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Sycamore, sweet gum, horse chestnut, and black walnut are all hardy species, but you will like them better away from your house than near it. They drop fruits that can be bothersome underfoot. All flowering trees you will favor as a matter of course-dogwood, redbud, hawthorn, shadblow, and any of the wild-grown fruits like apple, pear, and cherry (but not chokecherry, in which tent caterpillars spawn). Locust and catalpa are attractive in flower but are better kept toward the property's edges for they are shedders too, the one of deadwood, the other of elephant-ear leaves and trashy bean pods. Lindens (basswood) and mulberries are more welcome: they bring bees and birds, respectively. So are the paper and gray birches: their graceful white stems are like dancing girls. |
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