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    Quote Originally Posted by Ludwig View Post
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    From the looks of it, it hardly had a root system.

    I have a volunteer hackberry in my yard which is just 20 years old and shades the house quite well. Fruit trees are good for fruit but are generally poor shade trees since we tend to keep them short for an easier harvest. If you want a producer and shade, you can't go wrong with a Pecan. I plan to experiment with Chestnut trees this spring... I have 18 Chestnuts wintering in my reefer right now... they are of the inedible "Horse Chestnut" variety, smuggled in from the Chech Republic this fall.
    they've successfully started growing American Chestnuts again but not yet marketable........the only way to get American Chestnut wood today is by using reclaimed lumber....and, to tell the truth, most of that's gone too. it's a real fine looking tree and will really be something else if they ever get it re-established here....mac
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ludwig View Post
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    From the looks of it, it hardly had a root system.

    I have a volunteer hackberry in my yard which is just 20 years old and shades the house quite well. Fruit trees are good for fruit but are generally poor shade trees since we tend to keep them short for an easier harvest. If you want a producer and shade, you can't go wrong with a Pecan. I plan to experiment with Chestnut trees this spring... I have 18 Chestnuts wintering in my reefer right now... they are of the inedible "Horse Chestnut" variety, smuggled in from the Chech Republic this fall.
    Ludwig: 'horse chestnuts' are neither horse nor chestnut. the only chestnuts in Europe are the "Spanish Chestnuts"......i think they're called castinea or something like that.....mac
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    Quote Originally Posted by mac View Post
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    Ludwig: 'horse chestnuts' are neither horse nor chestnut. the only chestnuts in Europe are the "Spanish Chestnuts"......i think they're called castinea or something like that.....mac
    Well... whatever they are, I have 18 of them in my reefer and they look and feel, inside and out, like the "chestnuts" I used to buy on the sidewalk in New York City on a cold winter's night. Anyway, I'll just call the Chech Nuts 'cause that's where I got them.
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    They have some chestnut trees at the new airport out front. A pretty messy tree when they start dropping fruit.

    I would love to have a Mimosa, as I love the smell of them in blossom, but the TDA has labeled them an invasive species and they can no longer be found at local nurseries... Messy too, but I still want one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sojourner truth View Post
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    They have some chestnut trees at the new airport out front.
    American Chestnut trees?.........Wow, wonder how I missed that.....mac
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    We have a fruitless mulberry which has lived for 18 years now in our front yard. It grows like crazy and provides great shade. Downside is it grows like crazy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sojourner truth View Post
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    They have some chestnut trees at the new airport out front. A pretty messy tree when they start dropping fruit. .
    I know a sweet gum has 'fruit' that sorta looks like chestnut. Leaves look sorta like maple, too. But it's not a nice tree. I've been slowly eliminating them from my yard. Down to 3 of them. I already got rid of the magnolias. Keeping the hickory, that's for sure. It's probably 120 feet tall. Almost no nuts this year.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kantwin View Post
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    I know a sweet gum has 'fruit' that sorta looks like chestnut. Leaves look sorta like maple, too. But it's not a nice tree. I've been slowly eliminating them from my yard. Down to 3 of them. I already got rid of the magnolias. Keeping the hickory, that's for sure. It's probably 120 feet tall. Almost no nuts this year.
    We know it has at least one every year.




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    Quote Originally Posted by kantwin View Post
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    I know a sweet gum has 'fruit' that sorta looks like chestnut. Leaves look sorta like maple, too. But it's not a nice tree. I've been slowly eliminating them from my yard. Down to 3 of them. I already got rid of the magnolias. Keeping the hickory, that's for sure. It's probably 120 feet tall. Almost no nuts this year.
    Hickories are illegal here in Texas. Why, you ask? Beats the hell out of me, they're a great tree. I have 3 of 'em in the back yard that are about 2 maybe 3 years old that I grew from nuts that I cracked and potted. I would like to be able to raise them to at least 10 years old before anyone from the bureaucracy spots them...mac
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    Quote Originally Posted by mac View Post
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    Hickories are illegal here in Texas. Why, you ask? Beats the hell out of me, they're a great tree. I have 3 of 'em in the back yard that are about 2 maybe 3 years old that I gree from nuts that I cracked and potted. I would like to be able to raise them to at least 10 years old before anyone from the bureaucracy spots them...mac
    How can a native North American tree, known to grow in Texas natively, be illegal in Texas?
    You're gonna have to show some sort of reference for that.
    I'm just not going to take BMSS on this one...

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