Eucalyptus growth in 3 years

[Gandahar]

They don't hang around do they .....

[blueg33]

Eucalyptus puts on biomass faster than any other tree.

[Don]

I learned about eucalyptus the hard way. They shoot up, but their roots are very, very shallow. A good storm and it will come down taking the fence with it.

My neighbour had one, and we planted one to match his. They both shot up. His came down in a storm. Mine was on my property boundary and would have damaged his house if it had come down. So I'm afraid I took a saw to it.

[eldar]

blueg33 said:

Eucalyptus puts on biomass faster than any other tree.

More than willow?

[bimsb6]

They grow quicker than an illegal gypsy site the last storm took the top 20 feet off a eucalyptus in our garden luckily it missed everything in the garden.

Edited by bimsb6 on Sunday 5th March 17:12

Edited by bimsb6 on Sunday 5th March 17:14

[terry tibbs]

its making such a noise growing so fast your neighbour needs yellow ear defenders
not exactly suitable for an urban garden

[blueg33]

eldar said:

blueg33 said:

Eucalyptus puts on biomass faster than any other tree.

More than willow?

Loads more

When I was at uni we did some research on it as a plant to supply bio fuels. In the UK it isn't always cold weather resistant so willow gets used here.

[DoubleSix]

Horrible things, make a right mess...

[Jambo85]

Don said:

I learned about eucalyptus the hard way. They shoot up, but their roots are very, very shallow. A good storm and it will come down

They keep their leaves over the winter too which makes them even more susceptible. I keep pruning mine to make it a bit more robust but it seems to be futile, and it's starting to look a bit funny!

[blueg33]

We had an 80 foot one in our garden, the very cold winter a few years ago killed it

Had to het a tree surgeon to chop it down. We still have logs left to burn

[Spare tyre]

bimsb6 said:

They grow quicker than an illegal gypsy site the last storm took the top 20 feet off a eucalyptus in our garden luckily it missed everything in the garden.

Edited by bimsb6 on Sunday 5th March 17:12

Edited by bimsb6 on Sunday 5th March 17:14

You need some more chairs

[bimsb6]

Spare tyre said:

You need some more chairs

I need less family .

[Uncle John]

We've a Eucalyptus, it's a monster, 80 ft tall.

According to my 90 year old lived here all his life neighbour, it's the biggest in the county, nothing to prove that though.

I like it, wife wants it down....& god knows how much that would cost.

[8-P]

Cut it down while you still can, you wont regret it. My neighbours has just reached the top of his house, it blows into the house in the wind and now he wants it out but hes Mr Lazy and will probably just leave it until smashes through the house and forces the issue.

[eldar]

blueg33 said:

Loads more

When I was at uni we did some research on it as a plant to supply bio fuels. In the UK it isn't always cold weather resistant so willow gets used here.

Every day is a school day

[dbdb]

Lots of different varieties of eucalyptus of course, some better behaved for a garden than others.

[jmorgan]

When we moved in, previous owners thought a tree that "could" get to 100' was a good idea. We chopped it down very quickly.