My question is- why WOULDN'T you be able to ?? I dont know anything about this tree.

Hi Maude - Thanks for hoping on, I waited a while & since no one responded I called a nursery to find out ... "NO" was the response - too heavy, will mat down & might suffocate my Hydrangeas. In a way I was glad I didn't, as this past Winter was the snowiest from beginning to end, in a long while! A friend wanted all my bags & bags of collected leaves for her raspberry bushes - so, were put to good use.

I know Old Gingko is a she, now - only started fruiting in the past 6 or so years. He was planted in the early '80s as a none-fruiting tree ... grew so handsomely tall and majestic that I have always called him my Prince! 2005 was a bumper-crop year (whew & phwee!!!) & dreaded each year after that. The following year must have been a rest year for fruits ... 2 wks of subfreezing temps in April of 2007 must have killed all the buds ... I'm not sure what's in store this Fall.

I understand that U of I & I-State had taken down all the beautiful Gingko trees along their campus curbs. I'm hoping that the tree experts will come up with a solution yet ... it'll break my heart to take this majestic tree down!

Lilycrazy - Gingko is a stately tree with beautiful, leathery, fan shaped leaves that turn to amazingly beautiful, glowing, golden yellow in the Fall & drops all at once when Mother Nature snaps! The fruits are fleshy with edible kernels (give foul smell as fruit disintegrates) - native of China, Japan & Korea - the only surviving species of Gymnosperms that flourished during the dinosaur age. Bible stories claim this to be the tree-seedling, Noah brought on the Arc, to save from the great deluge. Gingko Biloba is used as memory boosters.

Thanks again for your interest! :-)
Ditas

Our ginkgo, fortunately a male, did not turn gold this year and did not lose it’s leaves all at once contrary to past experiences. The extremely wet weather may have been a factor..

Badger

My Ginkgo dropped it's leaves green, too. I am going to place them in an area that I call 'the forest'. It can flood there (water just sort of sits there vs rushes through). I may place other type leaves under them. The Ginkgo will hold the more fly away leaves. Nothing grows in this area due to the water, but maybe some day!

By the end of October, every ginkgo tree will turn BEAUTIFULLY golden here in Silicon Valley of California.

Last year I was too lazy to remove the ginkgo leaves. So I just let it mulch all 3 of my blueberries (Sunshine blue). This spring, to my surprise, it gives a super boost to them. So many new shoots and so many berries! My neighbor also grows 3 blueberries of the same type on the other side of the low fence, 3 feet from mine. But his gardener cleans up all dead leaves. So no mulching at all. This spring his blueberry bushes are so tiny and sad compare to mine. I wonder...

Perhaps GInkgo leaves provide the needed acidic compost? or it provides super nutrients?