Trees

Trees provide shade, cover, and may even produce fruit! Learn how to grow your trees successfully with our detailed guides.

Beautiful white flowering easy-to-maintain magnolia trees in a spring garden.

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15 Easy-to-Maintain Trees for Your Home Landscape

Trees are an investment in our future gardens. While there is a cost of bringing them home and planting them, they provide years of returns in ecological and aesthetic value. With the right tree, they needn’t be an investment of resources or intensive year-round maintenance. Garden expert Katherine Rowe highlights easy-care trees to consider for your home landscape, from small specimens to grand canopies.

The best blooming tree with airy clusters of slender, fringe-like white petals cascading from branches covered in soft green leaves in a blooming small yard.

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15 Best Trees for Small Yards

With so many mulitfaceted trees suitable for small yards, the challenge becomes narrowing down the selection. From evergreen anchors to flowering focal points, specimen trees abound for pots, small beds, and foundation plantings. Garden expert Katherine Rowe highlights top-performing trees to enrich small yards.

Quercus rubra with deep orange lobed leaves and a thick central trunk.

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17 US-Native Trees to Plant for Arbor Day

Arbor Day is a day for trees! Add shade, ornamental flowers, and lush leaves to the garden with native trees. Whether you live in the North, South, East, or West, there are ample options on this list for your yard. Native plant gardener Jerad Bryant shares 17 of his favorite U.S. native trees.

Trees shrubs April. Silky, pinkish pom-pom flowers bloom profusely along arching branches, surrounded by delicate, fern-like leaves with fine, elongated leaflets.

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11 Trees and Shrubs to Plant in April

April showers bring May flowers! Use the rain to your advantage and plant flowering trees and shrubs this month. They’ll soak up the moisture and grow well for the rest of the season. Native plant gardener Jerad Bryant shares 11 trees and shrubs perfect for planting in April.

Close-up of a blooming saucer magnolia tree bearing large, cup-shaped pink flowers on bare branches with smooth, dark bark, while fresh, broad green leaves begin to emerge beneath.

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How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Saucer Magnolia Trees

Magnolias are among the oldest flowering plants in the world. The saucer magnolia is a special hybrid that thrives in lawns, gardens, and large containers. Whether buying one for the first time or cultivating an old specimen, this guide has everything you need to know about saucer magnolias and their care.

Close-up of a blooming lily magnolia tree with large, showy pink and purple flowers featuring long, narrow petals, set against smooth dark branches, with large, glossy green leaves emerging around the blooms.

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How to Plant, Grow, and Care For Lily Magnolia Trees

Lily magnolias are gorgeous shrubs and small trees that produce some of the prettiest flowers of spring. If you're thinking about planting one, read ahead as gardening expert Melissa Strauss gives the details on how to grow and care for these wonderful plants.

Clusters of orange Eriobotrya japonica fruits hanging on a brown woody branch with dark green, leathery leaves.

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How to Grow a Loquat Tree From Seed

Have you tried delicious orange loquat fruit this season? If you love them and live in a warm climate, you can grow them easily at home. In this article, plant expert Matt Dursum shows you how to grow a loquat tree from seed.