Texas is a billion dollar ornamental hort industry. Beats chickens and timber. That's at the producer level, not retail level. Forest Hill, La. Plug only growers. Trend to larger containers for landscape use.
Landscaping can speed up the sale of a home by five to six weeks.
Trees can reduce temperatures around them by as much as nine Fahrenheit degrees. Annually, a typical tree removes about 26 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air and releases about 13 pounds of oxygen, enough for a family of four. An acre of trees can remove 13 tons of dust and potentially harmful gases from the environment each year. I never tire of touting the vigor and vitality of horticulture as an industry. The green trade is growing at a very fast rate and is the second-most important sector in U.S. Agriculture in terms of economic output.