what is your favourite tree?

I truly can not pick just one favorite; they all have their charms.

How could I compare the live oak in my front yard with the crepe myrtle in the side yard that blooms all summer long?

How could I decide between the tulip poplar I saw in bloom on my dad's family farm last year with my memories of sitting in the peach tree in our yard and eating peaches when I was a kid.

How can I say the crab apple tree in the woods across the street (whose fruit I lured my little sister into tasting when I was 7 years old) was any better than the grapefruit tree in our back yard that my own children picked fruit from?

Should I frown on "the Senator", a local Cypress tree that is over 3500 years old because it's a bit shorter than the giant Sequoias out west?

The apple orchards with ripe fruit and the changing tree leaves I saw last month on vacation in the mountains were glorious; but so was coming home and seeing a bald eagle perched at the top of a laurel oak less than a block away from my house.

Sorry, I simply can not choose just one favorite.... ;)

Well, I am a Texan and I live in Texas and I have all of my life and in Texas we adopted the Pecan Tree as our State Tree . I am about as loyal a Texan as they can make and all of that but, my favorite tree is a Mesquite Tree. Now, not just any Mesquite Tree. There is an old Mesquite down in my South Pasture where I have sat and fretted and laughed and cried and cussed and discussed and even prayed a bit. That old tree can't talk so I can be pretty much myself down there and be pretty sure that what I do down there stays there. Mesquite Trees throw a pretty good shade if you sit beside them on the opposite side of where the sun is shining. There leaves are pretty narrow and short so the shade at high noon is pretty sparse but in the summer that tree has some pretty nice beans on it and so it does give you something to chew on if you want too. Those beans don't taste nothing like a pecan or an apple or a mulberry but in Texas you learn how to be not to picky.

The oak, the purple plum, and anything that gives fruit!! In Arizona during the spring I would drive around with my top down and my nose in the air like a dog! HA! I love the smell of orchard trees!

This time of year it has to be the Silver Birch. I have a spectacular picture of 3 in my old garden, covered in hoare frost with a clear blue sky behind them. During autumn the leaves are a beautiful gold colour

I love so many that it's too hard to favour one!

Moreton Bay Fig is one, very majestic and huge root bases. Kowhai, Pohutakawa (NZ) Jacaranda (purple blossom, which is out now) Pointsiana (Red) and the Yellow species. Norfolk Pines and the evergreen White Magnolia......they are all beautiful in their own way.

A Christmas tree. I live in the deep South, and for years the only ones I saw were the cut ones in lots. When I traveled to Canada and saw them growing everywhere, I loved it. The scent they gave off was wonderful.

Red Maple!! I have a Mulberry tree and I don't care for it because it bares fruit and I have flies everywhere!! I hope you have better luck!

Here in the South, it's the live oak...with its beautiful long branches draped in spanish moss.

But when I go home to NY, I realize how much I miss the white birch...especially ones filled with a bunch of chattering chickadees!

I love dogwood trees, but I also love sugar maples. There's nothing more beautiful in the fall than the almost florescent reds, yellows, and oranges of a sugar maple.

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