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Poplar trees
Would anybody know which type of Poplar grows the white cottony fluffy stuff? In May/June the fluff detaches itself from the trees and the wind blows it around. It's a nightmare as it gets everywhere.
We want to plant about 50 poplar trees at the side of our paddocks as a wind break but certainly don't want the type which lets the fluffy stuff. Could anybody point me out the right direction please? Many thanks
PS: we are in the UK Lincolnshire
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It's willows that put out the fluffy stuff here. S. alba, fragilis and rosemarifolius, all do it
I have what I think are hybrid black poplars, they don't do that and the lombardies have never produced a flower that I've noticed.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thank you pansyface
Some friends lived in North Lincs. The windbreak on one field was some sort of damson or bullace. Delicious!
We had a row of 27 poplars along the boundary of our paddock. Never saw any white stuff.
A storm brought down two of them - across our neighbour's paddock - so a couple of years ago we had the remainder cut down and are replacing them with ordinary willow trees to suck up the excess moisture and a weeping willow for pretties and to hide the view of a house across the paddocks which is set to become a building site this summer when the new owners add an extra storey.
The true Lombardy poplar cloe, var italica is a male clone, no seeds. There is a female clone P. nigra " foemina" which is fastigiate but much broader than the true lombardy. The Hybrid Black poplars, P Robusta and P serotina are both male [ but both huge trees ].