Re: Service berry
- Subject: Re: [SG] Service berry
- From: C* P*
- Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 22:54:06 EST
In a message dated 4/6/02 7:41:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, robyn@ICX.NET
writes:
<< marriages that happened during the winter months in the mountains. The
Shad (fish) also run at this time so it is also called the shad tree. >>
You are in Tennessee. We have always been told the shad-bush, as called
here, was named for blooming as the shad ran up the Hudson from the Ocean to
spawn.
It is a great native tree that attracts birds and is practically
indestructible. If you chop off the top a few times, you get a large
billowing bush with smooth grey bark. Or, you can let it grow into a small
tree.
Typically, here, it is like a dogwood, a tree of wood's edge or a thin tall
tree in the woodlands reaching for sun and blooming long before any leaves
appear on the other trees. We have several that have planted themselves
around and we have pruned them back to very large shrubs.
There are named forms but to my way of thinking, there is little difference
from the native tree.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
