Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: It's about time...Yellowwood, 1 by ViburnumValley

ViburnumValley wrote:
Way to jump right in there while I was away in a meeting!

Can't wait to see the 'Perkin's Pink' growing in the Frigid North™.

Yellowwood in the sunny south -- good question. My travels and flight paths haven't taken me to the Deep South much, so I'll plead nolo contendere there. References will help answer that; why not start with the PlantFiles info here: http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/1588/index.html

Seems like the belief is tolerance down to zone 8b. Here's the USDA's info, with distribution maps.

http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=CLKE

Seems to show some likelihood of value for south AL and MS. Some checking with more local folks at universities and botanical gardens would be most valuable.

Meanwhile, here's a bad picture of a formerly really big old specimen in Lexington KY that I used to get to work around back in the late 1980s. It was around 60 years old then. I think I saw it finally succumbing to life's traumas 6-8 years ago.