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[Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

It will be funny for me, too. I just need a little time. :>) I'm hoping that
when I asked Bev about her Pawlonia trees and then reported that mine all
grew, I wasn't gloating.
This could be my payback if I was.

Rob - Va

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> Sorry for your trouble,,,,
>
> but I couldn't help laughing out loud in my perverted way.........
>
> "and this is the same government that is going to fix medicine, fix social
> security, and fix the auto industry, and fix the banking
> sector.............."
>
> Repeat after me, "and I believe in the tooth fairy..."
>
>
> --- On Tue, 8/11/09, Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] My "Black Locust" trees
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 7:45 PM
>
>
> I'm glad it's too late to call the forestry dept. tonight. I ordered 100
> Black Locust trees from them last winter and planted them out. When I
> planted them, I thought that they were really wimpy trees, they were tiny.
> But, the cost was low so I didn't complain to them.
> The only labeling was the receipt that was in the box with them. It said
> 100
> black locust.
>
> When they came out and started growing, I thought that they looked weird.
> The leaves, black locust has a lot of little leaflets, these trees have 3
> leaflets. Anyway summer has been busy, I've kept the grass mowed down
> around
> them and that's about all. I figured maybe seedlings leaves are different.
>
> I noticed last week that they were blooming with purple flowers. Now, I
> know
> that black locust blooms in May and blooms white.
>
> I did some research and the "trees", I've been caring for and dug all those
> holes are Lezpedeza bicolor. It's listed as an invasive on lots of web
> sites. It's planted for wildlife cover and feed. The forestry department
> has
> it listed on their website as something they sell.
>
> I'll be on the phone with them tomorrow. Now I need to research this plant
> I
> have growing. At least I remember where they are and it looks like
> something
> the goats will keep down if it's an invasive. I'm hoping it's something
> that
> I can decide to keep and let grow in the understory of the black locust
> trees I plant there, maybe this fall.
>
> Live and learn.
>
> Rob - Va
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