When we were in Minnesota I saw Gingko trees for the first time and fell in love with them! I really want one for my yard. Does anyone have any experience with them? I've gotten quite confused reading the internet Sounds like I need to stay away from the smelly, female trees but how would I know??? Some sites and sellers say they grow quickly, others say they are slow growers Help me please, they are making me crazy
I would thing the seller should know if they have female or male trees. The Ginkgo bilboa can live hundreds of years and is called one of the 'fossil trees' because the oldest one living is about 3500 yrs old. According the Kew Gardens information they usually reach a height of about 5 feet by the age of two at which time they should be in their permanent in ground location. http://www.kew.org/plants-fungi/Ginkgo-biloba.htm and personally I would take information from Kew Gardens much more seriously than those others.
Well I collected some seeds here in a park (they were stinky little buggers... and you need to clean off the pulp). I sowed them, very low germination and now I have one little tree in my garden. I'd say it grows very SLOW! Which is OK...I don't want to have a huge tree in my garden, well, not too quick. 5 feet in 2 years... I doubt it. Unless mine's a dwarf variety. I never feed it anything, never take care of it, I let Mom (Nature)look after it.
OH... and Iwould say without these trees actually blooming, there's no way you can tell which is a boy and which a girl. But maybe there's another way to tell them apart. Can other plants be told apart without flowers???
We have a mature Ginkgo at work, a male. It is a beautiful tree, few pests and beautiful leaves. I always make jokes in the fall when it drops its leaves because they all fall at once I'd love to have one in my yard, but I rarely see them at the nursery and when I do they are very expensive.
My neighbor has an 80 foot female. It was beautiful. Too big for me. If anyone follows what I do, I may do the same with a Ginkgo Tree. That will contain the roots and may stunt the growth like a Bonsai. Here is what I have done with my Good Blood Red Maple and Contorted Willow. I put the tree in a 4 gallon bucket with holes drilled on the bottom and lower sides. Then I drilled wholes the same way in a 5 gallon bucket and buried it in the ground and buried the tree and smaller bucket in the 5 gallon bucket. This way I can slide it out and clip back the roots. It has stunted the top growth some for in over 15 years my Blood Good Red Maple is 3 feet tall. After all this time, this year is the first year I have cut some off the top. It all makes sense to me if you like a tree that gets toooo large for your likings. So I have had my Contorted Willow for over 25 years and I keep it cut to 5 feet. Looks good still.
Well, that to me is, pardon, torture. I never understood people into bonsai. Plants are plants, living things, even if they can't cry when they hurt. Why insist on having a plant that's too large for what you can offer it? Oh well... I also have a bunch of potted plants, which is also constricting them
I have always been under the impression that they are very slow growers. I don't see many of them around, either. They get to be huge but very slowly. http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/cons ... iloba.html
I have found a 2 ft tall seedling on ebay. I think I might buy it for my birthday, just to try it! I love the leaves!!! I'll take photos to show you my present Plus, since it does seem to be a slow grower, I might be long gone before it starts to stink...
now I want one oh heck I want any kind of tree it would be so nice to have a tree for shade waiting for my maple sprouts to get a little bigger to plant
Mine showed up Friday in the mail Bigger than I expected and they gave me two for the price of one! They are almost 3 feet tall! We planted them Saturday afternoon and it has been raining ever since!
