Arbor Doctor recommended trees and shrubs
Right tree in the right place custom lists:
- Native herbaceous plants and shrubs
- Woodland edge trees and shrubs
- Small to medium trees and shrubs
- Larger trees and shade trees
- Larger trees which can grow in an existing woodland
- Trees, shrubs, and herbaceous perennials for wet areas
- Upright, Narrow and Columnar trees
- Evergreens
My favorites list which I prepared for the November 5, 2022 In The Garden With Ron Wilson radio show:
- Big leaf magnolia and umbrella magnolia
- Gerard’s hybrid maple or gingerbread maple
- Spring Grove flowering dogwood
- Kousa dogwood
- Autumn brilliance serviceberry
- Japanese maple
- Sugar maple
- Freeman hybrid maples
- Pawpaw
- American hornbeam, blue beech , Ironwood
- Northern pecan and hickories
- Catalpa
- Katsura tree including Amazing Grace katsura
- Eastern Redbud and cultivars (Appalachian Red Redbud, Lavender Twist Redbud, Forest Pansy Redbud, Hearts of Gold Redbud, Ruby Falls Weeping Redbud)
- Weeping Alaska cypress
- American beech and European beech
- Ginkgo
- Kentucky coffee tree
- Witchhazel
- Seven son flower
- American holly
- Hetz juniper
- Eastern red cedar
- Western arborvitae, Green Giant and Spring Grove
- Goldenrain tree
- European and American larch
- Spicebush
- Slender Silhouette sweetgum
- Tuliptree
- Cucumber magnolia
- Southern magnolia cultivars such as Bracken’s Brown Beauty, DD Blanchard, Edith Bogue
