Fastest Growing Trees

 
We have 8 bare acres in Illinois and want some shade trees.
In your experience what is the fastest growing tree that
might give use some shade. I've planted hybrid poplars and
silver maples before and have been satisfied with them. Are
there other candidates I should be looking at?

Thanks,
Dale

 Heres a link I have never seen trees like these before. You will have
to order them on the internet though.
http://www.fastgrowingtree.com/indexT2.htm
Chuckie in the Frozen North, zone 5

 

Chuckie, that fast growing tree is a trash tree that is worse than
Mimosa about spreading all over the place. It not only drops hundreds
of seed pods that make more trees, but puts up new trees from the
roots all over the place, sometimes 40 to 50 foot from the closest
parent tree. In Georgia we call it cottonwood because the blooms,
which also are very messy, look like wads of cotton when the pile up
on the ground.

Tom J

 WOW!!! thanks for saying that "tom j" cuz that's just what i was wanting for
my 2 acres of NOTHINGNESS near klamath.  i had been considering the "golden
rain" locust tree (NOT golden chain), but those are REALLY
obnoxious.....anything whose seeds will grow through that red lava rock they
use for landscaping.....translates to: TROUBLE

at least these fast growing trees chuckie posted about are pretty in purple.
;o}
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With Malus toward none, and Cherry-Trees toward all.
frogfog@macdialup.com

 
Chuckie Wrote:


Quite often the fastest growing trees are the weakest and more prone t
damage and falling over

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golddog