SHADE TREES

Trees can provide cooling shade and relief from the hot summer sun. The temperature beneath a leafy tree can be 10 degrees cooler than in the open, and this cooling can be passed on to the inside of your house. By reducing the amount of hot sun against your house, your cooling bills may be lowered as well. Mother Nature made trees very efficient at cooling the air.

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	Acer rubrum ‘Red Maple’	Acer saccharum ‘Sugar Maple’
	Fagus sylvatica ‘European Beech’	Ginkgo biloba
	Gleditsia ‘Locust’	Liquidambar
	Platanus ‘Bloodgood’	Tilia cordata ‘ Linden’
	Zelkova serrata
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