Tree questions

[OrangeChipper]

What trees do I keep??

Clearing the lot in a week or so.

We know we want to keep about 6 pines that are about 90 feet from our house.

We also know to avoid tallot-berry trees (Chinese tallots?) But we also found 2 sweetgum trees (About 10 ft tall) and wanted opinions.... Should we keep the sweetgums??? Are they a good tree to keep???

Also, the pines previously mentioned couldn't effect us... but they might fall into a neighbors yard in case of a storm. Would we be liable, or would they if a pine tree (located on our property) crashed through their house?

The trees are NOT close enough to the neighbors to be a nuisance... they won't have many nettles or pine cones dropping in their yard... But they are definitely close enough to create problems should strong winds come along.

 

[BernOrange]

Sweetgum trees are good, native trees, but they are messy. They drop small balls with spikes on them, old bark and small branches and such.

Chinese Tallow trees are a pest and should be eradicated whenever possible as you mentioned (you had the spelling wrong).

Falling trees and liability

 

[MirrOlure]

You'd be well served to get a landscape person out there for an hour or so, to help you identify what to keep and what to cut down.

Ditto on the Tallow trees.

Sweetgums are love/hate. Good shade, great fall color, but oh man............those gumballs.

As for worrying about pines falling..............only in a very rare circumstance of a patenly obvious dead tree that is neglected by the homeowner, and falls onto a neighbor's property, would you be potentially liable.

And FWIW.......my parents have 6 or 7 HUGE pines in thier yard which have withstood hurricanes........so I'd put that way down the list of my worries.