Flowering Trees
Having a beautiful flowering garden doesn't have to
be limited to just having flowering plants growing low to the
ground. In fact, you can have a wonderful garden filled with colors
and scents, yet not have any ground based standard garden areas in
your landscape at all. How? By planting flowering trees.
Flowering trees grow tall to offer shade in the heat of summer. They provide beautiful colors
in their leaves and foilage. Some of them even provide additional
colors and textures in their bark too. And they produce flowers in a
variety of colors, shapes, and sizes. Many flowering trees also
produce wonderful scents around your home and yard too.
There are hundreds of
different types of flowering trees you can choose from. And like
other plants, each tree has its own particular location and growth
requirements.
Basic tree planting rules of thumb apply: Be careful not to plant a flowering tree under a power or
other dangerous utility line; Be sure your tree isn't planted so
close to your home that it can cause structural damage as it matures;
And be sure that the location you choose for your tree is one you
can live with for a lifetime.
Flowering Dogwood trees are a lovely sight to see, and they can
be planted in both tree or smaller shrub form. Cherokee Chief is
one particularly beautiful variety which produces amazing red
flowers in the spring, and vibrant bronze foilage in autumn. The
Japanese dogwood tree produces white flowers and red berries which are excellent bird
food. The foilage on this one is a deep red or purple color in
autumn.
Magnolias are another popular flowering tree, and the saucer
Magnolias produce giant flower blooms up to ten inches wide. The
blooms often open before the leaves even start to bud on these
trees, and they tend to be a whitish pink color which are quite
fragrant. Saucer magnolia trees tend to grow at least twenty feet
high and wide, so they're excellent for creating garden shade as
well as protecting your home from the worst of the summer sun's heat
too. So they do grow so large though, you'll want to make sure they
have plenty of room in the location you choose to plant them.
