Re: favorite shade tree

Title: Re: favorite shade tree
My favorite shade tree this year ( it changes!) is Arbutus 'Marina' for it's beautiful growth habit, really wonderful red-brown bark, fall and winter clusters of pink flowers and strawberry-like fruit.
Then there's the fact of it's adaptability to many garden situations, wind, soil, climate AND it's slow to moderate growth. The fruits do drop, but that is a small price to pay for one great tree.
If I were starting my garden over, that's the tree I'd choose!


On 11/19/04 6:50 AM, Talkingpoints@PlantSoup.Com wrote

Do you mean of all time?  Or the neatest, or the best for lawns and parks, or favorite Medit plant?
If we are just talking favorite big shady tree, I think the valley oak, in maturity is the most beautiful, picturesque tree.  Quercus lobata nee
But that's just me.

I mean a year-round tree to shade a pathway, not to grden beneath.




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