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Sorry about the late reply - I have some older ones in my yard that are standing dead, and it's really just the cores that I'm burning (the trunk plus maybe a foot or so up before the wood gets too thin). Buck Brush (another local variety in the ceanothis family) is similarly nice to burn. At the end of the day, it's just another hardwood, but it's rampant around here and with such thin bark, it (like manzanita) seasons very quickly.What is this like to burn? I have a lilac in my yard that is nice but really just a 6 foot high shrub with nice purple flowers but some in town are very, very old and have trunks that are actually tree size.
Man, this is uber cool. Everybody's inventory is a geographic location clue. Some folks have a dozen or more types. I've always been more interested in the small stuff than the big stuff, so I'm as apt to stare at Walnut heartwood or a fluorescing piece of Cherry as throw it on the stack and keep working. In a way, this sort of stuff really brings out my "inner curator" collecting interesting pieces, and I'll consider myself the docent of the property.