Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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#147,226
SoilVol said:
Its less about things not being native in an ornamental setting and more about them being horribly invasive. A single tree isn't the problem, except that it is when it produces a million wild trees that take over wild areas.

Gingkos aren't native and they're beautiful trees, but they aren't invasive so I'm fine with them.

I love the idea of sentimental trees like @InVOLuntary has. I just hate that it's a bradford pear. My dad had a dogwood from his grandmother and irises from her house that he's taken offspring and tubers from and planted every time we've moved.

I totally understand not bringing yourself to cut it down. The only idea I could offer is to start a new tradition with a different species like a redbud, dogwood, saucer magnolia, etc in it's place. Doesn't even have to be native, just not detrimental to the landscape.
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Better yet, call local Ag Extension office. There is a designated location that saplings are grown, and given (usually Arbor day), make sure to wear crocs @Glitch

We use a nursery in Hampton TN. As they grow most of the trees locally. Most of them are already accustomed to our funderful alkaline battery clay pot soil.
 
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SoilVol said:
I read a history about them and what happened. Originally they (Callary pear) were sterile and didn't smell. A nursery deceloped the ornamental variety "Bradford" and they were pretty much all sterile hybridized clones. They were super popular and took off like wildfire. They originated because the callary pear were actually used as rootstocks for California's pear industry that was suffering from some introduced diseases. They realized it could be a good ornamental due to this resistance if they could breed out the thorns and promote a nice symmetrical growth habit.

Then, other nurseries started developing their own strains with slightly different characteristics. Well guess what, now there's genetic diversity out and about. They Jurassic Parked themselves and started hybridizing and reproducing. Trees that produced 0 fruit suddendly produces hundreds of thousands, and their offspring were like their ancestors - thorny, wild growth habit, and aggressive spreaders.
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This one has shown no propensity to spread. It's old, approximately 35 years, I'd think. It's about 24" diameter at the base now.
 
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knoxvol52 said:
Makes more sense. Louisville has all that Papa John's money....😳
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Lol
Louisville pissed Jon Schneider off
Took his name off stadium
They don’t have papa John money
I live up here
They don’t have a ton of money
Baseball and women’s basketball coaches I personally know will tell you that
Brohm has an uphill battle but men’s basketball is top priority
They are internally worried to death about having to give up revenue whenever the ncaa allows schools to give x amount to student athletes
 
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