[AT] Knowing when to call it a day

[Spencer Yost]

If anyone wants pics of a honey locust, I have many on my property.  The thorns are impressive.   I have one right next to the Osage orange row.  I call that part of my property the “Hall of Thorns”.

They are also trashy trees. They are constantly losing limbs, are prone to lichen in prodigious amounts which makes them look like “witch” trees.   My daughter made up that phrase. It is used to describe any tree that looks scary without leaves on a gray, winter’s late afternoon.. :-)   They also drop those  big ugly seed pods. Definitely not a lawn tree.

I have heard there is something edible about the pods .   Do your own research on that.   It’s hearsay.

Spencer

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> On Nov 17, 2019, at 9:24 PM, HERBERT METZ <metz-h.b at comcast.net> wrote:
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> According to Wikipedia the honey locust is native to central north America and the thorns are 1 1/4" to 4" long.  We had couple hundred trees in our four acre yard consisting of trees, buildings and grass.  I readily remember where that one thorny honey locust tree grew.  Herb(GA) 
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>> On November 17, 2019 at 8:02 PM Mike M <meulenms at gmx.com> wrote: 
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>> We moved into a property that is littered with Honey Locust, I am in the process of eliminating them one by one. They are nasty trees and loaded with 1-1/2 to 2" thorns.  Aaron we can't be too far apart, I live in rural Howell. 
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>> Mike M 
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>>> On 11/17/2019 7:37 PM, Aaron Dickinson wrote: 
>>> My parents chose to plant 5 hawthorns as part of there landscaping in 1972, not bad when they were new, inside a long flowerbed. Over the years the trees grew and the flowerbed shrank. They didn’t last long once the flowerbed was returned to lawn and me, mower, and limbs came to a meeting.  My dad also planted a thornapple in the yard causing my great uncle to ask my grandfather how they managed to allow someone into the family that would intentional plant thorny apple brush in their yard. My great uncle always fought thornapples in the fencerows on his farm, he did later comment at what a pretty tree it has grown into with proper pruning.
>>> 
>>>  Aaron Dickinson
>>> 
>>> Mason, Michigan
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