Large Patio Tree 25-35′ – Seasonal Interest – Will be in tree grates – Modesto Area – Any Suggestions?

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  • November 9, 2011 at 1:15 am #159486
    Wes Arola, RLA
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    Shaded picnic area…

    November 9, 2011 at 2:55 am #159492
    Tanya Olson
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    I’ve always loved the way Mimosa Trees look when blooming. Can’t remember what they look like in the fall, but they have a nice structure for a patio tree. I don’t think you can ever go wrong with a specimen Live Oak, though I don’t know how well they do in Modesto….a specimen Olive! ooh. Or Magnolia, Gleditsia, could you grow Jacaranda?

    Did you lose your Sunset Western Garden book or something?

    November 9, 2011 at 4:50 am #159491
    Wes Arola, RLA
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    just looking for some plant material which is a bit different with some seasonality and interest to set the project aside from others

     

    November 10, 2011 at 12:50 am #159490
    Rachael Strickland
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    Mimosa trees are terribly invasive as well.

    November 10, 2011 at 2:42 pm #159489
    Trace One
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    How about Katsura’s – I love them, they have a beautiful form, beautiful leaf, they can be pruned  nicely to fit the tight spot as they grow, and they are pretty tough, hard to kill..

    I also like Gingkos, but bosc’s  of Gingkos is from the Seventies, IMHO, and makes it look seventies!

    Hee hee!

    November 10, 2011 at 3:57 pm #159488
    Trace One
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    Katsura is good in Modesto, Henry..Cercis canadensis out here are Cercis Occidentalis, and they somehow have none of the charm of our east coast redbud, IMHO..They are tough-looking where our redbud is so delicate and beautiful..Same flower color,but  it is the dry toughness that I dislike, whereas the east coast is a graceful delicate plant that gets better in it’s native spots – dark and wet…

    There are some really nice redbuds on the U Penn campus, if they are still there..

     

    I also like to put big canopy trees in small spaces..The katsura likes to be pruned, as far as I know..

    It is all just taste, and de gustibus non disputandum est, as we all know, huh, Henry?

    November 10, 2011 at 5:24 pm #159487
    Boilerplater
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    I’m just impressed as hell that you are able to find a client with a budget for large trees in MODESTO!

    How about the Modesto Ash?  Nah, probably gets to big for what you want.  Used a lot of those in Las Vegas.  Amazing heat tolerance.

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