Well so far only one pod has dropped so that is a good sign. The ones that fall have no fertilization at all and are not viable....
with this many pods still up the tree hopefully it will become a seed tree for some other tulip trees...
the seeds are getting donated to conservation at the end of August or so and then to the nursery and then planted out as young trees.
The hope is that since the mother tree has survived all the elements for the 100 years the young ones can too.
This tree normally does not like cold or wind.
It survived a winter here at -40F for a number of days straight the other year
and also a big wind storm that took out many mature trees here last year........
I had an arborist come and give the tree its first hair cut that it has every got this spring when the snow was still flying. There were a family of great horned owls living in the natural cavity in the tree. they all fledged all 5 of them.
Most of the flowers are on the top of the tree and since we are at least 70 feet up there...........not sure how the get the pods down yet......but the arborist is doing the job for free for conservation.
there are no other tulip trees around the area in this zone.............so here to hoping all this works out. The tree has produced some small ones near the bottom the trunk. some might be suckers but some might not be. That will be decided at the end of August with the arborist. if there are some to be planted that are ok they will be planted in important places in town here.
out of 2500 hundred people that live here only a few people have seen it bloom and it gets 1000's of flowers each year...... We need to learn to look up as a society.........
flowers are my passion. Lilies the far most of all of them and the tulip tree is very important me too
