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PLEASE add the wretched Black Acacia to your list. This miserable excuse for a tree is like a giant weed, that while providing shade, provides little else but aggravation. The previous owners of my house were just as you mentioned in your article – Plant ’em fast and furious without any thought to the aesthetics. The whole yard is privets and black acacia. The privet is like a dream compared to the B.A. It drops “things” all year round, but in April, May and June it really goes to town! Drops these small furry balls – thousands of them – that turn to yellowish brownish mush and dust everywhere. If you dare to sit outside with your coffee in the morning, you will even find them in your cup. Well, this is it’s last season of misery. I have a tree removal company coming and while I will miss the privacy the huge beast provided from neighboring homes, I will miss nothing else! Thanks for a great article, and remember – Beware the Black Acacia!
If there is aphids in the tree that sticky stuff is not sap… It is aphid waste! :) YUM!
you forgot the walnut tree… most horrendous tree ever!
I agree the Walnut tree is messy,stinks,the black hasks are horrible, and it’s every year. clean up isn’t anything I loves doing. when I left home for college I swore I’d never have one in my yard. and the other was to never have a weeping willow. again messy all over everything. car,roof,gutters,sidewalks, in your flowerbeds,yuk.having fun.
very funny observations…I hate the eucalyptus too. So dangerous. you never know when a branch or a big piece of bark will come down on your head. There’s a beautiful tree that I am trying to identify. It drops these weird little bristly seed covers that look like exploded hot cross buns and the bark is really smooth and full of folds. Wonderful climbing tree and so soft to to the touch.
If you’re having a tough time identifying a tree, snip off a small branch with leaves and take that to a nursery. They’ll identify it in a heartbeat.
Have you smelled the Gingko in the fall? If you haven’t, stick your finger where the sun doesn’t shine and sniff. Smells the same as a Gingko, so I’d say your tree guy loves the smell of butt in the fall.
That is a female ginko, a reputible nursery will supply the male tree.
Thanks for this but aren’t the fruit berring trees supposed to be sprayed once per year when they bloom to avoid the fruit/mess.
the gingko tree comes in a male or female version. Only the female tree stinks. So maybe stick to a male gingko, if you can
Add Western Catalpa to the list. Useless, sheds all year long whether it’s flowers or bean pods. Awful. Thankfully no stickiness or sap.
add the pepper tree to this list.. It drops these tiny buds 2x’s a year and gets into my car.
It’s killing my car one year at a time…also drops sap. We planted it, because some nursery person told us it was a nice tree??? Now because its on the part of our yard that
belongs to the city we cannot cut it down??? What’s that all about…
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Have to say I agree with many of your thoughts on these trees but cant say I agree with the maples. Maybe it’s the type of maple I have (silver) but the things are nothing but a pain. The roots are so shallow they are constantly coming up and killing my grass even if I try to water deep and less often. They put out so many dang leaves all winter long that I’m constantly cleaning. The pollen absolutely covers my back deck and they put off some sort of junk every year that covers my back deck as well. I have 3 blue atlas cedars and a weeping cedar which are both evergreens and havent had a problem with them. Theyre beautiful and have very little mess. Plus the roots grow deep and dont ruin my sprinlers or my grass.
Have you thought by cutting down that holly, many birds now have lost a food source?! So what if the floor is a bit sticky for a few weeks of the year! Nature is great, the more trees we plant the better, and your cutting healthy trees down?!
Very sad.
As one who is facing the removal of Ornamental Pear trees, one almost sixty years old, and one twenty three years old, I appreciate your article on which ones to stay away from. My beloved trees have served us well, and have been an integral part of our Southern California backyard. It gets plenty of sunshine and the resulting heat in the summer. The hot months are brutal and we have been blessed with wonderful shade from both trees for so long, it is hard to imagine life without them. However, the Fire Blight that plagues them has taken its toll and there is no recourse. Of course, it is easy to forget that most of them don’t live nearly as long as these, especially, the one that was planted when this house was built around 1956. My thoughts have been to replace them with Peppermint Willow, but, it is early in the learning game.
Oh, and stay away from Mulberry…..Our yard had one which grew like a weed into a very large and extremely messy tree. It was not at all pretty and was quickly lifting the patio concrete.
A few comments here caught my eye. One was mention of a “perfect” tree. No such tree exists, of course, or we’d see Perfect Trees lining the streets of America.
Trees have lifespans, climate and care requirements, and the like. Perhaps some think, “Plant ’em and forget ’em, all will be bliss.” They’re more like children … they need a lot less than children by far, yet what they need depends of their personalities (or “species”) and age. You have to manage trees as you would a garden, although the effort less intense and more spaced out. Also, they eventually grow huge and need major pruning, or die and need removal, both of which mean $$$.
I second the motion on maples. Whatever species we had in Virginia spread thick roots seemingly more on top of the lawn than in the dirt, making mowing much more tedious. I’ve also seen mature maples on Pennsylvania streets that buckled sidewalks as much as 8″ with surface roots. Investigate before you plant.
Unless you visit Unicorn Farms and buy Perfect Trees, you’re hunting for types whose advantages clearly overcome expected disadvantages.
Before you pay for trees that could last 30 to 100 years or more, consider asking a few local nursery experts about pros and cons, narrow your list, then spend a couple of hours on the Internet. Among other useful facts, learn the mature circumference of each species, and then plant with sufficient space to minimize branch overhang and litter problems.
Please remember that the wanton continuous deforestation of the Americas leaves too little food for wildlife, and cut ’em a break.