Trees Around Your Home

Trees are important part of the home landscape

. Some advantages are that they can increase the livability and value of a home, environmental benefits and more. In the other hand trees that are too close to a home can become a problem with time by cracking the foundation and living debris in the roof, just to name a few.

Some functional uses tree are:

*Provide shade to your home alter the temperatures of our homes, making them cooler during the summer.

*Provide wind protection during the winter. Cold winter winds originate from the north/northwest can be block or slowed with a combination of plants.

*Provide frame work to contribute to the visual quality of a landscape through their size, form, texture and color.

*Provide scale creating a variable sense of scale on a property, and can either help emphasize or de-emphasize the home and help it blend into the landscape

*Define Space or privacy by creating walls around a specific space.

All of this are very great reasons for having trees around your home, but there are some disadvantages as well. For example:

*Some tree are very old and their root can be huge. if a tree es close to home these roots can crack or damage dramatically the foundation of your home.

*During fall season the laves and debris that they produce can be massive. All these debris can block gutter flow, make the water in the valleys run slower and potentially making the water penetrate the roof.

*Tree branches can make some of the shingles of the roof loose. If there braches that are scratching the roof they can become a large problem. They can make the shingles loose, and if not caught in time they create holes in the roof.

*Trees are home many animals and insects. For example: flies, soldier ants and mosquitoes are the ones that easily find tree tops and leaves habitable

*On the extreme side, depending in the area where you are located, if there a wind storm and a tree is close to your home this can cause huge damages. If a tree branch fall in top of your roof most likely it will destroy it completely.

Properly researching, planning where and what kind of the tree you are interest it can maximize the visual interest, reduce long term damages and improve the life of the tree and the house making your house look beautiful and safe.

by: Alex Suarez

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