9 Great Trees for Cincinnati Yards

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Red Oak

This sturdy and heavy tree adds a vibrant reddish-orange color to your landscape and creates shade.

Japanese Tree Lilac

The Japanese Tree Lilac is an exceptional accent tree with lovely, fragrant spring blooms. It is low-maintenance and disease-resistant, prefers moist, well-drained soil, likes direct sunlight and requires almost no pruning.

Witch Hazel

This tree is a good choice for broad, open areas in your yard. It favors partial shade or direct sunlight and moist, well-drained. The orange and yellow leaves create a spectacular display in the fall. Even when there is snow, Witch Hazel will flower.

Crabapple

Easy to grow and stunningly to gaze upon, the crabapple trees is one of Cincinnati’s showiest Spring beauties. A fruit tree, it must be planted in well-drained, loamy soil. Crabapples also require good air circulation and full sun.

American Hornbeam

Hornbeam trees are well-suited to woody landscapes. They thrive in shade or partial sun and prefer wet and well-drained soil. This tree is a northeast native to and produces attractive red and yellow foliage in the Fall.

Pagoda Dogwood

The Pagoda Dogwood hails from Minnesota. This tree enjoys full sun or partial shade. Its foliage is a beautiful purple that looks best in the Fall. It a pleasing aroma and creamy white Spring blossoms during the spring.

Japanese Maple

This spectacular tree produces both a Spring and Fall show-off.  During Fall, its textured foliage changes to a deep red to purple hue. White and pink blossoms show up in Spring and last into Summer. It requires pruning to maintain its form.

Pawpaw

This deciduous tree grows to between 12 and 20 feet high. It has large, tropical-looking leaves that turn yellow in Fall. Velvety dark-brown flower buds produce maroon flowers as big as two inches across. You can eat or cook with the fruit, which tastes like banana or mango.

Japanese Stewartia

This tree is a slow grower shaped like a pyramid. It can have one or several trunks, prefers partial shade, thrives in well-drained soil and has no drought-tolerance t. In July, cup-shaped white flowers come out; its Fall foliage is burgundy and reddish-orange.

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