Live Oaks Improve Home Values

By Jimmy Gray

With today's changing economy, many families are choosing to stay at home with their family alternatively of going on expensive vacations. Wisely, they are spending more money on their home, to enhance their living environment and amplify their investment. The new word is "staycations". Families are devising improvements to their home and landscaping in order to maximize their staycation enjoyment.

According to a 1998 University of Florida study, landscaping plays a large role in the resale of property. The account states that homes with mature trees and added landscape gardening color sold quicker. A accounting of the study by The Associated Landscape gardening Contractors of America states, that a beautifully landscaped yard with mature trees will develop a Hundred to 200% return on investment. In the South, when people think of mature trees they ordinarily think of cascading Live Oak trees, covered with moss, in parks and lining city streets.

If you are a homeowner in the southern United States considering adding mature trees to enhance your property, you?re in all likelihood thinking about live oaks. Now you must deliberate about which size of live oak; how to recognize high quality live oaks; and where to make your purchase and how to care for the trees you choose.

Southern Pride Tree Farm located in Bell Florida, specializes in large high quality Live Oaks. Since 1990 Southern Pride has worked with homeowners, landscapers, developers and cities to recognise and select high calibre trees. Their website emphasizes the importance of proper transport and gives first-class advice about planting and care.

All Southern Pride trees are field grown which establish in the landscape faster compared to container grown trees: Southern Pride Tree Farm does not hurry the growing of their trees; root pruning allows for strong, solid root systems and curing or hardening off means that the trees are dug in winter months while inactive and show new root development before sending to a customer. Above the ground, proper pruning of trees during the early growth stages is a priority to get rid of weak branches so the older branches as the tree grows are the strongest branches of the tree. These are a few significant considerations when choosing where you will buy your Live Oak trees.

Southern Pride Tree Farm grows three varieties of Live Oak trees, each with very decided characteristics: The Highrise live oak is the perfect option when space is limited; The Cathedral live oak tree is more of a dense shade tree and oftentimes utilized for privacy; and, The Standard live Oak is wonderful for the natural southern landscape with tall or sprawling landscape designs.

Unique for a wholesale tree nursery, Southern Pride also sells to individuals. For years Southern Pride Tree Farm has offered the same wholesale pricing to homeowners that landscapers, developers and cities receive when buying trees and greater discounts for bigger quantities. Whether you are a homeowner searching for one focal tree or multiple trees to line your property, Southern Pride Tree Farm will hand pick your tree, or trees, send you pictures prior to purchasing, and make arrangements for shipping. In addition, they always provide installation and care instructions.

The oldest known southern live oak tree in the United States is in a park outside of Charleston South Carolina and estimated to be over 1,400 years old. - 30228

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