Talk about a messy tree, locust trees are awful! The leave look like Boston ferns (pretty) but when they fall all the little leaves comr down and then the "ribs" of the leaves, but the worst is that they make these horrible "pods" They look like a wide vanilla bean and are about 10 to 12 inches long Just awful and when they fall on my deck they make this terrible clattering sound, which for some reason remonds me of cockroaches Ewee!