Trees

Trees are important in every landscape -- big or small, urban or rural, cottage or contemporary. But because trees live a lifetime or more (and often cost so much), they can be intimidating to choose and maintain. We have advice on selecting the best trees for your landscape and caring for them once they're planted.

May 10, 2025 · 1 min · 6 words · Heather Villa

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Explore Trees , Shrubs & Vines

Backyard landscaped garden

ripe plum fruit on tree branches

Trees in the garden

Avocado tree

white blossoms on plumeria tree

Orange tree with wooden stakes

indoor potted lemon tree with lemons

Avocado tree in a red pot

Kwanzan flowering cherry tree

Close up photo of magnolia tree

Row of apple trees

Linden tree leaves

The bright red foliage of the japanese maple bonsai tree contrasts against its tourquoise pot and pale pink background.

crape myrtle flowers in bloom on a branch in garden

chaste tree vitex near house

lemon cypress tree in a pot

Trees in the snow

decorated real christmas tree in living room

Deer peeking behind trees

Rows of trees with stakes

Red buckeye

leaves and berries of american mountain ash sorbus americana

Close up of lemon tree leaves curling

close up of snowy fraser fir tree in field

Lemon Tree

Seiryu Japanese maple leaves

Garden tree stump

Oak tree in a yard

crape myrtle

flowering crabapple with white picket fence

close up of tree of heaven ailanthus altissima

Home with large tree in front yard

arborist in a large tree working with chain saw

pruning Japanese maple

garden with various topiary trees and shrubs

close up of mature acorn on tree

guava, Psidium branch

Bonsai ficus tree

grapefruits on tree

Red leaves on sweet gum tree

Lily Magnolia

Trees during the Fall

close up of a fig tree

Sassafras Tree

Black gum tree

freshly picked apples in basket from fruit salad trees

Paper birch tree with yellow leaves

red apple getting hand-picked from tree

person harvesting and holding black walnuts

Fringe Tree Chionanthus virginicus

Quaking aspen poplar tree

bush

close up of white eastern redbud

a persimmon branch

an indoor potted olive tree

Columnar Tree Illustration

Pink Crabapple Malus

large planter with ‘red dragon’ japanese maple; ornamental cabbage; ‘icicles’ licorice plant; and swiss chard & kale

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maple tree close up leaves

brightly colored trees in fall

chestnut tree with spiky round balls

bradford pear tree pyrus calleryana blooming in a yard