How Would You Describe San Antonio's Natural Environment? (Salado, Beverly Hills: rich, suburbs)

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by Stabart47

I think the term "midwest" is relative... I'm from the Ozarks, which is still the "midwest" but looks nothing like the "midwest" my cousin lives in, central Illinois

Southern and Northern Missouri are completely different.

[Stabart47]

Originally Posted by Dopo

Southern and Northern Missouri are completely different.

Very true!

[BillyH]

I have had relatives and friends visit SA and one of the first things they comment on is how green it is, especially after recent rains in the summer time. The other thing is "you guys have trees" we were in an office building with glass walled elevators on NE Loop near Harry Wurzbach and once you get high enough it over looks the older neighborhoods inside the Loop which is a forest of trees. I guess they expected tumble weeds blowing across the freeway. The other thing some have commented on is the lack of fall color. It depends on what you plant, I have a Sweetgum tree that turns bright yellow, a Red Oak and Crape Myrtles that turn red and orange. I've got fall colors in my backyard, not everything turns from green to brown. Does it compare to the northeast of course not.

[ogun]

i live down between 410 and 1604 in the area where I35 comes through.

hundred acres here i live on the medina river. huge oaks down in the river bottom, lush and green with the medina chuckling through. about 50 acres open cow and horse pasture, pretty flat outside the river bottom.

have a 600+ acre farm across the road, they plant and grow there pretty much year round. it looks like lettuce and cabbages and a couple of other plants i cant see well from the road right now. they do two crops of corn a year on the same ground and i dont know what all else they grow.

its waaaaaaaay laid back out here, slow country living, but only 14 miles from downtown.

[SweethomeSanAntonio]

Originally Posted by firstclassflyer

Scrub grass/bushes,wasteland, Mesquite trees and small Oak trees thrown in for good measure. It's not very nice, IMO.

I think the California smog has impaired your vision!

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Bandera county.

[Merovee]

fcf has accurately described South Texas and it still has its own charm. Lost Maples is not really part of San Antonio. It's fall foliage is better than SA's but nothing like up north. We are what we are.

Originally Posted by Dopo

Southern and Northern Missouri are completely different.

Southern and northern San Antonio are also completely different. Or maybe it is SE and NW San Antonio which are, either way, completely different.

Originally Posted by BillyH

I've got fall colors in my backyard, not everything turns from green to brown. Does it compare to the northeast of course not.

Which is the main point. A tree here or there does not make for the spectacular changes of color. I still enjoy seeing it rain leaves, whatever color they are, and when a stronger when comes they begin to dance on the ground. If that is the only magic of fall allowed to us so be it.

[SweethomeSanAntonio]

FCF is incorrect to say San Antonio overall terrain is as such. San Antonio sits in four different terrains, it looks different depending on what side of the metro you are in. Los Maples is in the San Antonio metropolitan area! All these pics reflect nothing like how he describes it.

[Merovee]

Very well. That first picture though, hate to think about how much water was spent from the local supply to keep it green, or am I wrong again?

Originally Posted by SweethomeSanAntonio

San Antonio sits in four different terrains, it looks different depending on what side of the metro you are in.

Also are those pictures representative of all four?

It just is kind of tiring to see people make SA out to be more than it actually is. If fcf focuses on one area, and others focus on another area, well that is not even half the balance being covered. Balance is important, I think.

[TexasRedneck]

Actually, those pics are pretty representative. Where you see a dearth of trees is from the land-rapin' done by home developers in their eagerness to get every last square inch of lot size possible. If a large old oak is in the way, they drop it rather than making the lot size/layout accomodate it.

[HillCountryHotRodMan]

So true! My pet peeve is the pillaging of the trees. In retort, I am starting a small program of raising oak trees from acorn to seedling to full blown trees and giving them away. Just started this 2 months ago. Starting out very small, with about 20 trees in seedling stage. I hope to grow this into something worthwhile over the years. More details forthcoming...

CPS has the tree rebate going, but if I can get this hobby off the ground and give the trees away I can at least give something back to this area.