Many a garden lover is explicitly looking for a beautiful, vigorous tree that requires little or no work. In the following article, we will briefly introduce you to the most beautiful, easy-care and robust tree species.
The yew is a beautiful, easy-care tree for the garden - but unfortunately it is poisonous
Conifers do little work
Generally speaking, conifers require the least amount of effort: they don't need pruning, don't produce fruit, don't shed leaves in the fall (which then have to be laboriously removed, especially if the leaves fall on public property such as sidewalks), and usually require no regular care measures such as watering and fertilizing. There are species that can grow very high and wide and are therefore only suitable for very large gardens. Others, on the other hand, have a narrow or low growth habit and therefore also fit into small front gardens. Good examples for the home garden are:
- For rather large gardens: Colorado fir (Abies concolor), Caucasian fir (Abies nordmanniana), Blue Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca'), various spruce (Picea) and pine (Pinus) species, for example the Siskiyou spruce ( Picea breweriana) and Japanese pine (Pinus parviflora 'Glauca'), European yew (Taxus baccata)
- For rather small gardens and front gardens: dwarf balsam fir (Abies balsamea 'Nana'), dwarf cork fir (Abies lasiocarpa 'Compacta'), Arizona cypress (Cupressus arizonica), dwarf arborvitae (Microbiota decussata)
- For hedges and mixed planting: Lawson's cypress (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana), Hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa), Chinese juniper (Juniperus chinensis), Common juniper (Juniperus communis) and other juniper species, Yew (Taxus baccata), Western arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis). )
Easy-care deciduous trees for the garden
Even among the deciduous trees, above all the species native to us, there are many easy-care and robust varieties for the garden. However, you have to keep in mind that many of these trees can produce quite a lot of "dirt" due to flowering, fruit and leaf fall. This applies above all to lime trees (Tilia), maples (Acer), chestnuts (Aesculus) or beeches (Fagus).
- For rather large gardens: the species mentioned above, oaks (Quercus). Black locust/ acacia (Robinia pseudoacacia), ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba), alder (Alnus), birch (Betula), common hornbeam (Carpinus betulus)
- For rather small gardens: common boxwood (Buxus sempervirens), cornel (Cornus mas), common hazel (Corylus avellana), many-flowered apple (Malus floribunda), Japanese flowering cherry (Prunus serrulata)
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When it comes to fruit trees, cherry and apple trees in particular are considered to be easy to care for. However, like all types of fruit, these require regular and expert pruning, otherwise the hoped-for yield will not materialize.