Tulip Tree

Fred talks about the Tulip Tree and other fast growers

Episode Transcript

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I've been going over a list oftwelve fast growing shade trees, and Fred's

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been giving his thumbs up or thumbsdown on that kind of the Cisco and
Ebert this morning. But Fred,another one on the list was the tulip
tree. Yes or no, Yes, but with caution. It is a
very large tree. It does havea few insect problems that are not killers
for the tree. They just canbe a nuisance from time to time.

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I have seen them at ninety feettall, not a single branch for the
first thirty five feet, because it'sjust the way they grow. If you
have a large site and you needtall background to break wind, whatever the
case may be, tulip tree wouldbe okay. It grows quite well in
most of our soils, as straightas a die. Usually had just a

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single center trunk and up that goes. But I wouldn't put it close to
the house. It just gets toodarned big for that matter in most of
our considerations as property size is concerned, So mostly okay, as the tree
is concerned, I'd just be carefulwhere I sight it. Hm. Okay,
now this next one, I knowwhat you're going to say here because

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I've remember what you said. Overthe years the weeping willow, well mark,
I know of only one in acalled a normal landscape site that was
ever going to pass grade with me. It was on a promontory in a
little well, not a little,but a pond. It had stood there,
looking beautiful all by itself. Itwas graceful in growth. I happened

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to be there on an early springday, very early spring day, where
the tissue and the stems was turninglight green against the dark denuded forest behind
it. It was spectacular. That'sone in sixty years. Yeah, okay.
Now, I did also work ona couple of we'll call it agricultural
sites where there was a big pondand away from the house and saw on

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and they grew fine. They didhelp hold the soil in one case.
So there are limited uses for it. But by and large and well,
as a matter of fact, inmost municipalities it's illegal. Yeah. They
will if they find it, theywill tell you to take it out,
or they'll take it out for youand till you for having done so,
and find you for having the plantin the first place. So be cautious

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with it. So our final,our final recommendation on the list was the
hybrid poplar. What do you thinkabout the poplar? Well, the poplars
don't excite me. In I'm goingto call it a normal landscape situation.
The hybrid, well, there areseveral hybrid types, so it's a little
bit difficult to answer. But theygo in, they grow fast and furious,

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they do a job. And I'mgoing to say from the tenth here
on, it's which one are yougoing to take out? Because it's looking
sippuny. If you've made a windbreakout of them, it's going to look
like a saw toothed dog. Itis just never going to be one that
I would use in what i'll callthe landscape setting now out in agricultural land,

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big wind area, you want tostop this wind from carrying top soil
away. It's a consideration, butyou want to buy a good chainsaw at
the same time you buy the tree, because you're going to be ending up
cutting them down.