I like trees, do you?

[trackaghost]

Aren't trees cool?



Please let me know whether you like trees or not and if you do which is your fave!

Edit: if you are in any doubt of how awesome trees can be check out this link of the 10 Most Magnificent Trees In The World

http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/21/...-in-the-world/

[DrummerDeanna]

I love trees! But I'm sad to admit that I've never really learned the different types of trees.

Like if you were to put different trees in front of me, I couldn't properly identify each. Aside from "Weeping Willow"...I'm tree ignorant. But I love them

[trackaghost]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

I love trees! But I'm sad to admit that I've never really learned the different types of trees.

Like if you were to put different trees in front of me, I couldn't properly identify each. Aside from "Weeping Willow"...I'm tree ignorant. But I love them

Deanna I'm also tree ignorant, don't feel bad! But I find them pleasing to look at (or sit under).
When I was a kid our neighbour had a beautiful garden filled with trees but when they moved a new family moved in and the first thing they did was cut down all the trees! I don't know, it really made me sad. Then they complained that the trees in our garden were "blocking the view" (to what? our windows?).
Sadly not everyone likes trees.

[carrie721]

i love trees. and paula - that's WHY maples are so cool! loser.

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

Deanna I'm also tree ignorant, don't feel bad! But I find them pleasing to look at (or sit under).
When I was a kid our neighbour had a beautiful garden filled with trees but when they moved a new family moved in and the first thing they did was cut down all the trees! I don't know, it really made me sad. Then they complained that the trees in our garden were "blocking the view" (to what? our windows?).
Sadly not everyone likes trees.

Oh good - I always thought I was a lone tree-ignoramous...good to know there are others

When I was a kid my grandparents had this big beautiful tree in their backyard...huge, big green leaves. Then the built a pool, the tree was near it, great shad tree - but then my grandpa decided to chop it down because the leaves were falling into the pool and affecting the chlorination

I've never gotten over that...they turned the stump into a table.

[trackaghost]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

Oh good - I always thought I was a lone tree-ignoramous...good to know there are others

When I was a kid my grandparents had this big beautiful tree in their backyard...huge, big green leaves. Then the built a pool, the tree was near it, great shad tree - but then my grandpa decided to chop it down because the leaves were falling into the pool and affecting the chlorination

I've never gotten over that...they turned the stump into a table.

I lied I know everything there is to know about trees and more! hahahaha!
Not really

Anyway, that is a sad tree story although tree stump tables are pretty cool you must admit.

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

Anyway, that is a sad tree story although tree stump tables are pretty cool you must admit.

Not when a white plastic table top complete with umbrella is put on top of it

But hey...my grandpa also used to sit on the porch and shoot cats with a bb gun if they tried to pee anywhere near the pool - the man was no great environmentalist or anything...

[DavidMn]

This reminds me of the most insane question asked as Super Bowl media day. Back in the 80's, Downtown Julie Brown actually went up to a player and asked the following question: "If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?"

[skcin]

I love them too. Oak trees are pretty cool. I also like a tree that has a skinny trunk, but its leafy top spreads out really wide & the branches are kind of gnarled & crooked. I don't know what they're called, I'm sure there are several different kinds that do this.

I do not like maple trees. Because of the helicopters/whirlies they drop to spread the seeds.

[Sarah]

I like all trees.

...Except for Bradford Pears, which I moderately dislike. When they bloom, they stink like rotting fish. Disgusting.

[Miss Vicky]

I love most trees (but not palms, I hate palms), but I most especially love the trees that produce lovely, sweet, juicy fruits like apples, oranges, and peaches. Those are the best trees.

[Sarah]

Originally Posted by Miss Vicky

I love most trees (but not palms, I hate palms), but I most especially love the trees that produce lovely, sweet, juicy fruits like apples, oranges, and peaches. Those are the best trees.

Why don't you like Palms?

I think they're pretty. The trunks are unique.

[Miss Vicky]

Originally Posted by Sarah

Why don't you like Palms?

I think they're pretty. The trunks are unique.

They're fine growing in a tropical region where they're supposed to be, but I think they look damned tacky and out of place growing in people's yards or along the road.

It also sucks living by someone who has one in their yard. My next-door neighbor has one and it's always dumping seeds into our lawn. If you've ever tried to weed out hundreds of baby palms from in-between your own plants, you know what a bitch those little mo-fos can be to get rid of.

[Nixxxed]

The other unfortunate thing about palm trees: roaches.

There are 2 20-foot Queen Anne palms in the back yard around the pond. As I was pruning them a couple of weeks ago, I inadvertantly ripped off one of the old branch collars (the bottom part of the limb that remained attached to the trunk after last year's pruning). Since I was on a stepladder with a 10-foot pruning stick, I was treated to a cockroach shower as a whole colony of them living underneath the branch collar was dumped onto my head as the collar came off.

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by Nixxxed

The other unfortunate thing about palm trees: roaches.

There are 2 20-foot Queen Anne palms in the back yard around the pond. As I was pruning them a couple of weeks ago, I inadvertantly ripped off one of the old branch collars (the bottom part of the limb that remained attached to the trunk after last year's pruning). Since I was on a stepladder with a 10-foot pruning stick, I was treated to a cockroach shower as a whole colony of them living underneath the branch collar was dumped onto my head as the collar came off.

Ok. My heart just stopped. Completely.

That? Is among my absolute worst fears. I HATE roaches. I know they can't hurt you etc...but omg how I loathe them.

And from this moment on, Deanna no longer likes Palm trees either *shudder*