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Fall foliage is yellow

Golden carpet

Common name honey locust Family fabaceae Life cycle tree Light sun Cultural notes ordinary garden soil This thornless, podless cultivar was planted in our front yard by the township, as a street tree. It is rather late to leaf out in spring, and among the first to be bare in fall. A useful feature is that its golden yellow leaves that drop in October are so small that they don't smother the lawn – they get blown around enough that no raking is required.

We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston.

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