California Pepper Tree– Pro or Con?

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I have one right outside my window here and they are messy and smelly, though the shade they provide is nice. I try to avoid parking my car underneath it because it makes a nasty mess. I’ve also read that their droppings are poisonous to the ground below, making it hard to grow additional plants in the surrounding areas.

[CA renter]

[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.

[CA renter]

[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.

[CA renter]

[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.

[CA renter]

[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.

[CA renter]

[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.

[nostradamus]

I would prefer the trees/bushes nature has provided for the local area. Bringing dreams of east coast trees out to the hot, dry west is too much. I also think whoever sold people on the idea of a lush, green, fertilizer-hungry, aeration-needy, thirsty grass lawn was a helluva salesman for this drought-prone region. Use local flora!

[nostradamus]

I would prefer the trees/bushes nature has provided for the local area. Bringing dreams of east coast trees out to the hot, dry west is too much. I also think whoever sold people on the idea of a lush, green, fertilizer-hungry, aeration-needy, thirsty grass lawn was a helluva salesman for this drought-prone region. Use local flora!

[nostradamus]

I would prefer the trees/bushes nature has provided for the local area. Bringing dreams of east coast trees out to the hot, dry west is too much. I also think whoever sold people on the idea of a lush, green, fertilizer-hungry, aeration-needy, thirsty grass lawn was a helluva salesman for this drought-prone region. Use local flora!

[nostradamus]

I would prefer the trees/bushes nature has provided for the local area. Bringing dreams of east coast trees out to the hot, dry west is too much. I also think whoever sold people on the idea of a lush, green, fertilizer-hungry, aeration-needy, thirsty grass lawn was a helluva salesman for this drought-prone region. Use local flora!

[nostradamus]

I would prefer the trees/bushes nature has provided for the local area. Bringing dreams of east coast trees out to the hot, dry west is too much. I also think whoever sold people on the idea of a lush, green, fertilizer-hungry, aeration-needy, thirsty grass lawn was a helluva salesman for this drought-prone region. Use local flora!

[paramount]

I have several California Pepper trees; and I am quite fond of them as long as they are pruned.

Very tough tree, hard to kill.

Not good in high wind areas since they have shallow root systems. I never water directly over the tree, rather I water on the perimeter to force the roots to grow out and provide more stability.

Like humans, only the females are really messy as they drop berries that smell like pepper (which I like) – or is that males?

[paramount]

I have several California Pepper trees; and I am quite fond of them as long as they are pruned.

Very tough tree, hard to kill.

Not good in high wind areas since they have shallow root systems. I never water directly over the tree, rather I water on the perimeter to force the roots to grow out and provide more stability.

Like humans, only the females are really messy as they drop berries that smell like pepper (which I like) – or is that males?

[paramount]

I have several California Pepper trees; and I am quite fond of them as long as they are pruned.

Very tough tree, hard to kill.

Not good in high wind areas since they have shallow root systems. I never water directly over the tree, rather I water on the perimeter to force the roots to grow out and provide more stability.

Like humans, only the females are really messy as they drop berries that smell like pepper (which I like) – or is that males?

[paramount]

I have several California Pepper trees; and I am quite fond of them as long as they are pruned.

Very tough tree, hard to kill.

Not good in high wind areas since they have shallow root systems. I never water directly over the tree, rather I water on the perimeter to force the roots to grow out and provide more stability.

Like humans, only the females are really messy as they drop berries that smell like pepper (which I like) – or is that males?

[Author]

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