How to Choose Flowering Shade Trees

Flowering shade trees provide 2 priceless features: shade and beauty. Most people think you can only have one or the other when it comes to trees. They either provide shade, or they have blossoms. In fact, there are flowering shade trees you can use as breathtaking landscape in your yard.

Instructions

1. Consider planting your flower shade trees away from other large shade trees. Typically, trees that produce flowers do better in full light.

2. Purchase a Royal Empress tree if you you need fast growing flower shade trees. These trees not only produce gorgeous blossoms, they can actually grow up to 18 feet per year. In fact, They are extremely inexpensive because they are shipped so small since they grow so quickly.

3. Consider the fruit on your flowering shade trees. Most flowering trees produce a fruit. Whether this fruit is small, like a Crab Apple, or large, like a regular apple, is up to you. If you don't mind picking up apples, pears, and peaches each year, consider one of these flowering shade trees.

Tips & Warnings

• If you decide to order an Empress tree, make sure you ask a sales representative if the tree has been treated with growth inhibitors. Although this is only temporary, growth inhibitors can affect the tree for months. It is best to have this information before you become disappointed with the flowering shade tree results.