My grandfather got caught up in the Paulownia craze in the 90s. It takes a lot of care to grow as advertised for harvesting. It was pretty much a scam much like the Ostrich / Emu craze of the 80s. It's a fun hobby tree but nothing to waste time on trying to farm for harvesting. It's basically a hardwood weed.

Thought they were lilac's from thumbnail. Gorgeous 💜🌿🌻

I move to Oregon and discovered Paulownia tree and was amazed, we do nothing and yet it grows, it grows better spreads better nearby other Paulownia trees. I think it can help fight desertification and along with swales and ponds and check dams, perfect tools for fighting desertification.

@ScaryHairyGary

Жыл бұрын

I does all those things

Good afternoon 🌞 beautiful plants

Great video, Gary! I like your outlook on life and I think I agree with it. Your surprise tree definitely grew from seed, as there's no way the roots from the main one made it all the way to the other side of your house! Since your trees are flowering, they would create brown seed capsules in autumn and then release those seeds into the air... you'll probably find the tree growing far, far away from your house. The only way to get rid of it permanently at this stage is to dig up the roots; landscape designers often coppice empress trees every autumn, only allowing a year of growth in order to get those giant leaves that appear in the first year. You could cut it down every year, just before the growing season starts, and have some useful poles... I'm in Southern Ontario, Zone 5 or 6... and my Paulownia tomentosa are growing super slowly... my largest is now in its third year of growth and is only about a metre high!

@ScaryHairyGary

4 жыл бұрын

Great comment. Yes, I forgot to mention the copicing idea. Love/hate this tree. Stay warm up there!

@treelife365

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScaryHairyGary - I think the tree is fantastic! Lots of plantations for them in South America... since they grow so quickly, they're a great carbon sink. The wood is also nice for furniture and such. It's still cold up here... kidding! It's hot now, but it snowed in May, I kid you not.

Do you know if hummingbirds like them? I was out in the woods and took a cutting. Those leaves were so huge in the understory.

I found your video today - I recently had an arborist out to my property to identify trees and begin to care for them. I have a tree that seemed to come out of no where - he identified it as a Royal Paulownia. I have bees (the reason why he was out to our property) and has since found that bees love these trees. I went out to the tree this morning to take some pictures. The canopy is very high - above the other trees. I live in middle Tennessee - and I am thinking this might be a tropical tree and may not do well here. I expected to see saplings around the trunk from the other videos - nada. I may want to plant this tree on part of the property where there isn't any other tree life, and was a little disappointed to not find any samplings. Any who - thank you for your informative video - we shall see where my tree leads and how the honey is this year.

@ScaryHairyGary

Жыл бұрын

Good luck. Hopefully you’ll get some flowers.

I love this tree. Mine is getting big.

We call these ghetto blossoms or hood blossoms in my city because they grow all over the hood... In backyard, empty lots, and even through abandoned houses/buildings

@ScaryHairyGary

2 ай бұрын

The best kind of plants, that thrive with no care in urban decay situations.

Beautiful 😍😍😍

@ScaryHairyGary

Жыл бұрын

Yes, they are show stoppers

Mine stopped growing neither its leaves 🍃 didnt get bigger i did gave it doses of npk montly and humic acid in a weekly bases now its 3 months of just a meter tall 😤 the soil is top tier do you recommend cutting it to the ground ? We are in winter rn btw

@ScaryHairyGary

2 жыл бұрын

That always seems to rejuvenate them.

What tree did you mention at 1:52

Gary, does this garden belong to you? Happy for you.

@ScaryHairyGary

2 жыл бұрын

yep

Any idea if the wood is good for barbeque? They say just about any hardwood is good for smoking, grilling. But I know the paulownia, while technically a hardwood, is kind of like a softwood.

@ScaryHairyGary

Жыл бұрын

All I know is I met a guy on the bench made a zone surfboard from an empress tree, and he let me borrow it, but I could not catch a single wave with it. But of course, he was way better than me and 40 pounds lighter

@Valko67

6 ай бұрын

yes for sure , she have even very very good qualities , like give more heat and burn for longer times than a lot of most other woods spicies , and makes very good charcoal to ,, and paulownia is good for evrything , no other tree can compeet or defeed her , she's simply the best in all way's , and if we see all factors she have , yes the best , the one we need now to regenerating as lightning speed ;-)

What Tropical Place stay this tree ?

@billgateskilledmyuncle23

3 жыл бұрын

They grow in ky, so not exactly tropical.

I have this dang thing, good thing I TRY to cut it down every year or it would be big as yours, I planted it right next to my septic😮 I had it over 8 years and it's only 5 ft cause I kept cutting it, its got to go!

That's what we need

Lila

They are very beautiful but do not belong in the USA and Europe. These pods are devastating with their thousands of seeds and easily take over the native species. Be careful and think twice before getting these.

KILL IT. Invasive. ;-)

Kill it now, plant desert willow instead.