Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native plants @ Wildflowers. Part 3., 1 by frostweed

frostweed wrote:
Here is a picture of a Flameleaf Sumac, (Rhus lanceolata )
When we started the native plant habitat I wanted as many native ornamental trees as possible, to provide food and shelter for the birds.
Well, I hunted a lot to find some of those trees, and now I am very happy, but unfortunately as they grow it is also getting too crowded for flowers, so I have resorted to pollarding.
We cut it back to the main branches in the fall, and it grows very quickly in the spring, with the advantage of fresh growth and no dead wood.
This is how it looks right now.