Re: Dirca palustris transplantability?

Sorry about your leatherwood.  I'd really hate to lose mine and fortunately
it has room to grow to the proportions to which yours did.

Just received a Styrax 'Frosted Emerald', Cornus kousa 'Goldstar' and
Davidia involucrata 'Sonoma'.  The 'Sonoma' is supposed to be a precocious
flowering variety of the Dove Tree and there is a variegated variety from
Japan that is to die for.


Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

l*@wi.rr.com







On 5/27/12 12:34 PM, "Christopher P. Lindsey" <lindsey@hort.net> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I now have a full-grown Dirca palustris on the back
>> side of my garage that I'd like to move.  I never
>> thought that it would get to be eight feet tall six
>> feet wide, so now it's encroaching on the walkway quite
>> a bit and is threatening to block it entirely.
>> 
>> I've been considering taking out a Rhododendron and
>> moving the leatherwood over about three feet, but I
>> don't know anything about it's transplantability.
>> 
>> Does anyone here have experience moving this species?
>> Is there a best time of year to do it?
> 
> I thought I'd give some followup on the leatherwood in my back yard.
> Unfortunately, I think it's going to go.
> 
> Last fall I didn't do anything with it, but when the city's tree trimmers
> came around to cut around the power lines they must have hit it with
> their equipment.  That took out some of the lower branches on one side
> which were hanging by the bark.
> 
> That opened up an area that the dogs decided would be nice to lay under
> when our spring temperatures got so high, so they dug a nice little
> hole right at the base to curl up in.
> 
> The leatherwood still seemed happy and leafed out, but then we had
> those frosts that zapped the leaves.  It hasn't recovered since.  There
> were some small, new leaves, but they have since shriveled up and died.
> 
> I suspect that I'm going to have to yank it out.  It's in the way anyhow,
> and now that it's weak it will be even harder to transplant.  Not to
> mention that the habit is more like a mushroom on one side.
> 
> Hopefully I'll find a replacement somewhere instead.  :)  On the plus
> side, my walkway won't be an issue any more!
> 
> Chris
> 
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