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Where do you live where shade trees are a thing?
by Kiro 8y ago
Where do you live where shade trees are a thing?
- masklinn 8y agoAnywhere but super extreme latitudes? I'd never heard the concept spelled out like that, but I've seen / heard many instances. Basically any non-fruit tree which isn't kept at shrub / hedge size is at least in part intended for shade. Hell, it's also not uncommon for some fruit trees (I usually see walnuts and chestnuts as shade trees with the useful side-effect of nuts).
- nichos 8y agoHere in North Florida, shade trees are very desirable when buying a home. Water and live oaks, magnolia and pines are very common here.
- hamandcheese 8y agoIn Florida they are also very risky because they tend to destroy homes when they topple during a hurricane.
- yesbabyyes 8y agoIn my native Sweden (where it can be quite sunny in summer but not so much in winter) there is a concept of a "care tree", living up close to the manor of a yard of farm. [0] (link in Swedish, sorry, perhaps try Translate) I am now living in Monrovia, Liberia, where you will often find large trees for shade, often mango, sometimes moringa or coconut. There's also a bougainvillea shading a bench in every village between Monrovia and Yekepa. :-) Edit: I also want to mention the concept of agroforestry [1], a part of permaculture agricultural design principles, where trees (often fruit bearing) are used with lower vegetation, shrubbery and crops, creating a food forest. Incidentally, this is what farms often look like in West Africa, with coconut, banana, cocoa, papaya, cassava, etc growing intermingled on the farmland. [0] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A5rdtr%C3%A4d https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A5rdtr%C3%A4d [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture#Agroforestry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture#Agroforestry
- gilbetron 8y agoWhere do you live where shade trees are not a thing? Genuinely curious. I've never known someone that didn't know what they were. I live in Michigan and have four large trees surrounding the house, although we let their branches hang over the house, so 3 or so hours around noon, the house gets no shade.
- scruple 8y agoThere are essentially none where I live in SoCal (which actually bothers me a lot, because of how short-sighted it is but also because I grew up in the midwest and I genuinely miss having trees around). Most of the newer developments that I see and giant sections of LA and Orange county where I spend some time are little more than a sea of asphalt. There are trees in parks, of course, but they're more like decorations than something that serves a function.
- cs02rm0 8y agoUK for me, never heard the term.
- Kiro 8y agoThe fact that you presume people outside the US know what and where "Michigan" is makes me think you don't know much about other countries at all.
- ip26 8y agoSemi-arid region here, it can be 95 degrees out and you fry in the sun like an egg, but under a shady tree it can be comfy & breezy. Shade trees are extremely valuable here. Although not everyone is onboard. To be sure, there are still drab boxy houses with nothing but lawn that run their sprinklers every morning and the A/C all day. Preferable to spending two hours a year raking up leaves in fall, I'm told.