Sumach red looks like a strawberry pie...
By Lorilyn57
- 24 Sep, 2011
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the milkweed surrounding this mound of vegetation has turned yellow...(the crust)..the sumach (rhus) above it is a glorious red...(the strawberries) and the poplars that serve as the hub of the mound will be turning yellow soon...(whipped cream?) well....maybe.
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Is your sumach low growing? Mine is 5 foot tall!
24 Sep, 2011
Thanks Lil....Sticki: The tallest in this grove would be about 10 or 12 ft tall...the shorter ones (younger) around the edges...anywhere from a foot to three feet tall.
I love this plant it has gorgeous colour and it is very hardy, the only thing that may be a bother is that it suckers! In my last garden they started in the far back corner ..and I was finding them near the house ...within two years! I just seized them and pulled...they come up rather easily...but you never get all the root and they just keep coming...so you must keep pulling! lol...
24 Sep, 2011
ok, i had better remember that! i got one this year, wanted one for a long time cos there was one at the house i was born in!
i love their colour and their leaf shape
24 Sep, 2011
wow...just look at that...fab-u-lous! yes sticki, the sumach is a bother with it's suckers and it is sooooo beautiful in the autumn. Mine got to about 7' tall in my old garden, and about 10' across, but it had to go...it just started coming up everywhere. I wonder if putting a barrier around it would help...just a thought.
24 Sep, 2011
great photo, unusual.
24 Sep, 2011
Just keep an eye, Sticki. If you see any suckers pull them up quick-like! I love it, Karen. some of the best colour around is the sumach but they colour and the leaves fall very early compared to other trees. I had a sumach in my last garden that had to be 20ft tall! At their best they're like a lacy parasol!
Hello Bampy! Had to take a pic of this...it's a wonderful thing to stand under the canopy of sumach... nature's architecture!
26 Sep, 2011
I think you've described ours Lori, it makes a wonderful Canopy in the Summer, and has that lacy effect looking through it...and yes it is probably the first to shed it's leaves, in abundance in fact...:)))
25 Nov, 2011
It must like well drained sandy soil...and will grow on rocks where soil is thin...it's amazing.
26 Nov, 2011
That's our soil type to a T....
26 Nov, 2011
is that a red grass??
19 Jan, 2012
I suppose I was a little fanciful describing it as a strawberry pie! Hello Junna...no the red is Rhus, a low growing shrub/tree...which is known commonly as Sumach, here in South Eastern Ontario. It has a lovely fuzzy tree stem, ( all new growth is fuzzy!) with red flowers/fruiting brachts carried on the tips of the branches. It's deciduous..and turns this lovely bright red in autumn just before dropping it's leaves. the Red plumes remain all winter.
22 Jan, 2012
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Gorgeous!
24 Sep, 2011