I would know them anywhere. Their spring flowers have a delicious scent, and their fall seed pods are beautiful. They are also invasive. The seeds, if they don’t get eaten by the squirrels, sprout seedlings each spring by the hundreds, maybe thousands – not kidding. I pluck them out of the gardens by hand each year. Each year there are 7+ buckets. Hours of work.
We have the one at the townhouse, and … we have an Amur Maple at the little reno house up north.
What to do? I think it needs to go. It is scrubby, about 4′ tall, and leans like crazy. Nevertheless, I will be sad on removal day.
The replacement will be birch transplants. MUCH more manageable.
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