"Hal" wrote in message
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On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:22:53 -0500, "Ricky"
wrote:

Someone else suggested Oak - nah, this tree looks like Phyllis Diller on
a
bad hair day.

No, the suggestion was "live oak". This time of year your comparison
to Phyllis Diller may be justified, but a Live oak is an evergreen and
they are dropping last year's leaves to put on a new coat of greenery.
You might like to give them credit for being green since last March.
You might also find yourself admiring them for living several hundred
years.

If you plant one you will only have a fraction of it's lifetime to
admire it.

Hal you are 100% correct. The 50 year old and older Live Oaks that we have
in Florida are indeed stunning. How many of us have that kind of time? The
Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) is not an evergreen. It is a deciduous tree.
It does get new leaves immediately after the old ones fall, but it is a real
messy tree and home to every bug in Florida. The builders love 'em cause
they are cheap, bulletproof, and they fulfill the county requirement for
native trees. I think they suck. But hey, that's just one man's opinion.