You don’t use concrete or asphalt or whatever other impermeable material. Use river rock, pea gravel, slate, recycled tires, or something similar. You weed eat around the knobs. It’s pretty simple.
This bring us back to Owsley's point. If the area had not been developed at all, there would likely be tons of Bald Cypress providing habitat and benefits to the ecological environment. To that point, maybe the developer was required to plant a specific number of native trees per acre when the neighborhood was developed. How do you know it wasn't required?
My house was built in an old pecan orchard. Most of my neighbors have cut down the trees in their yard and it's baffling to me. Great shade. Helps keep from frying the grass. Lowers our energy bill. And these trees are like 30-50+ years old.
I know when we develop any new pieces of land we have to go through and survey the existing trees and then either pay a fee in lieu of replacement, or plant a ton of native tree species in the open spaces. It's a very common requirement. Edit: The fee in lieu of replacement typically goes into a fund where the city can use that money to plant native trees on public land.
I’ll never understand homeowner tree bloodlust like you described. Trees increase your property value, lower energy costs, look a hell of a lot better than a shitty burned up lawn, and provide cool wildlife viewing opportunities. Sure, there are times when trees need to be removed because they’re growing too close to the foundation, get infected, or otherwise pose a problem, but healthy trees on your property should be a source of pride not one of contempt.
The homeowner before us basically clear cut the front yard, which is western facing. House just gets beat by the sun and thee one tree they left is very questionable - a hackberry. I've planted 2 Southern Magnolias and a Shumard Oak in the last year. Have 2 more Oaks and 1 more Magnolia coming this fall. Tried to pick something that was pretty quick to grow so we could benefit from the trees sooner rather than later.
We don't personally, but we do purchase stream and wetlands credits from mitigation banks pretty often.
I don't understand it at all. I would go to great lengths to keep any of mine from being removed. I love them. I don't even know a good explanation why so many people do it.
People give Where Eagles Dare shit for his awful typing skills but Jesus Christ Pharm is English your native language?
What’s crazy is how much bigger my cypress is than my neighbor two doors down. It’s double and was planted same year. Fence is 6foot
My grandparents house was in a pecan orchard like that They took out one row to build the road down the middle, each plot was like 4 or 5 acres, so each house probably took out one or two trees It was an awesome neighborhood Grew up filling buckets with pecans and sitting around in the living room shelling them with my grandpa Grandma always had fresh pecan pies, bread, cookies, you name it
They came, they saw, they were terminated with extreme prejudice. Spoiler Size 11 Chaco for reference
A great basement battle the likes of which haven’t been seen since the autumn of 42, and lord willing, will never be seen again.
I didn’t think I was making an outrageous post but the reaction was much stronger than I anticipated obviously having rich parents in entertainment is a leg up but I always thought the term nepo baby necessarily implied a lack of talent associated with undeserved exposure, or that Shilo Sanders is a nepo baby but Shedeur is not. I apologize to the thread for my misconception
I will say I'm not a fan of pines. I grew up having to cut a yard with pines and it was a nightmare every time it stormed. Took hours to get the yard to a point you could even mow it with sticks, pine cones, straw, etc
Now that I know so many people get hard for big, trunky trees, I’m gonna take some pics of my oaks tomorrow and post em