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Favorite Trees:

Deciduous:

Deciduous trees are those which lose their leaves each year

Ornamental

Ornamental trees are those which provide beauty in the garden on a smaller scale, usually under 25 feet. They often have attractive branching, berries , and/or flowers.

Shade

Shade trees are larger trees which provide significant shade from the sun; they create cooling breezes under their branches due to the movement of air inthe resulting differing temperature.

Evergreen:

Evergreen refers to the fact that they seem to keep their leaves (or needles) all year long.

Conifers Create Interest

How-to and More

Trees are one of the most important plants in your garden, in terms of size, cost, and impact. Long ago I read some garden advice which is to be taken seriously: plant your trees first, placing them as the top priority in your garden plan. If for no other reason than that they take a long time to grow.

Another good piece of advice I followed over the years was to use smaller, younger trees. Even the ones called “whips” will grow better and faster once they are established. Besides the fact that it is much more economical to buy the smaller sizes than a very large tree.

What is a tree? One source says: “a woody plant with one main trunk and a rather distinct and elevated head.” But there are the shrubby trees that blur that definition. Some give an arbitrary height of a woody plant over 13′. Both ideas work well in our understanding of a tree. They are certainly the largest of the plants in our gardens.

We know they are useful. Shade from the sun, structure to the eye, trees maximize the beauty and worth of our landscape.