Detroit has got to have the most leaves in the country. Almost every street has some number of trees and especially in the neighborhoods there are trees in front of 90% of the houses. I suspect that the Greening of Detroit has something to do with the surge of trees.
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When I lived in Rosedale Park, I had four huge trees in my yard, with one tree in my driveway where we had to drive around it to get in the backyard.

So then as I do now with only 2 trees at my new house, I only rake up the leaves once when I see the trees are almost bare. I will rake them into a pile and push that pile up against the house about midway through the leaves dropping season but I'll only complete the job in the end.

To me all trees do is give shade and add beauty to the landscape and maybe make oxygen [[right) and they kill the grass in your yard with their roots.

But I'll say that our trees look better than California palm trees.

Trees another reason why this is The Great Detroit.