After living in the Sierra and working in the desert, I thought that I'd never own any spiny plants in my landscape. We still have some invasive Himilayan blackberries, under control, for eating and habitat for birds and snakes and critters. The sierras were free of anything poisonous or sticky...
My concern is mostly for the groundmen. I'll be busy rigging the thing down, so I'll be away from the young growth. From the ground, I saw some thorns, mostly small. Just didn't want to get caught off-guard.
Thanks for input.
The thorns that I saw were small, like I've seen on honeylocust. I've seen some that were over an inch long. My friend's groundie got stuck in the finger and he had a sore knuckle for about a month. This HO said that while cleaning up storm damage, he got poked, and ended up going to the doctor...
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