October 23, 2013 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
Yeah trees! Also make sure you are deciding whether you want a tree shading the spot where it will be. When you decide about photoltaics, you have to decide about trees/shade or PVs. We have two lovely volunteer oak trees in our front yard. You’d be amazed how fast they grow.
1“Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do.”
2-Ronald Reagan, 1981
We took our 22.6 acres of prime farm land and restocked it with trees from our DNR. Now we have so much wildlife and shade as well as cooler temperatures compared to our neighbors it isn’t even funny. We add more each year. So far we are well over 10K in trees. Plant one, not a chance. We plant by the thousands!
3@Rick: Ronald Reagan caused more pollution than the rest of LA.
4A tree is Nature’s Air Conditioning. Each gallon per hour of water transpired is 8,000 BTUs of cooling. It really is cooler under a tree and it’s not all just shade!
5What a wonderful idea! I’m going to borrow it for Alabama. There’s a whole heap of Rethuglicans in this state that I can’t wait to piss off by planting a tree.
6It saves money!!!!! Plant one between your house and the sun. Leaves fall off in the winter and the sun warms your home. Shade in the summer means cooling bills go down. duh.
(Thanks RayS, I needed that.)
7Don’t limit yourself to oaks! Natchez and Basham’s
8Pink crape myrtles make very fine 25-30 ft lawn trees (note:watch your gutters) and grass likes them – shade not too dense. Muskogee and Tuscarora a little smaller. Redbuds great understory trees, like a little afternoon shade. Chinese pistache gawky when young, fill out nicely, don’t get huge and have fall color! Any questions? Ask away! Don’t just plant one, plant 6!!
Wow, John! Amazing design. A real inspiration to all of us and a reminder that our biggest challenge remains the health of our planet.
9Got mine ordered last month for pickup on November 2nd. My third tree. Two years ago planted one in honor of my grandson, last year for my son, this year for my daughter. Next year who knows … my little bride or maybe a new grandchild???
10I’ve run out of room in the yard!
11Look around at the trees you have. Are they all big and beautiful? Then it’s time to plant more! Our Greenbelt MD was created in 1937 (as a government project by FDR) and now all the big trees around us are starting to lose limbs and get cut down. We should have planted more replacements 30-40 years ago.
I suggest everybody make an effort to plant trees that are native to their area. Some others can be the arboreal version of kudzu.
12My 100 year old live oak shading all the front of my house died and I cried as I called to have it cut down a couple months ago and then was like a lost soul for weeks after.
I now need to plant two more as a replacement a bit further away from the house. Thanks for the reminder that it’s time to plant.
13If you want truly beautiful fall color check out the Chinese pistache.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistacia_chinensis
http://www.californiafallcolor.com/2009/11/12/color-color-everywhere/chinese-pistache/
14Don’t forget to water that tree!
15A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” Fortunately,or otherwise, I live in a place that’s the birth state of J.Sterling Morton the originator of Arbor Day but where center pivot irrigation systems are causing old trees to be removed, especially the Maclura Pomifera or Osage Orange tree which was a common windbreak hedgerow tree. It’s disheartening to think that if the aquifer ever dries up Texas will probably be the new home to a lot of upper great plains dirt.
16Be careful about the kind and location of the trees you plant, though. You don’t want to plant trees with invasive roots over your sewer line. Here in California, you don’t want to plant a flammable tree like a pine close to your house if you live in the hills.
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