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Whats your favourite tree for each of the four seasons?
I love cherry trees in spring. Those blossoms are something else. Apple trees, too.
Northern catalpas in summer. Love the white flowers they get in June, plus those quirky bean pods and those MASSIVE heart shaped leaves. Its the most tropical looking tree that can grow so far north.
I love maples in the fall. They just have the best colour, smell good and iconic leaf shapes. Birches are nice in fall, too.
In winter I love birches and Norway spruce. Nothing like a spruce covered in heavy snow, or the way a white birch blends into the wintry landscape.
Spring - So many choices. But I guess that I would put redbuds at the top of my list.
Summer - My Franklin tree. During the summer, there isn't much going on except for the loads of crape myrtles. But then, in the middle of July, here comes my franklinia with six weeks worth of beautiful blooms.
Chalk me up as another catalpa tree lover! I know they're messy but I don't care - they mark each season so vividly. I miss having one, so maybe I need to plant one.
I love apple trees in the spring, as well as redbuds and dogwoods.
I have a love/hate relationship with our river birch tree. I love the peeling birch bark but it is another messy tree - it often drops small branches, with the slightest wind, but it's a pretty tree and has beautiful yellow leaves in the fall and many, many sweet pale green leaves in the spring. Birds and squirrels love it for sure. I'm keeping it!
I really like bald cypress trees in every season - we have several on our property and I love that though they are conifers, they change colors in the fall and drop their leaves, and then in the spring the new growth is so feathery and pretty and then they are full again in the summer. I often pick branches in the fall for arrangements.
In the winter, I love that our camellias bloom in January.
Spring - Japanese cherry, tulip and apple.
Summer - Willows are graceful trees, I also miss the Chaste tree I grew in Arizona, it had beautiful purple blooms from spring through summer.
Fall - red maples.
Winter - any pine or cedar that smells of the Season. They look beautiful frosted with snow, also holly and blue spruce.
Crabapple trees profusely flowering in spring, sugar maples glowing orange in fall, red twig dogwood in winter.... and it's not a seasonal thing, but I love the rushing sound of wind going through pine trees...
I really like the fall colors of the sweet gum and the dawn redwood. For spring, I guess maybe the weeping willows, they’re always the first things to start turning green around here. In the summer, it’s hard to say, I just like the green canopy and the sound of wind and rain in it. In the winter, I guess my favorite is a large Cryptomeria Japonica we have in our yard. Sycamores look nice in the winter as well, that striking bark.
Honorable mention to several varieties of crepe myrtle for their growth habit, handsome bark, and fragrant (one of ours) flowers.
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