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Live Oaks of Houston

After seeing several comments about the Live Oaks in Houston on the forum recently, I thought I'd round up some photos and post a thread.


Behind that green fence across the street (right side of photo) is the future site of USA's first Ismaili Center. Designed by Iranian-born, London-based
(st)architect Farshid Moussavi with renowned structural engineer Hanif Kara and landscape architect Thomas Woltz.
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Tolerance sculptures
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Winter Morning
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Rice University
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Karibu - Welcome to Rice
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Rice University
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Rice University
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Brochstein Pavilion, Rice University. Houston
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Rice University
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Rice University
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Bissonnet and Montrose
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Buffalo Bayou Park
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Menil Collection Museum
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A December Afternoon at the Menil
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Live Oak in Museum District
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Menil Collection Drawing Institute
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Menil Collection Houses
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Menil Collection Campus
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Menil Collection Drawing Institute and Cy Twombly Gallery
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I Walk the Line
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A walk in the park...
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Pushmi-pullyu
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Rolling Moss Gathers No Trees
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After Hurricane Ike - September 2008
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After Hurricane Ike
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Hermann Park
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Live Oaks in Hermann Park
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Sunset Blvd
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River Oaks Christmas
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River Oaks Christmas
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Deck The Halls...
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Museum District
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Live Oaks on South Boulevard
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Love it! The live oaks were one of my most favorite aspects of living in Houston. I just loved being among those beautiful trees. The area around Rice University is ground zero for the most lovely streetscapes in the city.
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While you intended to take pictures of the trees, you did a great job of compiling the Rice Village/Museum District/Hermann Park area.
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While you intended to take pictures of the trees, you did a great job of compiling the Rice Village/Museum District/Hermann Park area.
Thanks, but it was really the other way around. I went through my Flickr feed to find photos I had taken that also include trees.
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Beautiful, thanks for sharing these pictures.
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Nice pictures! I like the houses decorated for Christmas.
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Thanks to everyone who commented. I appreciate it.
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The multiple skylines are pretty cool, but I think this is Houston's best look.

What percentage of Houston is covered by a tree canopy (not just these wonderful live oaks, but other trees as well)?
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The multiple skylines are pretty cool, but I think this is Houston's best look.

What percentage of Houston is covered by a tree canopy (not just these wonderful live oaks, but other trees as well)?
There almost exclusively found in the older parts of town that are deep in the InnerLoop, but the largest concentration is around Hermann Park and the neighborhoods on the perimeter of Rice University.
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As far as other trees, all of Houston is very green and stays green through the winter. The city of Houston itself is oak trees. Then, when you get far north enough in the metro areas, it transitions into dense pine tree forests.
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Houston really is unique in that they have these massive old live oaks in the center of town, plus palm trees sprinkled about, and then pine forest on the north and east side of town mostly, but also on the west side. There's also Sam Houston National Forest about an hour's drive north of Houston. I love the smell of the pine trees, and there's nothing quite like the pine curtain, which is quite different from anything we have in Central Texas even though we also have live oaks here, but hardly any palm trees unless they're landscaped ones.
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...then pine forest on the north and east side of town mostly, but also on the west side.
We lived in the Memorial Drive/Gessner area when I was very young...we're talking a long time ago. I love the pine forests of that part of town. All those old neighborhoods from Bunker Hill to Rummel Creek were brand spankin' new then.
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We lived in the Memorial Drive/Gessner area when I was very young...we're talking a long time ago. I love the pine forests of that part of town. All those old neighborhoods from Bunker Hill to Rummel Creek were brand spankin' new then.
Nice location! I always enjoyed driving down Memorial during winter with my windows down from the Barker Reservoir to Memorial Park. The scent as the breeze wafted in my open windows was great from those pines!
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Nice location!
We literally lived almost catty-corner to Memorial City Mall, on Barryknoll, about 3 houses down from Gessner...except there was NO Memorial City Mall when we moved there. Nothing but a big vacant parcel of land all the way up to the feeder road of the not yet quite there Katy Freeway. There was, in fact, no Gessner there, either. After a couple of years they built a Sears and a Weingarten's grocery store...oh, and filled in the mud puddle that would become the intersection of Barryknoll and Gessner. I can remember getting a Polio vaccine at Frostwood Elementary at Gessner and Memorial. Damn, I'm old!
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I absolutely love tree-lined streets and quaint looking neighborhoods like this, wonderful pics!
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If you drive west from downtown along Memorial Drive for about 15 or so miles (all city), it's pine forest the entire route and a lot of wealth. When I lived there, I would always take visitors along that route, and they would be wide eyed in disbelief. Memorial Drive west of Loop 610 winds around through the forest and neighborhoods and is quite beautiful.

For oaks, there's nothing like West University and adjacent neighborhoods. Sunset Blvd might be the best drive. Montrose has a lot of nice streets, too. The streets I like the best are the ones where you feel like you're driving through a tunnel.
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Wow...

What a beautiful area.
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