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Mother Earth’s Garden’s 50 Best Trees

by Rebecca on September 7th, 2007

These trees have been selected to appear here because they are my own personal favorites, and they are among the best trees to plant in your yard or garden . They have been chosen from the thousands of specimens available either for their ease of care or beauty. I plan on covering all of these trees here on Mother Earth’s in the coming months, but for now I’ve included a few notes on some of them, and you can click the links for a little more info.

1. Weeping White Pine - needs some training for best results.
2. Cherry Tree
3. Red Oak - pollution tolerant for urban areas
4. Japanese Umbrella Pine - slow growing
5. Weeping Japanese Red Pine - center trunk will need to be staked to keep it from being ground cover.
6. Village Green Elm - more disease and insect resistant than other elms
7. Chinese Elm
8. Little Leaf Linden - dense shade, disease resistant
9. Japanese Snowbell
10. Fig Tree - great indoors, pretty cool looking in the wild too
11. Shagbark Hickory - best from seed, little pruning needed, great in wide open area
12. Pecan - great in large open fields
13. Katsura Tree - beautiful fast growing shade tree that is great in rows or together in small groves.
14. Aspen - beautiful for small groves
15. Red Bud - beautiful spring tree
16. Yellow Wood - drought tolerant
17. Japanese Red Pine
18. Service Berry - heat, cold, and drought resistant
19. Dogwood - beautiful picturesque blooms in spring
20. Weeping Willow
21. White Fir - little pruning needed
22. Korean Fir - pollution tolerant for urban areas
23. Japanese Maple - dark maroon leaves, great for container gardens
24. Trident Maple
25. Bonfire Sugar Maple - pollution tolerant, very colorful in fall
26. Cedar
27. River Birch - more disease resistant than other Birch
28. Red Maple - classic fall colors
29. European Beech - slow growing, little pruning needed, great in open spaces
30. Lace Bark Pine
31. European Hornbeam
32. Palm Tree
33. Gingko - pollution tolerant
34. Kentucky Coffee Tree - very weather resistant and pollution tolerant
35. Carolina Silverbell - great decorative tree, pest and disease resistant
36. Whitespire Birch - heat tolerant and borer resistant which is a common Birch pest.
37. Roseomarginata Beech - small Beech great for shaded container gardens.
38. Magnolia
39. Eastern White Pine - wetland tolerant, plant away from street and walk ways
40. Sycamore
41. Sassafras
42. Snow Rose - technically a shrub but makes a great bonsai.
43. Serbian Spruce - more pollution tolerant than other spruces
44. Dawn Redwood - uncharacteristically looses it’s needles in the fall
45. Dwarf Conifer - great in rocky terrain or small spaces
46. Colorado Spruce - very cold resistant
47. Thomson Spruce - very similar to Colorado spruce but with a very vivid blue color
48. Sourgum
49. Paper Birch
50. White Poplar - beautiful bark and leaves

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