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Japanese Magnolia perhaps.
Larry
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hello, we're in zone 7-8 (DC area) and are landscaping around our pool
this year. at the far end, we'd like to put something that would be
our showcase tree (slow growing and not too large(20ft max)) and are
looking for ideas. the area would receive full sun and we plan to
install sprinkler. would appreciate any thoughts to research on.
thanks!
Although most Japanese maples would prefer semi-shade, several such as the
bright red-leafed 'Oshio Beni' suffer no ill consequences of full sun, &
their beauty cannot be beat. Here's my full-afternoon-sun Oshio Beni in
zone 8:
http://www.paghat.com/aceramoenum.html
For something evergreen, a dwarf & perhaps semi-weeping cultivar of a
Cedar of Lebanon or Deodor Cedar is hard to match for huge impact in a
small tree. You'd have to get to someplace with many to select from
because every specimen has such individual character of leaf colors
(green, gold-tipped, or blue) & especially of form.
If you can find a grower or nursery for weeping beeches, they're another
highly ornamental tree with so much individual character from one specimen
to the next that it is ideal to have several to select from. As a lone
tree hovering above a garden or shorter things, these twisted weepers are
outstanding presences. There are green weepers, black weepers, & purple
weepers; they all have spectacular autumn colors then after leaf-fall the
strange shape of the trunk & limbs remains impressive. They're not weepers
like weeping birches or weeping willows, but have interestingly bent limbs
upward-reaching limbs, from which leafy limbs droop, so they look like
slim old ladies in long lace gowns. They're among the very finest
cultivated trees to hold a landscape together single-handedly.
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