russian olive

I have one too. It hasn't spread, and it's been there for probably 25 years or so. I love mine, there is nothing like that cotton candy smell when it blooms. You can taste the air.

Nope, sorry. Hawthornes are it. No contest. The 1 1/2" to 2" long thorns put anything else to shame. Besides they grow in the original posters area.

while hawthorn grows on our farm, we have had little luck growing it in this area the past 40 years though. some better luck with locust but like a diversity of plants even in the fence row! right now i am cutting out the boxelder that has dominated this area and will be transplanting some spruce and cedar when it drys (and thaws!) up a bit.

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cruachan

it is a trashy tree, tough thing will survive nearly any thing, and was once sold as wind break trees in Colorado but since has been banned or discontinued as it is not native, I have a few growing in a wind brake, but I would not replant them to day if I was doing it now,

I had good results with blackberry and raspberry plants along my property line.

The used to be sold in my home state as a wildlife food for their berries (olives). Being a conscientious person and wanting to help the wildlife I planted some....... I had a 7 acre bottoms, they all most took the field before I knew what was happening. They have a huge root system and are almost impossible to pull out with a tractor when they are as small as 1 1/2 inches in diameter.....

In the right place they are as invasive as kudzoo, johnson grass, or multiflor-rose. You would be better off with black-locust.

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Moving to that big black hole in the night satellite photo. (also the hole in cell phone coverage )

I used pyracantha for around our heat pump and am planning on putting on the property line. I love its nice big thorns, beautiful flowers and it attracts birds with the red berries.

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