Some of the following might be shockers. Although attractive, they can also be wrong for your area, bad for the environment and too expensive to keep up. Take a look:

1. Water maple (Acer saccharinum)
They get easily damaged in storms, shallow and fibrous roots that crack sideways and old septic pipelines. A tendency to produce brittle woods and a large number of volunteer seeding, unattractiveness, some cities have banned the use of water maple as a street tree.

2. Trembling Aspen (Populus tremuloides)
Its leaves are attractive as they turn golden in autumn, they are born with a long high weight and dropping but they’re kind of annual trees. Pedunculate catkins formed from buds of the preceding year that relentlessly try to evolve into new trees. This large living organism is important food plant, it weighs 6,600 to 80,000 tons! You’ll be in great trouble if planted.

3. Osier (Salix)
They look nice outside, but willows are watery plants, need a lot of water, they’ll drain your ground, cesspit lines and pipes. The wood is soft and weak which is prone to cracking down and damage, it is a short life tree, lives for only 30 years.

4. Bradford pear (Pyrus calleryana)
They were found less resistant to snow storms and thunderstorm, considered to crack down when reached maturity. Short life span of this poor tree discouraged further planting of Bradford tree. Another fact that highly disgrace is its unpleasant smell, you would never want a stinky smell coming out of your yard.

5. Mulberry (Morus plant)
Mulberry plant is known as good for nothing but an ideal for silkworms, a great source of food for silkworms. People get allergic from its pollens too. If you’re a silkworm farmer you can surely decorate your garden, but otherwise it’s not a good choice.

 Did you recognize any of the above as trees in your neighborhood? Have you heard friends and neighbors tell you they too have had problems, many from these same trees? Are you curious if there are others to worry about?

There actually are and we invite you to go on over to Home and Gardening Ideas to see more.

We love the beauty and shade of landscaping’s most perfect gift – greenery – but even nature can have a sense of humor so be vigilant!