I agree, while ive always loved plants, they have gotten me into looking and really looking at all the trees I go by now too. They have done it again... lol
You both should be so proud-every website that you mention in your conversations seem to have everyone trying to get online at the same time!!! I can’t count the websites that have blown up when mentioned!!! Love your videos… I too start flower beds anywhere I can! And my hands -PROUDLY- look like yours!!! 😂 You both are very inspiring. Thank you!!
I would go and buy so many of the garden centre flower trees bushes as you have so much room to fill up yet I couldn’t cope with all the empty spaces x
Linden flowers are a wonderful calming tea, add honey and milk if you wish. If you don't want milk you can put some lemon. I drink it many times with nothing added. Also you can use the leaves instead of grape leaves to make a summer tip of cabbage rolls you just use those leaves instead of cabbage. The younger more tender ones. Back in Romania where I lived we had linden trees the whole alley and benches underneath it was amazing to sit under linden trees
I have such great memories of a Honey Locust tree when we lived in Missouri. It was located in the woods behind our house and every Spring when the temperature was just right and we had our windows open you could smell the Honey Locust blooms wafting with the breeze through our house. The scent is so amazing! Another plus with that tree!
Have you seen the newer Blackgum (Tupelo) cultivar? The Wildfire variety comes out fire truck red in the spring, turns deep green in the summer, and back to fire truck red in the fall. Such a stunner and stays on the medium size.
Haah! Mystery solved! I’ve been walking by these trees by an elementary school here in Salem for years and have been wondering what they were. They have a beautiful scent and when Aaron said dryer sheets, I was like, THATS IT! They are Weeping Silver Linden tress! Thank you for helping me figure that out! 😊 The bees love it, even pollinating the blooms on the ground!
The Royal Raindrops crabapple is also one of the most beautiful. We planted one a year ago, because of your recommendation, and was stunning this spring. 😍
I want one of these too! I’m trying to figure out whether I could plant one this fall, say September if I could still find one, or if it’s best to wait until spring. Kansas, zone 6.
I'm in Georgia, zone 8. I LOVE pine trees. Grew up with mature ones in my childhood home's yard. Now, I'll be building a new/forever home on family land in the near future. The spot I chose has planted pines. They're still very young, but I'm planning on taking out a good many...still will keep some to provide beauty and some shade to my front yard. And, they'll get to grow like they should...not just grow from the top. That's what happens when you plant them too close together, unfortunately. I'm so excited. Will have pecan trees in back.
Very helpful video.I'm a retired librarian and there were several Honeylocusts outside our university library. they were beautiful I will say that many of their golden leaves made their way into the lobby area. I loved the look, made it look like a woodland entrance with their golden leaves Admit they did keep our housekeepers busy though.
LOLing about the "not a big deal" Locust tree! It doesn't actually matter that "its a short window" they are EVERYWHERE. All over the mulch and the plants making everything look half brown and dead. I find it hilarious that Laura, Mrs I-like-things-tidy, is making the case for this "mess free" tree. 😂😂 To be fair, ours was planted in the 70s and is full size, 60 x 30 ish. Its a LOT.
Oh I so agree! It’s a pretty ‘dirty’ tree LOL. Maybe it’s okay in wide open areas where you can blow it away. In a neighborhood it’s everywhere (and in your house) and does cover everything with a dead look
I love mine & like Laura, find it not that messy. Love the look of it & the disappearing leaves. River birch was messy & constantly dropping something.
I too am very surprised Laura is so fond of the Locust Tree. It is a messy tree!! I cannot plant flowers in the front yard until the mess of the Locust tree is finished. And what falls from the tree is all over my Hostas, azaleas, hydrangeas, roses, day lilies, daffodils, etc. It weighs the leaves down especially when it rains. Oh just such a messy tree! I wonder what are my neighbors thinking when I am using the leaf blower in my gardens in the spring. The only reason this tree is still in my front yard is because it shades the front of the house. Not to mention it will cost $2800.00 to have it removed.
I have had Sunburst in my former garden and want in my new. Just because of the colour! It has that lime colour that can be perfect in a shady dark part of your garden! 😊
I absolutely adore mine too! It is so vibrant in color and is quite graceful. I also have the shade master variety but I think the sunburst is my favorite.
We had an old kitchen garden of Victorian planted fruit trees. One of the apples must’ve been closely related to a persistent crab apple. It was called the Christmas Apple tree (so a specialist apple tree arborist told us). It held onto its sweet crunchy apples until around Christmas, sometimes later. There were other apples that stored well but this one was cultivated to be, I guess, “persistent” to save on storage space.
I planted a honey locust many years ago. It sat at least five years neither living nor dying. I seriously considered taking it out. It did eventually start growing and is quite large now. It does not hold up well to tropical storms and hurricanes. I am in zone 8a, coastal NC, so hurricanes are an occasional occurrence. The branches break and tangle together. It does however produce nice shade.
I love your videos. I learn so much from them. I'm also entertained by the plants we disagree about liking. I had a locust tree and hated it. My neighbor hated it. I live in a suburban/urban area and those leaves were a pain. I took it down and replaced it with a "recued" beech tree. That locust tree keeps popping up all over my "lawn" (I don't have a lawn I have a hosta yard). I love seeing the trees you plant and how they grow. Thanks so much for your channel.
Good morning!! We love in Shepherdsville Kentucky and we have alot of maple trees. Our home owners insurance charges us more if we have maples in your yard. They travel top roots and always come down in storms when they get muture. With your winds are yall worried any. It's devastating as you know to see them down on things. I especially love the videos with you and Aaron bantering! Lol
I love this tree tutorial! It’s so interesting to learn about a few “best performers.” Great idea to do this. Now I hope you guys will make this a regular feature from time to time, since there’s a never ending list of trees to learn about. 👍💚💚💚
Klondike Amur cherry hits top of my list for favourite tree. The Bronze/gold peeling bark (like a birch tree) is fantastic for winter interest. Strong central leader with a pyramidal shape and fast grower in my zone 3 yard. Lovely yellow leaf fall colour. Can’t recommend it enough❤
Thank you Laura and Aaron. The way you explained these trees taught me a lot. Please keep teaching us…your passion is helping the world have prettier and healthier personal gardens. ❤❤❤❤
Very helpful. My local nursery warned me against birches due to the borers. I grew up in a northern area where we had beautiful paper birch woods. Good to know there is something to be done about the borers! River birches (betula nigra) do fine in our area (Lower Hudson Valley), so it pays to do some research. You may want to note about red maples that they have a shallow aggressive root system, which needs to be taken into account when siting them. They are common in the wild here and gorgeous in the fall.
I also was so excited to watch your pond go together. To see everyone work together was really something. I had a pond for many years and loved it, nothing like yours of course. My kids loved it. Later when we had grandchildren come along we went to a pond less waterfall and stream. We recently moved and had to leave it all behind but I’m already planning a new one. I miss having one. You are so fortunate to have all that help….such a beautiful area for your whole family to enjoy.
Laura, you need to look up a Tulip tree. The leaves are shaped like tulips and it has large yellow flowers similar to magnolias. Stunning. We had one in Ontario, Canada.
They are great trees! A bit messy but just beautiful. I believe they are tulip poplars but I could be wrong. I have a row of them bordering my property that I see through my kitchen sink window and they create a beautiful view.
I've been wishing for a long time for Laura to plant a Tulip Poplar! Fast growing, tall, and so beautiful, with that fresh green in the Spring. I love to hear the leaves flutter in the wind. I've seen that other people say the tree is messy--but I've never experienced that. Maybe it depends on where they are grown. (??)
@BCole-jc2vp my husband and I just cut down 62 dead and dying 100+ foot tulip poplars on our property 😂 they're too short lived, in my opinion. They're past their prime at 30 years old and it's all downhill after that. The ones we removed were original to the property when the house was built in '66.
Tulip poplars are pretty as long as you don’t get a late freeze. If they’ve already bloomed and then a freeze happens those blooms will turn black. The tree looks horrible for days until the dead blooms drop. It’s why I don’t have one.
Locust trees grow like weeds here in central Mo. some are called thorny locust and have four inch thorns that have poison tips , if you step in them it hurts for days 😨. We are constantly mowing them down or spraying them out of fence lines .Also may I suggest River birch they are resistant to the borer, we planted one five years ago a clump of three it fit on the back of our pickup bed to bring home , now it’s at least twenty feet high and 6-8 feet wide . It’s so beautiful, the bark is a cinnamon brown that peels like a white birch .
I agree that the honey locust is messy. Our neighbor has one between our houses. The blooms stick on the car if it’s in the driveway. The little leaves blow into the garage all fall. They’re pretty, but it’s annoying! Plant them away from entrances.
I agree with Aaron, Honeylocust trees are messy, or at least my previous house must've been where all the leaves and blooms would go when everyone would just blow them away 🤣. Plus, the old ones with the seed pods attract squirrels. Personally, I would rather have a Catalpa with the huge leaves and the aromatic blooms. But to each their own.
Catalpas produce long black seed pods, too. And huge leaves. They can get Chlorosis in high PH soils. And they need to be for enough always from foundations and underground pipes to avoid roots being invasive.
I have two sunbursts and two shademasters and I love them all. I really love the golden leaves of the sunburst. They make me feel happy. I personally wouldn’t plant a plane tree because the leaves don’t break down, and they make such a mess!
I wish i had more room for these different trees. I'd love a faster growing shade tree for my front lawn. I'm zone 6(CT). Lots of sun. Don't even need it to get really tall. Those crabapples are pretty.
@@tammykuhar4420 The crabapples are gorgeous for sure. I love the flowering Manchurian Pears too - check them out. They have a lovely shape, gorgeous white blossoms in spring with lush shiny green leaves in summer, and then they colour up so gorgeous in the Fall. One of my very favourite trees.
G' morning! 🌞 I have a well established linden in the front but we lost our 100+yr old oak in the back from a storm. I turned that space into my vegetable garden, so I won't replant any trees. I do thank you for the info regarding trees as it has given me insight should I ever need to buy one in the future.
In my neighbourhood here in Germany which is a protected area, our houses as well as specific trees are under conservation. We have 2 silver lindens on our property and indeed they do look like they need a bit of water. However, they're 90 years old by now and they're looking gorgeous. Their flowers attract a ton of pollinators and the entire tree is just making a buzzing sound. It does have a ton of leaves and you need serious clean up in the fall but it drops within a span of 2 weeks and it's done.
Highly recommend Cinnamon Curls birch - smaller so suitable for smaller and midsized spaces --- highly resistant to borers ---Stewartia and yellowwood are at the top of our list here in Zone 6 New England
Love this! We recently took out an old elm tree in our backyard, and I have been really struggling to find a suitable replacement. I think a Shademaster might be the one! I know you’ve done a lot of these types of videos, but I would love another perennial video, but one that’s for late spring/early summer bloomers (and all the other windows of the growing season).
Great tree education! Can you do similar with focus on small varieties for small gardens. I am fortunate to have worked at one point in the nursery business in western Oregon but for many people trees can be overwhelming and a huge importance in a city or suburban garden to select the right one. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! You are a constant inspiration for me!
I’m so amazed how much you can tell about the trees - and I can really feel your love for them. It lifted my spirit and I found myself smiling through the whole video. Thank you 😊
I was really surprised on your trip to the garden center that you brought up purple robed locust. I was hoping they had fixed the issue with suckers and the trees instability. I fell in love with this tree 20 some years ago but whenever we had winds those trees went down. I could live with the suckers, but my husband was done replacing them constantly. We have alot of wind in Iowa. I miss this purple grape like flowers ANF the beautiful scent.
We lost our birch last year to borers....I cried when it came down last winter. It was my favorite tree and, bonus, it was planted by nature (birds)!! I've been wanting another but my husband is leary because he doesn't want to go through that again. THANK YOU for pointing me in the direction of some not susceptible to borers!!! I'm going shopping!!
The flowers of linden tree also makes a delicious tea. It has relaxing properties and helps manage cold and flu symptoms. In Latvia, where I’m from, it is a symbol of femininity and oftentimes this tree is planted when family welcomes a new baby girl.
This video makes me want to plant trees but I have no more room on my property! I love my Kousa dogwood tree because it has great 4 seasons interest. The bark has an interesting texture and peels just a tad which is pretty in the winter. It has white flowers in the spring, and it gets bright reddish pink, bumpy, cherry- like fruit in the late summer and fall. The leaves are a pretty shape and color, and the growth habit is rounded and symmetrical. I think it gets about 15 feet tall. I enjoy mine by our patio but the fruits can be messy when they fall. I’d love to hear recommendations for trees that are beautiful and that provide shade for entrances and patios that do not fill gutters with leaves or that leave messes on sidewalks and patios.
Where I live in eastern WV, locust trees grow everywhere! I call them lightning attractors! If there's one growing nearby, you can almost guarantee there will be a strick near it during a storm! I don't know about the ones you plant. 😊 I love your excitement over planting trees! I guess I take them for granted as they grow here like weeds!☺️😊 I so enjoy your content, your garden and the community around you!
Good Morning! 🌞 My husband & I are always on the lookout for trees for our yard! I would love to plant Birch trees! I love the bark on Birch Trees! Thank you for the information on these trees & that website on trees, I am going to check it out!! 😃🌲🌳💚🌿
Thank You, Laura and Aaron for all of your great videos! I grew up with Crab Apple trees along the neighboring fence in the back yard. When my sisters and I were little, we would make mud pies with "cherries" in them. Certainly not sure what variety they were! Enjoy seeing yours! Have you ever seen a Rising Sun Redbud? There are just a few in our community, but I just love seeing them. I've heard from a horticulturist friend that they can be kind of finicky. Zone 5-9, 6-10 ft. wide and tall. (oops! I just noticed that there are shipping restrictions to AZ & OR.)
LOVE that you made a video about some of your best recommendations of trees. My husband and I have a country yard that has mostly Chinese elms on the borders. We want to remove those and replace with something more likeable and put variety in the centers and areas that will be turned into flower beds.
There is such a difference between small young trees and older trees when you are talking about birches or lindens especially. River birches get big but they are weak trees, constantly dropping branches. Each spring, yards on my street are not mowable until someone spends a long time, picking up branch after branch. Lindens are THE messiest tree ever invented. Starting in the spring, the flowers draw aphids which drop sticky stuff on anything below,. When used as street trees the falling sticky honeydew coats cars and their windshields. After flowering they drop stuff, they also have an extra false leaf that is attached to their seed pods. When these fall an entire street can become covered and then dangerously slick after a rain. The seed capsules also fall, as do leaves. Living under old mature lindens was awful. There was never a season when these trees aren't dropping something. Walks and driveways needed to be swept, gutters required constant attention. They seem prone to hollow middles when old, which makes giant trees fall in storms. Locust trees are another I will never plant. They send up new trees on their roots. When planted in a lawn, not only will there be weedy looking new trees coming up, and they seem prone to suddenly having parts die and do not seem long lived. Cut one down and those roots in garden beds and the lawn will continue to send up new trees for several years. Trees seen and admired in big park settings often turn out to not play nicely with houses, walks, streets, driveways etc.
Absolutely agree regarding Linden trees! They are extremely messy, the gooey substance sticks to my car and windows, the seeds are awful, im always picking up small twigs after a windy day. Beautiful looking trees, but i would"nt get another, i"ll just admire someone elses lol
Thank you for the great info on this selection of trees. Whenever you talk about Honey Locusts I think about the one that Aaron mended when you discovered the big spit in yours. Drilling large holes in the trunk and bringing the tree back together can be a little disconcerting! In about 1982 my parents had the Honey Locust in our back yard in Pueblo, CO (5b) and mended in the same way. We live in the Seattle area now so I checked out the latest GoogleEarth photos of our old house and the tree is still there and looking great. I hope you enjoy this beautiful tree for many more years.
Wheeping Beech with leaves that are red all summer long....gorgeous! Lindens attract Japanese Beetles...I'm considering removing them, as the Japanese Beetles affect my entire gardens, flowers and vegetable and flowers in containers. Some of the Maples you mention have very aggressive growth, which makes them weak and limbs break in our Minnesota winds, and they need internal trimming regularly every few years because they grow too dense (cost to have trimmed)....the positives are fall color and the branches grow more upright than out.
Good morning! This was just what I was looking for. I have a small area & want a tree for the front yard. One of these trees would work for that space. Now I have a place to start.
Love this video! Do you ever have issues with tree roots getting into plumbing or irrigation pipes? Wondering how you manage or prevent this from occurring. You all are the best! We are so thankful for your inspirational & informative videos! Thanks!
We have a honey locust on our patio and it is very messy in the spring when dropping their blooms. Patio furniture does not go out until they are done.
“Non-messy.” 😂 I’m laughing as I think of my office building’s lobby floor that’s absolutely carpeted in honey locust leaves all autumn. They make their way into the elevators and every floor of the building, as well.
Lol, I have 3 of the Locust trees. Two that produce pods, the bunnies love them and the one that doesnt. But, the pods some years are much maintenance. If it's a large pod load you'll want to rake them up. It will leave you with bare ground if you don't. Small loads you can mow mulch them up. The blooms are glorious for the bees. We are bee keepers so we can sit up under the canopy and listen to the bee's song as they work. It's an amazing thing to hear. We love the trees for all they provide us. 😊
All about trees, loved this video! Have you hugged a tree today? I have 😊 speaking of trees, may I ask how the ones are doing at the friends' property that you planted up last year, I think? A new property with a beautiful white home. Just before graduation party... if that helps to pinpoint which property I am referring to 😊 thank you ❤
I loved my mimosa tree, but it is messy. The fragrance is awesome when it's blooming. I wish I had a big enough yard for a weeping willow. Weeping cherries are magnificent too!!!
Super helpful video! My subdivision is looking to replace Bradford pear trees that are literally breaking apart during storms in Michigan. We do deal with apple scab on some crabapples but the blooms are worth it. 😊
This video was super helpful! Thank you! We’re getting ready replace our home and in the process will be taking out two, old, very large, mature trees. 😢 It helps to know that there are good, fast-growing options out there that we can potentially plant to replace the ones we’ll lose. Also, it helps knowing there are good varieties that will work in high ph soil, which we have.
Thanks for all this information! Love what you have done to your beautiful property! I have learned so much about tree varieties from you! I never hear you talk about silver maples. I live in Nova Scotia and they are very popular here and I think would make a fantastic addition to your “tree collection”!
I planted a Red Pointe at my parents house thanks to your channel :) Autumn Blaze has great color, just have to be sure to prune to encourage a strong central leader.
We have 3 Heritage River Birch trees aka at our house as the “Giving Trees”. I love our birch trees when they are NOT giving me something. They give me leaves , seeds, and twigs , twigs and more twigs . I thought at first I was doing something wrong because no tree should drop twigs every time the wind blows . Despite this I do love them but next time I will not plant them close to the house
Just in time…I lost an 85 yr old pecan tree during a 100 mph straight line here in Tulsa!!! She was the queen of the neighborhood!!😢…I am a Pennsylvania native and Boston person too…love the fiery red/orange maples up there and Ok. Has myehh! 😒😏Autumn colors!! Been looking for a nice shady replacement and now I have several choices to select from!!! Thank you …you always make my day!!
I always thought that Willow trees have a very invasive root system. I remember growing up my parents had to remove the one in the yard, but their property wasn’t as large as yours.😊
Our home has giant tree, a huge red oak, sugar maple, and Norway maple. I would love to learn more about small decorative trees that are understory trees. We do have a crabable, and a tulip magnolia in the lower yard that are beautiful in Spring.
Really helpful. Great video. What would be your suggestion for a front yard tree in a subdivision setting? In that type of setting you have to think about roots... pipes to house, street, etc. I haven't planted a tree for the reasons metioned, however, I am desperate for some shade.
Crabapples are great for all of the things you just named. You just need a newer variety that is highly resistant to fire blight and stuff. Very low maintenance, beautiful blooms and Robin's love the fruit. Huge variety of sizes, bloom colors and leaf colors. J. Frank Schmidt has a bunch of varieties on their site. Royal Raindrops and Sparkling Sprite are two of my personal favorites.
@AttnDefDis_ Thanks. I have 2 in the backyard (here when we moved in). I was hesitant to get more because they have fungus issues, which cause their leaves to fall off in August. I'm been fighting it for years. Didn't cut down cause kids like climbing them.
@@jessicamoran8962 Oof, sounds like an older variety. They used to be very prone to diseases. Serviceberries are also great for front yards, but if you live in a wet/humid area, they can get powdery mildew. Also, birds love the berries and can make a mess of a car in a driveway or whatever. If you catch my meaning. Redbuds are great, but tend to like some protection from harsh weather.
I love tree's, we have quiet a few maples, redbuds a couple dogwoods, old walnut trees not my favorite, we didnt plant them, they seeded their self back. The church next to our property has two big walnut trees, thats where they came from. Sassafra, a weeping elm tree really interesting. I would love to have a crabapple tree. Laura you and Aaron has such a beautiful, beautiful place. Benjamin and Samantha Grace are enjoying outside so very much.
I would love to see an aerial view of their property in Autumn; the fall colour must be glorious!
I’m pretty sure Aaron is giving us a drone view every fall now that they’ve got so many maple trees. Stay tuned!
Please drone in fall!
Me too!! 🍂
I am glad you mentioned your Willows. They can be messy, but nothing adds grace and nobility like a well-maintained Willow & yours are awesome.
You guys have really taught me to appreciate trees. So many beautiful ones.
I agree, while ive always loved plants, they have gotten me into looking and really looking at all the trees I go by now too. They have done it again... lol
You both should be so proud-every website that you mention in your conversations seem to have everyone trying to get online at the same time!!! I can’t count the websites that have blown up when mentioned!!!
Love your videos… I too start flower beds anywhere I can! And my hands -PROUDLY- look like yours!!! 😂
You both are very inspiring. Thank you!!
I noticed this too. Can’t get onto the JF Schmidt website!
@@nancyw5779 Yep!!! They just BLOW THINGS UP!! They’re awesome for us that watch and those companies they trust.
I would go and buy so many of the garden centre flower trees bushes as you have so much room to fill up yet I couldn’t cope with all the empty spaces x
Linden flowers are a wonderful calming tea, add honey and milk if you wish. If you don't want milk you can put some lemon. I drink it many times with nothing added. Also you can use the leaves instead of grape leaves to make a summer tip of cabbage rolls you just use those leaves instead of cabbage. The younger more tender ones. Back in Romania where I lived we had linden trees the whole alley and benches underneath it was amazing to sit under linden trees
I have such great memories of a Honey Locust tree when we lived in Missouri. It was located in the woods behind our house and every Spring when the temperature was just right and we had our windows open you could smell the Honey Locust blooms wafting with the breeze through our house. The scent is so amazing! Another plus with that tree!
Believe it or not, I've lived in same house for over 20 yrs and this year was the first time I noticed the scent of our honey locust tree.
Have you seen the newer Blackgum (Tupelo) cultivar? The Wildfire variety comes out fire truck red in the spring, turns deep green in the summer, and back to fire truck red in the fall. Such a stunner and stays on the medium size.
Loved this video! Thank you for inserting so many pictures while describing them.
My husband and I have been trying to decide on a tree for our front corner so PERFECT timing on this video!
Haah! Mystery solved! I’ve been walking by these trees by an elementary school here in Salem for years and have been wondering what they were. They have a beautiful scent and when Aaron said dryer sheets, I was like, THATS IT! They are Weeping Silver Linden tress! Thank you for helping me figure that out! 😊 The bees love it, even pollinating the blooms on the ground!
The Royal Raindrops crabapple is also one of the most beautiful. We planted one a year ago, because of your recommendation, and was stunning this spring. 😍
I want one of these too! I’m trying to figure out whether I could plant one this fall, say September if I could still find one, or if it’s best to wait until spring. Kansas, zone 6.
@@alisab3041Fall is always the best time to plant trees.
Good morning, Laura & Aaron ☕️ Fantastic list of trees 🌳 🌲 I’m running out of real estate 🤣🤣Have a Blessed Day 😊🐈
Here in SE coastal NC I have lots of pine trees that offer high shade, beautiful pinestraw for mulching, and pinecones for crafts and decorating.
I lived in GA for a bit. Those tall (yellow?) pines were beautiful. High, dappled shade underneath and made their own mulch.
I'm in Georgia, zone 8. I LOVE pine trees. Grew up with mature ones in my childhood home's yard. Now, I'll be building a new/forever home on family land in the near future. The spot I chose has planted pines. They're still very young, but I'm planning on taking out a good many...still will keep some to provide beauty and some shade to my front yard. And, they'll get to grow like they should...not just grow from the top. That's what happens when you plant them too close together, unfortunately.
I'm so excited. Will have pecan trees in back.
Very helpful video.I'm a retired librarian and there were several Honeylocusts outside our university library. they were beautiful I will say that many of their golden leaves made their way into the lobby area. I loved the look, made it look like a woodland entrance with their golden leaves Admit they did keep our housekeepers busy though.
Linden blooms are used for tea and are medicinal.
LOLing about the "not a big deal" Locust tree! It doesn't actually matter that "its a short window" they are EVERYWHERE. All over the mulch and the plants making everything look half brown and dead. I find it hilarious that Laura, Mrs I-like-things-tidy, is making the case for this "mess free" tree. 😂😂
To be fair, ours was planted in the 70s and is full size, 60 x 30 ish. Its a LOT.
Oh I so agree! It’s a pretty ‘dirty’ tree LOL. Maybe it’s okay in wide open areas where you can blow it away. In a neighborhood it’s everywhere (and in your house) and does cover everything with a dead look
I love mine & like Laura, find it not that messy. Love the look of it & the disappearing leaves. River birch was messy & constantly dropping something.
I too am very surprised Laura is so fond of the Locust Tree. It is a messy tree!! I cannot plant flowers in the front yard until the mess of the Locust tree is finished. And what falls from the tree is all over my Hostas, azaleas, hydrangeas, roses, day lilies, daffodils, etc. It weighs the leaves down especially when it rains. Oh just such a messy tree! I wonder what are my neighbors thinking when I am using the leaf blower in my gardens in the spring. The only reason this tree is still in my front yard is because it shades the front of the house. Not to mention it will cost $2800.00 to have it removed.
I have had Sunburst in my former garden and want in my new. Just because of the colour! It has that lime colour that can be perfect in a shady dark part of your garden! 😊
Same here. I agree that the light lime color is stunning. I had one next to a tall window and enjoyed feeling like I was living in a tree house ❤
@@santropixie5140 that sounds wonderful!
I absolutely adore mine too! It is so vibrant in color and is quite graceful. I also have the shade master variety but I think the sunburst is my favorite.
We had an old kitchen garden of Victorian planted fruit trees. One of the apples must’ve been closely related to a persistent crab apple. It was called the Christmas Apple tree (so a specialist apple tree arborist told us). It held onto its sweet crunchy apples until around Christmas, sometimes later. There were other apples that stored well but this one was cultivated to be, I guess, “persistent” to save on storage space.
I planted a honey locust many years ago. It sat at least five years neither living nor dying. I seriously considered taking it out. It did eventually start growing and is quite large now. It does not hold up well to tropical storms and hurricanes. I am in zone 8a, coastal NC, so hurricanes are an occasional occurrence. The branches break and tangle together. It does however produce nice shade.
I love your videos. I learn so much from them. I'm also entertained by the plants we disagree about liking. I had a locust tree and hated it. My neighbor hated it. I live in a suburban/urban area and those leaves were a pain. I took it down and replaced it with a "recued" beech tree. That locust tree keeps popping up all over my "lawn" (I don't have a lawn I have a hosta yard). I love seeing the trees you plant and how they grow. Thanks so much for your channel.
Good morning!! We love in Shepherdsville Kentucky and we have alot of maple trees. Our home owners insurance charges us more if we have maples in your yard. They travel top roots and always come down in storms when they get muture. With your winds are yall worried any. It's devastating as you know to see them down on things. I especially love the videos with you and Aaron bantering! Lol
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I love this tree tutorial! It’s so interesting to learn about a few “best performers.” Great idea to do this. Now I hope you guys will make this a regular feature from time to time, since there’s a never ending list of trees to learn about. 👍💚💚💚
Klondike Amur cherry hits top of my list for favourite tree. The Bronze/gold peeling bark (like a birch tree) is fantastic for winter interest. Strong central leader with a pyramidal shape and fast grower in my zone 3 yard. Lovely yellow leaf fall colour. Can’t recommend it enough❤
Thank you Laura and Aaron. The way you explained these trees taught me a lot. Please keep teaching us…your passion is helping the world have prettier and healthier personal gardens. ❤❤❤❤
Very helpful. My local nursery warned me against birches due to the borers. I grew up in a northern area where we had beautiful paper birch woods. Good to know there is something to be done about the borers! River birches (betula nigra) do fine in our area (Lower Hudson Valley), so it pays to do some research. You may want to note about red maples that they have a shallow aggressive root system, which needs to be taken into account when siting them. They are common in the wild here and gorgeous in the fall.
I love when people show pictures of trees a hundred years old. Like im going to be around long enough to finally see that size.
I also was so excited to watch your pond go together. To see everyone work together was really something.
I had a pond for many years and loved it, nothing like yours of course. My kids loved it. Later when we had grandchildren come along we went to a pond less waterfall and stream. We recently moved and had to leave it all behind but I’m already planning a new one. I miss having one.
You are so fortunate to have all that help….such a beautiful area for your whole family to enjoy.
You guys are on a roll with the trees lol! Winter interest is so important as well as shade areas too 👍👏😊nice trees!!
Laura, you need to look up a Tulip tree. The leaves are shaped like tulips and it has large yellow flowers similar to magnolias. Stunning. We had one in Ontario, Canada.
They get massive if they’re in a place they like. I believe they are long lived as well.
They are great trees! A bit messy but just beautiful. I believe they are tulip poplars but I could be wrong. I have a row of them bordering my property that I see through my kitchen sink window and they create a beautiful view.
I've been wishing for a long time for Laura to plant a Tulip Poplar! Fast growing, tall, and so beautiful, with that fresh green in the Spring. I love to hear the leaves flutter in the wind. I've seen that other people say the tree is messy--but I've never experienced that. Maybe it depends on where they are grown. (??)
@BCole-jc2vp my husband and I just cut down 62 dead and dying 100+ foot tulip poplars on our property 😂 they're too short lived, in my opinion. They're past their prime at 30 years old and it's all downhill after that. The ones we removed were original to the property when the house was built in '66.
Tulip poplars are pretty as long as you don’t get a late freeze. If they’ve already bloomed and then a freeze happens those blooms will turn black. The tree looks horrible for days until the dead blooms drop. It’s why I don’t have one.
Locust trees grow like weeds here in central Mo. some are called thorny locust and have four inch thorns that have poison tips , if you step in them it hurts for days 😨. We are constantly mowing them down or spraying them out of fence lines .Also may I suggest River birch they are resistant to the borer, we planted one five years ago a clump of three it fit on the back of our pickup bed to bring home , now it’s at least twenty feet high and 6-8 feet wide . It’s so beautiful, the bark is a cinnamon brown that peels like a white birch .
I agree that the honey locust is messy. Our neighbor has one between our houses. The blooms stick on the car if it’s in the driveway. The little leaves blow into the garage all fall. They’re pretty, but it’s annoying! Plant them away from entrances.
I agree with Aaron, Honeylocust trees are messy, or at least my previous house must've been where all the leaves and blooms would go when everyone would just blow them away 🤣. Plus, the old ones with the seed pods attract squirrels. Personally, I would rather have a Catalpa with the huge leaves and the aromatic blooms. But to each their own.
Catalpas produce long black seed pods, too. And huge leaves. They can get Chlorosis in high PH soils. And they need to be for enough always from foundations and underground pipes to avoid roots being invasive.
Agreed. Locust trees suck here. Messy, seed themselves around and grow like weeds.
@@laraemitchell9064 Yes, if I'm going to choose a messy tree I'd pick the Catalpa over a Honeylocust.
Have you ever considered adding in a European weeping beech tree somewhere on your property? When they get big they are such a magical tree 😍💚
I have two sunbursts and two shademasters and I love them all. I really love the golden leaves of the sunburst. They make me feel happy. I personally wouldn’t plant a plane tree because the leaves don’t break down, and they make such a mess!
I wish i had more room for these different trees.
I'd love a faster growing shade tree for my front lawn.
I'm zone 6(CT). Lots of sun. Don't even need it to get really tall. Those crabapples are pretty.
@@tammykuhar4420 The crabapples are gorgeous for sure. I love the flowering Manchurian Pears too - check them out. They have a lovely shape, gorgeous white blossoms in spring with lush shiny green leaves in summer, and then they colour up so gorgeous in the Fall. One of my very favourite trees.
We are planting Bigtooth Maples 🍁. They don't seem to struggle with our high pH and are drought resistant when established.
I have an autumn blaze maple in my back yard, and I highly recommend them to everyone!
Hi Laura 🌺. These trees are amazing and I love how the leaves change their color and this adds beauty to the garden . Have awonderful day .🦋🌺🦋
G' morning! 🌞 I have a well established linden in the front but we lost our 100+yr old oak in the back from a storm. I turned that space into my vegetable garden, so I won't replant any trees. I do thank you for the info regarding trees as it has given me insight should I ever need to buy one in the future.
In my neighbourhood here in Germany which is a protected area, our houses as well as specific trees are under conservation. We have 2 silver lindens on our property and indeed they do look like they need a bit of water. However, they're 90 years old by now and they're looking gorgeous. Their flowers attract a ton of pollinators and the entire tree is just making a buzzing sound. It does have a ton of leaves and you need serious clean up in the fall but it drops within a span of 2 weeks and it's done.
I'm so glad to learn about different trees !!! 🌳 I appreciate watching your channel!! 😊
Highly recommend Cinnamon Curls birch - smaller so suitable for smaller and midsized spaces --- highly resistant to borers ---Stewartia and yellowwood are at the top of our list here in Zone 6 New England
Don't forget Dogwood. Trees are everything to me as I've gotten older. I mourn the loss of my Sugar Maple.
I swear, talking about plants is how you two flirt! Too cute!!!
Love this! We recently took out an old elm tree in our backyard, and I have been really struggling to find a suitable replacement. I think a Shademaster might be the one!
I know you’ve done a lot of these types of videos, but I would love another perennial video, but one that’s for late spring/early summer bloomers (and all the other windows of the growing season).
Great tree education! Can you do similar with focus on small varieties for small gardens. I am fortunate to have worked at one point in the nursery business in western Oregon but for many people trees can be overwhelming and a huge importance in a city or suburban garden to select the right one. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! You are a constant inspiration for me!
I’m so amazed how much you can tell about the trees - and I can really feel your love for them. It lifted my spirit and I found myself smiling through the whole video. Thank you 😊
I was really surprised on your trip to the garden center that you brought up purple robed locust. I was hoping they had fixed the issue with suckers and the trees instability. I fell in love with this tree 20 some years ago but whenever we had winds those trees went down. I could live with the suckers, but my husband was done replacing them constantly. We have alot of wind in Iowa. I miss this purple grape like flowers ANF the beautiful scent.
We lost our birch last year to borers....I cried when it came down last winter. It was my favorite tree and, bonus, it was planted by nature (birds)!! I've been wanting another but my husband is leary because he doesn't want to go through that again. THANK YOU for pointing me in the direction of some not susceptible to borers!!! I'm going shopping!!
The flowers of linden tree also makes a delicious tea. It has relaxing properties and helps manage cold and flu symptoms. In Latvia, where I’m from, it is a symbol of femininity and oftentimes this tree is planted when family welcomes a new baby girl.
We have a male and female Buckeye tree and they're gorgeous 🥰.
I think this is in the family of one of my favorite varieties. Horse chestnuts. I absolutely love them!
Don’t they produce a lot of buckeye seeds with the female?
This video makes me want to plant trees but I have no more room on my property! I love my Kousa dogwood tree because it has great 4 seasons interest. The bark has an interesting texture and peels just a tad which is pretty in the winter. It has white flowers in the spring, and it gets bright reddish pink, bumpy, cherry- like fruit in the late summer and fall. The leaves are a pretty shape and color, and the growth habit is rounded and symmetrical. I think it gets about 15 feet tall. I enjoy mine by our patio but the fruits can be messy when they fall. I’d love to hear recommendations for trees that are beautiful and that provide shade for entrances and patios that do not fill gutters with leaves or that leave messes on sidewalks and patios.
Love this guide! Can you do your top 5 fruit trees & maintenance on those?! Love you guys!!
Where I live in eastern WV, locust trees grow everywhere! I call them lightning attractors! If there's one growing nearby, you can almost guarantee there will be a strick near it during a storm! I don't know about the ones you plant. 😊 I love your excitement over planting trees! I guess I take them for granted as they grow here like weeds!☺️😊 I so enjoy your content, your garden and the community around you!
Good Morning! 🌞 My husband & I are always on the lookout for trees for our yard! I would love to plant Birch trees! I love the bark on Birch Trees! Thank you for the information on these trees & that website on trees, I am going to check it out!! 😃🌲🌳💚🌿
Thank You, Laura and Aaron for all of your great videos! I grew up with Crab Apple trees along the neighboring fence in the back yard. When my sisters and I were little, we would make mud pies with "cherries" in them. Certainly not sure what variety they were! Enjoy seeing yours!
Have you ever seen a Rising Sun Redbud? There are just a few in our community, but I just love seeing them. I've heard from a horticulturist friend that they can be kind of finicky.
Zone 5-9, 6-10 ft. wide and tall. (oops! I just noticed that there are shipping restrictions to AZ & OR.)
LOVE that you made a video about some of your best recommendations of trees. My husband and I have a country yard that has mostly Chinese elms on the borders. We want to remove those and replace with something more likeable and put variety in the centers and areas that will be turned into flower beds.
Trees and more trees are my favorite topic. The gorgeous foundation of any garden!
Thank you for this taping. I don't have a large area, but always enjoy hearing what trees will work in all areas. 😁
A great video as usual! Would you consider doing a version of this with all your crabapples?
There is such a difference between small young trees and older trees when you are talking about birches or lindens especially. River birches get big but they are weak trees, constantly dropping branches. Each spring, yards on my street are not mowable until someone spends a long time, picking up branch after branch.
Lindens are THE messiest tree ever invented. Starting in the spring, the flowers draw aphids which drop sticky stuff on anything below,. When used as street trees the falling sticky honeydew coats cars and their windshields. After flowering they drop stuff, they also have an extra false leaf that is attached to their seed pods. When these fall an entire street can become covered and then dangerously slick after a rain. The seed capsules also fall, as do leaves. Living under old mature lindens was awful. There was never a season when these trees aren't dropping something. Walks and driveways needed to be swept, gutters required constant attention. They seem prone to hollow middles when old, which makes giant trees fall in storms.
Locust trees are another I will never plant. They send up new trees on their roots. When planted in a lawn, not only will there be weedy looking new trees coming up, and they seem prone to suddenly having parts die and do not seem long lived. Cut one down and those roots in garden beds and the lawn will continue to send up new trees for several years.
Trees seen and admired in big park settings often turn out to not play nicely with houses, walks, streets, driveways etc.
Absolutely agree regarding Linden trees! They are extremely messy, the gooey substance sticks to my car and windows, the seeds are awful, im always picking up small twigs after a windy day. Beautiful looking trees, but i would"nt get another, i"ll just admire someone elses lol
Thank you for the great info on this selection of trees. Whenever you talk about Honey Locusts I think about the one that Aaron mended when you discovered the big spit in yours. Drilling large holes in the trunk and bringing the tree back together can be a little disconcerting! In about 1982 my parents had the Honey Locust in our back yard in Pueblo, CO (5b) and mended in the same way. We live in the Seattle area now so I checked out the latest GoogleEarth photos of our old house and the tree is still there and looking great. I hope you enjoy this beautiful tree for many more years.
Wheeping Beech with leaves that are red all summer long....gorgeous! Lindens attract Japanese Beetles...I'm considering removing them, as the Japanese Beetles affect my entire gardens, flowers and vegetable and flowers in containers. Some of the Maples you mention have very aggressive growth, which makes them weak and limbs break in our Minnesota winds, and they need internal trimming regularly every few years because they grow too dense (cost to have trimmed)....the positives are fall color and the branches grow more upright than out.
Good morning! This was just what I was looking for. I have a small area & want a tree for the front yard. One of these trees would work for that space. Now I have a place to start.
I’d love to hear your list of top understory trees. My lot has the big structure already. Thanks!
Love this video! Do you ever have issues with tree roots getting into plumbing or irrigation pipes? Wondering how you manage or prevent this from occurring.
You all are the best! We are so thankful for your inspirational & informative videos! Thanks!
My favorite Maple is an October glory
I agree Aaron, I don’t have a locus tree, but my yard is messy because of the neighbors tree! It also has the “banana’s”!
You guys should check out Princeton Gold maple. Stunning lime color in summer
We have a honey locust on our patio and it is very messy in the spring when dropping their blooms. Patio furniture does not go out until they are done.
Great content, and your collective enthusiasm and admiration for trees is infectious! 😀
I have an “Autumn Blaze” maple. I love it. I am in a zone 4a and it is growing beautifully since 2012.
Trees are so important for the earth and the ones you have mentioned are so beautiful!🌳🌲🌱💕
Just like to mention River Birch, all I know is their pealing bark is to die for😊
We just moved to a new home and state. We are a 6b and want to put more trees in. Thank you for this video!
“Non-messy.” 😂 I’m laughing as I think of my office building’s lobby floor that’s absolutely carpeted in honey locust leaves all autumn. They make their way into the elevators and every floor of the building, as well.
Our locust tree planted by city in front of our house is very messy. I'm still cleaning up leaves that blow over the house onto my backyard patio.😢
Lol, I have 3 of the Locust trees. Two that produce pods, the bunnies love them and the one that doesnt. But, the pods some years are much maintenance. If it's a large pod load you'll want to rake them up. It will leave you with bare ground if you don't. Small loads you can mow mulch them up. The blooms are glorious for the bees. We are bee keepers so we can sit up under the canopy and listen to the bee's song as they work. It's an amazing thing to hear. We love the trees for all they provide us. 😊
Ii loved the blue spruce from the garden center. Rooting for more!
Great video with all the pictures of the trees + those pictures showing the progress of their growths. Thank you.
Absolutely beautiful bulbs ALL the varieties! Magnifique!🌷⚘️🌷⚘️🌷
This video was extremely helpful to me!! Thank you for sharing your expertise. I have to get one of those locust trees stat!! They are gorgeous.
All about trees, loved this video! Have you hugged a tree today? I have 😊 speaking of trees, may I ask how the ones are doing at the friends' property that you planted up last year, I think? A new property with a beautiful white home. Just before graduation party... if that helps to pinpoint which property I am referring to 😊 thank you ❤
I loved my mimosa tree, but it is messy. The fragrance is awesome when it's blooming. I wish I had a big enough yard for a weeping willow. Weeping cherries are magnificent too!!!
On the western side of Oregon, we love our Sunburst Honeylocust! We don’t deal with chlorosis, so the bright pop of lime green is beautiful to us.
Super helpful video! My subdivision is looking to replace Bradford pear trees that are literally breaking apart during storms in Michigan. We do deal with apple scab on some crabapples but the blooms are worth it. 😊
This video was super helpful! Thank you! We’re getting ready replace our home and in the process will be taking out two, old, very large, mature trees. 😢 It helps to know that there are good, fast-growing options out there that we can potentially plant to replace the ones we’ll lose. Also, it helps knowing there are good varieties that will work in high ph soil, which we have.
If there was the perfect video to save for starting from scratch, it's this one. Thank you for sharing that link too.
Thanks for all this information! Love what you have done to your beautiful property! I have learned so much about tree varieties from you! I never hear you talk about silver maples. I live in Nova Scotia and they are very popular here and I think would make a fantastic addition to your “tree collection”!
I planted a Red Pointe at my parents house thanks to your channel :) Autumn Blaze has great color, just have to be sure to prune to encourage a strong central leader.
We have 3 Heritage River Birch trees aka at our house as the “Giving Trees”. I love our birch trees when they are NOT giving me something. They give me leaves , seeds, and twigs , twigs and more twigs . I thought at first I was doing something wrong because no tree should drop twigs every time the wind blows . Despite this I do love them but next time I will not plant them close to the house
Yes!!! Always picking up sticks. Arborist told me they are classified a "self pruner" Messy after a wind, but a beautiful tree. We have a 3 clump
Had 4 locust tress at my old home and totally loved them.
Just in time…I lost an 85 yr old pecan tree during a 100 mph straight line here in Tulsa!!! She was the queen of the neighborhood!!😢…I am a Pennsylvania native and Boston person too…love the fiery red/orange maples up there and Ok. Has myehh! 😒😏Autumn colors!! Been looking for a nice shady replacement and now I have several choices to select from!!! Thank you …you always make my day!!
I always thought that Willow trees have a very invasive root system. I remember growing up my parents had to remove the one in the yard, but their property wasn’t as large as yours.😊
Our home has giant tree, a huge red oak, sugar maple, and Norway maple. I would love to learn more about small decorative trees that are understory trees. We do have a crabable, and a tulip magnolia in the lower yard that are beautiful in Spring.
Really helpful. Great video. What would be your suggestion for a front yard tree in a subdivision setting? In that type of setting you have to think about roots... pipes to house, street, etc. I haven't planted a tree for the reasons metioned, however, I am desperate for some shade.
Crabapples are great for all of the things you just named. You just need a newer variety that is highly resistant to fire blight and stuff. Very low maintenance, beautiful blooms and Robin's love the fruit. Huge variety of sizes, bloom colors and leaf colors. J. Frank Schmidt has a bunch of varieties on their site. Royal Raindrops and Sparkling Sprite are two of my personal favorites.
@AttnDefDis_ Thanks. I have 2 in the backyard (here when we moved in). I was hesitant to get more because they have fungus issues, which cause their leaves to fall off in August. I'm been fighting it for years. Didn't cut down cause kids like climbing them.
@@jessicamoran8962 Oof, sounds like an older variety. They used to be very prone to diseases.
Serviceberries are also great for front yards, but if you live in a wet/humid area, they can get powdery mildew. Also, birds love the berries and can make a mess of a car in a driveway or whatever. If you catch my meaning. Redbuds are great, but tend to like some protection from harsh weather.
My favorite isbtye Kwanzan Cherry Tree, then blue spruce.
Thank you for this segment
It helped me decide what beautiful looking trees to replace the 14 trees I lost from Dutch Elm diseases.
I love tree's, we have quiet a few maples, redbuds a couple dogwoods, old walnut trees not my favorite, we didnt plant them, they seeded their self back. The church next to our property has two big walnut trees, thats where they came from. Sassafra, a weeping elm tree really interesting. I would love to have a crabapple tree. Laura you and Aaron has such a beautiful, beautiful place. Benjamin and Samantha Grace are enjoying outside so very much.
This video was definitely helpful. I don't have a huge yard so some smaller options were great to see. They are all beautiful though
Linden tree is my favorite tree, if you dry the flowers you can make healthy "tea" for cold moths, and it's delicious
Love Maples we have a Harlequin Maple leaves are green with a white edge. Doesn't get to big.