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- Easy-care trees for the garden - you should pay attention
- What to look out for when trees are supposed to do little work
- Location
- Hardiness
- Foliage / flowers / fruits
- Tips
The Cornelian Cherry is pretty and easy to care for
Easy-care trees for the garden - you should pay attention
Many garden owners have little time and / or desire for gardening. Nevertheless, the meadow in front of the house should look appealing, with an easy-care, but representative tree succeeds the easiest. Which aspects you should pay attention to, to have as little work as possible with the selected tree.
What to look out for when trees are supposed to do little work
Although most fruit trees produce delicious fruits, they also require a relatively large amount of effort: they have to be cut regularly and correctly, and fertilizers are needed along with water at times. In addition, a lot of work is done in the harvest season, the apples, pears or cherries should not rot on the tree. In addition to these factors, the following also decide on the care intensity of a tree species.
Location
First, a tree is the easier to handle the better it suits the selected location. Analyze in advance exactly the light conditions and the soil composition as well as the expected final size and width of the tree and select the tree species according to these criteria. If the location does not fit 100%, you will have to take measures to make it "pas" again and again - for example, with a special fertilizer or, due to lack of space and a large tree, regular cutting measures.
Hardiness
Many exotic tree species are not used to our climate and therefore need special attention during the winter months. Again, this is not necessary if you pay attention from the outset to the climate and the actual winter hardiness of the tree species. Naturally, native species do very little work in this area. So you prefer typical forest trees such as maple, beech, linden, oak or wild fruit such as vetchling, cornelian cherry, rock pear etc. - of course only if the space in the garden gives it, as many of the species mentioned can become very large.
Foliage / flowers / fruits
Summer-green trees that shed their leaves in the fall and bloom in the spring, often make a lot of dirt and thus a lot of work: fallen flowers and pollen in the spring, fallen fruit or fall in fall and lots of slippery foliage may need to be removed become. Although you can confidently leave all of this (fall foliage even has some advantages, as it protects the root zone of the tree in the winter and rots as a natural fertilizer), but only on their own property. If leaves and fruits fall on public land, there is a duty to clean. The problem is eliminated if you plant instead of deciduous coniferous trees.
Tips
Also pay attention to whether the tree has a special, only by cutting preserved crown shape. Naturally awake trees are much less labor intensive.