"Chet Hayes" wrote in message
om...
I'd consider the Dawn Redwood, if you can go with a tree that will
grow quickly and wind up large. It's one of the 3 types of redwoods,
the other being the coast redwood and giant sequoia. The leaves are
more like gentle little ferns and turn a beautiful copper color in the
fall. I've never raked them, they just mulch up during the last
mowings, definitely not messy at all.

Sounds almost prefect, but, it's not one of the options our suburb allows.