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Comments (2)If the crapes themselves have well shaped, uniform trunk systems, you might consider uplighting THEM. In doing that, the lit plant is featured, not the light source. To give specific advice, one would need to SEE details of the space and know the budget. If this is DIY you should experiment with a sample....See MoreNeed to line 2,000 foot long driveway in Maryland Eastern Shore
Comments (15)Sycamores are beautiful trees, but man, are they messy. We had a HUGE one at our last house (probably about 100 years old), and we could tell the season by what the tree was dropping. It would grow a set of leaves in spring, then lose them in May (anthracnose). Serious leaf fall - we had to rake. Really - who wants to rake in May? Plus we wouldn't have shade from the summer sun til towards the end of June, when it grew another set for the summer. Then it would be stick season (twigs everywhere. Then seedball season (little spikey seedballs EVERYWHERE. Then bark season (exfoliating bark EVERYWHERE. Then finally fall and leaf season. Hubby and I would spend 3 solid weekends dealing with the leaves. That's all we did was rake. The leaves were at least a foot across and there were a TON of them. I loved that tree and wouldn't have dared cut it down (once it grew its 2nd set of leaves, it shaded the stone farmhouse so well that we never needed A/C, even on the hottest days). But I cursed that tree more times than I could count. For a suggestion (if it's not already too late), there are some new elm cultivars that are resistant to dutch elm disease. Elms are beautiful trees and I'm so excited to see people bringing them back. And there's nothing more classic than a bunch of elms lining a walkway, driveway or street. BEEE-UUUU-TIFUL! Google Princeton Elm or Valley Forge Elm to learn more. I'll link to a good informative (and unbiased - he's not trying to sell anything) article. Here is a link that might be useful: Elm information...See Moretree lined driveway
Comments (8)toronado makes a very good point. Here in my town, pin oak(Q.palustris) has been planted - almost to monoculture status, over the past 40 years - as 'street trees'lining major thoroughfares, and almost every new home built in the last 30-40 yrs has either a pin oak or a callery pear in its yard. All here know the problems Bradford and its ilk bring to the table, but no one foresaw the double whammy of heavy infestations of horny branch & stem gall wasps and bacterial leaf scorch decimating the pin oaks planted all around town. Nice 30-50 year old pin oaks filled with galls that functionally girdle the branches, disfiguring the tree, and eventually starving out the root system. Some of these trees take 5-10 years to reach the point of death or necessity of removal, but they're dying and being removed with increasing frequency. I like the idea of mixed plantings - I've got about 1000 ft of gravel drive; half is lined by alternating northern red oaks and pecans, the other by various bur oak & bur oak hybrids. A wide, low-lying area also hosts an assorted planting of pawpaws, mayhaws, a couple of select hickories, and some redbuds on the better-drained edges. Initial spacing of the large mature size oaks was initially 30-35 ft, 15 ft off the edges of the drive; the northern red oaks just 'sat there' for nearly 10 years(planted as 4 ft bareroot trees 2-3 yr old, and I'd largely given up on them, so I interplanted the grafted pecans between, with plans to take out the oaks once the canopies began to crowd - and will probably still follow that plan - but once I put in the pecans, the oaks 'took off' and really started growing. Even at 30-35 ft spacings, after 15 years, some of the bur oaks have attained sufficient size that it's getting to be a tight squeeze to get large/long vehicles, like the semi-loads of hay we buy in for the cattle, through some of the gaps to make their way to the unloading area, as canopies expand....See MoreHelp! Trees to line driveway?!?
Comments (3)Western WA is a great gardening area but it can present some challenges. Some trees are not good choices, primarily due to disease issues. If considering planting an entire 150' allee of the same trees, I would avoid any Prunus (flowering cherries, flowering plums) as they tend to be extremely disease prone and often very short-lived. Also the eastern dogwoods, unless you can locate one of the anthracnose resistant cultivars. And for whatever reason, redbuds here have issues........hard to find any that have any age to them at all. Intended size is an important consideration. The flowering crabs are great smaller trees and would offer spring flowering but minimal fall color. Hybrid dogwoods can get larger than the kousas/Korean dogwoods with significant flowering potential but again with minimal fall color. Serviceberry is a good choice with both spring flower and great fall color but select for a tree-like form - many are more shrubby in habit. Freeman or red maples are good choices. Avoid the native bigleaf maple - it grows naturally everywhere, has no fall color to speak of and can be prone to considerable breakage. Oaks are lovely but very slow. Katsura, Nyssa and Liquidambar are potentials for larger trees and all offer great fall color....See MoreEmbothrium
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