Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Growing and maintaining a golden Chain tree (laburmum vossi), 1 by growin

growin wrote:
I hate to say this but they are a bit of a weed here. I pull them out of the garden regularly as I don't want something so big there. The best trees are planted amongst other trees & shrubs and maybe this gives a little extra summer cooling. They have a terrible habit of getting "crotch-rot" where debris collects in the crotch of the tree and then it starts splitting and finally falls apart. They seem to do better in poor soil that isn't too organic. I agree with what Resin mentioned - they like cool summers and don't appreciate heat. These ones are planted in a cool spot on the north side of an embankment.