It is rot resistant. So when I love a certain specimen, I tend to use it with great abandon in my garden. 1. Because it grows quickly, 30-50 ‘ high at maturity and up to 30’ wide, when broken branches are left hanging on to the tree, it is not easy to cut off. It is a great garden tree, with a canopy spread of only 4-5 metres and it will grow well in the middle of a lawn with grass growing right up to its trunk. (Honey Locust) Gleditsia triacanthos is a deciduous, fast grow-ing tree. Golden locust branches are brittle and have thorns. With the slightest wind, they break off, make a mess and take quite a bit of time to clean up. Thornless varieties such as Sunburst and Inermis are available … It is a thornless variety that is tough enough to be plant in city gardens as it is quite tolerant of pollution.
Gleditsia trees are commonly known as 'Honey Locust' trees and they are native to North America and Asia. I first came across this specimen on a trip to London in late spring, close to two decades ago. Gleditsia - Honey Locust Trees.
A fast-growing tree with golden yellow, spring foliage which darkens to pale green but then turns butter yellow in autumn. GLEDITSIA TRICANTHOS SUNBURST – Honey Locust or Golden Gleditsia Characteristics A member of the pea family, the honey locust is a tree which has delicate fern like leaves subdivided into leaflets. Gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis 'Sunburst' (Honey Locust Sunburst) - 9L pot. This tree is thornless, unlike wild varieties.
If you come across a Black Locust tree stump, there’ll be shoots popping out of it in no time and you’ll be able to harvest more timber in just a few years. It has an open habit, casting only a light shade underneath its canopy. This is a very fast growing hardwood tree, which in many cases is an oxymoron, but rings true with this tree. It grows with an open, spreading canopy and has attractive, fine, somewhat weeping foliage.
Buy honey locust Gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis Sunburst - Magnificent medium sized thornless tree: 10 lt pot (1.5-1.8m): £84.99 Delivery by Crocus 2. This robinia needs a lot of maintenance.
Hardy and generally disease free, this tree is sure to present a beautiful centrepiece for your garden.
The genus is from the family Fabaceae and the Latin name of Gleditsia was given in commemoration of Johann Gottlieb Gleditch (1714-1786) who was the director of the Berlin Botanical Gardens. Such was the case with Robinia pseudoacacia ‘Frisia’ and ‘Purple Robe’.
A deciduous tree with elegant foliage, often on spiny branches, this tree is slim in a manner reminiscent of a birch. A fast-growing tree that is one of the most effective golden trees. Tolerance of pollu-tion makes it an ideal tree for urban planting. This Honey Locust has glorious golden-yellow leaf fronds, made up of rows of little leaflets, that seem to sniff the breeze as they sway about.
I’m a pretty intense gardener. The tree is also a great source of high-quality firewood.