Sweetgum 'Slender Silhouette'

For those of you who don't hate the species, here's a pretty cool one.

Why's it so skinny?

That's why it's named 'Slender Silhouette'. I looked all over the country for one. Finally found one for sale right in my neighborhood.

Oh that makes sense, I'm just used to the ones growing around here. They grow like weeds.

I really like the shape of that and it works so well where you've planted it.

Lovely shape. Looks like a columnar type would do well in windy areas - not a wide silhouette to catch the wind with. And anything that will survive and maybe even thrive in the High Desert when planted in nearly pure sand and blasted by 50 MPH winds during 107*F summers and frozen in 8*F winters with little to no snow insulation works for me. It's been almost exactly a year since I rescued them from HD, and my 3 little sweet gum 'Festivals' are doing well - although NOT growing like weeds by any stretch of the imagination!

Core,
They ARE weeds where you're located.

Ah-HAH!
The sleeping curmudgeon finally awaketh!
Where ya been, Lucky?
Guy S.

Lucky I'm in the Low country of SC. About 1 mile from the ocean and about 10 miles from Savanah GA.

Heaven could surely be Savannah in the spring... dogwoods, azaleas, Spanish moss hanging from the trees, with lovely breezes through the (not sweet gum) trees and well before the stifling humidity of summer... I do sometimes miss living in The South (saw Gone With The Wind at a very young and impressionable age)... (on the other hand, Hell could possibly be Savannah in the middle of summer.... ;-)

Yeah, Core; I know - I was through there about a month ago. Loveliest part of SC that I saw on my trip.

I've been busy - wife & eldest son touring Italy, so I've been single-parenting; making sure the other three get to whatever football/soccer/dance practices they have, trying to stay abreast of the laundry & dishes, move the cows to a fresh paddock every 2-3 days, and try to do some bush-hogging when I can catch an hour or two free. That, and still working my day job.

Sounds like I've missed some 'excitement'.

Someone said "Savannah".

Is this tree going to be there?

We moved from Oregon to Savannah, for about 8 months, and bailed out due to insects.

In Oregon, ice brutalizes sweet gum. In GA, ice wouldn't hammer sweet gum, but the wind storms could cause "major inconveniences".

Here in Indiana I have a sweet gum and this is the first one I have had. It is about 25 years old and is lovely except the horrid seed pods or "balls" whatever one calls them. But the tree is just lovely.

What's funny is sweet gums literally grow like weeds where I am. Along the bank of my lagoon I pull up 5 or 6 seedlings a year. I let a couple grow in my yard and they grow probably 3 ft a year. I cut down a 10 ft one and my cordless sawall ran out of juice so I ended up with a bare 3 ft trunk. Within a week the lifeless trunk grew about 10 branches, leaves all over them. Never seen anything like it. I cut it off to the ground this week let's see if it starts growing agian. LOL.

I'd be cautious about planting one in the northeast or midwest. They are the second favorite food of gypsy moths next to oaks.