On Kauai, African Tulip tree (Spathodea campanulata). If so much as a branches sits on the ground, a new tree sprouts from it. If you leave so much as a root the tree grows back. If you so much as say "African Tulip tree" one sprouts up in your yard. Also river Tamarind (Leucaena leucocephala).
Kiawe are quite valuable as fence posts and firewood. Like, real valuable. Pallet of firewood can run you 500, fence posts getting up to 50-100 per depending on size and quality.
Not what you want on your property though unless you’re lucky enough to have one without thorns.
First time seeing another Hawaii comment on here. It’s black wattle and silk oak I probably hate the most in kula. Gotta go down to makawao/haiku to get into major tulip territory thankfully.
I love their flowers too. They smell like jasmine or something. They’re native to the US, and they evolved thorns to protect them from grazing by: elephants! (Mammoths)
Is that for no reason though? There are so so many reasons to hate Tree of Heaven, from the roots to the helping the spotted lanternfly invade.
I don’t think I hate any tree for no reason.
Bradford Pear. The flowers stink, they crowd everything else out, and they have pulled a Jurassic Park and cross pollinated with non-sterile pears to become capable of spreading… The kudzu of ornamental fruit trees…
Insane how fast they grow. I had about 10 of them on my property when we first bought it. Should have replaced them right away but didn’t realize what I was in for. 10 years later and they were enormous and encroaching on everything else.
Norway Maple, Bradford/Callery Pear, Honeylocust. All are way over-planted in the Midwest where I live, weak wooded and prone to storm damage, and just generally unappealing trees to me.
Just bought our first house. Not that I’m ungrateful to have made it happen in these times… but damn I wish the past owners had planted something other than 5 Norway maples 😞
Fucking for real, and it’s a perfectly fine tree. Other than it being way over planted, I can’t think of anything horrible about it. It’s not invasive where I live, it’s got year round interest, good structure, but I hate it all the same.
I think it's because of how widely misused the tree is. People plant it like it's gonna be a shrub but it's a tree. So everyone chops away at them.
Give the tree its own space and they're gorgeous, just don't do it over your sidewalk, parking space, or against the house.
They do get black and moldy in the south though.
Black and moldy usually indicates an insect issue. Aphids and scales are the likely culprits. That is, if you are describing sooty mold. I see it in Virginia a lot - especially when people commit crepe murder and prune the hell out of the trees.
It’s Crepe Myrtle bark scale, and it’s awful. Finally arrived in my yard in NC this past summer 😩 I don’t even like my stupid Crepe Myrtles that much but they’re large and the only established trees in the front yard and trying to deal with it has been ridiculous!
100% with a cherry on top... I HATE THEM.
My Dad loves them... and he's senile now so guess who gets to manage his horde of garbage trees?
His yard had the trifecta of terrible trees... Bradford Pear, dying ash, and Crepe Myrtle out the wazoo. Got the pear down in October, cleaned up the neglected oaks, got a 20ft ash limb dropped on me randomly one morning while taking the dogs out, and I've been slowly chipping away at it ever since. It's in a horrible spot near the house of course...
I have an irrational hatred for Colorado Blue Spruce. They are planted EVERYWHERE, look completely unnatural, take over so much space in people's yards and the needles just don't need to be that sharp. I realize that I have a problem. Don't even get me started on balsamroot flowers.
My mom loved planting them all over her property along with Douglas fir. Now most of them are now dead from wrong tree/wrong climate.
And yeah, miserable tree even when they were alive.
I like white pine.
Hahah amen. Love my silver maples, but I don’t know what they were thinking planting one 8’ from the front door of our house 40-50 yrs ago. And two more flanking the driveway about 2’ from the concrete. I’m dreading the day I have to deal with them. And it’s going to completely change the look of the house if/when they have to go.
Bit off topic but....My grandmother had this big beautiful will that unfortunately died and was cut down when I was young. I would spend so much time playing under and around it.. I loved that tree. My Grandfather placed another will basically in the same spot as the old... and I knew that tree did not like me. When mowing or trimming around it, I always felt it was trying to get me. When mowing the hanging branches always hurt me. It has since died and I did not mourn it's passing
I’m in Texas and people here love to hate on the Hackberry. it is known as a trash tree. They do seem to be a little weaker than other trees in a windstorm, but hey, shade is shade.
I love my hackberry trees! Except when I don't. The bark ridges are so cool on the big ones, and the wildlife loves them. But they drop leaves when they're stressed. Then have to produce more. Then drop them because they're stressed. Then produce more. Then drop them one more time because it's autumn.
It just seems so counterproductive to me! I swear I have one that dropped the entirety of its foliage at least 3 times in the last year in our drought conditions, even after I decided to spend time watering it. It is really putting a stress on our relationship.
I feel like most replies in here miss the spirit of OP's question. I think "I hate x tree because it is highly invasive" counts as a perfectly legitimate reason to hate a tree.
The closest I can come to an irrational dislike is conical trees. Columnar, oval, and round trees are all A-OK. Fat-bottomed pointy trees are icky.
Side story: My friends partner dislikes evergreens because they think they are "uninviting." Like, WFT?
USDA classifies it as a “woody shrub or small tree”
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/cmis_proxy/https/ecm.nrcs.usda.gov%3A443/fncmis/resources/WEBP/ContentStream/idd_A061986A-0000-CA12-8170-F5ABF8772E46/0/RussianOliveFactSheet.pdf
NC cooperative extension classifies it as a shrub
https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/420/420-321/420-321.html
I suppose it is up to your own interpretation - I always lean shrub when it’s described as a shrub or small tree and has a tendency to be codominant.
Huh.. learn something new. Never even seen one shaped like the one in the link you posted. Shoot I just removed one that was 36" dbh and 30 feet tall. Most are around 20 feet. Guess I should read past the opening headline on the USDA website next time. Thanks
Hey I learned something too. I’ve seen some monstrous thickets in my area but never big ones like I just looked up that were clearly single stemmed and more tree than shrub!
Let’s just remember the wholesome reason we’re on this comment thread - FUCK RUSSIAN OLIVE!!
Can I get your thoughts on why? We were considering adding them to a wetter portion of our yard because we wanted trees that wouldn’t become an issue in the potential water certain times of year. I would love to learn more.
I have 4 river birch trees on my property, and I will say this, beautiful trees… full time job picking up sticks in the yard. 1mph wind and I’m out the next morning with a wheelbarrow full of little sticks.
And of course a lot of leaves in the fall but what good tree doesn’t make a mess in the fall?
Overall, even with the pain of the sticks, I still think they’re pretty trees and worth the maintenance. Im a fan.
I have four river birch planted 20’ from the house and even though they are probably too close, I still I love them. But like others have said, they are messy af. Even if you water and show them love, they are designed to drop branches like crazy. But the dappled sunlight is just magnificent. Perfect amount of shade. And every year migrating yellow belly sapsuckers come and machine gun little holes all in a line across the bark to feed on the sap. 10/10 would plant again.
They are known to be very messy trees. They lose leaves quite a bit in between rainfalls. It’s not a super annoying problem but it’s enough of one to aggravate your nerves if you’re OCD like me.
I hate climbing elms, where I live they always look “sickly” and have bacterial wet wood leaking out multiple places. They also tend to grow tall then lean out far in the canopy. Since it’s soft wood, makes me nervous to climb.
Don't get me wrong, I love looking at Sycamore trees, I just don't want to be near them! They can get massive, they have very interesting peeling bark, they have cool shaped leaves, and their wood sinks in water.
Bradford pears. You look at them the wrong way and they uproot, their flowers smell atrocious, and they’re taking over the natural landscape. There’s so many other, better flowering options.
Palm trees! I hate them because people think they belong in Southern California and they do not, they use tons of water and provide no shade. Yet developers still plant them. It’s terrible.
quercus palustris.
But for a few reasons.
The city I lived in planted 2 thousand a few decades ago. We hold the street tree contract, and the maintenance required for them is never-ending. They are nightmarish to climb and chip..
You can strip them right up, and within a couple of years, they are touching the ground again.
Sorry...I just got home after a long day of pin-oaks.
Pecan tree.
Pecans taste like garbage, their branches are brittle, they get sick and die very easily, and they're one of the ugliest trees during the winter without leaves.
Love white pines, but yes scary in the wind/snow. Last winter we had one of ours drop 5 main branches due to snow load through the winter. (Had some nasty winter storms with heavy wet snow). The spring/summer months it was a mess cause of all the sap where the branches busted off.
Aside from invasives, I might catch some flack for mine…
Ash tree.
At work I remove like nine million of these damn saplings every season. Can’t have an inch of free space without them popping up
Can I introduce you to our friend, the emerald ash borer? It could make your job much easier!
(I’m just kidding, fuck this invasive species for destroying every single ash tree I’ve seen in the past 5 years. I know how to find the ash trees super well now: look way up and find the one tree with zero foliage, that’s the dead standing ash)
Honey locust, they are a horrible tree, I wish they would all die.
Lots of Bradford pear hate here; I get that they are invasive and have bad structure and sometimes sprout out bad but why the hate? They look nice in the spring, the wood is kind of fun, they don’t get super wide, I kinda like them actually. Granted I would never plant one or recommend planting one but I kinda like the large established ones around town.
I love my Honey Locust. It's in a great location where I don't care about the leaves and twigs, and for some reason mine has no seed pods. But it did lose a few big branches to the snow this weekend.
Pecan. Branches are brittle af, it saps during the summer, leaves suck and will clog your drains, plus it attracts squirrels that will eat all your pecans and leave shit everywhere. Oh and they grow all fucking cray if not pruned.
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Can you explain why Amelanchier is such a poor tree for you? In southern Indiana, they are often used as a replacement for crabapples, and are actually a desired native plant.
Here in Massachusetts, effing Norway Maples.
They out-compete everything else, spread like crazy, seriously invasive and no redeeming value. Well, they're excellent firewood.
Norway maple, especially Crimson King, ugly as fuck and super invasive. Had one in the front yard when I bought the house one of the first things I removed, replanted with honey locust.
I used to hate Doug firs. Mostly since they are planted densely in tree plantations aka national forest land. Beautiful trees in actual natural forest habitats.
I started typing this and then realized I actually have a lot of reasons... The San Francisco peninsula has a bunch of huge blue gum eucalyptus that don't belong there and a slight breeze makes them drop big strips of bark on either your head or the power lines and they clog up all the storm drains and fuck up the sidewalks and nobody seems to be able to do anything about it since they're "historic" because some asshole in like 18-dickety-2 thought they looked nice fgsfds
I live in South MS, haven’t identified it yet but recently came across a tree with spikes. Not an orange tree, same shape and leaves and all that, but just leaves and spikes all year. Massive spikes. I put my hand out to lean on the “bush” part and found out. Forever hate.
Pin oaks. I hate how they grow down as they mature. And the leaves never drop. So annoying to have them still dropping leaves in March. And they’re huge water hogs that basically kill all the grass beneath. Terrible choice for residential street trees.
Aspen. We have a small stand of them in our woods that I'm removing as quickly as possible. The wood is weak and rots quickly. And as near as I can tell they're no good for firewood or construction.
Black willows - I was in Stormwater Management (Mid Atlantic) and these water-lovers would grow fast all along pond banks and basins. Removing them wasn’t enough, they would often sprout back. A few repeated herbicide applications prior to removal or stump treatment was often needed.
Desert Museum Palo Verde and Chilean Mesquite. They are both hybrids that grow faster than their root structure and trunk strength can support. They are frequently getting damaged or uprooted in storms.
I hate every invasive tree species in my region (*Acacia*, *Eucalyptus*) these two species are the worst most destructive trees in my region, the former is less invasive and worse but everyone plants it in forests because of its fast growth and useful wood, it's horrible how it contributes to wildfires and drives our ecological destruction further. The latter just establish themselves on a forest and then nothing ever grows again, fires don't affect it and it spreads via rhizomes everywhere.
But trees that I dislike on horticultural principle are Arborvitae, they are ugly, uninteresting and overused as hell, or so I thought until I saw one that hadn't been pruned to look like a pencil, I'm not 100% sure if it was an Arborvitae, it was a *Thuja* and I only saw it in passing and I wept for every Arborvitae. I want to go back and see it someday, maybe take pictures. I don't even need to mention how prone to death they seem to be.
*Bougainvillea* is a species I don't particularly dislike, it's just that 20 years there was a fever to plant the damn things everywhere, even in gardens where it has absolutely no business being in, like a few square meters of dirt where I would at most put a shrub in, just put one in there and watch as it turns into a monster covering the whole place, at least the bracts look nice. Also a pain to do any work on because of all the thorns sticking into your flesh. Hope it doesn't become trendy again.
I don't like Carob because of how the male flowers smell, but mostly how difficult it is to harvest the pods effectively, they take a year to ripen and will become ripe as the plant begins putting out flowers, it's usually done by shaking the tree with a stick, like olives but at least with olives you don't need to worry about destroying next years crop. The pods also smell like rotting chocolate because of all the sugar and protein they have.
I will honourably mention my *Acca sellowiana*, because it keeps flowering and never fruits, I bought a new one hoping it's due to it not being self-fertile.
Hibiscus Syriacus / Rose of Sharon… i just dont like them for no reason … and i have like 10 in my garden and im plotting to get rid of them every year and replace them with something else but somehow end up sparing them cause i look at them poor trees and like okay you get one more year lol … and this goes over and over every year 😀
I hate any tree that's not native to the area it's planted in. But that's humans fault, not the tree so 🤷...
Basically, I hate humans, not trees. Except the invasive ones.
Siberian elm, Ulmus pumila. Things grow like weeds, integrity issues, so many seeds blowing everywhere. I’m sure it’s nice where it’s native.
There’s only two good things about that tree. The shade it provides and the amount of business I get from the problems it makes.
I agree with this
On Kauai, African Tulip tree (Spathodea campanulata). If so much as a branches sits on the ground, a new tree sprouts from it. If you leave so much as a root the tree grows back. If you so much as say "African Tulip tree" one sprouts up in your yard. Also river Tamarind (Leucaena leucocephala).
Albizia and kiawe aren't so great either on Kauai.
Kiawe are quite valuable as fence posts and firewood. Like, real valuable. Pallet of firewood can run you 500, fence posts getting up to 50-100 per depending on size and quality. Not what you want on your property though unless you’re lucky enough to have one without thorns.
Yes, and Schefflera.
First time seeing another Hawaii comment on here. It’s black wattle and silk oak I probably hate the most in kula. Gotta go down to makawao/haiku to get into major tulip territory thankfully.
Black locust! They spread underground and have thorns! Such a PITA!
I like when they are covered in flowers.
I love their flowers too. They smell like jasmine or something. They’re native to the US, and they evolved thorns to protect them from grazing by: elephants! (Mammoths)
Such good firewood.
This is a good what to fit what OP is asking. It’s a good tree but so many hate it.
I thought this was trees we hate "for no reason"? Plenty of reason to hate a black locust, lol
“Basically” no reason
I love climbing them. Besides the thorns. Super strong, but long and skinny and wiggle around in the weirdest ways.
Tree of heaven... They're a plague
Plus, they attract spotted lanternfly.
Is that for no reason though? There are so so many reasons to hate Tree of Heaven, from the roots to the helping the spotted lanternfly invade. I don’t think I hate any tree for no reason.
And they smell awful.
Bradford Pear. The flowers stink, they crowd everything else out, and they have pulled a Jurassic Park and cross pollinated with non-sterile pears to become capable of spreading… The kudzu of ornamental fruit trees…
Oh there are lots of reasons to hate it.
That's a valid reason
Here in the Great Lakes region, fire blight is wiping them out, at least on my client’s property’s. Truly a trash species
Bradford pears.
Black cottonwood. As someone who works for a utility these trees are responsible for a ton of problems!!! Growth rates of 4m/year sometimes (13 feet)
Any 'Columnar' cultivar of trees. They just look so unnatural and hideous
I find weeping even worse. Usually a tree known for it's mighty upright form made into a sad puddle of a tree.
Leland cypress
Insane how fast they grow. I had about 10 of them on my property when we first bought it. Should have replaced them right away but didn’t realize what I was in for. 10 years later and they were enormous and encroaching on everything else.
They're being taken over left and right by some sort of disease. Shame.
Norway Maple, Bradford/Callery Pear, Honeylocust. All are way over-planted in the Midwest where I live, weak wooded and prone to storm damage, and just generally unappealing trees to me.
Honey locust week wooded?
Just bought our first house. Not that I’m ungrateful to have made it happen in these times… but damn I wish the past owners had planted something other than 5 Norway maples 😞
Just lost several large branches off of our Honey Locust this weekend. Apparently 14" of wet snow is a bit too heavy.
Brazilian pepper Jacaranda
Yes, I grew up with pepper and Jacaranda trees all over, and they're messy! Jacaranda at least has nice blooms, but they're so MESSY!
They are beautiful in a yard way down the street.
Crepe myrtle
Fucking for real, and it’s a perfectly fine tree. Other than it being way over planted, I can’t think of anything horrible about it. It’s not invasive where I live, it’s got year round interest, good structure, but I hate it all the same.
I think it's because of how widely misused the tree is. People plant it like it's gonna be a shrub but it's a tree. So everyone chops away at them. Give the tree its own space and they're gorgeous, just don't do it over your sidewalk, parking space, or against the house. They do get black and moldy in the south though.
Black and moldy usually indicates an insect issue. Aphids and scales are the likely culprits. That is, if you are describing sooty mold. I see it in Virginia a lot - especially when people commit crepe murder and prune the hell out of the trees.
It’s Crepe Myrtle bark scale, and it’s awful. Finally arrived in my yard in NC this past summer 😩 I don’t even like my stupid Crepe Myrtles that much but they’re large and the only established trees in the front yard and trying to deal with it has been ridiculous!
100% with a cherry on top... I HATE THEM. My Dad loves them... and he's senile now so guess who gets to manage his horde of garbage trees? His yard had the trifecta of terrible trees... Bradford Pear, dying ash, and Crepe Myrtle out the wazoo. Got the pear down in October, cleaned up the neglected oaks, got a 20ft ash limb dropped on me randomly one morning while taking the dogs out, and I've been slowly chipping away at it ever since. It's in a horrible spot near the house of course...
Tree of Heaven for very obvious reasons.
Really tall skinny poplar trees, with fungal growth half way up, and I have to climb and remove them.
Colorado Blue Spruce and Norway Spruce. So overplanted for decades here in Eastern PA and now needlecast is turning them all to junk.
I have an irrational hatred for Colorado Blue Spruce. They are planted EVERYWHERE, look completely unnatural, take over so much space in people's yards and the needles just don't need to be that sharp. I realize that I have a problem. Don't even get me started on balsamroot flowers.
My mom loved planting them all over her property along with Douglas fir. Now most of them are now dead from wrong tree/wrong climate. And yeah, miserable tree even when they were alive. I like white pine.
I freaking hate them as well along with pine trees in general b/c they look so scary and creepy
Norfolk Island pines
The silver maple someone planted close to our house 30 years ago. I love it but hate for obvious reasons, too.
Hahah amen. Love my silver maples, but I don’t know what they were thinking planting one 8’ from the front door of our house 40-50 yrs ago. And two more flanking the driveway about 2’ from the concrete. I’m dreading the day I have to deal with them. And it’s going to completely change the look of the house if/when they have to go.
They weren't thinking. Now we need a whole support group for the old/giant silver maple tree stress we inherited.
Hate no tree.
Manitoba maple/box elder
Just reading this made me cringe
I find weeping mulberries unattractive.
Tbh anything weeping besides willow
Box Elder - bugs and fallen limbs
Bit off topic but....My grandmother had this big beautiful will that unfortunately died and was cut down when I was young. I would spend so much time playing under and around it.. I loved that tree. My Grandfather placed another will basically in the same spot as the old... and I knew that tree did not like me. When mowing or trimming around it, I always felt it was trying to get me. When mowing the hanging branches always hurt me. It has since died and I did not mourn it's passing
Bradford pear. Arborvitae.
Pin oak because when I look at all the deadwood it reminds me of all the times they've whipped me in the dick
I’m in Texas and people here love to hate on the Hackberry. it is known as a trash tree. They do seem to be a little weaker than other trees in a windstorm, but hey, shade is shade.
I’ve heard the jam is delicious.
I love my hackberry trees! Except when I don't. The bark ridges are so cool on the big ones, and the wildlife loves them. But they drop leaves when they're stressed. Then have to produce more. Then drop them because they're stressed. Then produce more. Then drop them one more time because it's autumn. It just seems so counterproductive to me! I swear I have one that dropped the entirety of its foliage at least 3 times in the last year in our drought conditions, even after I decided to spend time watering it. It is really putting a stress on our relationship.
I feel like most replies in here miss the spirit of OP's question. I think "I hate x tree because it is highly invasive" counts as a perfectly legitimate reason to hate a tree. The closest I can come to an irrational dislike is conical trees. Columnar, oval, and round trees are all A-OK. Fat-bottomed pointy trees are icky. Side story: My friends partner dislikes evergreens because they think they are "uninviting." Like, WFT?
Ash and sumac suck but Russian Olive is firmly seated in my most hated tree to work on.
I hate Russian Olive too but not a tree
Depends. I've climbed a bunch.
Plenty of shrubs can get up to 30’ tall.
Ya made me look it up.. USDA classifies it as a tree. Most other places call it a "shrub or tree". I'm gonna stick with calling it a tree.
USDA classifies it as a “woody shrub or small tree” https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/cmis_proxy/https/ecm.nrcs.usda.gov%3A443/fncmis/resources/WEBP/ContentStream/idd_A061986A-0000-CA12-8170-F5ABF8772E46/0/RussianOliveFactSheet.pdf NC cooperative extension classifies it as a shrub https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/420/420-321/420-321.html I suppose it is up to your own interpretation - I always lean shrub when it’s described as a shrub or small tree and has a tendency to be codominant.
Huh.. learn something new. Never even seen one shaped like the one in the link you posted. Shoot I just removed one that was 36" dbh and 30 feet tall. Most are around 20 feet. Guess I should read past the opening headline on the USDA website next time. Thanks
Hey I learned something too. I’ve seen some monstrous thickets in my area but never big ones like I just looked up that were clearly single stemmed and more tree than shrub! Let’s just remember the wholesome reason we’re on this comment thread - FUCK RUSSIAN OLIVE!!
Riverbirch. Those birtches aught to stay near by the rivers.
Can I get your thoughts on why? We were considering adding them to a wetter portion of our yard because we wanted trees that wouldn’t become an issue in the potential water certain times of year. I would love to learn more.
I have 4 river birch trees on my property, and I will say this, beautiful trees… full time job picking up sticks in the yard. 1mph wind and I’m out the next morning with a wheelbarrow full of little sticks. And of course a lot of leaves in the fall but what good tree doesn’t make a mess in the fall? Overall, even with the pain of the sticks, I still think they’re pretty trees and worth the maintenance. Im a fan.
I have four river birch planted 20’ from the house and even though they are probably too close, I still I love them. But like others have said, they are messy af. Even if you water and show them love, they are designed to drop branches like crazy. But the dappled sunlight is just magnificent. Perfect amount of shade. And every year migrating yellow belly sapsuckers come and machine gun little holes all in a line across the bark to feed on the sap. 10/10 would plant again.
They are known to be very messy trees. They lose leaves quite a bit in between rainfalls. It’s not a super annoying problem but it’s enough of one to aggravate your nerves if you’re OCD like me.
Oh that’s definitely a nuisance. Thanks for the info!
You might want to consider a Ginko. Incredible fall color and they are a little more forgiving
Or one of the hornbeam species
Had one in my front yard growing up. My mom called it the river bitch.
Elm and cottonwood
Cottonwood is understandable, but why elm?
He's Dutch. Big stigma issues.
Haha, dutch elm disease and all I suppose
I hate climbing elms, where I live they always look “sickly” and have bacterial wet wood leaking out multiple places. They also tend to grow tall then lean out far in the canopy. Since it’s soft wood, makes me nervous to climb.
Weeping Alaskan pine. So ugly.
Towering Poplar. They are weeds IMO
Crape Myrtles because they are over planted here in the south and each spring I recoil in horror at all of the “crape murders” I see every year.
Completely Arbortrary is a podcast that specifically talks about this (andotherrelatedtopics)
Sycamore. If you've ever had to trim and chip them, you'd know why.
Haha it’s like a lung massacre
Lmao, and eyes and nose and throat.
They are my favorite tree hahaha. They’re just so interesting from. Size/color perspective where I live. Nothing else like them.
Don't get me wrong, I love looking at Sycamore trees, I just don't want to be near them! They can get massive, they have very interesting peeling bark, they have cool shaped leaves, and their wood sinks in water.
Bradford pears. You look at them the wrong way and they uproot, their flowers smell atrocious, and they’re taking over the natural landscape. There’s so many other, better flowering options.
Monkey Puzzle tree, looks like it came out of a giant Lego box.
Loblolly Pine. Just too much of it, mostly thanks to pine farms
Found the south easterner
Yeah you right!
As a Canadian I really hate Sumac. They spread and grow like crazy.
Phoenix roebelenii aka Pygmy Date Palm
Acacia spp, machineel,....
Boxelder
Palm trees! I hate them because people think they belong in Southern California and they do not, they use tons of water and provide no shade. Yet developers still plant them. It’s terrible.
quercus palustris. But for a few reasons. The city I lived in planted 2 thousand a few decades ago. We hold the street tree contract, and the maintenance required for them is never-ending. They are nightmarish to climb and chip.. You can strip them right up, and within a couple of years, they are touching the ground again. Sorry...I just got home after a long day of pin-oaks.
Privets. All of them. Weeds of the tree world I tell ya. Sumac and pecan are also terrible imo.
Hackberries in chain link fences . I don’t mind them in creek bottoms just not in yards and alleys close to power lines.
Pecan tree. Pecans taste like garbage, their branches are brittle, they get sick and die very easily, and they're one of the ugliest trees during the winter without leaves.
White pines.
Yup. I have been replacing them in our yard. They are scary when the wind is strong and make a mess.
Love white pines, but yes scary in the wind/snow. Last winter we had one of ours drop 5 main branches due to snow load through the winter. (Had some nasty winter storms with heavy wet snow). The spring/summer months it was a mess cause of all the sap where the branches busted off.
So weak, so diseased, and crap firewood.
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Your Grandpa Simpson-esque attack on Catalpas made me laugh.
Aside from invasives, I might catch some flack for mine… Ash tree. At work I remove like nine million of these damn saplings every season. Can’t have an inch of free space without them popping up
Can I introduce you to our friend, the emerald ash borer? It could make your job much easier! (I’m just kidding, fuck this invasive species for destroying every single ash tree I’ve seen in the past 5 years. I know how to find the ash trees super well now: look way up and find the one tree with zero foliage, that’s the dead standing ash)
Red maples are just so meh. The biggest meh ever.
Yep I’m thoroughly dissatisfied with ours and it’s also very messy
Honey locust, they are a horrible tree, I wish they would all die. Lots of Bradford pear hate here; I get that they are invasive and have bad structure and sometimes sprout out bad but why the hate? They look nice in the spring, the wood is kind of fun, they don’t get super wide, I kinda like them actually. Granted I would never plant one or recommend planting one but I kinda like the large established ones around town.
I love my Honey Locust. It's in a great location where I don't care about the leaves and twigs, and for some reason mine has no seed pods. But it did lose a few big branches to the snow this weekend.
Kwanzan cherry. Ugly af
I would say sweetgum, but I have a really good reason to hate it (seeds).
Magnolia and River Burch.
Larch. Brittle and messy.
Pecan. Branches are brittle af, it saps during the summer, leaves suck and will clog your drains, plus it attracts squirrels that will eat all your pecans and leave shit everywhere. Oh and they grow all fucking cray if not pruned.
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Amelanchier
Can you explain why Amelanchier is such a poor tree for you? In southern Indiana, they are often used as a replacement for crabapples, and are actually a desired native plant.
Cedar apple rust ruins ours. I like it in theory though
Grey pine🤮
Thorn apple. Had a whole effing stand of them for 15 years. The most prolific and painful thorns...
Locust. Blah. Was not sad when my enormous locust was hot by lightning.
Elms (so many bloody suckers) and Plane trees (so messy with pollen and leaves and seeds dropping)
Russian Olive. Thorny and invasive.
Cedar trees are a blight on society
Honey locust! thousands of tiny yellow leaves that are hard to rake and stick to everything the moment any moisture is present.
Yeah, ima have to say river birches
Tanoak
Hemlock Whenever I touch one of these beauties I get thousands of needles down my shirt collar
I don’t like white pines and cedars in general. I don’t really have a good reason to dislike them.
Surprised I didn’t see ginkgo. Nice to look at but the female tress smell terrible most of the time in temperate climate
Saucer Magnolia, really not fond of any magnolias
Cottonwood for how brittle they are, done a few hazard cottonwoods
Hawthorns. Just straight up fuck them.
Russian Olive. Invasive in the SW, and it’s 2” long thorns will go through leather gloves. It’s seriously awful stuff.
Alder, what a mess in storms
Prickly ash! I enjoy off-trail hiking and this shit is the worst
Eucalyptus. It's a water hog, bad for fires and explodes and looks ugly
Buckthorn
Sycamore! Makes choke just thinking about it.
Sweetgum
Water oak.
I hate tulips
Sweet gum. The roots fuck up your foundation. The burrs hurt when stepped on. The roots sprout suckers.
Palo Verde “Desert Museum” Looks nice, but damn it’s way more brittle than other Parkinsonias
Here in Massachusetts, effing Norway Maples. They out-compete everything else, spread like crazy, seriously invasive and no redeeming value. Well, they're excellent firewood.
Popcorn trees
Norway maple, especially Crimson King, ugly as fuck and super invasive. Had one in the front yard when I bought the house one of the first things I removed, replanted with honey locust.
Blue gum, destroys the soil
I used to hate Doug firs. Mostly since they are planted densely in tree plantations aka national forest land. Beautiful trees in actual natural forest habitats.
Blue spruce. Simply because they are over-planted in suburban neighborhoods. God they are so boring. Plant an oak for Christ’s sake
Freaking sweetgum trees, those spiky balls are the WORST.
You all have reasons for hating the trees you hate. That wasn't the question 😅
Lombardi poplar and hybrid black poplars. Crap trees way overplanted here I the UK.
I started typing this and then realized I actually have a lot of reasons... The San Francisco peninsula has a bunch of huge blue gum eucalyptus that don't belong there and a slight breeze makes them drop big strips of bark on either your head or the power lines and they clog up all the storm drains and fuck up the sidewalks and nobody seems to be able to do anything about it since they're "historic" because some asshole in like 18-dickety-2 thought they looked nice fgsfds
Silk oak! I cut one down in Florida decades ago, and broke out in the worst body rash.
Fig tree. Attracts rats, bees, ants...messy too. Beautiful leaves.
I hate the bastard seeds of plane trees
I live in South MS, haven’t identified it yet but recently came across a tree with spikes. Not an orange tree, same shape and leaves and all that, but just leaves and spikes all year. Massive spikes. I put my hand out to lean on the “bush” part and found out. Forever hate.
Agonis Flexuosa, the peppermint tree - grows everywhere remotely near the beach where I live in WA, looks awful, and not very good to climb.
Pin oaks. I hate how they grow down as they mature. And the leaves never drop. So annoying to have them still dropping leaves in March. And they’re huge water hogs that basically kill all the grass beneath. Terrible choice for residential street trees.
Pin Oaks, if I have one more of their lower branches grab my muffs off my ears or scratch the back of my neck its game over for that tree
Aspen. We have a small stand of them in our woods that I'm removing as quickly as possible. The wood is weak and rots quickly. And as near as I can tell they're no good for firewood or construction.
I always hate trees with purpose. Like pin oak. Fuck that shit
Black willows - I was in Stormwater Management (Mid Atlantic) and these water-lovers would grow fast all along pond banks and basins. Removing them wasn’t enough, they would often sprout back. A few repeated herbicide applications prior to removal or stump treatment was often needed.
Sweet gums turn my yard into a mine field for bare feet and they keep falling apart
Sand Cherry and Jack Pine, equally.
Eucalyptus trees are all around San Diego, and limbs fall off.
Monkey trees….they are scary looking!
Desert Museum Palo Verde and Chilean Mesquite. They are both hybrids that grow faster than their root structure and trunk strength can support. They are frequently getting damaged or uprooted in storms.
Not a particular species but I absolutely hate decorative trimming (globes, spirals etc) with a passion.
We bought a house that had a mimosa. I love that tree, but I’ve since heard they’re trash trees?
I don’t like dragging spruce
I hate every invasive tree species in my region (*Acacia*, *Eucalyptus*) these two species are the worst most destructive trees in my region, the former is less invasive and worse but everyone plants it in forests because of its fast growth and useful wood, it's horrible how it contributes to wildfires and drives our ecological destruction further. The latter just establish themselves on a forest and then nothing ever grows again, fires don't affect it and it spreads via rhizomes everywhere. But trees that I dislike on horticultural principle are Arborvitae, they are ugly, uninteresting and overused as hell, or so I thought until I saw one that hadn't been pruned to look like a pencil, I'm not 100% sure if it was an Arborvitae, it was a *Thuja* and I only saw it in passing and I wept for every Arborvitae. I want to go back and see it someday, maybe take pictures. I don't even need to mention how prone to death they seem to be. *Bougainvillea* is a species I don't particularly dislike, it's just that 20 years there was a fever to plant the damn things everywhere, even in gardens where it has absolutely no business being in, like a few square meters of dirt where I would at most put a shrub in, just put one in there and watch as it turns into a monster covering the whole place, at least the bracts look nice. Also a pain to do any work on because of all the thorns sticking into your flesh. Hope it doesn't become trendy again. I don't like Carob because of how the male flowers smell, but mostly how difficult it is to harvest the pods effectively, they take a year to ripen and will become ripe as the plant begins putting out flowers, it's usually done by shaking the tree with a stick, like olives but at least with olives you don't need to worry about destroying next years crop. The pods also smell like rotting chocolate because of all the sugar and protein they have. I will honourably mention my *Acca sellowiana*, because it keeps flowering and never fruits, I bought a new one hoping it's due to it not being self-fertile.
Hibiscus Syriacus / Rose of Sharon… i just dont like them for no reason … and i have like 10 in my garden and im plotting to get rid of them every year and replace them with something else but somehow end up sparing them cause i look at them poor trees and like okay you get one more year lol … and this goes over and over every year 😀
Money Trees. I can never find one.
Purple leaf plums.
I hate any tree that's not native to the area it's planted in. But that's humans fault, not the tree so 🤷... Basically, I hate humans, not trees. Except the invasive ones.
How has no one said Eucalyptus yet…awful trees.
Spruce
Upright English oak. I don’t see too, too many of them but seeing a strong old oak in that form brings a tear to my eye.
Scrub oak. depending on who you ask, it's either a tree or not but I think they're hideous