Don't know where in Ohio you're at but several of the nurseries here in the Cleveland area carry this tree. We have one, Royal Victorian Gardens, in North Royalton (s. of Cleveland) that carries a lot of different and unusual species because plant nuts like me beg for the unusual!

One of the easiest ways to provide your photo to be embedded into a post is to upload it onto an image hosting site such as Photobucket, Flickr, etc. That should be pretty straight forward, and the individual sites will give instructions on how to get your photos uploaded to their site when you sign up. Once your picture has been uploaded, find its web address by right clicking on the image and copying the image location. Some sites may even provide your image's address in a text box below the photo for your convenience. Let's say, as an example, that the address of the picture you want to post is http://somepicturesite.com/yourpicture.jpg To embed the picture into a post, use the command: img src="http://somepicturesite.com/yourpicture.jpg"> _____________________________________ If your picture is too large to fit nicely into the text page, you can add a width attribute. The command with the width attribute would look something like: img src="http://somepicturesite.com/yourpicture.jpg" width=600> _____________________________________ Another option is to use a text link which might be beneficial to people on slow connections. To do this, use the command: a href="http://somepicturesite.com/yourpicture.jpg">your text goes here/a> _____________________________________ Note that I had to use special characters to get the commands above to show up here without turning into pictures, but you can use them as shown (with the correct image web address, of course).

I have several purple robed locusts. They are very beautiful with dappled shade. Their branch structure is more spare than other locusts. They have multiple suckers coming up which are black locusts, more dense with white flowers. I need the shade so I'm letting the suckers grow. The suckers have long sharp thorns. Have 4 mimosas. They are late to leaf out. Their leaves stay late in Autumn. Flowers are nice and fluffy. Light shade. Squirrels use these trees to access the roof, fun to watch them scurry. The locusts are more drought tolerant. Both trees like heat and sun, and the mimosa wants a lot of water. The locusts will get taller than the mimosas. I planted these trees on a raised bed patio for dappled shade, and because I need trees there that will enjoy the full blasting sun over the roof. The raised bed patio is a good size and is flagstoned (hand-sized gaps between stones) and I needed a tree with very aggressive strong roots to bind all the dirt in the patio together -- the purple robed locust has very aggressive ropey roots that travel far and has been the perfect tree to bind the patio. There's creeklets alongside the bottom of the patio raised bed so once those locust roots hit the creeklets it can slurp up all the water it desires. Some folks do not like mimosas but I do, very pretty in summer, birds flock to them. Have seen old ones make a lovely umbrella canopy. Also have a shademaster locust, nice rich green, and several neighbors have very beautiful golden locusts.

I have seen the wild type Robina pseudoacacia get yellow leaves this time of year, so if you are only loosing say 10-15% I wouldn't worry about it much the plant in the picute appears to be normal.