OH NO!! YOU DIDN'T PLANT IT NEAR YOUR BBQ!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!
The flowers are sticky, sappy, get into your hair, and look like nasty cotton candy when they start to die off. Leaves couldn't be any worse than with that stinking aspen... leaves up the waZOO! Plus the long seed pods get into everything.
They're supposed to be a zone 6 tree. That part of the yard should be fine.. it's mostly protected by the house and the snow doesn't get too deep there from the swirling winds. And almost every tree here gets frost kill on the top of the branches.. even OLD trees (20-50 years old). I can definitely have a 10-20 ft tree there easily. Plus they don't produce dense shade, so that would be great to plant stuff (like, say, roses?) under. DH wanted me to put in a catalpa. I love catalpas, but they have the deepest shade and grow to ugly shapes (they do not grow into a uniform shape.. rather, just every which way).
I'm planning on making a run to visit my parents next spring down in S. NM, so I should be able to find one there. It's just the concept of driving 13+ hours with a tree in the back of the van..
