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Originally Posted by bowlingal
Blueblaze, you obviously do not have an oak tree on or near your property. If you did, you will realize how much work is involved in maintaining these trees, if you want your property to look nice and prevent the "suckers" from taking root, and having to dispose of the acorns. It is not a few days work, it is MONTHS of DAILY cleanup starting about Sept/Oct right through March. Don't be so judgmental. Maybe if people took the leaves and acorns and dumped them on YOUR property, you would change your tune
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Give me a break. We're not all desert-lovers here. Not everyone buys trees because they're pretty, only to cut them down the moment they defile a stupid high-maintenance lawn.
I live in WOODBURY on the North side, specifically BECAUSE it has an abundance of beautiful oak trees. I have two oaks on this quarter-acre, plus 5 magnolias, one Drake elm, and one hated lemon tree. If you hate raking leaves, try cleaning up three bushels of giant Meyers lemons, dropped over three months of every year, and then every week mowing around a tree with 2" thorns! My previous 2 acre property in Texas had 15 huge live oaks and 5 loblolly pines. Before that, my one acre property in Oklahoma was in the middle of a hickory and post oak forest. I had to remove 20 trees just to build that house. The leaves were shin-deep every week in the Fall before I mowed them. And those leaves disappeared the same way these do when I mowed them.
I LOVE trees. If you don't count lemons, they are SO MUCH easier to live with than the lawn you are forced to own and mow every week, practically anywhere you buy a house. The secret to dealing with the 2 weeks out of 52 that a live oak drops its leaves is to quit freaking out over it and just do the same thing you do with your precious lawn -- mow them.
If you hate trees, WHY DID YOU BUY ONE?