Most Popular Fast Growing Trees
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Most Popular Fast Growing Trees for your Backyard
Spruce up the landscaping in your backyard with our most popular fast growing trees ranking in order:
1. popular fast growing trees
Autumn Blaze Maple tree!
If you want a large, fast-growing shade tree with spectacular fall color, Autumn Blaze maple is an
excellent choice.
Autumn Blaze is very adaptable to a wide range of climate and soil conditions. It tolerates clay soil, and will withstand wet soil
conditions and drought.This tree will grow in a wide range of climates.
Hardy in USDA zones 3-8.
Grows 40 to 50 feet tall and 20 to 30 feet wide.
Autumn Blaze Maple is a hybrid (red and silver maple) tree that has the vigor and adaptability of the silver maple with the beauty and strength of the red maple. The new growth retains good red color after leaf drop and persists until the following season, adding interest and color to the winter landscape.
The Autumn Blaze maple grows about 3 feet or more in a year. This is definitely an impressive tree characteristic worth mentioning, considering the fact that other maple tree varieties grow slowly, or at a moderate rate. In other words, the growth rate of Autumn Blaze maple is four times more than that of red maple tree.
2. POPULAR FAST GROWING TREES
COLUMNAR WHITE PINE
A handsome conifer with ascending branches an
d a very slender, columnar habit. Dense grey green foliage provides year round beauty. Effective used in small groupings or as a specimen. Robust growth habit makes this pine an ideal windbreak or screening plant. Perfect planted in smaller spaces with limited clearance. Evergreen.
3. POPULAR FAST GROWING TREES
Bald Cypress Tree
The Bald cypress tree is the classic tree of southern swamps. There, in its native habitat, it displays
a peculiar habit of raising conical “knees” from its roots. The function of these growths is something of a mystery, although some believe it is a way to help the roots get oxygen. This tree dwells in swamps because it out-competes most other trees on such sites.
To the surprise of some people, the bald cypress does quite well when planted in the right soil in yards or along streets and is a beautiful specimen tree.
The bald cypress grows to a height of 50–70′ and a spread of around 25′ at maturity.
- Is a deciduous conifer.
- Features short needles arranged in pairs along slender branchlets. Their coloring ranges from yellow-green in spring to soft green in summer to reddish- or orangish-brown in autumn.
- Yields cones that appear as little globes approximately 1″ in length that contain triangular seeds and are attractive to wildlife.
- Grows in a pyramidal shape.
- Adapts well to wet and dry conditions.
- Develops “cypress knees” only in wet conditions.
If you are looking for more information, we recommend the experts at Arbor Hill Tree Farm. They are very knowledgeable, great customer service, and great prices.
