What kind of trees do you have on your lawn?

[Tennesseestorm]

Not sure if we have had this thread before, but with spring planting here, I thought it would be neat too see what all trees everyone has on their property.

I currently have the following trees in my lawn:

Southern magnolia
Southern red oak
Weeping willow
Longleaf pines (2)
Loblolly pines (6)
Bald cypress
Washingtonia palm
Southern live oaks (2)
Beech (2)
White pines (5)
Black willow
White willow
Peach
Apple
River cane (bamboo?)
Yuccas - Spanish Bayonet & Spanish Dagger (and some other unknown type)
Camellia (Pink perfection)
Holly
Leyland cypress (2)
Firs (unsure of species)
Australian pine
Chestnut
Walnut
Locust
Windmill palm
Sabal Birmingham palm
Blue yucca
Jack pine

Coming soon:
Slash pine

Also, photos if you have them.

[CajunMama]

Tennesse...you have any lawn? lol j/k

I've got:

6 crepe myrtles
1 silver leaf maple
1 japanese magnolia
1 satsuma
1 bradford pear
1 sweet olive

[Tennesseestorm]

LOL. I know it. I only have about 2 acres and its filled with trees. . I love them all though.

Tennessee...you have any lawn? lol j/k

[DaylilyDawn]

We used to have a red cedar that shaded our bedroom form the afternoon sun but the last hurricane to hit Lakeland took it out. We replaced it with 4 crepe myrtles, 2 reds and 2 lavenders and 1 tabueia tree. On the north side of the house the plum tree is coming back from a root that was left in the ground when Hurricane Charley took out the tree. It is already about 5 feet tall .

[Lindaloo]

I have three huge live oak. I used to have 8 pecan trees. Hurricane Elena took out 2 of them. Some type of bug killed 2. Katrina caused too much damage to 1 and I had to cut it down. These pecan trees were not your normal pecan. Most pecans get branched out with leaves on the ends. Mine were shaped well and were just as dense as a live oak. My Mother in law told me that one of them would not put out any pecans because it was a seedling. Well that tree proved her wrong because that tree put out the biggest, sweetest pecans than any of her pecan trees. Katrina did some damage to it but I did not cut it down.

[Tennesseestorm]

I wish my Live Oaks were huge. Both of them are only about 2 ft. tall.... well, one is about 3 ft. At first I was concerned that they would not be able to take this 7A climate zone, being a 8A tree, but so far, so good. One did lose most of its leaves, but I have heard thats normal for a LO tree in the northern reaches of its growing zone.

One still has alot of leaves, but some browning on many leaves.

I have three huge live oak.

[CajunMama]

Live Oaks lose their leaves in the spring. That may be what you're seeing.

[Lindaloo]

I wish my Live Oaks were huge. Both of them are only about 2 ft. tall.... well, one is about 3 ft. At first I was concerned that they would not be able to take this 7A climate zone, being a 8A tree, but so far, so good. One did lose most of its leaves, but I have heard thats normal for a LO tree in the northern reaches of its growing zone.

One still has alot of leaves, but some browning on many leaves.

I have three huge live oak.

Oak trees (well mine) go through that in the fall. They get to looking really thin and then when winter gets here they fill back out. Like right now they are starting to lose their leaves, ones that are brown anyway. Don't worry about them, they will be just fine. I also cut any dead limbs out of the center of the oak. One of the oaks in my yard is over 100 years old. The other two are about 25 years old. The only downfall to having the big oaks in your yard is those big flying cockroaches, but that is another story. lol.

[Tennesseestorm]

Thanks Mama and Linda. Hopefully they are OK then. One has lost all but one leaf. This is their first winter here, so that may have something to do with it too. It was also very dry in late January and early February.

Here are some links to the little buggers:
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e172/ ... 0_4228.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e172/ ... 0_4232.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e172/ ... 0_4231.jpg
THIS ONE IS PITIFUL......
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e172/ ... 0_4235.jpg

Here is how it looked in early December:
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e172/ ... 0_3749.jpg


Thanks again!

[MSRobi911]

Oh Linda, do I know about those flying cock-a-roaches...I hate those buggers. Where my house used to be before Katrina ko'd it we have some huge oaks, magnolias and crepe myrtles and pines of course! One of my oaks actually had termites and we had to have it doctored on and the whole house treated but we didn't have any in the house but the tree was really close to the front door of the house. Our Live Oaks that we had lost leaves year round but where never Nakked....allways leaves, leaves and more leaves but I love them! The only downfall to that is the grass wouldn't grown because of the shade being so big. The Water Oaks would lose all their leaves during the winter and then come back in the early spring and all that pollen!!! My allergies gave me the devil!

At the house we just bought until we settle with Nationwide and rebuild if we can afford the insurance down there (another long story) we have 3 pecans and a bunch of oaks and a keylime, a tangelo, a lemon and a lime. I have no idea how to take care of the fruit trees and there is some kind of afid (don't know if I spelled that rigth) bug that is eatingthe leaves. They had fruit on them before and during Katrina, but they didn't produce anything this year. The man across the street trees did produce so I don't know what to do....any help?

Mary

[Miss Mary]

4, 2 types that we somewhat regret planting!

2 Bradford Pear trees that each homeowner has in their front yard, near the curb. Over the past 15 years, at least half have been lost in storms - splitting. The nursery didn't tell us BP trees are prone to this!

2 Sweet Gum Maples in back, near our deck. They drop hundreds of pods! I have filled garbage bags of them, so many over the years. Again, nursery didn't tell us, "well this Maple will drop pods when they mature".....

I love Maples though, just not so crazy about Sweet Gums!

Mary

[conestogo_flood]

Maples?

[Miss Mary]

You've never heard of Maple trees?

Here's the type we planted:

http://pages.towson.edu/sheaney/SweetGum.htm

[feederband]

Palms....

2 Canary Island Palms
3 Foxtails Palms
1 Twister Palm
2 Andonia Palms
6 Arcea Palms
3 Triangle Palms
2 Queen Palms
2 Bottle palms
1 Spindle Palm

I pretty much buy one every month during the spring and summer months..

[Pburgh]

Paper Birch
Chestnut
Harry Lauder walking stick
Kousa dogwood
Japanese maple
Bradford Pear
Many different pines and decorative cyprus

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

palm trees lots of them

[Pburgh]

Oh, I wish we could grow palms up here. I have them growing inside my home - does that count??

[Tennesseestorm]

Have you tried growing more hardy palms, such as the "Needle palm"? It has been said to survive temperatures as cold as -25°F. They do not get a huge trunk and are slow growing, but have a nice tropical look to them. Maybe even a Drawf Palm... hardy down to about -5°.

Around here in northeast Tennessee, palms are not the "norm". Most people do not know that there are several hardy palms that will grow here. There are however some of us that have palms and even more so down toward southeast Tennessee, where even less hardy palms are grown. Some of the more hardy ones I have are the Sabal Birmingham and Windmill palm. Both have endured our record low of 8°F that we had on December 8, 2006. They have stayed green and lush all winter. They are supposed to be hardy (without foliage damage) down to about 0°F. I am not sure if they would survive a western PA winter or not. Perhaps they would in extreme southeastern PA.

The same cannot be said for my Washingtonia. It was only hardy down to 12° and that record low we had killed off the foliage, but I was told it should regrow new foliage in the spring. I will have to wait and see.

So, if I were you, I would at least give the Needle Palm a whirl. Here is a link to some hardy palms:
Click on it and scroll down. They are listed by the most hardy and so forth....

http://www.sepalms.org/Hardy%20Palms/SP ... erence.htm

Good luck and enjoy!

Oh, I wish we could grow palms up here. I have them growing inside my home - does that count??

[JonathanBelles]

i've got what we call at our house a poop tree and a drunk tree.
they are both palm trees but one is as tall as a pile of dog poop (>1ft) and then the drunk tree grew with 2 curves in it to one side that makes it look drunk

[azsnowman]

WELL, I won't go into BORING detail of EVERY single speciem we have, let's just say, our Landscaping Business used to be called (we're still in business just a name change) "Trzrus" (trees R us!)

We have one acre with the house sitting on one corner and the rest is LAWN and OVER 180 trees WE planted....just a short list of what we have thus far (this is NOT the full list, the server would crash if I posted ALL of them!)


Evergreens:

Colorado Blue Spruce
Hopsie Blue Spruce
Englemen Spruce
Norwegien Spruce
Dwarf Alberta Spruce
Dwarf Japenese Spruce
Ponderosa Pine
Black Austrian Pine
Douglas Fir
Balsm Fir

Decidious

Souix Land Poplar
Lombardi Polar
Silver Queen Maples
Lace Leaf Maple
Gamble Oak
Swamp Oak
White Oak
Numerous fruit trees (apples, Rainer Cherry, Peach trees, Bartlett pear, D'Anjou Pear, President Prune Plum)
Bradford FLowering Pear
Cistina Plum
Japenese Maple
Crimson King Hawthorn
Colorado QUAKING Aspen

And a MILLION various decidious shrubs....wanna come rake LEAVES this FALL?

WHEW....I'll have to go LOOK to see what ELSE we have