I wouldn’t want fruit gathering in my gutters or falling close to my house. I would recommend you stick with a red maple tree. if you get a female like October Glory you won’t have pollen. the fall foliage is beautiful. I got one last year.
If it has to be a fruiting tree maybe try a heartnut, but keep it away from the driveway so the nuts don’t get in the way. the husks will stain too.
One of these days I would love to get a willow oak. there is a monstrous specimen in the Londontowne gardens that I adore.
Red Maple is a early nectar tree for honey bees.
Here in the South we have American Persimmons that can be cut for lumber.
Many years ago goff clubs were made from AP.
Oak, white oak are wonderful trees also.
When we built our current home 2001… I dug up a couple sugar maples out of my woods and transplanted them to our yard.
They are very pretty trees… especially in the fall… awesome colors.
I bought two Alabama red maples from a local nursery and planted them in our front yard.
In 2007… we had a very late hard frost… all trees were leafed out good and it toasted the leaves on all… it was about a month later when they sent out more leaves…
Then that summer and fall we had a nasty drought… I watered the red maples… but they both died.
My wild sugar maples survived and are beautiful trees today.
Maple leaves are a good add to compost… they break down well and have more calcium than most other leaves.
Above a couple wild american (southern 60c) persimmons… that grew in full sun location (60-70 years). They are around 35 ft tall. When competing with other trees they can get much taller.
They produce this kind of fruit load regular.
By late November when most fruit has dropped… it can completely cover the ground around the trees an inch or more deep in fruit.
TNHunter
Wish our Persimmons got that kind of size. Being in the understory of the pines they just get no chances to put on good size. They get maybe 15 feet before getting knocked back. They do fruit insanely though.
Thank you all for the wonderful responses. I think we will go for a big red oak in the front yard, and a Maekawa Jiro and an ichi kei jiro on the other side of our driveway, which is part of the lot.
And if you have room, try a mulberry somewhere else. They are a wonderful fruit!
Hi jrd51!
I have an “everbearing mulberry” doing fine from Starkbros, I’d like to try others! They are indeed great.
Pedro
Get some suggestions from other growers in the hot, humid South. Some varieties (e.g., Illinois Everbearing) that are great in the North suffer from fungus diseases in the South.
Yup!!!
I’ve read that Shangri La is great, but I’d love to hear from others in my area…
Pedro
