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RE: Ailanthus altissima

     Rod
     
     thanks for the warning 
     
     Susan 


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Subject: RE: Ailanthus altissima
Author:  RPRandall.sp.agric.wa.gov.au (RPRandall@sp.agric.wa.gov.au) at vgems
Date:    10/9/98 10:25 AM


Hi Susan,
     
>      RE: Ailanthus altissima
 otherwise known as    Ailanthus glandulosa, Toxicodendron altissimum
     
I implore you to consider another tree Susan,
this plant is a significant environmental weed in South Australia, the 
ACT, Victoria, NSW, WA and Queensland. 
It is also a Noxious weed in New South Wales and  Victoria and in 
California for our US friends.
I sometimes despair of the descriptions some people write for what are 
really significant weeds
They have obvioulsy never had these plants affect them 
     
There are many many options you could try and I'm sure this list could 
offer a few eh???
     
Cheers, Rod
     
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> ----------
> From:         Susan.George@dhs.vic.gov.au 
> Reply To:     Susan.George@dhs.vic.gov.au
> Sent:         Thursday, 10 September 1998 7:44 AM
> To:   owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu; renshaw@best.com 
> Cc:   medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject:      Re: This Year's Insect and other thugs 
> 
>      
>         RE: Ailanthus altissima
> 
>         I have just bought the July 1998 edition of "The English 
> Garden" 
> magazine and what should it feature in its plant profile section but 
> Ailanthus!!!!!!
> 
> Described by the magazine thus;
> 
> "This imposing Chinese tree is valued in the USA for its foliage, 
> colourful 
> winged fruit and resistance to pollution....In Summer twelve inch 
> terminal 
> panicles of small green flowers appear, followed by red brown winged 
> fruits. 
> Flowers and fruit will be more prolific in areas with hot summers. (It 
> is 
> advisable to plant female trees, as the male fruits smell very 
> unpleasant)..."
> 
> So is it worth growing or not??? Is it only the male fruits or the 
> whole thing 
> that smells???? I don't want to plant a suckering thug, but a sound 
> tree with 
> good foliage is worth considering. And how can you tell the males from 
> the 
> females before it is too late??
> 
> Susan George
> McCrae, Australia
> 
> 
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> Subject: Re: This Year's Insect and other thugs 
> Author:  owner-medit-plants.ucdavis.edu
> (owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu) at 
> vgems
> Date:    9/9/98 5:38 PM
> 
> 
> I haven't seen any grasshoppers around here (here being between San 
> Jose 
> and San Francisco, just across the valley from Karl), but I've seen a 
> number of what I assume are some form of June bug, mostly lying dead 
> in the 
> backyard, but a few have been bumping into walls as they fly like a 
> small 
> helicopter. I don't remember ever seeing these bugs here before. 
> They're 
> about 1 1/2" long, iridescent blue-green beetles. They seem to be more 
> like 
> August bugs around here, as I didn't start seeing their carcases lying 
> 
> around until about a month or so ago. I saw a lot of big yucky looking 
> 
> white grubs in the area last spring while digging, which I suspect 
> were the 
> precursors to these clumsy bumblers. As far as I know, they haven't 
> caused 
> any great damage, either in grub or adult form, but after thirty years 
> 
> living here, I'm a little surprised to see them. Has anyone else? 
>      
> Someone mentioned my most hated tree: Ailanthus. I grew up next door 
> to a 
> grove of huge, tall, magnificent-looking, smelly, suckering, seedy 
> ailanthus. They were in the back of a deep lot, and managed to send 
> suckers 
> (!) all the way across the street in front to come up in a neighbor's 
> yard. 
> We fought suckers and seedlings in our yard all the time. That yard 
> also 
> had problems with oak root fungus; to our great disappointment, 
> Ailanthus 
> is resistant to that particular nasty. And the smell from the crushed 
> leaves or pulled up seedlings...ugh.
>      
> Okay, one more. Due to El Nino, the Modesto Ash out front has had a 
> bad 
> summer full of wooly aphids. They've been dropping honeydew all over 
> the 
> front yard since early July. My husband has to wash his car off every 
> morning. An early army of ladybugs and their larvae was decimated when 
> the 
> city sprayed the street trees (the aphids hid in the curled up leaves 
> and 
> survived to drip even more). The city finally injected a systemic 
> insecticide in the trees, which seems to have improved the situation, 
> though not completely cured it. Has anyone else had to battle this 
> particular bug?
>      
> I'm keeping all the pergola suggestions...one of my plans for our back 
> yard 
> is to build a sort of gazebo with white flowered vines around it. I've 
> been 
> considering the two clematis Sean mentioned, and am gratified to hear 
> neither tends to overwhelm as much as lonicera can (I grew up with a 
> honeysuckle on the back fence and remember mostly the deadwood under 
> the 
> green growth...that and sucking the nectar out of the flower!). Thanks 
> for 
> all of the ideas and thanks, Anthony, for asking about pergola vines. 
>      
> Cheryl
>      
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