my seed list was last updated 12/7/14. some seeds have been traded/used since then. but I have not found the magic link to update my list. can email current list to anyone interested.

Cleocrafta - free protein! LOL Sorry, just being a smarty-pants, don't know what you could do to prevent the worm. (I think your theory about the egg being laid in the blossom is correct.) Guess you just avoid the brown-streaked fruits; hope they are not many. If the green fruit is toxic, it is not so to squirrels & chipmunks or I'd have no more of those pests in my yard. (Of course, that is true of many plants & fungi we humans cannot eat.) They are getting ALL of them from the various beds I had tried to hide them in! Someone a couple of years ago wrote that "the Seed packet says germination in 28-35 days at 77-85 degrees" and that the plants were determinate. Usually I just allow the plants that have self-sowed pop up in the garden but this year I wanted to try some new varieties so started them under lights as I do my other veggie plants and they certainly did not take anywhere near as long as mentioned above. Certainly no longer than peppers (which always come up quicker than packet info says). I do use bottom heat for germinating nightshade family seeds. As far as determinate... Uh, no. Like the Eveready bunny they just keep going and going and going.... All but one of the ground cherry plants I have had over the years grow no more than about 12"-18" tall, but sprawl out in all directions (and do not root along the stems as tomatoes do - probably a good thing!). But this year I had one appear in my raspberry bed that has gotten nearly 3 feet tall. I think it used the canes for support as both plants grew. Of course, the squirrels found that one, too... (but seem not to be eating the raspberries, thankfully.)

If shade is required you will need a big tree, tornado or no tornado. Resistant elm is a very good choice, male gingko is another, as are the lindens. Personally I love the catalpa trees but they are messy and may get infested with the catalpa worms that some fishermen love. Still the hubby or you will have to clean up leaves from any of those listed, and many also seed out both of which will get into gutters and downspouts. For something different perhaps the bald cypress. My choice is not listed here however, Shademaster Honey Locust, grows quickly, gets big, seedless, thornless, with leaves that fragment into tiny segments that run through the lawnmower into nothingness. The Honey locusts in general have deep rather than shallow roots, and provide dappled shade that allows grass to grow right up to the trunk. Wild types have massive and dangerous thorns and large messy seed pods that drop in autumn, but those have been bred out of a number of ornamental cultivars such as Shademaster. Sunburst Honey Locust, also seedless and thornless is one of the prettiest trees around as it comes into leaf, but is smaller topping out at around 40 feet. Imperial is another thornless variety in a bigger size but may produce seed pods, which drop in the autumn and can be a mess. Furthermore you have to pick them up because not only may they germinate, the seedlings are very apt to have quite a crop of thorns, reverting as it were. Better Shademaster than Imperial for size, for appearance best is the smaller Sunburst.

convert the common name to the latin thru google ... then add 'annual growth rate' ... and THEN research ... see link ... down a few links it says: When young, kousa dogwoods have a medium growth rate of about 13 to 24 inches per year. Older trees slow down, growing 12 inches or less per year ==>>> the variance is particular to where you live.. e.g pnw 8 month growing season ... MI 5 months .. its going to be much more aggressive in the former ... [if it grows there] no tree ever stops growing ... so dont put much stock on listed mature heights .. its all about how many inches it grows.. per year.. for how many decades ... though obviously.. this is not going to end up.. a 100 foot oak type plant ... one way to get a slower growing version.. is to buy a variegated version.. less green.. less food production .. less annual growth .. generally speaking ... but they may be rather foo foo for your area ... wherever that might be ... and it will probably be double or triple the cost ... ken almost forgot the link.. again: https://www.google.com/search?q=Cornus+mas&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=Cornus+mas+annual+growth+rate