How tall is the tallest tree in your yard?

I do too….I think it’s around 30 to 50 so 40 sounds good. It’s a eucalyptus and my place was built in 48 so it’s probably 80 years old. Every now and then it’ll drop a branch. On the plus side there are tons of these in the area and many even taller from an even older neighborhood


I’m lookin at the one in front of my work and one of the shipping containers in front of it say 9.6 ft so sizing those up I think mine is about 30 maybe 34 ft
 
Good question. We just moved and this yard has a bunch of trees, but most seem to be 30' or shorter. Maybe a couple are about 40'.

At our old house we had a spruce tree in the front that has to be 60'.
 
I'm in a townhouse, so all we have is a tiny patio.

I planted what was supposed to be a little shrub back there, and it grew as tall as the 2nd-story roofline before the freeze last year knocked it back. Now it's only ~7ft.

It's this thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duranta_erecta Blooms prolifically all year round and attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. Also poisonous to children. So basically, no drawbacks.
 
50'-60', an oak & ash, way in the backyard that survived the establishment of the subdivision.
An Italian pine in the back that was planted 2008-09 that's aprox 30'.
A river birch and a redbud planted in the front yard around the same time, now 30' & 20' +/-.
 
I live on a forested hillside, so in my yard there are trees of maybe 90-100 feet, including some mature maples, oaks and larch. In the immediate area are trees much larger, as the area I live in has been a forest preserve since the early 1800's, so there are some significantly huge old growth in there. I guess 2oo feet or more, but that is guess. They are too far back to be an impact on my place, so I just enjoy the view.
 
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The "big" one behind our back porch is maybe 30 feet. It's a pretty cool tree though; in central Texas trees on the hillsides don't grow big because it's hard for them to find any soil between all the rocks. The bigger trees are along the rivers where there is some actual soil and more moisture.
 
Quite a few hemlocks and white pines between 75 and 90 out front. Loads of maple and oak 50’ and up out back plus a few white pine monsters that must be at least 90. When one fell in a wind storm last winter it sounded like a bomb went off
 
It's dark outside. The tower for the TV antenna is 30 feet so, I'll compare soon.
 
I used to have 8 trees. Most were over 60 feet tall. The Eucalyptus is the only one left. I keep it under 15 feet tall now.
7 of the 8 trees were on our very steep slope in the back yard. It was unsafe.
We did have one of the not so tall trees fall and hit the roof above our garage. Thats when I decided to cut down the others.
 
I've got several late-stage maples, walnuts, pines, spruces, and a linden that have to be at least 80'. None of them are a threat to the house, but one of these days we're going to lose power thanks to a tree, no doubt. Probably sooner than later.
 
I don't own a tree. But the neighbors on both sides do and the city owns the land behind me so I get all kinds of leaves to rake.
 
How are you guys measuring heights? Are we just guessing here or are you out there doing trigonometry with a protractor and a plumb bob or what?

Anywho, we just had to have our tallest tree removed. It was a big old ash tree, I'd guess 50 ft or so. It was about 60 years old according to the rings. Emerald ash borers finally killed it.
 
About 10 feet. Our house was new construction when we had it built, in '04. We didn't get around to planting any actual trees in the yard until about 2016, so they've not had a ton of time to grow as yet. We have bushes....
 
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