{"id":10523,"date":"2019-04-20T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=10523"},"modified":"2019-03-26T16:54:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T20:54:44","slug":"small-trees-for-under-power-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2019\/04\/20\/small-trees-for-under-power-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting Small Trees Under Power Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three flower maple in mid-October at NYC Hi-Line<\/p><\/div>\n

Look Up<\/span> before you plant.<\/span><\/strong> From city streets to country roadside are a myriad of power (utility) lines, e.g. electric, telephone, and cable TV wires. Utility companies have a “right of away” clearance to operate their lines. In most municipalities, mature trees growing into their lines can be cut down or all offending branches removed. Large trees often end up massacred.<\/p>\n

The mature heights of the following species rarely exceed 25 feet and eliminate tree\/utility line issues. Most tolerant of a wide variety of soils, urban growing conditions and hardiness rating. Disease and pest resistant, drought tolerant, require minimal maintenance. This list includes a few large shrubs that can be trained into small trees such as smoketree, American witchhazel, and fringetree. All are hardy in USDA plant hardiness zones 5-9 except where noted.<\/p>\n

Trident Maple (Acer buergerianum<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Hedge Maple (Acer campestre<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Flame Amur Maple (Acer ginnala<\/em> \u2018Flame\u2019)<\/p>\n

Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum<\/em>) \u2013 lots of great choices; however many are not tree forms<\/p>\n

Three Flowered Maple (Acer triflorum<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Shantung Maple (Acer truncatum<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Red buckeye (Aesculus pavia<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Autumn Brilliance\u00ae Serviceberry (Amelanchier \u00d7 grandiflora<\/em> \u2018Autumn Brilliance\u2019)<\/p>\n

Princess Diana Serviceberry (Amelanchier grandiflora<\/em> \u2018Princess Diana\u2019)<\/p>\n

Snowcloud Serviceberry (Amelanchier laevis<\/em> \u2018Snowcloud\u2019)<\/p>\n

Pawpaw (Asimina triloba<\/em>)<\/p>\n

American Hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Redbud (Cercis canadensis<\/em>)<\/p>\n

American Fringetree (Chionanthus virginicus<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Smoketree (Cotinus coggygria<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Chinese Dogwood (Cornus kousa<\/em>)<\/p>\n

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Kousa dogwood in May<\/p><\/div>\n

Cornelian Cherry (Cornus mas<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Winter King Hawthorn (Crataegus viridis<\/em> \u2018Winter King\u2019)<\/p>\n

Sweetheart Tree (Euscaphus japonicus<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Carolina Silverbell (Halesia tetraptera<\/em>)<\/p>\n

American witchhazel (Hamamelis virginiana<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Crape Myrtle (Lagerstroemia<\/em> x) (zones 6-10)<\/p>\n

Amur Maackia (Maackia amurensis<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Little Girl series of Magnolias (Magnolia x liliflora<\/em>) \u2013 cvs. \u2018Ann\u2019, \u2018Betty\u2019, \u2018Jane\u2019, or \u2018Susan\u2019<\/p>\n

Saucer Magnolia (M. soulangeana<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Star Magnolia (Magnolia stellata<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Select Crabapples (Malus<\/em> \u2018Adirondack\u2019, \u2018Prairifire\u2019, \u2018Sugartyme\u2019, M. sargentii<\/em>,  M. floribunda<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Ruby Vase\u00ae Parrotia (Parrotia  persica<\/em> \u2018Inge\u2019s Ruby Vase\u2019)<\/p>\n

Crimson Pointe\u2122 Plum (Prunus cerasifera<\/em> \u2018Cripoizam\u2019)<\/p>\n

Thundercloud Plum (Prunus cerasifera<\/em> \u2018Thundercloud\u2019)<\/p>\n

Newport Plum (Prunus<\/em> \u2018Newport\u2019)<\/p>\n

Okame Cherry (Prunus x \u2018<\/em>Okame\u2019)<\/p>\n

Japanese tree lilac (Syringa reticulata<\/em> \u2018Ivory Silk\u2019)<\/p>\n

Peve Minaret bald cypress (Taxodium distichum<\/em> \u2018Peve Minaret\u2019)<\/p>\n

City Sprite zelkova (Zelkova  serrata<\/em> City Sprite\u2122)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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