Some Landscape Trees You Should Consider
It is almost time for spring chores and at the top of your list should be planting a Some trees in your yard. If you can’t plant them, you may want to hire a Chicago landscapers or Detroit landscapers. Either way, here are some of my favorites.
Adding trees to your landscape and yard is a great way to help our environment, but it also makes you happy, believe it or not. Anything green adds joy to your investment in a home.
Following are 3 of my favorite trees for planting in the home landscape.
The Paper Bark River Birch
With its peeling, papery gold bark, multiple stems and ability to suck up tons of water, the river birch has become one of the most popular trees for landscapes. You can place them on the corner of you house for a shady but not too large anchor tree, or plant them in the side yard for a classy look. In addition, birch trees make great plantings for areas of your landscape that don’t drain well. They drink up a lot of water!
The river birch can get some damage from Japanese beetles during the summer, so be prepared to spray them should populations get out of hand. In addition, you want to give them an iron injection is the leaves become pale yellow.
Crab Apple Trees
Old timers and young folks alike love the standby spring flowering crab apple tree. With its bright pink or stunning white flowers that bloom in the early spring, the crab is a beautiful addition to any landscape scent. They are also great within planting beds because dwarf varieties are available for any situation. They even come in weeping forms.
The only problems they have are the development of apple scab fungus, but most newer varieties are resistant. Check with your local nursery before purchasing.
Purple Plum or Sand Cherry
If you love dark purple, almost black leaves, then you will want to look at purple plum tress. They come in shrub form, but also are available as small non-fruiting trees. Since the dark color of their leaves is pretty rare in the plant world, the sand cherry or purple plum will draw the eyes to any spot in the garden.
These are just a few of the wonderful plants and trees that are available for planting this spring. What ever you do, be sure to add more and more greenery to your landscape each and every year.