Planting and Landscaping with Trees

TREE PLANTING AND CARE

How much to water a newly-planted tree?  Always a challenge!  The University of Minnesota Extension Service has a detailed and helpful guide.  Click here

UMass Amherst Extension Service has a detailed guide for selecting, planting, and caring for trees.  Click here.

The Arbor Day Foundation website also contains instructions for selecting, planting, and caring for trees.  Click here. 

WHAT TREES ARE GOOD FOR LANDSCAPING IN WEST NEWBURY?

Mass. Dept. of Coastal Zone Management, Coastal Landscaping in Massachusetts, Plant Highlights and Images, Trees.  Descriptions and photographs of some of the most common and useful deciduous and evergreen trees appropriate for coastal landscaping projects in Massachusetts. Go to: https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2017/12/07/plant-highlights-trees.pdf

Chase-Rowell et al., Integrated Landscaping – Following Nature’s Lead (Univ. NH Press 2012).  Excellent lists of recommended plantings, including trees, for a variety of conditions found in NH/MA.

Dirr, Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation, and Uses (Stipes Publishing 1998).  Time-tested, encyclopedic manual for tree and shrub horticulture; very useful in looking at a wide range of possible trees to select which ones to plant locally.

Leopold, Native Plants of the Northeast, A Guide for Gardening & Conservation (Timber Press 2016).  In its 8th printing, this well known guide has excellent information and photos of native northeast trees and their attributes.

Reed and Stibolt, Climate-Wise Landscaping, Practical Actions for a Sustainable Future (New Society Pub. 2018).  Oriented towards planting with a purpose; this reference contains a useful section on trees and shrubs.