EWEB: Plant the right tree in the right place.Byline: The Register-Guard= Back yard (tall zone): Any tree height is OK, but trees with spreading crowns should be planted at least 25 feet from wires, sidewalks and buildings. Front and side yards (medium zone): Trees up to 50 feet high. Plant trees with spreading crowns at least 25 feet from wires, sidewalks and buildings; plant trees with columnar or pyramidal forms at least 10 feet away. Near street and under power lines: Choose small trees, up to 25 feet tall when full grown, that will not interfere with overhead lines or cause sidewalks to buckle. The following trees are suitable for growing near power lines: Weeping purple beech, flowering cherry, columnar spruce, dogwood dogwood or cornel (kôr`nəl), shrub or tree of the genus Cornus, chiefly of north temperate and tropical mountain regions, characteristically having an inconspicuous flower surrounded by large, showy bracts which , dwarf plum, galaxy magnolia, globe maple, goldenchain tree, halesia, hinoki cypress, Japanese maple, Japanese snowball, lilac, photinia, redbud redbud or Judas tree, name for trees and shrubs of the genus Cercis, handsome plants of the family Leguminosae (pulse family), covered along the branches in the early spring with deep rose or (rarely) white flowers resembling pea blossoms. , rhododendron rhododendron (rō'dədĕn`drən) [Gr.,=rose tree], any plant of the genus Rhododendron, shrubs of the family Ericaceae (heath family) found chiefly in mountainous areas of the arctic and north temperate regions and also of the , royal galaxy magnolia, purple smoke tree, snowball bush, stewartia stew·ar·tia n. Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs of the genus Stewartia, native to eastern North America and tropical eastern Asia, having fragrant showy white flowers and smooth brown bark that peels into thin flakes. , weeping hornbeam hornbeam or ironwood, name in North America for two groups of trees of the family Betulaceae (birch family), native to the eastern half of the continent. Carpinus caroliniana, also called blue beech and water beech, has smooth gray bark. , weeping spruce. Source: EWEB For more information: www.eweb.org |
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