What US City has green trees the latest in the Spring?

[Luke9686]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned California. When I lived in San Jose, most of the trees don't lose their leaves. It's green pretty much year round!

[Djames9]

you know...living in Fresno,ca, I've never seen a Tree Before..lol since Fresno is so incredibly Dry and Hot We can't support Plant life here LOL Only in Extremely Rare circumstances do you see rare Grass growing after a Miraculous scattered Showers event lol But it dies really quick within 24 Hours of the rain event other then that just concrete grows here and Dust and brown,oil filled skies... and there's no water for about 300 miles lol.. we drink salt water here imported from the pacific ocean here...lol Just Kidding

[hdwell]

Originally Posted by City Fanatic

I think that you're referring to the Oaks, not Pecan trees. Pecan trees have already bloomed out in Georgia. It is the oaks that are still somewhat sparse.

A few pecans and oaks are stragglers. Everything is bloomed out now as I type. The delta had earlier buds this year than we did for some reason. A friend over there tells me she thinks that sometimes we tend to stay cool longer in the western part of the state than they. Maybe so I don't know but she does keep up with Lousiana gardening and weather.

[MrMcCoySays]

so many people are listing northern cities, but no places have green trees longer than places in the southeast where it's wet and warm most of the year: Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Orlando, New Orleans, Shreveport, etc.

[Katiana]

Originally Posted by Luke9686

I can't believe nobody has mentioned California. When I lived in San Jose, most of the trees don't lose their leaves. It's green pretty much year round!

Originally Posted by MrMcCoySays

so many people are listing northern cities, but no places have green trees longer than places in the southeast where it's wet and warm most of the year: Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Orlando, New Orleans, Shreveport, etc.

The OP's thread title is poorly worded. Here is the question from post #1:

What city has the latest green up of its trees in America? And when does it happen?

Minneapolis greens up later than Denver, which is later than a lot of other places, e.g. Pittsburgh, Champaign, Il.

[City Fanatic]

Originally Posted by MrMcCoySays

so many people are listing northern cities, but no places have green trees longer than places in the southeast where it's wet and warm most of the year: Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Orlando, New Orleans, Shreveport, etc.

Atlanta's a bit cooler than those other cities, and is at a considerably higher elevation, as well as a higher latitude.

Miami: Green year round, for the most part.
Orlando: half of the broad-leaf trees are deciduous, half are evergreen. Leaves off the trees from Late December to early March

New Orleans/Houston: leaves off trees from Mid December to Early March

Shreveport: Leaves off trees from early/mid December to early/mid March

Atlanta: Leaves off trees from late November/early December to late March/Early April

[MrMcCoySays]

Originally Posted by City Fanatic

Atlanta's a bit cooler than those other cities, and is at a considerably higher elevation, as well as a higher latitude.

Miami: Green year round, for the most part.
Orlando: half of the broad-leaf trees are deciduous, half are evergreen. Leaves off the trees from Late December to early March

New Orleans/Houston: leaves off trees from Mid December to Early March

Shreveport: Leaves off trees from early/mid December to early/mid March

Atlanta: Leaves off trees from late November/early December to late March/Early April

well elevation doesn't have that much to do with it because Atlanta is very rich with green most months out of the year.

And the leaves in southeast Texas (Houston) don't come back early/mid March. More like late March/ early April

[City Fanatic]

Originally Posted by MrMcCoySays

well elevation doesn't have that much to do with it because Atlanta is very rich with green most months out of the year.

And the leaves in southeast Texas (Houston) don't come back early/mid March. More like late March/ early April

I'm referring to the first buds. Here in Atlanta, we don't have full leaves on most of the trees until mid April.

All areas of the south are more green than brown throughout a majority of months in the year.