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Dave in Fairfax wrote:

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I use it for turning any chance I get. It's harder than pine, more
like poplar, but otherwise much like it and looks somewhat like a
light walnut. Easy to turn and comes out looking nice. Good
present wood. Free is best, and when people chop them out of
their yards, that's what they cost.

Your winters must be quite a bit warmer, we have enough cold nights
that it just survives (Seatte). Years (and years) ago my parents had
some, it top froze every year and they never did get blooms.

But it will grow almost anywhere, reading up on it I learned that it's
being planted on mine tailings... where it grows

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