What kind of trees do you have on your lawn?

[JenBayles]

In the front, one live oak that must be genetically defective - in 14 years it really hasn't grown much on the crown, but the trunk is getting pretty massive. A hated Bradford Pear that I want cut down because the fly-by-night cheap illegal Mexican laborers that Dave hired on a whim did a number on it a few years ago and totally wrecked the form. It's too close to the house, but Dave just can't bear to cut down a tree. <sigh> A spindly crape myrtle I'd just as soon have ripped out adorns the corner of the house.

The back lawn is dominated by a fabulous live oak specimen, and it's currently in the midst of the the 2-month long leaf drop - soon to be followed by the pollen balls and flowers - most of which gets blown into the pool. Oh to have a cover this time of year! Two oleanders and a Texas Mountain Laurel around the pool. The mountain laurel is about to bloom - it has clusters of deep blue/purple blooms that smell very stronly of... Grape Nehi!

Does a potted 12 foot plumeria count as a tree? How about a Meyer Lemon? My burford hollies may look like bushes, but they're big enough to qualify as trees by now. Oops! Almost forgot my Happy Chappy tree rose - bloomed all winter and now covered with buds and ready to explode in bloom. Spring is finally springing here.

[JQ Public]

Right now we have

Japanese Snowbell "Emerald Pagoda" (front)
Deciduous Flowering Magnolia "Black Tulip" (front)
Evergreen Southern Magnolia (front)
Southern Red Oak (front)
Flowering Dogwood (backyard)

Before my dad went psycho and cut down all the trees we also had...

2 Red Maples (front and backyard)
1 Honey Locust (front)
2 more Southern Red Oaks (backyard)
2-3 Hickories (backyard)
1 Ash (backyard)
3 White Oaks (back and side)
1 Post Oak (backyard)
3 Northern Red Oak (back and side)
1 Sweetgum (backyard)
1 American Beech (backyard)
1 Winged-Elm (side)
1 Eastern Red Cedar (front)

sigh as you can tell I like trees b/c they were cut down 2 years ago and I still remember them all lol. To think he did all this because I was off in college and not able to help w/ outdoor chores!

[dizzyfish]

2 Black Jack Oaks
2 Southern Red Oaks
1 Maple
2 White Ash
1 Ponderosa Pine
2 Plumeria
2 Evergreens - don't have a clue what kind
Several live oaks one of which is HUGE.

I started to count all of our trees once - gave up at about 25.

[Yankeegirl]

Two stupid pine trees that drop sap all over the cars... They are going to get cut down sooner or later!!!

[Tennesseestorm]

Do you know what type of pine trees they are or post photos of them?

Two stupid pine trees that drop sap all over the cars... They are going to get cut down sooner or later!!!

[Tennesseestorm]

Are your evergreens pine trees? If you have photos I may can identify.

Sounds like your Live Oaks are nice! I have two, but they are only about 2 years and old and are small. I was going to buy another 5ft from Sooner, but since these are extremely wide spreading trees, I do not have room for another. We only have about and acre and a half and the ones I have now will take up that much and I have like 25 other trees! LOL.
Probably not in my lifetime though... by the time they get that big, I will probably be long gone from this earth.

I have another Slash pine and Loblolly pine on the way.... after that, thats it... no more room!

2 Black Jack Oaks

2 Evergreens - don't have a clue what kind
Several live oaks one of which is HUGE.

I started to count all of our trees once - gave up at about 25.

[dizzyfish]

I think I have narrowed it down some. They are either a Eastern Red Cedar or Aborvitae - Green Giant.

http://www.naturehills.com/new/product/ ... =Evergreen

I like the looks of your Loblolly!

We had a couple of Slash Pines at our old place in Tampa. Well, one when we left - a twister took out the other one.

I forgot about the Golden Rain Tree we planted a couple of years ago.

[JenBayles]

I LOVE those Golden Rain trees! With our several years of warm winter weather in Houston, many have made it maturity, and what a show they put on in the Fall! My mom tried one back in the 80's but it couldn't hack the streak of 20-degree weather we had in it's first 2 years. Just as well since she has a small yard and the magnolia now takes up a good half of it. Mom never did have a good eye for measurements - the tag says 75 feet tall by 30 feet wide, and she would still haul it home and send Dad outside with the shovel. LOL!

Another behemoth, but beautiful shrub I have is a double-flowering (fruitless) pomegranate. Anyone have one of those? I've seen quite a few in the New Orleans area, and in the older areas of Houston, but they're rarely available at the nurseries these days. They're fast growers and need as much room as a large variety oleander, but very hardy and rewarding with bright orange flowers May through June.

[abajan]

Trees in the back yard:

1 large Mango Tree (presently with blossoms and some young mangoes + 1 mango I recently picked that should be ripe by tomorrow - I can hardly wait... YUMMY! )

1 Lime Tree that's been bearing prolifically since about July last year and some of the limes have been quite large. Tip: The trick to a good glass of limeade: Use limes that aren't fully ripe.

1 Seedless Orange Tree - Bears very few fruit annually. But they're quite sweet.

2 Sugar Apple Trees - One of the most heavenly fruit known to man! Just one problem: The birds get most of the fruit before I have a chance to pick them... AAARGH!

1 Fig Tree (Not the same fruit most of you know as figs. What we in Barbados call a fig resembles a short banana)

1 male Paw-paw (Papaya) Tree - Since it's male, it will bear no fruit but the Arawaks (former inhabitants of Barbados many centuries ago) discovered that practically every part of the Papaya tree has some sort of medicinal use.


Trees in the front yard:

A number of small Palms

1 Pine Tree (I'm not sure what type it is but when its leaves are rubbed it smells like Christmas! As a matter of fact, we used to string it with lights at Xmas but over the years it got too big for that.)