Trees Growing Tips

Trees are perhaps the least troublesome of all plants you’ll grow on your carefree property. Once you plant a tree you have something, so will your grandchildren, maybe even your great grandchildren! For easy gardening, you have to consider planting trees which are eye catching, self sustaining and well behaved.

Here are some gardening tips. You want your trees to:

1) Develop leaf early

2) Cling foliage late

3) Let plants or grass grow beneath

4) Be free from insect pests

5) Be drought resistant

6) Make sure that the tree is winter-resilient

7) Be adapted to your soil and climate

All the above requirements may not be available to one specific tree but some of these may exist. One thing to note is to avoid trees that are difficultto transplant, like tulip and sour gum. Moreover, keep away from elms (or even the so-called “resistant” forms) until the Dutch elm disease is duly addressed.

No matter what type of plants you nurture, trees can set a tone and create an atmosphere. If yours is a carefree life in a casual meadow, Lombardy may not be appropriate for you. If your place is small, neat and formal, don’t plant hemlocks unless you plan to curb their trailing windblown habit by clipping them into a trim hedge.

Although formal landscaping may call for one or two specimens of certain sorts, a lot of charm is gained by growing trees in a tangle. How graceful is the intermingling of different varieties thriving casually along a country lane or an old stone wall. Nature does this so beautifully. Why shouldn’t we try it?

Getting Trees of Your Choice

Whether you decide on a tangle or a more conventional tree planting, here are a number of suggested kinds of trees-at least several of which should ideally suit your situation. (The list includes trees that are sometimes classified as tall shrubs.)

Maple tree species are generally suitable for shade on lawn or walk. Glowing red buds chasing the last snows are followed by tiny furry scarlet flowers, dusty pink pointed young leaves, and finally deep green mature summer foliage. Lovely winged fruit pods, like twirling ballerinas, spin to earth-here two, there five, and now a dozen. No trees are giddier in autumn than maples as they toss their flaming golds, reds and scarlets over a chilling landscape.

The orange-re autumn leaves of the swamp maple tree prevail clearly against the gray trunk and the blue sky while the gold maple leaves in the woods show up with glowing brilliance in the area. Sugar and Norway maples are among the most desirable and easiest. Keep lower branches pruned off to let in the light and encourage grass to grow beneath them. The silver maple and certain others are especially beautiful when a breeze turns up the silver undersides of the leaves.

The sycamore is a fast maturing hearty tree with large, heavy-textured leaves which provides shades during summer time. Brown spiny seed pods account for one of its alternate common names, button ball. The limbs as they grow, develop into eye catching elbows and angles while during winter the dotted brown and white and branches radiate in the sunlight.

Lovely Oaks

The solid and long-lasting oak attracks squirrels with their merry antics while in search for acorns. The multiple- fingered leaves transform into rich coppery and maroon autumn tones and cling during the winter leaving a rosy brown hue in sight. The pin oak, the red oak, and the scarlet oak are among the best. Oaksare not fast growing trees but are attractive in the process. Plant at least one, if for no other reason than to be able to go out and contemplate it when you feel the need of something solid. Weight wise, an oak is heavy since it can reach as much as fifty pounds per cubic foot!

One of the easiest and most beautiful of all shade trees is the sweet gum (Liquidambar styraciflua). The many pointed leaves are fragrant when crushed and, in autumn, turn deep yellow and rich red.

The graceful beech is endowed with smooth gray bark which follows a neatly tailored folds around its trunk. The tree is not only fine to walk or relax under in summer but in winter the yellow-tan leaves cling and turn gold in the sun.