Love em or hate em..... they give us all a great deal of work don't they. Personal ive had my mind changed about them over a couple of years ago. i use to think of them as weeds that just grow anywhere ruin the customers garden by laying seeds by the thousand blowing up against walls and dislodging panels and pushing walls over, then you have the honey dew that comes off the leaves and turns anything it comes across a dirty black through sooty molds, this a by product of the gazillion green fly that scatter like dust once you disturb them, the crawl in your ears, nose and mouth your hair feels like you've got nits and you need to see Nora the nurse. Then you have the other side of it the Sycamore is a proper tree in all the sense of it in many cases growing to over 80ft given the right circumstances and if they all disappeared over night how much would the landscape change . People who think of it as a weed take another look at it from a distance, its got great shape, a really good tree form and in spring and autumn has great colour, I always look forward to the first leaves of the sycamore sprouting because i know that in a very short amount of time the landscape is going to be transformed into summer due to the amount of them there are about, they are great to climb also and i know i can always get good shape on a reduce or a thin and theres rarely much dead wood, also you loggers i believe it good to burn. Its hard to believe its not really a native, not sure myself where it originated i thought it came from Greece myself, or that way brought over by the romans but Ive also heard people say they think it came by way of america or Canada.... don't know? What i do know is I like the sycamore an count it as one of my favorite trees
Whats your thoughts i would be interested like to know ?