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| Anyone growing Cladrastis kentukea in an exposed location in zone 5?
I have a 3' plant that I grew as a 5" plug and debating whether I can grow it as an exposed lawn tree. Situated on a slope so it won't be protected. I've read that it likes moist fertile soils to maintain a dense canopy (thin in dry, limestone locations) and has issues with sunscald and winter winds. Curious what your experience has been? |
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| Here in my town they planted a lot of Cladrastis as street trees. They look a little rough this year, but with the drought and heatwave we had that's not unusual. Last year they looked just fine. I think you will enjoy them, they are great trees. |
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| Thanks for the feedback! Do the canopies look mostly full and rounded? No sunscald? The ones at Chicago Botanic gardens have very thin branching/canopies and they are extremely tall...50' at least. The extreme few I've seen in nurseries around here are extremely slow growing but mostly heavily branched. |
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- Posted by strobiculate none (My Page) on Mon, Aug 27, 12 at 8:21
| I have about a dozen. A behemoth planted in the late forties, fifty feet tall, and wider than that. Every so often I germinate a few seedlings. Some get given away, some I trash for whatever reason...but a few perish each summer, victims of the heat. The ones that survive...no complaints about canopy density, issues regarding scorch...biggest complaint is a few bad crotches high enough i'm not gonna even try. |
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| They are fine in complete sun here, so don't think you would have much of a problem after a couple years. They will look ratty and drop leaves in drought, but then come back the next year like nothing happened. There are a good number of them in landscape islands of the local Sam's Club that have done well. I'm sure they are drip watered, but even then with the last two summers surrounded, by asphalt, fully exposed...... not bad at all. Arktrees |
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| All, thanks for the info. I should have been more specific and said winter sunscald. I'm just going to roll the dice and see how it goes. Which do you think is more drought tolerant, Yellowwood or Bald Cypress? One spot is at a 15' higher elevation and is subject to more runoff and the other spot gets alot of runoff but its still on a slope so it never ever gets waterlogged. |
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| All, thanks for the info. I should have been more specific and said winter sunscald. I'm just going to roll the dice and see how it goes. Which do you think is more drought tolerant, Yellowwood or Bald Cypress? One spot is at a 15' higher elevation and is subject to more runoff and the other spot gets alot of runoff but its still on a slope so it never ever gets waterlogged. |
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