Bernie, your palm trees are cute, but they also look like they drop a lot of stuff.

On second thought, maybe that's just the cherry blossoms that have blown over.

There are some people who have ornamental banana trees here, but they have to cover them up in the winter time, and I think maybe even bring them inside. Too much trouble for a tree.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

And speaking of trees that like to drop stuff, I was just up on the roof of my house digging the helicopters out of the gutters, and the maple trees are a good 50 feet away. Trees all have to propagate somehow. We used to have a big oak tree hanging over the house and it dropped so many acorns it sounded like we were being attacked in the Fall. The squirrels are still coming back to dig up their treasures.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Bernie, your palm trees are cute, but they also look like they drop a lot of stuff.

On second thought, maybe that's just the cherry blossoms that have blown over.

Good second thought, palm trees drop dates and fronds.

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I believe it was a mimosa tree that my neighbor had but cut down. (Don't know
why.) It had lots of big seed pods that would fall once a year.

Nice tree, but messy.

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~Sue~

When I was young there was a large weeping willow tree in our backyard. I really
loved that tree. But my parents were not the tree lovers that I was. The tree
was cut down so that my step-father could build a work shed. It was a very small
backyard so there wasn't room for both.

Check this out. I bought this card for my mom for mothers day just because it
reminded me of that willow tree.

http://www.lovepopcards.com/products/willow-tree-pop-up-card

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~Sue~

Check this out. I bought this card for my mom for mothers day just because it
reminded me of that willow tree.

I love pop-up cards, and that's a really cool one!

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Based on what I'm learning, I think I'm going to put the mimosa in the backyard, and get an evergreen of some sort for the front yard. I like blue spruces...

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Blue spruce are a very pretty variety of evergreen.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Blue spruce are a very pretty variety of evergreen.

Thanks, Mark. I think in my case an evergreen like that would look nice in the front. I want a mimosa tree, but so many people here and everywhere have told me they are messy, so I'll put that in the back, and I'll deal with it. I don't want the neighbors to hate me for a messy mimosa tree in my front yard.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Based on what I'm learning, I think I'm going to put the mimosa in the backyard, and get an evergreen of some sort for the front yard. I like blue spruces...

Yeah blue spruces are nice trees, if I had a yard of My own I'd have one planted in the front yard on a drip system, so that the tree would get enough water to fight off bore beetles, nasty things, evergreens here have been dying off cause of that and a lack of dedicated water.

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Don't know where you are Gordon, but at my latitude the blue spruce grow very slowly. The big one in some recent pictures here would be about 50 years old here in southern Ontario.

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Don't know where you are Gordon, but at my latitude the blue spruce grow very slowly. The big one in some recent pictures here would be about 50 years old here in southern Ontario.

I'm in Kentucky, which is Zone 6, according to the growing charts. I don't need it to grow real fast, just be hardy. We had two white pines in the backyard that grew like crazy, and were too close to the house, and we had to have them taken out after ten years. I remember the "candles" the branches sprouted in three inch increments, and it was very difficult to keep up with them in such a way to keep them from spreading out and growing out of hand.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

I don't want the neighbors to hate me for a messy mimosa tree in my front yard.

ROTFLMAO
GUMBALLS. DO YOUR DUTY.

Guardians of DA FRONT Yard.

Close Up. Of DA PROTECTORS.

Barefoot? GOT PAIN?

Yap.

Yap

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May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!!

GUMBALLS. DO YOUR DUTY.

What type of tree is that?

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

GUMBALLS. DO YOUR DUTY.

What type of tree is that?

Beech nut?

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

GUMBALLS. DO YOUR DUTY.

What type of tree is that?

Beech nut?

That's what I was thinking, too.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

GUMBALLS. DO YOUR DUTY.

What type of tree is that?

Beech nut?

That's what I was thinking, too.

I remember the elm trees that were still surviving when I was young. Before the dutch elm disease took them all out.
Very stately HUGE tall trees.
And they had these large, sticky nuts that were a bother to clean up every year. You had to before you could mow the lawn, or all havoc ensued.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

I remember the elm trees that were still surviving when I was young. Before the dutch elm disease took them all out.
Very stately HUGE tall trees.
And they had these large, sticky nuts that were a bother to clean up every year. You had to before you could mow the lawn, or all havoc ensued.

Louisville, Kentucky gave every home owner a choice of two free trees for the easement back in the mid-90's, and we chose lace bark elms. They have grown up very nicely. ~I'd say 30 feet or so, and haven't had any problems. No sticky nuts, either.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

I remember the elm trees that were still surviving when I was young. Before the dutch elm disease took them all out.
Very stately HUGE tall trees.
And they had these large, sticky nuts that were a bother to clean up every year. You had to before you could mow the lawn, or all havoc ensued.

Louisville, Kentucky gave every home owner a choice of two free trees for the easement back in the mid-90's, and we chose lace bark elms. They have grown up very nicely. ~I'd say 30 feet or so, and haven't had any problems. No sticky nuts, either.

Lace barks are a totally different tree from the elms I knew back then. Theses things were bigger than a man at the trunk and towered over all.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

For many years my mother lived in the shadow of one of the oldest cedar trees in the UK. One of a line of about a dozen trees spread over about a mile this tree dominated the street, and indeed still does. It has been the climbing frame for many generations of kids, a landmark for all to see, the home of many birds, squirrels and creepy-crawlies. Sadly I don't have any decent pictures of it to hand, but streetview gives you an idea of what it looks like - google the postcode UB10 0DG, swap to street view and have a look around - you can't miss it!

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?