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Originally Posted by batman911
Good for you Ohiogirl. I have large trees all around my present home and just love it. Yes, I pay to have them trimmed every few years but I can live without air conditioning all year. Birds are always in my yard and singing their thanks. Some of my neighbors, on the other hand, have rocks for a lawn and have large concrete slabs covering most of their back yards. Sorta looks like a house in a parking lot. You can imagine the heat the rocks and concrete retain even into the night and they run the air conditioners constantly, go figure. Their excuse is they do not want to do yard work. Trees and grass make any neighborhood nice no matter how inexpensive the homes are and yard work is great for your health.
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Thanks, Batman, needed someone in my corner here. We too love the grass and tree look - yes, a little more work, but worth it to us.
But once again, want to point out that most of these oak trees in residential settings (yards) are LAUREL oaks, not Southern LIVE oaks. The LIVE oaks are the big spreading ones such as those at Stillwater and Buena Vista, dripping with Spanish Moss. I think people get confused because both keep leaves on all year.