I found the best location to plant shade trees around my house with this free app

My house faces south, so the front rooms take direct sun all afternoon, and my son's bedroom turns into a sauna by four o'clock. I've already used smart thermostat sensors to even out the worst of those swings, but that only manages heat after it shows up. This spring I bought two silver maples, two tulip poplars, and more than 30 Green Giant arborvitae to place across 2.5 acres in Northern Indiana. Put a silver maple in the wrong spot, and you find out 20 years later, when it is 70 feet tall and shading nothing. Before I dug a single hole, I ran my address through ShadeMap and watched a full year of shadows cross my roof.

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