Keep Your Mature Trees

Keeping mature trees in your home's landscape has several benefits without many challenges regarding their maintenance. Let's look at a few of the many reasons to keep your mature tree in your yard.

1. Mature trees can help increase your home's curb appeal and value

Mature trees can improve your home's curb appeal by adding beauty to your yard. Statistics indicate that keeping a mature tree can raise your home's value by between 15% and 20%. Additionally, more than 83% of property experts agree that mature trees can significantly impact your home's value more than young ones. 

If you're a homeowner planning to sell your property in the next few years, consider keeping mature trees rather than buying and planting young ones. Young trees often take between one to three decades to reach maturity. That duration may be too long if you intend to sell your property within three to five years. You don't need to worry if your property doesn't have a single mature tree. Professional landscaping companies like Forshee's Tree Service can help you add a mature tree to your property. 

2. Mature trees can help you cut energy costs

Another key reason to keep your mature tree is that its large shade can help you cut your home's energy costs. Since mature trees can regulate the amount of sunlight reaching your house, they can be useful in keeping it cooler during summer and warmer in winter. Consequently, this reduces the need to use your HVAC system and air conditioner, leading to instant savings on energy expenses. 

A shady mature tree can lower your home's energy expenses by up to 15% if you place it in a strategic area that prevents direct sunlight from shining on your house. If you purchase and plant a young tree, it will take one to three decades to mature before it helps you cut energy costs. 

3. Mature trees can help you reduce your carbon footprint

For a long time, environmental conservationists and scientists believed that mature trees couldn't absorb more carbon than young trees. Because of this, homeowners were encouraged to buy and plant young trees to lower their carbon footprint. 

In 2014, however, research was conducted that established that mature trees can actually absorb more carbon. Therefore, if you prioritize environmental conservation, want to lower your carbon footprint, and enhance your community's air quality, keeping a mature tree will promote your cause. 

4. Mature trees can instantly add privacy to your property

Because mature trees develop denser and thicker foliage, keeping them in your yard is a sure way to add instant privacy. On the contrary, young trees can take years or decades before they develop thicker and denser foliage that can provide privacy to your landscape. 

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