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Using Honey Locust
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Using Honey Locust

Honeylocusts are adaptable to urban conditions and are often used as street trees. That can be a problem because the vigorous roots can break up pavement and sidewalks. They have been widely planted as an ornamental replacement for American elms. They are fairly resistant to salt, drought, soil compaction, heat and disease. It is probably best to use them as specimen trees in the yard and garden. They provide very light shade, so it is possible to grow grass under this tree with little problem. Honeylocust also can be used as a screen along property lines or as a windbreak at the edges of fields. While they are appropriate for parks, the ones with thorns represent a potential danger to children and animals and definitely should be avoided.

Some varieties of home landscape type Honeylocust will produce seed pods, if you don t mind a little cleanup in the fall. These pea-like pods are regarded by some yardeners as ornamental and are useful for dried arrangements. The fact that they rattle in the winter wind also gives them an extra interest.

Thornless Honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos inermis)

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Thornless Honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos inermis) This american native is another urban tolerant tree we offer, excellent for its filtered Summer shade and majestic Winter silhouette coupled with its bold texture. It will mature to a 60 ft. height and a 40 ft spread. A rapid growing tree. The numerous leaflets are miniature, resulting in the tree casting a light shade (also known as filtered shade or dappled shade) that permits shadetolerant turfgrass and partial shade perennials to grow underneath the tree fall color is normally chartreuse, but is a beautiful golden-yellow in good years. Most thornless cultivars have little fruit set; however, some occasionally have tremendous fruit set, being twisting pods up to 1.5' long, changing from yellow green to dark brown-red to purplish at maturity, containing many hard seeds. Fruit lasts from late Autumn or throughout the Winter (the common name of Honeylocust comes from the sweetness of the fleshy pod) and cause quite a litter problem when borne in abundance the thorny native species usually has moderate to abundant fruit set. Zone 4-9. 




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