[travelguy]

from what I remember of my US geography, prior to the " invasion" of the non-native settlers most land east of the Mississippi river was solid forest, as was most of the Pacific Coast, and the Rockies. Even the Great Plains had many tree stands. It was only when the settlers cleared the forests (including Florida) that cattle and crops were put on the land. Most of the droughts in the US are man-made due to the removal of the natural tree cover. Some of you refer to raking leaves and such; that is to cultivate an un-natural lawn. You don't see green lawns in the forests! I say, plants lots of trees and remove the lawns. And that's my opinion.

[e-flyer]

Originally Posted by OldManTime

It seems that many villagers in the new districts bought there homes at a premium if there was one tree on the lot.

This was not necessarily the case when the OBG (Historic District) was developed by Harold Schwartz, where historic trees are all over the place.

Trees in florida are sacred, as well as water, but too many choose to cut down perfectly healthy trees, even chop them up and leave a trunk on there lot because they don't want to rake the leafs, and most are done by unlicensed not insured fly by night (mostly Saturday & Sunday)

I am not a tree hugger by all means, but if this continues we will look like a desert.

Villagers should know they are subject to fines for violating there deed restrictions.

At least it's symmetrical Perhaps the limbs were extending out over their house roof/gutters. Up north they used to prune up trees like this and by the next summer they were full and beautiful again.

[ilovetv]

Originally Posted by travelguy

from what I remember of my US geography, prior to the " invasion" of the non-native settlers most land east of the Mississippi river was solid forest, as was most of the Pacific Coast, and the Rockies. Even the Great Plains had many tree stands. It was only when the settlers cleared the forests (including Florida) that cattle and crops were put on the land. Most of the droughts in the US are man-made due to the removal of the natural tree cover. Some of you refer to raking leaves and such; that is to cultivate an un-natural lawn. You don't see green lawns in the forests! I say, plants lots of trees and remove the lawns. And that's my opinion.

So then I assume that in addition to the grassy lawns, you want the many golf courses (green space) here filled in with lots and lots of trees planted to choke out the grass. Good luck with that.

[Serenoa]

I sure hope there is no limit on the number of palms any single home can have, cause when we finally move to TV I'll be installing as many as I possibly can, and several different species. I hope to give Jimbo a run for his money.

I already have many palms here in Birmingham, but also several large oaks that require nearly year round work cleaning up fallen twigs, limbs, leaves & acorns. Love the grand, old live oaks that populate TV, but won't want any in MY yard, nor any other deciduous tree.