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BBfanboy wrote: Sun Apr 24, 2022 6:06 pm Pebbles can be a WITP-AE relevant thing!

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USSAmerica wrote: Tue Apr 26, 2022 1:29 am Fun, long weekend for me as the Hurricanes won 2 games and we had a forestry mulcher come in and chew up all of the invasive callery pears in a big patch of the backyard. Looks so different and so big now! Here is a "before" shot:

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Then our new best friend, Danny, brought this little baby over to play:


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4 hours later, he is finishing up the last back corner:

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To the right of our newly cleared mulch patch you can see where our neighbor had his trees cleared with a skid loader and pushed into a pile. Our property extends to the tallest trees in the back. It's a long lot, just over 600 feet from the road in front to the back. You can see there are still about 1/4 acre of these nasty callery pear trees back in the very back for me to play with my chainsaw and make firewood for the fire pit.

USSAmerica wrote: Tue Apr 26, 2022 1:29 am Fun, long weekend for me as the Hurricanes won 2 games and we had a forestry mulcher come in and chew up all of the invasive callery pears in a big patch of the backyard. Looks so different and so big now! Here is a "before" shot:

20220422_114137s.jpg


Then our new best friend, Danny, brought this little baby over to play:


20220423_070854s.jpg


4 hours later, he is finishing up the last back corner:

20220423_105602s.jpg

To the right of our newly cleared mulch patch you can see where our neighbor had his trees cleared with a skid loader and pushed into a pile. Our property extends to the tallest trees in the back. It's a long lot, just over 600 feet from the road in front to the back. You can see there are still about 1/4 acre of these nasty callery pear trees back in the very back for me to play with my chainsaw and make firewood for the fire pit.

Apollo11 wrote: Tue Apr 26, 2022 6:26 am Hi all,

Nice Mike!

BTW, how invasive are those species? You mandatory have to remove them?


Leo "Apollo11"

USSAmerica wrote: Tue Apr 26, 2022 12:17 pm

Apollo11 wrote: Tue Apr 26, 2022 6:26 am Hi all,

Nice Mike!

BTW, how invasive are those species? You mandatory have to remove them?


Leo "Apollo11"

Hi Leo,

The Callery Pear trees are very invasive. They are very disease and insect resistant and they grow like weeds. In my before picture the front section of trees are around 12 feet tall. They were not there at all a year ago. The larger area that we had cleared were around 30 feet tall. They were 2 years old. The other big issue with them is that they grow 4 inch long spikes that can penetrate heavy tractor tires. You couldn't even slip between them because of how closely they grow together and because of the spikes.

It isn't mandatory to remove them, but awareness of the problem is growing and there are now even "bounty" programs where you bring evidence of removing up to 5 of the trees and they will give you free native replacement trees to plant. The program this spring had to be suspended after being open for just a day as the demand was overwhelming. We have plans to plant 5 or 6 tiered rows of trees after the pool and backyard fence are completed. Shorter cherry trees closest to the house, then taller red and gold maples, and the tallest red oaks in the back.