What Ornamental Trees Grow Fast?

Ornamental trees are one of the single best things that you can bring into your garden for more love, life, and warmth. Fast-growing trees are ideal for gardeners who want to see results happen right in front of their eyes. Slow-growing trees can take decades before they show the kind of growth that a fast-growing tree will have in one or two years. It doesn’t have to be Arbor Day to plant a tree – as long as the conditions and the type of tree are right, it will flourish. What are the best ornamental trees to plant if you want them to grow fast?

What Ornamental Trees Grow Fast?

Here’s your quick, proper guide to which fast-growing ornamental trees to look for.

What Are Ornamental Trees?

An ornamental tree is anything planted for the look or beauty of the tree instead of its physical function. Fruit trees aren’t usually ornamental trees, because orchards give useful fruit. However, what’s planted around fruit trees might be.

Ornamental trees are fantastic for maintaining the health of your garden. They’re also just great to look at sometimes. Who doesn’t love seeing the results of their hard work in their landscaping combined with beautiful trees?

Plant for Future Growth

Some ornamental trees will grow tall very fast, but among these, some will also tend to grow wide. Remember this when you decide to plant an ornamental tree. You will want to measure large enough gaps between them for the type of tree that it’s going to become.

New gardeners often make sizing mistakes with new, fast-growers and plant them too close.

Ornamental Trees That Grow Fast

Red Maple Trees

Red maple trees are characteristic of autumn scenes. They are also great for gardeners who desire a fast-growing tree that won’t require too much maintenance. Red maple trees can become a great home for all sorts of garden critters while also growing several feet per year in the right conditions.

American Elm Trees

There’s more to Elm than just Elm Street. American elm trees remain a popular choice for gardeners wanting a beautiful ornamental tree that will thrive in a happy garden. American elm trees, like most elms, are known for their eventual size – so plant them further apart than you might plant the average maple tree.

Redwood (Sequoia) Trees

Redwood trees are also known as Sequoia trees. There are two main types of Sequoia trees that you might encounter. One is called the coastal redwood, and the other is known as the giant redwood. Both types of Sequoia trees are fast-growers.

While you do not have to be by the ocean to grow a coastal redwood tree, gardeners have to be far more careful with its nutrients, conditions, and care. Giant redwood trees have an all too fitting name because they can eventually grow to more than 100 feet tall.

Cider Gum Trees

The cider gum tree grows fairly fast and is better known to many as the Eucalyptus gunni tree. The characteristic smell attracts the right birds and bugs and tends to repel the wrong ones, making cider gum trees a popular choice.

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