Good Looking Trees
Y’all have trees you would just love to have in your front yard? (Weather no issue, let’s say it grows wherever your at)
I was recently in Monterrey, California and one tree that’s common there is the Cypruss calscape.com
I fucking love those things. I would put them all over my block if I could get away with it.
Also I do really like looking at those Mexican Fan Palm trees (think Hollywood the real tall ones) I think when they line the streets that’s looks so sharp. All those out there are about a century old. They aren’t even native to LA but in the 20’s folks wanted Los Angeles to have biblical feel so they planted them. I think that was good foresight came out to be iconic of that state www.arcgis.com
Honorable mention to those Oak Trees with Spanish moss you find in Savanah, Georgia. innonwestliberty.com
How about y’all out there?
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last commentMy parents lived in Florida and I fell in love with the purple jacarandas when in bloom
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*Specifically the Monterey Cypruss (there are other types of Cypruss but I mean that one)
And yeah Motörhead I could see the appeal. Not gonna miss that house.
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And you know when I was growing up, one hippie couple down the block had a “bamboo” house. Just fucking thickets of bamboo in the front and back yard, could hardly see the house. We used to take the bamboo and do medieval jousting and sword fights with it and they would get pissed. But all the neighbors hated them because bamboo grows like crazy you can’t stop it. Smells like shit too. It was even fucking up the street from underneath. The whole thing looked ridiculous.
This was in Long Island too, it’s all Levitt houses for miles and miles, very dense so everyone is on top each other, making bamboo a BITCH to your neighbors 5 yards away.
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Muddy, Trees don't really do it for me, but everyone has their own kinks, so here you go.
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Oh, that's not what you meant? Well, in South Florida I have seen some Rainbow Eucalyptus trees that were beautiful. www.oneearth.org
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Japanese maple.
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^exceptional choice, so I will choose Sugar maple and wait for fall.
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If you have a large piece of property thi tree is a banyan the amount of shade is amazing
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I was in Rome this past winter and really liked these "stone pine" trees.
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Oak and sugar maple. Throw in a big white pine.
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got a big ass oak shading most all my family cabin. probably 98 years old.
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At the Highlands County Courthouse in central Florida there’s a huge Banyan tree. Kids can walk thru it.
One of the Hurricanes that passed thru Central Florida - maybe Charley ? - damaged it so its not as impressive as it once was
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^ there are some very large estate properties near my home a few have very large banyan trees that are spectacular there’s one in particular about 2 miles from my home a huge sprawling area has to be at least 10-15 acres completely surrounded by a huge hedge, the you can’t see the house but there is a banyan tree in the front yard that the canopy spans at least 2-3 acres it’s an absolutely spectacular tree with the multiple trunks at least 100 feet in diameter
It’s a sight to behold
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You "leaves" get off my lawn.
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A well groomed bush. Slight floral scent. And cherry trees.
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We've got a magnificent oak in our backyard, planted in 1961 by previous owners daughter as grade school project.
Read a book about how oaks support the widest variety of insects and other life than any other tree family.
But what I love seeing most is groves of giant conifers, that Oregon used to have so much more of.
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There used to be a beautiful big Monterey cypress behind my place. Eventually it got too big and was taken down. I was sad to see it go, but since that time my annual spring affliction of itchy eyes and sneezing fits is a thing of the past. Over a third of the Japanese population suffers from the same cedar/cypress pollen allergy.
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I grew up in NY. The Adirondack Mountains & Catskills are spectacular in Fall: oak, sugar maple, elm, birch, etc just burst with color.
Where we lived 15 years ago here in Colorado our neighbor had an Aspen. These bastards spread like bamboo. It had shoots invading our yard. As I mowed the yard I’d make a small trench around the shoot, cut the runner and pour on some Round-Up in hopes the runners would take it back to the tree. Man it was annoying!
I do miss the colors of NYS.
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As an avid hunter, Quercus Alba, White Oak. At maturity, they are magnificent.
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Not to revive a thread but check out these trees in Madgascar called the baobab. www.fauna-flora.org
Amazing. That might be one to try to plant one day but I hear it takes centuries to get to that size.
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When it comes to palm trees, gotta be a date. I like trees that produce fruit and nuts, like pecan and walnut. Although they can be messy, it gives you something to do when you’re a home body to harvest and clean.
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I like willows, palm trees, pomegranate trees, banana trees, olive trees
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I have two banyan trees on my property which I had planted. The hardest part was rerouting all of the irrigation lines so they would not get fucked up when the trees began spreading. I thought those would be my favorites, but my real pride and joy are the travelers palms. I had never seen these things before I bought them and they are massive and truly unique. Eucalyptus trees are notorious water hogs and we already have regular aquifer problems in FL, so that was a pass as were the bamboo for reasons already stated. Otherwise, with native pine, palm, and my fruit trees (avocado, mango, mamey), I a done with high maintenance trees.
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Magnolias can just barely maybe survive in my region and I love the glossy leaves and the white blossoms.
Bamboo spreads everywhere. You’ll need a backhoe to try to eradicate it
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