[quote=briansd1][quote=CBad]People don’t plant enough trees in CA neighborhoods anymore and frankly it makes the neighborhood ugly, LOL! There are a lot of CA houses that aren’t that great looking but put them on a tree lined street and the street looks beautiful.[/quote]
That’s very true. That’s why neighborhoods back East look so much nicer.
I prefer houses on streets that have parking strips (the small portion of landscape between the sidewalk and the street) planted with trees.
A nicely landscaped house with mature trees is better than the plain lawns we generally see in San Diego.[/quote]
Good posts, both of you! 🙂
We grew up in the San Fernando Valley along the Ventura Blvd. corridor, and our neighborhoods had gorgeous trees that touched over the middle of the street. People up there generally respected old-growth trees, and would build around them and deal with the plumbing issues every year just so they could keep the trees.
Trees make everything look beautiful, they provide shade in the summertime, and they help clean up the environment. I will never understand the people who cut down beautiful, large trees.
When I moved to San Diego, it was rather depressing. As someone said in a recent article in Reader’s Digest regarding trees (paraphrasing): “I don’t want to live on a street that looks like the runway at LAX.” Couldn’t have said it any better myself.
