Acorns Driving me NUTS

[radios1]

One nice sunny calm day I was out in my parent's carport working on something, and I heard a very loud crash! I went outside and looked around. Then I looked over at my grandma's house and saw half the top of an oak tree had come down, like a Y shape. One of the Y branches had pierced right through the porch roof and shattered against the concrete deck. So there's about 8' under the porch roof and 20' sticking out the top, and the other 30' Y branch speared into the ground aoutside the porch. It was about 8' from my grandma, who was sitting in a rocker on the porch!
:shocked:

that's more proof that large trees should never be so close to a house that they could fall on it!. and you'll never know when it will happen either!..

 

[Oaktree]

I hate sweet gum trees for those reasons. Never let a sweet gum tre grow in your yard.

Unusual name for a tree. Any idea where it came from?

 

[Streetcar]

Unusual name for a tree. Any idea where it came from?

Sweet gum named for it's fragrant sap

 

[Thomas]

Been bad acorn also apples critters scratching hard already.

 

[jfh28]

been a relatively mild acorn season here.....very wet this year and winter started a month early.......Jack

 

[MossRoad]

that's more proof that large trees should never be so close to a house that they could fall on it!. and you'll never know when it will happen either!..

I feared living in that house as a kid. We had something like 65 oak trees on about 1.5 acres. My folks were very proud of the fact that they only had to remove 3 to build the house. Some of the trunks were no more than a foot away from the overhang of the house. Every time there was a large storm, I'd hide under my bed. Many times in the morning after a storm, we couldn't get out some of the doors in the house because of branches laying next to the house. Many of the houses in that neighborhood had tree damage. For some reason, after almost 40 years, not one fell on our house. Knock on wood is appropriate!

 

[mapper]

My property was pretty much a blank slate when we bought it 38 years ago. I have planted a lot of trees over the years, but the only thing close to the house is a Japanese maple that stays relatively small. I prune it so that it does not hang over the roof. All of the messy and big trees are a long ways from the house.
My oaks are finally big enough to produce acorns last year they produced a fair amount, we had squirrels show up that I had never seen before. Our native scrub Jays also had a good time, last spring I found out that they had hidden acorns wherever I had bark or mulch. I had oak trees sprouting hundreds of feet from the parent trees! None in my gutters or roof however.

 

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Unusual name for a tree. Any idea where it came from?

>>>name for the sweet taste and gummy feel of its sap. Early Pioneers used to make chewing gum. The Sweet gum plant is from the genus Liquidambar and is a member of the deciduous hardwoods or Hamamelidaceae. The North American species is native to Connecticut, south to New York to Florida, southern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri to Texas and Mexico. The tree is a living fossil that has twenty known extinct species, the oldest found in the.....<<<<

Sweet Gum


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