Flowering Trees for Your Yard

-As we come into the Winter planting season now is a great time to think about the benefits of planting a flowering tree to your yard to add color and wildlife.

-While planting any tree in your yard has numerous benefits Including: Carbon Capture, Storm Water Management, Increased Shade/ Reduced Energy Cost and Increased Property Values; Planting a flowering tree also provides food and shelter to pollinators, mostly bees and other beneficial insects but also occasionally birds and even bats. Consider the early flowering native Pacific Dogwood.

-Planting different flowering trees in your yard can provide these benefits and beauty from early spring with trees like Big Leaf Maples, Witch Hazel, Pacific Dogwood, and Oregon Cherries, into late Summer and Fall with American Linden, Southern Magnolia and Crepe Myrtles to highlight a few. The Crepe Myrtle below is late flowering.

Many more resources on protecting pollinators are available including a recent OSU Extension article https://catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu/em9289/html Posting provided by: Corvallis Civic Beautification and Urban Forestry (CBUF)