What looks good with Black Walnuts?

For me, hemlocks. Tsuga canadensis, mainly. Not so much as they look good with the Black Walnuts (the trees are large enough that the canopy is out of the picture, visually speaking). More so they look good under the walnuts.

tj

I would...if |i could but at the moment, it is all about hiding the bloody behemoth (7 storey) new building development just yards from my allotment boundary...and in the woods, mine are the only trees for miles around (flat Norfolk waterlands and fen). There is a gigantic dark leaved prunus at the allotment end (which fails to hide anything, being too far to the side as well as horrid), but I have trained my eyes to ignore it's glowering glum presence.

I take my neighbor's trees into consideration at least. He has a tulip tree and a sugar maple I like very much so for variety's sake I don't need to plant either.

When your entire plot is a few paces across and long you have no choice but to consider the neighbours' plants. All the greenery at the end of my garden and much on one side is growing beyond my walls.

Our neighborhood has a mix of landscape styles and varied, although common, plants. Direct neighbors have bottlebrush trees, pines, palms and beautiful, but messy, jacarandas. I don't think anyone in the entire neighborhood is growing 92% of the plants I have growing in my yard, with the exception of the trio group of pines and one sycamore street tree that came with the place. I have the only pink or yellow Tabebuias, Betula nigra 'Summer Cascade', and there are no other Arbutus 'Marina' or African Tulip Trees that I have see. I did notice a single specimen of Tecoma stans at one other house, however.

I'm adding trees to my parent's yard I've tried to line up the trees I planted with trees they planted, to create a tree-lined corridor effect. The catch is one neighbor planted their trees closer to the street then people typically recommend today. (Maples like 13 feet from the road) and the other has trees much farther from the road. (Like 33 feet). I've also tried to keep the black walnuts I got far away from the neighbor who planted pines, and am trying to avoid planting anything big or evergreen in the spot my neighbor has a tiny sliver of view.

One neighbor has young Gingko, birch, and Leyland cypress set back 33 feet from the road, the other has maples planted right near the road. (What trees look good with those?)

I'm planting a row of small flowering things parallel with the tree line closer to the road and taller shade trees parallel with the other's.

On the property line...One neighbor planted a row of white pine along the border. My parents hired a landscaper to put in a mixed border of Dwarf Alberta Spruce/hedges cut to resemble conifers/rhododendron along the same border. I've added holy to that in the hopes they will block below the pines when the pines lose lower branches. Want to add taller American Holly but never succeeded. I'd like to add a shade loving tree like American Holly or Beach between the two plantings, because I question the longevity of white pine in this location.

My my Gyr Falcon....that is quite a range of continents represented by your trees! Tabebuias with river birch!?! African tulip trees with Arbutus!?! Tecoma stans.....my oh my...neat stuff!

Not me! My patch of land is an island unto itself. I am planting/growing strips of forest in a horseshoe shape around our meadowland that will eventually encase our whole property in woods.

I have occasionally been inspired by trees planted by neighbors, both near and far, to plant one or more of the same on my own property. However, what they do with their own property and where they plant their own trees has zero to do with my own landscaping decisions.

I'm planning to expand a bed in direct relation to where a neighbor's Japanese larch tree is, right over the fence.

wisconsitom, I have never really considered their range before. Although "Africa" is in danger of getting yanked due to how ratty it looks most of the year (temperature fussy thing). Husband thinks it is ugly. Every time I get ready to nix it, the dang plant tosses out buds and blooms for several months. Borrowed time...

The only plants I think regionally about are the ones from Australia. I have to remember them, because if they get fertilized with the usual fertilizer, they die.