Tree Planting Tips
Not only do
trees provide you with even more beauty, color and texture for your
yard and garden, but they also provide your home with shade from the
sun during the summer, they provide a wonderful gathering place for
backyard barbecues, and they help keep the air around your home
cleaner too.
Like bushes and shrubs, trees can be purchased when they're still
quite small. Because of this, it's very important to know what kind
of tree you'll be buying, how tall it will be once it's fully
matured, and how far it will spread at maturity too.
A tree's spread is how far in either direction the branches extend
at full growth. If a tree has a spread of fifteen feet for instance,
this means it will be about fifteen feet at its widest point once
it is fully mature. This is an important thing to note about trees
before planting them, particularly if you live in a city or urban
area.
When trees grow up, if they've been placed in the wrong areas they
can cause dangers and problems you may not have considered when they
were still young and small. The primary problem people run into with
planting trees is overhead power lines. If you plant a tree directly
beneath a power line, you will find yourself or the power company
constantly trimming it to keep it from touching those power lines.
You don't want to
put a tree near a power line if it will eventually be twenty-five
feet tall with a spread of fifteen feet for instance. You may
however, like to put that one on the west side of your home - at
least twenty feet or more away from any utility lines - because it
will be an excellent source of shade and energy savings for your
home during the hottest months of summer.
There are plenty of smaller, and dwarf trees which can be
planted under or near utility lines.
You'll also want to find out what the tree looks like at different
times of the year. Some trees produce beautiful flowers in some
seasons for instance, but if your gardens are designed to be red and
white, you might not want to have a tree which produces yellow
flower blooms.
Trees also come with a wide variety of leaves and barks. Some trees
look extremely interesting in the winter time even though they don't
have leaves on the branches, simply because they have an unusual
type of bark. Some tree barks will actually change color during the
seasons like leaves do too.
So carefully select the types of trees you will plant and the
locations they will live in, and you will be pleasantly surprised at
how finished they make your lawn and garden look in the end.
