Understory Trees
· Pawpaw
· Bottlebrush buckeye (tree?, but full shade!)
· Persian parrotia
· Ironwood-Carpinus caroliniana
Flowering Trees
· Redbud—native, Appalachian red, Lavender twist, etc.
· Weeping Higan cherry---sure would be nice if it were grown budded!
· Japanese Cornal dogwood
· Witch hazel (ex. Arnold’s Promise)
· Red Jewel crabapple
· Goldenraintree, Sothern Magnolia (ex. Brown beauty, Edith Bogue)
and Yellowwood also listed below.
· Milky Way dogwood
· Spring Grove dogwood
Shade Trees
· Under 15’
-Little King birch
-Paperbark maple (also Girard hybrid maple)
· 15-30’
-Goldentaintree
-Persian Parrotia
- Sothern Magnolia (ex. Brown beauty, Edith Bogue)
· 30-45’
-Yellowwood (Perkin’s Pink)
-Japanese zelkova (being specked a lot, overuse???)
-Weeping katsura, katsura
· over 45’
-Black gum
-bald cypress---gas light district Clifton, Middleton
-dawn redwood—ex. William and Mary
-Beech—American or European
-Sugar maple
If time, what larger growing evergreens do you suggest planting in our area?
· Lacebark pine
· Weeping Alaska cypress
· Spring Grove/ Green Giant arborvitae
· Native Juniperus virginiana varieties--glauca, Chinese junipers—Hetz, Keetleri
Street trees:
· Japanese zelkova
· Ginkgo
· Goldenraintree
· London planetree
· Lacebark elm
· Bald cypress
