What 2 types of trees are your most favorite, and why?

For the nature lovers... What type 2 types of trees are a favorite of yours, and why are they your favorites?

------------------ I love the Sycamores. They grow tall and wide with thick curved branches, and awesome smooth trunks which sometimes have waves and swirls in them and the two colored, slightly shredding bark. Also the Dawn Redwoods, they have gorgeous like green, feathery, fern like leaves, awesome trunks and beautiful shape.

What 2 types of trees are your most favorite, and why?
#1. Madronas.. bright orange peeling bark with bright green underneath, beautiful smoothness and sinewy looking trunk, large flat leaves, just such a lovely color and shape.

#2. Weeping Willow.. swaying long draping branches. I remember hiding under them like a tree tent as a child, and swinging from the larger branches.

#3. I also love Japanese Maples for their colors and leaf shapes,and ability to train.

#4. Weeping larch... So so interesting. thick needled branches trained to drape over fences.

#5.Cherry tree... I love cherries, and in the spring the blooms are beautiful, and the hummingbirds love the blooms.

I couldn't pick just 2, sorry.
Reply:Black walnut and English oak.
Reply:I like beeches (Fagus) and Oaks (Quercus) for their 'majestic' size and branching quality. Not to mention the foliage.



For a little more 'interest', there are some absolutely beautiful old redbuds (Cercis) on the campus of Michigan State University that were awe inspiring. With multiple trunks that arched, almost to the ground, then swung back up toward the sky. In flower, they were A1!



Thanks for the question
Reply:do i have to pick just 2 all trees are so unique in there on way. ok if i have to.ooooh i would say the white oak i have a large mature one on my prop.if you can find a picture of one worth the time. the briscle cone pine,the oldest living thing on earth,check it out.
Reply:Ok, if you can grow them, like we did while in California, grow Avocado trees. They are big, beautiful, grow relatively fast, and give you Avocados. The best part of all, is they make THE best climbing trees for kids, and shade for other times of the year. I miss that tree SO much.

For beauty, closer to the house, I love a Japanese maple, with the lace like leaves, and beautiful color.

Nut trees, are awesome, if you have time to clean under them, before you mow. You get nuts, imagine, pecans! How fun, and functional. Other than those ideas, sugar maple, paper birch trees, are awesome. I loved the Eucalyptus trees, for their smell, and beauty, and size, in California, but they can be succeptible to disease. In the midwest, and South, and anywhere else they grow, I love my dogwoods also, absolutely beautiful. All trees are so good for the earth, and natural wildlife, because often they provide food and a place to live. Good luck with your trees. By the way, I love the ones you mentioned, they sound beautiful. Loved the redwoods when I visited the Redwood forest, but just can't grow those anywhere. Enjoy your trees!
Reply:I like Dogwoods and Oaks. I like the Dogwoods because they are so beautiful out in the Homochitto National Forest during the Spring. I like the Oaks because they provide a natural habitat for the Fox Squirrel. This is a majestic red colored squirrel that lives in hardwood forests.
Reply:Prosopis glandulosa glandulosa (Honey Mesquite). Believe it to be the Manna of the bible - Many foods and feeds from it, all organic, gums and wood, considered one of the best woods around. 65 million acres of it in US alone could give foot to an important industry.

It's cousins Huisache and Acacia are also on the same estimate by me.

Share your liking for the Sycamore.
Reply:Japanese Maples, and since I am from the south, Magnolia Trees; they produce beautiful blooms.
Reply:The really tall Cyprus are an absolute favourite (Cdn spelling)

of mine, found in Mediterranean climates, beautifully shaped, tall and narrow, grows to great heights. Second is the

Sugar Maple, which shows the most fabulous red/orange/yellow colours in the fall ! Love your pics too! Over to you!
Reply:I don't think you could out do a good old English oak (Quercus robur) Being an arbourist i don't think there's a tree i feel safer swinging around in.



I also like the Cedar of Lebanon (Cedrus libani) an absolutely magnificent tree..



sorry but i don't share you love for sycamores...
Reply:1] coconut tree.. which is typical of coastal India... Every part of the coconut tree and the nut is useful in someway or the other... coconut kernels are used in cooking delicasies ,, oil for cooking , for hair and various other purposes, outer shell as firewood, outer husk/fiber for making coir mats and carpets ... dust in manure , leaves to coverthe roof of the huts in villages..or nets..ofcourse stem if dead as firewood again..

2 neeem tree... leaves and bark used for various medicinal purposes... the breeeze we get from neem tree is supposed to be healthy....as its suppose to have antiseptic qualities....
Reply:split rail %26amp; fire wood
Reply:Oak an ash they make a real cozy fire in the fire place