TREES
What would a garden be without a tree? Trees provide shade, increase your home value and provide environmental and aesthetic benefits. Land Design can source you trees in a variety of shapes, sizes and types to suit any property, so you can choose one of your favorites or try something new and different.
Hornbeam
A mid-sized tree used as a specimen or as a privacy screen. It’s great for narrow spaces.
Dogwood
Florida Dogwood- A native tree with a layered open habit. Grows best in a semi-shaded location. Kousa Dogwood- Rounder and fuller-looking, it blooms late spring, a few weeks after Florida Dogwood.
Magnolia
Saucer Magnolia-Most common magnolia is low branched and blooms in May Sweetbay Magnolia- Native tree with fragrant flowers that appear May-June Star Magnolia- Dense and round shape, a small tree for sunny areas, blooms April.
Crabapple
Small to medium-sized flowering tree 15 to 20′ tall. Bloom color ranges from white to pink to red and appears in spring.
Amelanchier
Small, multi-stemmed, native tree with vibrant fall color and small white flowers in spring.
Sourwood
Sourwood has a delicate, pyramidal shape that flowers mid-summer when most trees have finished blooming. The fragrant flowers last for a few weeks.
Linden
Fragrant flowers appear in June. Lindens can be used as a specimen tree, street tree or as a clipped hedge.
Cherry
Yoshino cherry- Famous for being the species in Washington D.C., it has a rounded appearance that flowers in early spring. Japanese Flowering Cherry- vase-shaped tree that can have double blooms in pink or white. Flowers early spring.
Birch
River Birch- Fast grower with peach, peeling bark. Is typically multi-stemmed Jacquemontii Birch- Traditional white bark, pyramidal shape
Styrax
Lovely, white, bell-shaped flowers with dark green foliage in early summer. A splendid small tree for use adjacent to a patio or near a pathway. Foliage turns yellow to red in the fall.
Bradford Pear
A deciduous tree for the lawn or corner of the garden, where
you can observe its white spring bloom and colorful fall foliage. Can be utilized as a shade tree.
Stewartia
A small tree with mottled bark for winter interest. Its white blooms appear mid-summer when most plants finish flowering.
Katsura
An elegant, pyramidal-shaped shade tree with beautiful fall colors. Heart-shaped leaves emerge in spring red-purple and turn blue-green as they mature.
Papermark Maple
Paperbark maple is small with cinnamon-looking bark for winter.
Sugar Maple
Sugar maple has a much more rounded shape than other maples and spectacular fall colors.
October Glory Maple
October Glory’s foliage lasts longer than other maples and is a beautiful, year-long shade tree.
Bloodgold Japanese Maple
Bloodgood Japanese maple is one of the hardiest of Japanese maples with good sun tolerance.
Japanese Maple
Japanese maple is weeping or upright with foliage ranging from lime green to deep purple.