RE: My Tulip Tree!!!

Thanks, Bonnie!  I appreciate all the additional information.  And I just
thought it made a stately tree...LOL!!!  We have had a number of
swallowtails in our gardens over the years and we also have a cardinal
family and I can't tell you how many squirrel families.  They will be happy
for the bounty this fall, I'm sure.

Blessings,
Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5) 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Bonnie Holmes
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 8:43 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] My Tulip Tree!!!

They do put out a pod, a 3" cone in the fall, like other in the magnolia
family.  Hummingbirds and butterflies like the flowers.  The pod seeds are
eaten by cardinals, purple finch, and squirrels.  The tiger and spicebush
swallowtail butterflies use the leaves for larvae.  Companion plants
include:  white oak, beech, hickory, red maple, sugar maple, cucumbertree,
umbrella tree, sourwood, hemlock, and musclewood.  For understory, you can
use redbud, dogwood, pawpaw, strawberry bush, hydrangea, spicebush, climbing
hydrangea; and, on the floor, wild ginger, trout lily, phlox, bloodroot,
ferns, river oats, asters.  It is TN's official tree.


> [Original Message]
> From: Cathy Carpenter <cathy.c@insightbb.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 5/28/2006 7:24:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] My Tulip Tree!!!
>
> I have one which survived being "attacked" by deer antlers. One third 
> of the trunk was barked, but it is still hanging in 3 years later. It 
> bloomed this year for me. Still gets TLC. Hope it lives to get really 
> big. They are the tallest trees in the eastern forest.
>
> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
>
> On May 28, 2006, at 4:21 PM, Christopher P. Lindsey wrote:
>
> >> Those who have had blooming tulip trees, do they put out any type 
> >> of seed pod after bloom?  What should I expect?
> >
> > Hi Bonnie,
> >
> >    That's awesome about your tulip tree blooming!  For those who 
> > aren't
> >    familiar with the blooms, here's one:
> >
> >       http://www.hort.net/gallery/view/mag/lirtu/
> >
> >    The fruit aren't particularly exciting.  When they first form they
> >    look a little like okra:
> >
> >       http://wp.hort.net/plant/lirtu50
> >
> >    They eventually split open along the seams, releasing vertical 
> > seeds
> >    and leaving a vertical 'spike' that lasts through the winter.  It's
> >    not very noticeable unless you're looking for it or you've had a 
> > good
> >    snow that makes it stand out.
> >
> > Chris
> >
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