Author Topic: At this moment, which is your favorite tree? (Appreciate Autumn, you crap bags)  (Read 21339 times)

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There is a maple tree a block away in my neighborhood that always starts turning half red and the other half is green.  It's a helluva tree and my favorite right now as it is in it's prime

wait do u live in my neighborhood

Maybe!  I'll post a picture of the tree and we can see.

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Today this is my favorite tree.  It’s a sycamore that I bought from a nursery on clearance out of season 10 years ago for $8.  At the time it was barely a stick.  Now, 10 years later, I would estimate it to be 15 feet tall or so.  But I don’t like it for it’s fall foliage…the leaves on American Sycamores just kinda turn wilty and brown.  It is my fav for 2 reasons:

1.  It sheds it’s bark like a snake sheds it’s skin and that’s kewl
2.  As you can see in the background, I live on a T-road.  My house would be where the vertical part of the T meets the horizontal part.  It’s a dead end both ways, so we get minimal traffic (if I see two cars on the same Saturday that’s a weird day).  Anyway, I strategically planted that sycamore 10 years ago at a weird angle compared to the rest of the house so when it grew up and people came down our road, when they get to the T they can’t see my front porch because of the sycamore foliage.  It has now grown to the point where I can now pee off my front porch with impunity and that’s rad


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We do not live in the same neighborhood

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What are the ones that turn bright yellow called?  There is one at my kids school that is turning bright yellow from the top down.  What is the species?  Characteristics: pretty tall, broad leaf, turning yellow, formerly green.

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One of our Maples started turning crazy red a couple falls ago and I'm not complaining.

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One of our Maples started turning crazy red a couple falls ago and I'm not complaining.

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That's an amazing tree.

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Pandas tree is my favorite tree

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that tree doesn't really look like it gives much cover for front yard urination, fatdamon.
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that tree doesn't really look like it gives much cover for front yard urination, fatdamon.

I don’t need much :(
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One of our Maples started turning crazy red a couple falls ago and I'm not complaining.

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That's an amazing tree.

Thanks. I know nothing about trees, but we completely redid our yard the year before so I'm wondering if all the extra watering caused it to go nuts?  :dunno:
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Pandas tree is my favorite tree

It's crazy. It only takes a couple days to go completely red. Raking it up blows.
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Pandas tree is my favorite tree

It's crazy. It only takes a couple days to go completely red. Raking it up blows.
It looks awesome.

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this lil guy isn’t as good as Panda’s but it’s my favorite tree today


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Today I’m all about this lil’ yella fella


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fatdamon, I appreciate your enthusiasm for this thread.  Keep up the good work. 

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Maple trees are the crap.  I also like burning bushes, but this is a tree thread.
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fatdamon, I appreciate your enthusiasm for this thread.  Keep up the good work.

thanks man
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Tree tunnel to the workshop about to pop off


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FD, do you rake all those leaves or let it go au natural?