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4. It's not a mimosa or an acacia - it's Sophora Japonica (Japanese Pagoda).
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 08:57 PM
Jul 2017

That one, he's not allergic to; we have done multiple rounds of allergen testing, with local identification. We don't *like* the pagoda, but we don't have much choice on it. We had one at the previous house, too; that one was over the driveway and shed leaves and sap, so this one is an improvement. Pagodas are fairly common builder trees locally - they're not too thirsty, they grow fast and they're slightly less messy than cottonwood. (Slightly.)

The shrubbery on that side is somewhere in privet, and he hived up after his first encounter with it. That one, he's known about for a long time.

He has an Admiral Akbar immune system -- everything is a trap. We deal with it, and I know he's never going to spend much time in the outdoors again. I just don't want him swelling up when he goes for the mail.

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