Privacy
to patio
we did seek.

Pepper Tree
to rescue
with nary a peek.

Particulates
on Patio
never too bad.

Pater
with blower
clears the pad.

Trees,
Bees,
Geez!

Joe

I do not like GREEN EGGS AND HAM, I do not like them SAM I AM?

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Bearstate,

I was just looking at a seed site the other day and ran across seed for either a pepper tree or bush. I was thinking about checking into it as I could grow my own peppercorns. This would be planted out in my veggie garden area. I take it by your poem that the peppertree can be a problem. Please elaborate.

OGG

It'll be about a month and I'll take a picture of the mess. I have two fully mature Pepper Trees right outside my front door and ...

1) They drop a lot of leaves
2) They drop a lot of peppercorns
3) The peppercorns often are rotting or decaying and the leaves exude a sticky residue. Combined, they make a sticky mess.
4) Leaves and pepper corns stick to the bottom of your shoes and get tracked inside and stain the carpet, leaving a leaf here, a leaf there, a leaf everywhere from living room to back patio. And you have to use the nozzle attachment of the vacuum cleaner to get them up and sometimes if they are sticky enough, you have to bend yourself over and pick at them from the carpet.
5) The decaying pepper corns, even if you sweep them away every morning, exude enough syrupy mess that they actually stain the sidewalks -- PERMENANTLY.
6) Peppercorns are very fertile and in the Spring, you'll have tons of germinating little Pepper Trees to hula hoe.

That all happens in the fall.

I'll try and post pictures later.

I think you have an area where you can have a Pepper Tree and not worry about its messier side, they are wonderfull. But just outside the front door is an awful place to have them.

Be aware.

Pretty, but one of the messiest trees on the streets of L.A. I do like their mature shape - but in someone else's yard - I would never plant one.

OGG,

The pepper of commerce is obtained from Piper nigrum, a vine from Southern India. Pepper tree seeds don't taste quite the same and large amounts may irritate the mouth, throat and stomach.

Ryan

Gee, I must have a rare pepper tree planted in the perfect spot.... and, in 10 years I've never seen a seedling.

(Have I doomed myself?)

Westelle, some people like Privet, but I can't even think of a nice poem about it.... I really hate it.

Westelle,

There may be more than one variety of pepper tree here in CA. I don't know what variety I have here, nor do I know if all pepper trees are messy. I suspect these here are the Peruvian Pepper Tree, but don't know for sure.

Then too, perhaps yours is not a fully mature tree or is a sterile hybrid?

These babies here are definitely not sterile and what every variety they are, they are the messy one.

heathen:
Privet as a border
I have had.
Smells like urine
Bad! Bad! Bad!

bearstate: Schinus molle is what I have.

Heathen?

No heathen heart beats in this chest.
My intellect, perhaps not greatest, nor the best
Pigeon holes my ilk in a far different set
of that your bottom dollar, you can bet

And when I look down upon my own hand
I see not a hand, but something far more grand
I see myself, as though I had always been there
On the sliver of time, spiritually, self aware.

And so, far beyond any heathen ignorance
Upon my open hand with but that single glance
My realization goes far beyond self alone
Under sticky Pepper Tree with omnipresent God, I go

Westelle: Shinus molle is the Peruvian Pepper Tree.

I wonder why a Pepper Tree
brings out the poet in me?

Nice poem Bearstate! :o) But heathens aren't ignorant... cept this one isn't a very good poet. Nowadays, dirty heathens choose their path after much study. :o)

Well, I guess even a heathen can rub the philosopher's stone.