Comments on: I Say Linden, You Say Lime https://www.scottarboretum.org/say-linden/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:45:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 By: Mary Tipping https://www.scottarboretum.org/say-linden/#comment-871 Wed, 16 Oct 2019 19:53:34 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=3100#comment-871 In reply to Kim Brainard.

Assuming that your beloved basswood is Tilia americana, the species that cross-pollinate readily are Tilia cordata and Tilia platyphyllos.

Regards,

Mary Tipping,
Curator and Plant Recorder

]]> By: Becky Robert https://www.scottarboretum.org/say-linden/#comment-870 Wed, 11 Sep 2019 19:34:43 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=3100#comment-870 In reply to Kim Brainard.

Dear Kim, We are still active on this blog. I have just sent your question to our horticulturist and curator. Hopefully I will have an answer soon.

Sincerely,
Becky Robert
Scott Arboretum

]]> By: Kim Brainard https://www.scottarboretum.org/say-linden/#comment-869 Wed, 11 Sep 2019 19:25:03 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=3100#comment-869 I hope someone is still there to answer my questions as i see this was posted in 2011

]]> By: Kim Brainard https://www.scottarboretum.org/say-linden/#comment-868 Wed, 11 Sep 2019 19:23:25 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=3100#comment-868 I do not understand why they are planting little leaf linden when basswood are so easy to propagate. There seems to be now height difference. Is it just a marketing thing combined with people being ignorant to the fact that they are planting a non native species that could detrimentally affect our basswood?

]]> By: Kim Brainard https://www.scottarboretum.org/say-linden/#comment-867 Wed, 11 Sep 2019 19:13:09 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=3100#comment-867 I live in Minnesota in a primarily basswood wood, some oak, maple, boxelder, ash and elm, a random cottonwood or walnut and there used to be black cherry trees.

Recently i noticed landscapers are planting little leaf linden. And the average Joe around here assumes they are basswood. They are not. I then noticed even rhough we have a great many basswood the DNR is not collecting seeds in our county.
I am guessing we have too many little leaf linden and they are afraid of getting genetically impure seeds.

Can cross pollination eventually change the nature of my beloved basswood?

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