Add Some Trees To Your Landscape This Year

Now that warm weather is pushing through finally, it is time to get out and decide what trees you are going to add to your landscape this year. That’s right, you should always be planting more trees!

Planting trees at your house helps the environment, of course, but it also enhances the beauty of your home investment.

Here are three of the best trees for planting this season.

The Paper Bark River Birch

Clump river birch trees are the ideal popular anchor tree for any landscape. They have stately lines and a fairly fast growth rate that makes them fill in quickly. If you have areas of your landscape that are constantly retaining water, planting a river birch or two will help to sop up the soggy area and make that birch flourish.

River birch trees do get some insect damage during the summer. Japanese beetles love to munch on them, as well as leaf minor. If you do plant a river birch, be prepared to have it treated for insects a couple times during the summer. You should also fertilize them each spring to keep them growing and photosynthesizing properly.

Japanese Maple

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.

Rose Of Sharon

Very popular for parkways and commercial settings are the non-fruiting varieties of pear trees. The Cleveland Pear and Bradford Pear are two of the most popular with their spring white flower blooms and tight, upright growth habits. The pear varieties never need pruning and have almost no problems with diseases or insects.

The idea is to get out this weekend and start looking around for the types of trees you can plant in your landscape this year. Plant trees; for the good of the environment, and the beauty of your home landscape!