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    Default Tree suggestions

    I'm starting to work on the land I purchased to build a house on. Unfortunately, 99% of the trees on it are what I consider trash (pine, gum, bradford pear, etc.). They just started cutting about 2 acres out for the house and driveway. What are some suggestions of trees to plant for 1) Down the driveway for aesthetic purposes, 2) Trees around the yard for shade, aesthetics, etc.?

    I'd love to plant some oaks and probably will plant a few, but I'd like to enjoy them while I'm still alive, so looking for stuff that give me some enjoyment inside of 20 years or so

    What say the brain trust?
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    Cedars and Cypress. Crepe Myrtles for spring/summer.
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    That's pretty much the last 3 I'd choose

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sportin' Woodies View Post
    That's pretty much the last 3 I'd choose
    What would you choose Sportin? I need to plant some myself

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sportin' Woodies View Post
    That's pretty much the last 3 I'd choose
    Yeah'p. I hate all 3 of those, especially a crepe myrtle. Vile weed.

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    Nothing wrong with a crape myrtle, they are one of my favorites.

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    Sawtooth oak are very fast growing and you'd see them flourish before you died. Totally discourage wateroak around the house as they are "self pruning" and drop limbs like crazy, very frustrating when you're trying to mow around them. I'm not sure if it is year round but this past year clemson had a bounty out on bradford pears, might check into that - cut all them suckers down!

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    I'm in the same boat. Other than where I'm building is already cleared. I'm planting oaks down the driveway and on other parts of the property. Also, planting a load of green giants on the perimeter for privacy screen. Not sure on the yard as of yet. I always thought it was pretty cool that my grandparents had pear trees in their yard growing up. I'd like to plant some somewhere on the property but rather not deal with the mess in the yard.

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    And when you plant oaks or any tree perfectly down a driveway,
    They're never all gonna grow the same or one might die etc and then it looks worse than no trees.

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    Sugar maple, red maple, dogwood, nuttall oak, white oak, southern red, willow oak if u want fast growing.

    Native trees always look better around a country house. Not some Japanese bullshit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sportin' Woodies View Post
    Sugar maple, red maple, dogwood, nuttall oak, white oak, southern red, willow oak if u want fast growing.

    Native trees always look better around a country house. Not some Japanese bullshit.
    That will make for some nice color in the October/ November time period.
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    Any suggestions on places around the upstate to get some sawtooths or nuttall
    “Duck hunting gives a man a chance to see the loneliest places …blinds washed by a rolling surf, blue and gold autumn marshes, …a rice field in the rain, flooded pin-oak forests or any remote river delta. In duck hunting the scene is as important as the shooting.” ~ Erwin Bauer, The Duck Hunter’s Bible, 1965

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    Quote Originally Posted by darealdeal View Post
    Any suggestions on places around the upstate to get some sawtooths or nuttall
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    Quote Originally Posted by Carolina Counsel View Post
    Hallman's
    This. Close it down
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    I’d put some magnolias. The house I just moved into in November has some descent sized magnolias and it was built in 2001. Also we have a Pergola with jasmine vines. That thing smells amazing. There’s also tea olives surrounding the house.
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    Put the tea olives by the back stoop so you can't smell your piss when you are too lazy to use a toilet.
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    I forgot camellia japonica as long as we are slandering Japs around here.

    Magnolias drop a ton of leaves. Awesome when they bloom though.
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    I would keep what provides shade now as much as possible. Shade today > Waiting 20 years for shade.

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    Quote Originally Posted by w33kender View Post
    I would keep what provides shade now as much as possible. Shade today > Waiting 20 years for shade.
    I've got a sweet gum in front of the riverhouse that I cuss 8 months out of the year. The other four months, it throws a great shade over the front of my house in the mid morning to mid afternoon hours.
    "Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration" -Izaak Walton

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigBrother View Post
    I've got a sweet gum in front of the riverhouse that I cuss 8 months out of the year. The other four months, it throws a great shade over the front of my house in the mid morning to mid afternoon hours.
    Nice. Shade makes the prickly balls tolerable.

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