What’s Growing On with Top Five Shade Trees for One-Story Homes
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- Join Dr. Steve George to learn his choices and rankings for the “Top Five” trees to shade, enframe, and beautify one-story homes.
Please see the attached photo. Photo by Edward F. Gilman, Professor, Environmental Horticulture Department, IFAS, University of Florida.
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Still waiting on the video for 2 story homes…
So the #1 recommended mid-size tree for central Texas is from China? Whatever.
Why does it matter? It is not food.
@@jaytrg: Native trees are certainly food in their respective ecosystems, as well as habitat, structural selection pressures, etc. The value of a tree within the ecosystem/ landscape would be one of my criteria, and I'd have assumed so for an arborist, forester, etc.
@@jaytrg It matters so fucking much. Most Chinese trees used in landscaping (particularly in Texas due to *ahem* vibrant ignorance) are extremely invasive. Example: Chinese Tallow & Chinese Privet (ligustrum sp) are known, indisputably, as habitat wreckers. These trees / plants are prolific seeders, meaning you plant one tree & that will produce thousands of other trees. These trees are spread out by regular seed dispersal methods (birds & wind) which means, your one tree could have germinated trees across the entirety of the Houston area.
The problem with actual invasive plants, is that they grow far too well in certain parts of the world. In Southeast Texas, the thrive better than they’re native range in China. Basically you will go if you actually were to go out into the nature, go on a hike, you’ll find massive patches of just these plants. They completely choke out the native plants, allowing no new growth. Which destroys the local biodiversity, it destroys the local ecology, it kills birds, and kills of mammals, it kills of insects, it kills off amphibians. literally everything is connected and if you screw up too massively we cannot fix it.
A ridiculous amount of the suburban rabble have planted Chinese Tallow, Chinese Privet, Japanese Privet, Chinese Raintree, etc. in their lawns. It’s been a huge problem. Just google it.