Stay cool in the summer and enjoy colorful foliage in fall with these beautiful shade trees.
Deciduous shade trees can keep your home and outdoor spaces cooler by blocking the hot sun.
Thesetrees also add beauty to your landscapewith features from flowers to pretty fall foliage and interesting bark.
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This shorter shade tree has beautiful ridged bark, most noticeable in winter.
The slow-growing, deciduous tree develops an attractive rounded shape.
This medium to large deciduous tree produces pale yellow fall color.
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Dutch elm disease, however, killed millions of elms in North America between 1930 to the late 1980s.
Now, new disease-resistant varieties such as ‘Princeton’ are available.
It’s best to buy only trees labeled as male, because female ginkgoes produce messy, stinky fruit.
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As the tree ages, its smooth gray bark peels to reveal orange-brown inner bark.
In the fall, its leaves turn a beautiful yellow-orange to red-brown color.
Improved cultivars include ‘Green Vase,’ ‘Halka,’ ‘Musachino,’ and ‘Village Green.’
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gray-brown bark and yellow-to-brown fall foliage that will add bright color to your landscape.
No matter your yard size, there’s a colorful pop in ofmaple tree to fit your needs.
Other species, like the red maple, show brightly colored flower clusters.
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Live oak is the recommended species for Southern regions.
In colder regions, northern red oak thrives the best.
The flowers are followed by dry, cone-shaped brown fruits.
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Its bright green leaves turn golden yellow in fall.
For a smaller cultivar, look for ‘Little Volunteer’, which grows up to 35 feet tall.
Name:Liriodendron tulipifera
Growing Conditions:Full sun in moist, well-drained soil.
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This native tree is also called black gum, sour gum, and black tupelo.
Its dark green leaves turn bright scarlet in fall, and its fall fruits attract migratingsongbirds.
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