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New Bradford Pear
The New Bradford is covered with white flowers in spring, glossy green foliage for summer, then turning yellow to maroon for autumn. Stronger branches stand up better to ice and wind. The New Bradford pear is a beautiful garden addition that produces no edible fruit. This is a great tree for lawns or for a street tree and it is very disease resistant. The branching is the major improvement over the Bradford pear. It is an extremely popular, vigorous growing, medium size, shade tree with outstanding clusters of white blooms in spring and very attractive terrific yellow to red to purple foliage color in fall. This flowering tree grows best in full sun. The New Bradford Pear, 'Pyrus calleryana "Holmford", is a broad, oval tree with good branch angles. ... more information
Thornless Honeylocust The Thornless Honeylocust tree, Gleditsia Triacanthos, is fast growing as a young tree and will grow 2’ or more a year over a 10-year period. Readily transplanted, it withstands a wide range of conditions although it reaches maximum development on rich, moist bottomlands or on soils of a limestone origin. Thornless Honeylocust trees are an excellent lawn tree for filtered shade. The fine small textured leaves casts a light shade and usually do not need raking in the fall. This deciduous tree is tolerant of drought conditions, high pH, and is salt tolerant. |
