Re: Eucalyptus

grant@cruzio.com writes:
>Can we get a conversation going on eucalyptus? I am surrounded by them,
>and they do provide a permanent supply of firewood. But the mess they
>make is just awful. The three kinds on my property are, I am sure, the
>worst kinds of the lot. Bark peelings are all over my garden now after a
>gale force wind last Saturday. Raking up the leaves is a full-time job.
>It is easy to pull up the seedlings - hundreds of them every year. This
>should be a cautionary tale for others. If you are going to plant any,
>make sure they are the beautiful, tame ones.
>Bill Grant   Monterey Bay   California

Its not that ALL eucs are bad, just that E. golobulus is the weedy-soil
contaminating-bark/branch dropping-pest we californians hate =) (Well not
all hate them). Anyways E. golobulus spreads all over the country side,
forming great colonies of just these trees. They drop seed capsules,
leaves, and bark and keep other things from growing around them. The
neighbors next door to my grandmother finally took down the one remaining
Euc they had. The winter cold snap killed it and it kept dropping
branches. Good thing it was gone before the wind storm we had saturday!
Also even the nice ones (i dont know their names) had good sized branches
fall during that storm. Along Del Monte Ave. in Monterey theres a great
colony of these trees that have absolutely dwarfed the oaks that are under
them. The oaks as long as i can remember have always been the same height
as they are now. Not to mention the forrest floor is prettymuch nothing
but euc leaves and nothing else.

I do like some. Especially this one with bright red flowers that make the
trees look like theyre on fire. Also theres another type that has fine
leaves and looks somewhat like a weeping willow.
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