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WaianaeCrider

By WaianaeCrider
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The Australian Flame tree, Brachychiton acerifolius is/was one of the most beautiful trees I have/had in the yard.  Each summer around my May birthday it has lost all it's leaves and is covered in red flowers.  BUT it is dropping leaves ALL YEAR long and in the summer it drops ALL of it's leaves.  I got tired of raking leaves about every other day and today I paid $1000 to have it REMOVED/CUT DOWN.  Gonna miss in this coming May but I will NOT miss the damm leaves.  It went in the ground around 2005 from a seedling that I raised from seed.  I still have two others on the property way back where I don't worry about the leaves.

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2009 I was a fast grower.

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Today January 2022

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So many species,

so little time.

Coconut Creek, Florida

Zone 10b (Zone 11 except for once evey 10 or 20 years)

Last Freeze: 2011,50 Miles North of Fairchilds

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5 hours ago, Jerry@TreeZoo said:

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Yea I loved the way it was it total flower for my birthday every May.  But I won't miss the #$&*## leaves. EVERY DAY.

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We have a garden tool in the United States that we call a "rake." They're most effective in moving leaves away from where you don't want them.

I'm being facetious, but I've noticed in recent years people tend to choose leaf-blowers in preference to rakes. When I lived in New England at the end of a cul-de-sac, I had a tiny wedge-shaped lawn that I could rake clean of leaves in about five minutes. My next-door neighbor, who had the same-size lawn and amount of leaves, would be out there with his leaf-blower whining and belching smoke for what seemed like forever nudging his leaves to the curb. In my new location, I'm seeing (and hearing!) the same thing. I'm tempted to go over to my neighbor's house with a rake in hand and give them a lecture. Gee, I wonder how that would go over?

Your pictures showed that the tree removal was a wise choice, but now I'll miss those flowers in what is my birth month too.

 

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Just got tired of using the rake every day.  LOL

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35 minutes ago, WaianaeCrider said:

Just got tired of using the rake every day.  LOL

I don't blame you; it was awkwardly located. Are gas-powered leaf-blowers legal in Hawai'i? They're going to outlaw them in Connecticut, I've been told.

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12 hours ago, Manalto said:

I don't blame you; it was awkwardly located. Are gas-powered leaf-blowers legal in Hawai'i? They're going to outlaw them in Connecticut, I've been told.

Yes  still legal.  The Calf nuts not here yet.  LOL

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Aw man, totally sucks to lose a tree like that. I have 2 on my street. No issues yet with leaf litter, and luckily, no gas powered blowers for California, so I don't have to smell the fumes or hear the endless revving :lol:

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The bees are gonna  miss the flowers more than me missing the leaf clean up.  LOL  But they love the flowers on my palms.  All year long something is in flower and the bees love it.

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Sad little story there.......  Wish I had that problem!   Too bad you had to remove it.  Any replacement ideas in it's old spot?

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1 hour ago, jimmyt said:

Sad little story there.......  Wish I had that problem!   Too bad you had to remove it.  Any replacement ideas in it's old spot?

Gonna replace everything along the fence with a hedge of as many different Hibiscus as I can find. or afford.  Already have a very old "plain old" red in the ground.  I took cuttings from one found growing next to a VERY old small irrigation diversion dam about 2 hours hike in (from the coast) a near by valley.  There are about 4 plants there growing in the shade of a variety of much taller trees.

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Good move.  The leaf drop is constant.  I removed mine years ago.  However I have a fairly big B. discolor in the back.  I removed all the branches already.  The only thing to do is chain saw.  Never again.  Haha... grew this from seed too.

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On 1/27/2022 at 7:58 PM, WaianaeCrider said:

Gonna replace everything along the fence with a hedge of as many different Hibiscus as I can find. or afford.  Already have a very old "plain old" red in the ground.  I took cuttings from one found growing next to a VERY old small irrigation diversion dam about 2 hours hike in (from the coast) a near by valley.  There are about 4 plants there growing in the shade of a variety of much taller trees.

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MUCH MUCH BETTER!

Hmm. I'd have run screaming and told you to rip your B. acerfolius out immediately after planting.

I love the flowers on B. acerfolius, but the tree is a monster, as you've come to know.

Some genius decided to use them as "street trees" in La Habra, in the "treelawns" next to the streets between the sidewalks, which are about three feet (1M) wide. Like keeping Great Danes in "tiny houses."

A long time ago, I was good friends with a fellow plant person, and he and I went through Huntington Beach, and ran across a flame tree in an old lady's yard. That thing was breathtaking in full bloom like it was right then. It looked like a lava fountain spouting out of the ground, solid red, 50 feet tall. Words just don't quite do it, but I know  you'd understand. But the roots were three feet thick in places and it had badly torn up parts of her house.

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On 1/28/2022 at 2:10 PM, jimmyt said:

That will look great!  Seems I remember seeing bougainvilleas used as hedges too. 

Bogies would make great barriers in a gulag or death camp, too, all those thorns.

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My Flame tree was enormous and ended up thickly covered in Philodendrons .

Rot set in and the whole thing came down in a heap.

Michael in palm paradise,

Tully, wet tropics in Australia, over 4 meters of rain every year.

Home of the Golden Gumboot, its over 8m high , our record annual rainfall.

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