Muddy Boots Top 10: Shade Trees

No garden is complete without trees! This month Keith shares his top 10 favourite trees for the Australian garden.

1. Full moon maple - Acer japonicum vitifolium - well suited smaller garden
2. Norway Maple or Designer Maple Acer platinoides globosum - well suited smaller garden
3. Acer platinoides Crimson Sentry -well suited smaller garden
4. Persimon fuyu - delicious orange fruit tree
5. Flat top elm Ulmus glabra “Camperdownii” - medium tree with dense canopy
6. Black Tupelo - Nysa sylvatica - medium size tree with stunning Autumn foliage 
7. Red maple - Acer rubrum - larger stunning Autumn foliage
8. White flowering chestnut - Calodendrum capense “Alba” - beautiful larger tree with white candelabra style flowers
9. Argentine ombu - Phytolacca dioica - a HUGE, fast growing evergreen tree
10. Carob Tree ceratonia siliqua - beautiful larger, flowering evergreen tree

So we’ve chosen the tree. What next? Hear how to prepare and plant your tree to set it up for success!

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