Landscape Effects With Shade Tree or Flowering Tree
When considering for your landscape plan trees that are considered primarily as flowering trees, remember that the blossoms are there for only a short time – perhaps two weeks out of each year, and that it is more important to consider the form of the tree, than its flowers. However, with a little advance planning, you can usually work the ornamental flowering tree into the landscape plan so as to get value from its flowers as well as its shape.
As an example, visualize a flowering dogwood in the public area of a property where the house is but one story tall – perhaps of the ranch type. With its horizontal branches, it will fit in beautifully not only while in flower as well as before and afterward, especially if placed a little away from the corner of such a house; it would hardly grow more than 25 feet tall and 20 feet broad.
Now picture the same situation with, instead of a flowering dogwood or yucca plants, a weeping Japanese flowering cherry. As it grows it will begin to spread too far to the sides for the size of the house. Eventually, it may even get too tall for the house, for such weeping cherry trees can reach 40 or 50 feet.
Most of the trees considered primarily for their flowers are usually small in stature. Some exceptions are locust, empress-tree, tulip-tree, Japanese pagoda-tree, and the magnolias. However, being of large size, they are rarely used expressly for their flowering display.
Flowering Trees for Shade
Fortunately for the owners of comparatively small properties, flowering trees can serve a dual purpose, giving displays of color and, in addition, filling a strategic spot in the landscape scheme. Such trees as Japanese snowbell (Styrax japonica), flowering dogwood, and the flowering crabapples, for example, can be used as specimen plants when in bloom and at the same time can also be trimmed of enough of their lower branches so that small sitting areas can be made under them. All this is in addition to the fact that they will not outgrow the properties.
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