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2011 Trees for Neighborhoods - Available Trees

Limit 4 trees per households. Maximum 1 Asian pear per household.

Fruit Tree
Small Trees (Appropriate Under Power Lines)
Medium and Large Trees

Fruit Tree

Evergreen/ Deciduous

Height/ Spread

Possible Street Tree?

Minimum planting strip width for street trees

Flowers/ Fruit

Description

Asian pear ‘Shinseiki’

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Picture

Deciduous
15’-20’ tall
Fruit
Fruit has yellow skin with sweet white flesh. Similar to Nijiseiki (the common grocery store variety). A heavy, regular bearer. Fruit ripens in late August. On OHxF 97 root stock.

Small Trees (Appropriate Under Power Lines)

Evergreen/ Deciduous

Height/ Spread

Possible Street Tree?

Minimum planting strip width for street trees

Flowers/ Fruit

Description

Pink-flowering Kousa Dogwood (Cornus kousa 'Satomi')

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Picture

Deciduous 20’ / 15’ Yes 5' Flowers / Fruit Rosy pink bracts in spring, red fall fruit, and orange-red-purple fall color. Mature trees develop an attractive patchwork bark.

Paperbark maple (Acer griseum)

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Picture (bark)

Picture (tree)
Please note this is a picture of a single-trunked tree; the variety offered here is a multistem

Deciduous

25’ / 25’

Yes

5'

 

Multistem variety. Attractive cinnamon colored peeling bark.

Eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis)

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Picture

Deciduous

25’ / 30’

Yes

5'

Flowers

Pink flowers in the spring before leaves come out. Leaves are 3-5” wide and broadly heart-shaped. Does not like excessively wet soils.

Japanese snowbell (Styrax japonicus ‘Snowcone’)

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Picture

Deciduous
25’ / 20’
Yes
5'
Flowers
White bell-shaped flowers ¾” inch wide in the spring. Pyramidal in shape. Likes full sun or partial shade.
Medium / Large Trees

Evergreen/ Deciduous

Height/ Spread

Possible Street Tree?

Minimum planting strip width for street trees

Flowers/ Fruit

Description

Shore Pine (Pinus contorta 'Contorta')

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Picture

Evergreen

30-40’ tall

Yes

6'

 

Often sprawling and irregular in its youth and rarely achieving straight form. The small pine nuts are favored by many birds. One of the best pines for visual screens. Does not take to pruning well. A native tree.

Weeping Alaska cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis ‘Glauca Pendula’)

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Evergreen
30-40’ / 10-15’
NA
Blue-green foliage and weeping branches. Likes a lot of moisture. Beautiful specimen tree.

Rivers purple beech (Fagus sylvatica ‘Riversii’)

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Deciduous
50’ / 40’
Yes
6'
Beautiful tree with purple leaves and smooth gray bark. Leaves are darkest when they first emerge and gradually lighten towards green. Does not like compacted soils.

Tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica ‘Wildfire’)

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Deciduous
50’ / 25’
Yes
6'
Leaves emerge red in the spring, turn green. Handsome chunky bark. Slow growing.

Deodar cedar (Cedrus deodara)

Picture

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Evergreen
60-70’ / 30’
Yes
8'
Graceful and somewhat drooping shape. 1- 1 ½” long silvery, pointed needles.

Western red cedar (Thuja plicata)

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Picture

Evergreen
40-60’ tall / 15’ wide
Yes
8'
A wonderful WA native conifer. Doesn’t like dry soils. Scaly leaves rather than needles.

 

 

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