Native trees with wide canopies and deep roots offer better wind resistance. Hurricane season officially starts June 1 and while you may be stocking up on bottled water and batteries, your yard ...

Cotoneasters (Cotoneaster spp.) are hardy, fire-resistant shrubs characterized by their thick, moisture-retaining leaves and low, spreading growth habit, which reduces flame height. Ranging from ...

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Great replacement trees include post oak, swamp chestnut oak, and hickories. Bald cypress was also found to be wind resistant.

Wind and trees: We can learn from past storms. Mike Fagan. UF/Leon County Extension Office “Many of the trees that fell during Hurricane Hermine could have been predicted,” says Stan Rosenthal ...

Among the least wind-tolerant were pecan, tulip poplar, laurel cherry, Bradford pear, laurel oak, queen palm and lacebark elm. The lesson would be to plant more wind-resistant trees.

Felling pine trees to study their wind resistance. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 11 / 141104083710.htm. Basque Research.

Wind-resistant trees have developed strong root systems, not easy given South Florida’s high water table. Trees don’t so much dig in here as they spread. And shallow rooters are more ...