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| Couldn't find my old post so I thought it was time for a new one.
I just can't imagine the use for this fellow but at the very least I saw some decent fall color this year before ripping it out. If you need something bright and different for a wild area it is your plant maybe? If suckers creep you out, and I have no idea why suckers bother me so while small redbuds all over creation just humor me, but if suckers bother you this is not your plant. Individual stems of sumac do not seem to be as important as the root system either and when one dies you will get that sucker. As a suckering plant I found it difficult to garden around as herbicides can not be applied for fear of killing it. But anyways, a whole stream bank filled with this fella sure would get attention. Perhaps instead of grass around a majestic old purple beech?
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| Too yellow for a wild area. Pink fall color is great. |
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- Posted by wisconsitom 4/5 WI (My Page) on Sat, Oct 27, 12 at 17:31
| While I get what BB just said there, I disagree that the inclusion of a cultivar is always and in every case wrong for a naturalistic planting. There's all degrees of this, from those of the purist, including only native species from within 50 miles of the planting on through situations where the designer is after some effect that a cultivar will provide, ad infinitum. And after all, all of these variations in color, etc. originally came from "nature". I like sumac in appropriate situations, precisely those in which its colonial growth habit will work. And this is almost never a home garden. But that's a great plant in my book. +oM |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Sat, Oct 27, 12 at 18:38
| its a shrub.. isnt it??? i dont care where you post.. but you are confusing me... ken |
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- Posted by Dzitmoidonc 6 (My Page) on Sat, Oct 27, 12 at 22:34
| I have one clump, and I like it because, well because, well, I just like Sumac. The summer color is ok if you like yellow (the rachis is red). Mine doesn't sucker all that much (3 so far in about 6 years), and the fall red (though fleeting) is dependable. I makes a nice 3 day blaze of orange and red. This is last year's pic. I wasn't here this year when the leaves turned. The plant at the bottom is Monarda, a mint. Since I have grown it as a companion, I have not had any bucks rub it. Grown at the edge of a 'naturalized' area.
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