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Flowering Trees to Brighten Up Your Garden
from: Lawn and Garden MagicHaving a beautiful flowering garden doesn't have to be limited to just having flowering plants that grow low to the ground. In fact, why not have wonderful garden filled with colors and scents without ground based standard garden areas in your landscap by planting flowering trees.
Flowering trees are the best of many worlds, since they grow tall to provide shade during those hot days of summer. They also provide beautiful colors in their leaves and foilage and some flowing trees even provide additional colors and textures in their bark as well. They also produce flowers in a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes while producing wonderful scents around your home and yard as well.
As with most types of garden plants, there are hundreds of different types of flowering trees available. And like other plants, each tree has it's own specific location and growth requirements as well. Basic tree planting rules of thumb apply, of course, i.e. Be careful not to plant a flowering tree to close to a power or other dangerous utility line; Be sure your tree isn't planted so close to your home that it causes structual damage as it grows and matures; And be sure the location you choose for your tree is one you can live with for a lifetime.
Flowering Dogwood trees are a wonderful sight, and can be planted as both tree or smaller shrub form. Cheroke Chief is a particularly beautiful variety that produces amazing red flowers in the spring, and vibrant bronze foilage in autumn. The Japanese Dogwood tree is another beautiful variety to consider as it produces white flowers and red berries which are excellent bird food. The foilage is a deep red or purple color in autumn.
Finally, consider Magnolias, another popular flowering tree. The saucer Magnolias produce giant flower blooms up to 10 inches wide. These blooms often open before the leaves even start to bud, and they tend to be a whitish pink color which are very fragrant.
Saucer Magnolia trees grow at about twenty feet high and wide, so they're you can rely on them for excellent garden shade and they also protect your home from that nasty summer heat. Since they do grow quite large, make sure they have lots of room in the area you've planted them.
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