Sour Wood Tree-The source of the BEST honey

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downscale_babe surfside beach, SC(Zone 8b) Aug 06, 2006

This is a picture of one of my favorite trees.I took the picture near our house 2 weeks ago.It was taken before the bag worms started working.They love the flowers as much as the bees.

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StarhillForest Illinois, IL(Zone 5b) Aug 06, 2006

And come back to us again in a couple of months with the fall color!
Guy S.

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downscale_babe surfside beach, SC(Zone 8b) Sep 10, 2006

Sadly my Sour Wood trees will not have Fall Foliage.The High Country of NC is being exfoliated by Web Caterpillars.They just love Sour Wood. The good new is that they cause no lasting damage and they are cyclical.Is any other area having this problem?

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music2keep Peterstown, WV(Zone 6a) Sep 10, 2006

I hope that we're not! having an infestation! That's my favorite kind of honey!

We have tent caterpillars that bad, but in the spring. They're all over our cherry trees.

Is there nothing you can put on them?

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billyporter Nichols, IA(Zone 5a) Sep 10, 2006

Iowa has a lot this year. We haven't for a long time. I didn't know they went in cycles. That explains it.

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Sofi Colts Neck, NJ(Zone 7a) Sep 10, 2006

Can anyone tell me how old this tree has to get before it will flower?

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billyporter Nichols, IA(Zone 5a) Sep 11, 2006

I hope the poor thing just gets another set of leaves in the spring. How old is it now?

My Audubon book says the sourwood honey is esteemed.

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escambiaguy Atmore, AL(Zone 8b) Sep 11, 2006

Maybe cool weather will come before it makes an attempt to leaf back out. That would only stress it more.

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downscale_babe surfside beach, SC(Zone 8b) Sep 12, 2006

It will leaf out in the Spring.I remember this happening before.It's just sad that there will be no Fall foliage display.

Even though it looks really bad there will be no lasting damage.

This is not the case with our Canadian Hemlocks.They are dying and there is nothing we can do.They look like they are coated with frost.I wonder what trees will grow to replace them.This happened with Wormy Chestnuts and now you can't tell that they all died.

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