{"id":9355,"date":"2016-12-22T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=9355"},"modified":"2016-12-22T10:24:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T15:24:24","slug":"trees-with-winter-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2016\/12\/22\/trees-with-winter-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Landscape Trees With Winter Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jacquemonti birch<\/p><\/div>\n

Does your winter landscape look a bit shabby? This coming spring take some action by\u00a0planting trees that should\u00a0perk\u00a0up its appearance. New tree choices\u00a0should ratchet up seasonal interest, attract more bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds in the spring-summer and hungry fruit feeding birds in fall-winter.<\/p>\n

Making smart tree choices can add four-seasons of interest to your yard. In making your shopping choices, look for\u00a0such arbor\u00a0features as\u00a0branch architecture, bark color(s), foliage texture, flowering, and resulting seeds and\u00a0fruits.<\/p>\n

Some of my favorites of trees with winter\u00a0season appeal are:<\/p>\n

Dogwoods:<\/strong>\u00a0flowering dogwood (Cornus florida<\/em>), Chinese dogwood (C. kousa<\/em>) and Japanese cornel (C. officinalis<\/em>). All three offer winter or spring\u00a0flowering,\u00a0unique\u00a0horizontal branching, fruiting, and autumn leaf color. Latter two species show off exfoliating bark in winter.<\/p>\n

Japanese maple (<\/strong>Acer palmatum<\/em>)<\/strong>: including coral bark variety \u2018Sango Kaku\u2019 and yellow bark of \u2018Bihou\u2019.<\/p>\n

Paper bark maple <\/strong>(Acer griseum<\/em>): stunning cherry red exfoliating bark.<\/p>\n

Trifoliate maple<\/strong> (Acer truncatum<\/em>): nice exfoliating tan colored bark.<\/p>\n

Birches:<\/strong> River birch (Betula nigra<\/em> Heritage\u00ae<\/strong> or Dura Heat \u00ae<\/strong>), Himalayan birch (B. jacquemontii<\/em>), and paper birch (B. papyrifera<\/em>) – all with brightly colored exfoliating bark (latter two birch species for\u00a0northern areas within USDA hardiness zones 2-6).<\/p>\n

Crabapple <\/strong>(Malus spp.)<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0<\/strong>this spring blooming tree (hundreds of varieties), many bearing\u00a0colorful fruits that invite birds to your property.<\/p>\n

Ornamental Flowering Cherry <\/strong>(Prunus spp.<\/em>): some varieties exhibit\u00a0stunning ruby red bark color.<\/p>\n

Hollies <\/strong>(Ilex spp<\/em>.): female forms produce\u00a0full crops of with bright red fruits. Yellow berried forms\u00a0are also available.<\/p>\n

Green Hawthorn <\/strong>(Crataegus viridis<\/em> \u2018Winter King\u2019): bright red fruits cover branches during the winter.<\/p>\n

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Japanese Stewartia<\/strong> (Stewartia pseudocamellia<\/em>): patchy exfoliating creamy colored inner bark.<\/p>\n

Persian Ironwood <\/strong>(Parrotia persica<\/em>): patchy exfoliating bark exposing a light colored inner wood.<\/p>\n

Ginkgo <\/strong>(Ginkgo biloba<\/em>):\u00a0this\u00a0ancient deciduous large landscape tree with brightly colored triangular fall foliage\u00a0and grayish-brown furrowed\u00a0bark.<\/p>\n

Crape myrtles<\/strong> (Lagerstroemia spp<\/em>.): choice of many cultivars; strong muscular bark that exfoliates to reveal colorful\u00a0inner wood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Does your winter landscape look a bit shabby? This coming spring take some action by\u00a0planting trees that should\u00a0perk\u00a0up its appearance. New tree choices\u00a0should ratchet up seasonal interest, attract more bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds in the spring-summer and hungry fruit feeding birds in fall-winter. Making smart tree choices can add four-seasons of interest to your yard. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[657,1218,1319,1351,1111,749,669,1373,914,844,1144,1182,745,1311,853,627,791,999,807,729,469,630,725,646,7,850,655,455,1275],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9355"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9363,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9355\/revisions\/9363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}