yet they are still allowed to sell it. On the other hand the butterfly bush has been regulated and only allowed to be sold in a seedless variety to keep it from taking over meadows and such. Wisteria is all over the place down here too.
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Got 4 of them that are getting cut down. I was going to try to make wine out of the fruit, but now all the trees have a fungal infection that ruins the fruit. Fruit? Are you kidding? We got 'em all over the place here in the Blue Ridge Mountains, I drove in to town today and I saw over 300 blooming Bradfords. Having read some of the complaints on here, I stopped to smell a Bradford Pear. Good Lord does it stink! Smells like rotten fish. That's weird because the flowers are pretty.
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Stupid fuggin City Arborists them and the Hackberry.
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Clemson was giving away free native trees at the local park last week, provided you could show a picture of a Bradford you cut down. You can really see how they've spread this time of year when they are in full bloom. Yep, they are blooming everywhere.
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Well they are certainly invasive, and break easily in heavy winds, but they also produce a lot of food that wildlife, mostly birds, use leading naturally to their incredible spread from seeds in bird droppings. At this point, cutting down a few here and there probably won’t do much to control them. Fallow farmland around here is chock-full of them. A major hack-n-spray would be needed to clear them out.
I have a huge one in my front yard. It was damaged severely during the derecho we had some years back, but I pruned it up and thinned the canopy and it’s recovered to where the damage is hard to see now. Can’t imagine what it would cost to remove as the trunk is at least 24” in diameter near the base, and it’s over 40’ tall. The neighbors’ trees get hit hard in heavy winds, but this monster hasn’t been damaged since the derecho.
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Stupid fuggin City Arborists them and the Hackberry. The hackberry is native, but you can blame the USDA, with an assist from Lady Bird Johnson for pushing the Bradford pear.
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