Know the tree before you plant it.

Spring color and summer bloom, from redbuds to jacarandas.

• Purple leaf plum tree
• Redbud tree
• Pink trumpet tree
• Chinese lantern tree
• Oklahoma redbud tree
• Flowering pear tree

Fast growers for wet ground, screens and quick shade.

• Poplar tree
• Weeping pussy willow tree
• Cottonwood tree
• Australian willow tree
• Weeping willow tree

Bottle, sausage, dragon blood and other trees worth a second look.

• Bottle tree
• Pom pom tree
• Sausage tree
• Mustard tree
• Broom tree
• Shrimp tree

Broad canopies for cooler yards: sycamore, elm, beech and ash.

• Mexican sycamore tree
• Chinese elm tree
• Tri color beech tree
• Carrotwood tree
• Chinese perfume tree
• Bonita ash tree

Year-round structure, privacy and winter interest.

• Larch tree
• Manuka tree
• Japanese fern tree
• Indian hawthorn tree
• Box tree
• Bay rum tree

Japanese, sugar and red maples and the cultivars worth planting.

• Japanese maple tree
• Armstrong maple tree
• Florida maple tree
• Sugar maple tree
• October glory maple tree

Live, gray and chestnut oaks, and how to tell them apart.

• Chestnut oak tree
• Gray oak tree
• Live oak tree
• Oak trees