Fast growing trees to plant: Japanese Maples & Eastern Redbuds
Devin and Michelle share their favorite trees to plant that will grow quickly. Devin recommends maple trees; and shares how Japanese maples are a great option, such as, Bloodgood and Coral Bark. Michelle recommends a native, eastern redbud, and expresses how beautiful the foliage is.
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Maples are good fast growing trees they’re a hardwood um even though they’re fast growing they are pretty strong trees so they’ll hold up to our thunderstorms and everything down here so when anyone’s looking for a tree I always recommend Maples um if they don’t want like a full-size Maple Japanese
Maples are another great option like blood good or coral bark because people don’t they think Japanese map will stay small but blood good and coral bark will get about 20 to 25 feet tall and about 15 feet wide so for a lot of yards
That’s all you need y I’m a huge fan of Red Buds they come in they’re moderately growing I don’t know if they’re super fast but um they bloom and they have beautiful foliage I love the heart-shaped leaves uh and I think they’re a lot of the varieties are native so if you’re
Looking to plant native um red there’s Eastern red bud