What is your favorite tree?

[Road Runner]

We have lots of pines down here in the Southeast, but I hate pines.  They are okay to look at, but the pine needles, pine cones, pine sap and pine pollen are a freaking mess.  Those trees are always spewing something, year round.  

My favorite of all the trees I've ever had is the maple.  Great shade, very little maintenance, almost no crap spewing and the leaves all fall in about a two week period around Thanksgiving, making leaf raking much easier.  A great tree to have if you have to have one.    

[AirwickWithCheese]

So tough......

Magnolia, weeping willow, or mighty oak.  

[Ralphie ★]

3 minutes ago, Wile E Coyote said:

almost no crap spewing

[Road Runner]

1 minute ago, AirwickWithCheese said:

Magnolia

Another messy tree.  

[Road Runner]

1 minute ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

Yes, but when that is over in the spring, all is good.  I said, "almost".    

[Ralphie ★]

Just now, Wile E Coyote said:

Yes, but when that is over, all is good.  I said, "almost".    

But it is like a locust plague when at its peak!

[Wilbur ★]

West coast old growth cedars.

Leafy trees, I am fond of birch and willows. 

[Ralphie ★]

I loved our recently deceased Japanese Dogwood and before that, Thundercloud Purple Leaf Plum.  Mighty oaks are my favourite on rides, but I wouldn;t want to have one.  Cedars and cypress and false cypress of various varieties are cool - evergreen and pretty.

[team scooter]

Any kind of evergreens. I planted ten spruce trees in our yard when we moved in.

[AirwickWithCheese]

I HATE what happened to the mighty elm. Every town in America has an Elm Street.  

[Road Runner]

1 minute ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

But it is like a locust plague when at its peak!

All trees spew something in the spring.  At least all of the trees I have owned have.  That maple crap once a year is a zillion times better than nearly constant pine cone droppage.

[Ralphie ★]

1 minute ago, Wile E Coyote said:

All trees spew something in the spring.  At least all of the trees I have owned have.  That maple crap once a year is a zillion times better than nearly constant pine cone droppage.

No argument, pines do suck royally.  There were tons of pine branches out by the curb after our recent ice storm.

[Road Runner]

The only trees I have left are two Dogwoods.  One looks a little on the sickly side and may not be long for this world.  They are very nice small trees and the blooms in the spring are beautiful.  Unfortunately, with all the wind we have in the spring, the Dogwood blooms don't last long.

[AirwickWithCheese]

Cedar trees deserve a mention. 

Beautiful. 

[Road Runner]

4 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

No argument, pines do suck royally.  There were tons of pine branches out by the curb after our recent ice storm.

Ed Zachary.  I walk through my neighborhood and feel sorry for all the old people always out in their yards picking up limbs, cones and raking needles.  And at this time of the year, my black truck is yellow, thanks mostly to those pine trees that can't keep it in their pants.   

[maddmaxx ★]

I live in the middle of lots of trees of all sorts.  Brown leaves suck. Green leaves are nice but are destined to turn brown eventually.  Nuts, Helicopter seeds, and leaves are all gutter cloggers to the point that I took down almost all of my gutters.  Many of my trees behind the back yard were stripped and killed during the major snow storms of a few years ago.  I'm always having to decide when another 80 footer has to come down before it falls on my house.

[UglyBob]

Jacaranda - super messy, but beautiful.

[Square Wheels]

I don't pick favorites.

[team scooter]

24 minutes ago, AirwickWithCheese said:

I HATE what happened to the mighty elm. Every town in America has an Elm Street.  

With the eventual distinction of the Ash, the Ginkgo seems to be the up and coming popular replacement choice for city trees these days. due to soil compaction/salt tolerance on parkways and such. IE, Ginkgo Lane.

[Road Runner]

6 minutes ago, team scooter said:

With the eventual distinction of the Ash

You meant "extinction"?  

[Square Wheels]

What I don't like are vines.  They have taken down more than one tree in our yard.  I see them all over town.  They are impossible to keep up with.  We have a big yard with lots of trees, lots of vines, and lots of pricker bushes.

[goldendesign]

I love the redwoods of California. When I went to San Francisco I spent hours hiking north of the bay in that redwood forest. I also love the Cypress trees in the swamps. We go at least twice a year to either the ocala national forest or the corkscrew park in Naples for hiking and canoeing through.

[team scooter]

12 minutes ago, Wile E Coyote said:

You meant "extinction"?  

[Some Old Guy]

I live in an old neighborhood (mostly built in the 50's/60's).  Lots of homes have huge trees right up next their houses, within ten feet or so.  That is crazy.  I'm sure when those little oaks and pines were planted 50 years ago, the owners never even contemplated or worried at all about the possible long term consequences of having monster tree limbs hanging over their roofs or of the roots invading their foundations and underground sewage lines. 

[Longjohn ★]

28 minutes ago, team scooter said:

With the eventual distinction of the Ash, 

I turn all types of trees into ash. 

[Thaddeus Kosciuszko]

My favorite is the money tree.

But my wife and daughters always manage to get there before me, and it seems all I find on it are the bills.

[groupw]

I have several maple trees. Aside from the spinners, they drop branches like there is no tomorrow! I also have one by the driveway that drops sap in the winter when the temp gets in the 30s. Need to put some spiles into it and see if I can make a little syrup. 

Favorite tree in the yard is probably the ash. Nice tree, nice shade. It's young. I hope it survives the ash borers! 

[Chris...]

Individual tree, weeping willow 

forest, silver birch 

 

[Wilbur ★]

4 minutes ago, Chris... said:

Individual tree, weeping willow 

forest, silver birch 

 

Nice picture.  I used to like Bev Doolittles paintings as they often used Birch trees for cammo. 

[LoneWolf]

5 hours ago, Wile E Coyote said:

My favorite of all the trees I've ever had is the maple.  Great shade, very little maintenance, almost no crap spewing and the leaves all fall in about a two week period around Thanksgiving, making leaf raking much easier.  A great tree to have if you have to have one.    

Really?  Tell that to all the crappy baby maple trees the big ones try to create in my yard, and the helicopters they use to create them.

Maple trees are the rabbits of the tree world, I tell ya.

[Dirtyhip]

Redwoods and Sequoias.  Firs and cedars aren't bad either.

Give me conifers.

[FX_James_7.9]

gingko biloba trees. slow growing, tiny leaves. no maintenance.

 

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[sheep_herder ★]

Green ash and it is native to the northern great plains.

[maddmaxx ★]

[Longjohn ★]

I like the algebra tree, what's really cool is they have square roots.