What's your favorite flowering tree?

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Have you ever seen a Franklin tree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklinia? They're fairly unusual but really cool. We've got two.

[Anonymous]

It's more of a shrub but I love camellias. I'd never seen them before moving here.

[Anonymous]

Fringe trees are also amazing. They're also natives. Mount Vernon planted a bunch when they built the new visitors center and they look fabulous. It was the first time I'd seen them.

[Anonymous]

Serviceberry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fringe trees are also amazing. They're also natives. Mount Vernon planted a bunch when they built the new visitors center and they look fabulous. It was the first time I'd seen them.

That's so pretty!

I'm glad I found this thread. Thanks for the suggestions. We're looking for a native tree to plant in our yard to replace one we had to take down!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for this thread, and please post more pictures of the trees! I'm not from here, and this is a nice thread to refer to! The pictures are beautiful!!!

Which of the ones mentioned so far is the smallest, with shallow noninvasive- roots, does anyone know?

Here you go:
http://www.nps.gov/plants/pubs/chesapeake/pdf/chesapeakenatives.pdf

If you want to plant check height and space. Don't plant to close to a house for example. All trees have roots close to the surface. Don't make a mulch volcano. That's not healthy for the roots.

Sorry for the ignorance, but what's a 'mulch volcano'?

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Sorry for the ignorance, but what's a 'mulch volcano'?

[Anonymous]

Dogwoods. Locpve them, both pink and white. State tree of GA, where I am from. Grew up with one right outside my bedroom window and it always announced the beginning of Spring. Have three in my yard in NWDC. Just love them.

[Anonymous]

We have a non-fruiting pear tree in our yard that gives us lovely white blooms. It's also blooms earlier in the spring, so it's a nice treat when we are waiting for everything else to start.

[Anonymous]

Up until this month, my favorite tree was the jacaranda, which is pictured (or a link; can't remember) on page 1 of this post. It's a beautiful purple-flowered tree but it does not grow here. It grows in Southern California, badly by the coast because it doesn't like an ocean breeze, but fabulously just a little bit inland like in Pasadena.

However, these dogwoods have just knocked my socks off, how they sort of look like shelves of flowers, the way the branches go horizontally. Incredible! And I love that the dogwoods are still in bloom, not just a couple of days, and no rainstorm gets in their way!

There was a tree where the flowers look like pinkish purple tulips--in bloom a few weeks ago--so beautiful, but gone by the time these dogwoods came out. What was that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Up until this month, my favorite tree was the jacaranda, which is pictured (or a link; can't remember) on page 1 of this post. It's a beautiful purple-flowered tree but it does not grow here. It grows in Southern California, badly by the coast because it doesn't like an ocean breeze, but fabulously just a little bit inland like in Pasadena.

However, these dogwoods have just knocked my socks off, how they sort of look like shelves of flowers, the way the branches go horizontally. Incredible! And I love that the dogwoods are still in bloom, not just a couple of days, and no rainstorm gets in their way!

There was a tree where the flowers look like pinkish purple tulips--in bloom a few weeks ago--so beautiful, but gone by the time these dogwoods came out. What was that?

Magnolias?