12 Worst Trees To Plant In Your Lawn
By Thomas Leo Ogren, Fri Dec 9th
12 Worst Trees to Plant in Your Lawn Tom Ogren 1.Fruitless mulberry trees: roots break lawnmowers and thesetrees really pump out the allergenic pollen. Shade is also toodeep for lawns. 2.Sweetgum trees: big roots that poke out of thelawn. 3.Pine trees: root problems and pollen too. 4.Sycamoretrees: usually grow way too large for most yards and theyproduce fuzz that makes people itch. 5.Cedar trees: a femalecedar is a nice, pollen-free tree, but grows way too large formost houses and yards. 6. Magnolia trees: these have shallowroots and if you ever have to rototill your yard, if you have amagnolia tree in the lawn, you’ll be sorry. Shade is too densetoo for most lawns. 7.Lombardy poplars: these common trees growfast and die young, leaving you with a huge mess. They also aremale and produce lots of pollen. 8.Olive trees: unless it is aSwan Hill or some other non-flowering olive, this one will causeall kinds of allergies. The olives are a big mess too. 9.Walnuttrees: nothing grows well under them and they produce lots ofpollen and also smelly walnut fruit
husks that draw flies. 10.Brazilian Pepper trees: roots are a problem for mowing, theshade is too deep for lawns, and they cause skin rashes andother allergies. 11. Seedless or fruitless Chinese Pistachetrees: big producers of the most allergenic pollen. Slow to leafout in spring. 12. Catalpa trees: slow to leaf out in spring andfast to lose their leaves in the fall. No real fall color at alland they are known to shed considerable amounts of allergenicpollen each spring. About the author:Thomas Ogren is the author of Allergy-Free Gardening, Ten SpeedPress. Tom does consulting work on for the USDA, county asthmacoalitions, and the American Lung Associations. He has appearedon CBS, HGTV and The Discovery Channel. His book, Safe Sex inthe Garden, was published 2003. In 2004 Time Warner Bookspublished his latest: What the Experts May NOT Tell You About:Growing the Perfect Lawn. His website:www.allergyfree-gardening.com
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