![]() Even on a cloudy fall day, maples can light up the yard like giant torches.īut bigger isn't always better. The imposing dimensions of these plants (80 feet or more in height, with a spread of up to 60 feet) also help accentuate their fall color. For example, the great size of the sugar maple ( Acer saccharum) allows the tree to fulfill another task of landscape trees: providing shade in summer. But some maples native to North America or Europe are equally beautiful as autumn trees, and they are larger. The Japanese maples may seem precocious, giving you fall colors in the summer. Dogwood trees ( Cornus florida and Cornus kousa) offer such a deal: blooms for spring, colorful foliage for fall, berries to attract wild birds in winter, and an interesting branching pattern year-round. In this case, that means versatile specimens that earn their keep during more than just one of the four seasons. Fortunately, sometimes you get a two-for-one deal (or better) in landscaping. You will likely want more than just flowering landscape trees that provide a floral extravaganza in spring. A type with rosy-red flowers that reaches a height of 20 to 25 feet is Malus x 'Centzam' or Centurion, which can be grown in zones 4 to 8. If you do not care about growing edible fruit, then crabapples will serve your purposes better. Apple trees are beautiful bloomers in their own right. You do not have to be a farmer to want to grow apple trees ( Malus spp.) in your yard. While star magnolias often bloom earlier, saucer magnolias provide a larger bloom. Magnolia trees ( Magnolia spp.) are among the showiest specimens. Any well-planned yard will contain at least one flowering landscape tree of exceptional beauty. ![]() But nothing furnishes color quite like flowers, whether annuals or perennials, shrubs or trees. Its critics point out that it is useless outside of that short period of time during the spring season in which it blooms. That is one reason why you can forgive the glorious golden chain tree ( Laburnum × watereri) for being a one-hit-wonder. But when the snow recedes, and life returns, you want color-and lots of it. ![]() ![]() You have the rest of the year to fuss over the foliage of a tree, the novelty of a tree's bark, or the pattern in which its branches grow. The 'Betty' magnolia blooms in April in USDA zone 5.
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