Flowering trees make excellent accents when planted alone; this is a good use for them on small lots. For larger areas, you can mass them or repeat them to define a straight or curved line. Many flowering trees offer all-season interest, with showy spring flowers, green or purple-bronze leaves in summer, vividly colored leaves in fall, and bright fruit or attractive bark in fall or winter.
 ©2007 Publications International, Ltd. Crape myrtle is a flowering tree with multiple large, showy flower panicles in electric colors that sizzle across the branches. See more pictures of trees. |
- Flowering trees can be an excellent addition to a yard with few perennial flowers. In this case, pay particular attention to tree bark as you make your selections. Tree bark -- silver, black, red, or green, either smooth or textured -- can be beautiful and adds winter interest to your yard.
- Choose trees that cast light shade if you want to plant a flower garden beneath them. Some trees allow sunlight to filter down between open branches or small leaves. Small, weeping, or long-trunked trees allow light to reach the flowers from the side during the morning and afternoon.
- Buy flowering trees in the spring. Trees purchased in the fall have probably been sitting in the nursery lot all summer.
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