Pacific Northwest Gardening: One Billion Trees, 0 by estreya

estreya wrote:
Trees .... yes .... well, let's see ....

Next year, my objective is to plant trees in strategic clusters so i can delight in all the bird-traffic between them. Some of the clusters will have to perform the function of screening (though i'd like some fruit and ornamentals as well). Does anyone have any ideas for, let's say three kinds of trees, that will look particularly nice together?

I was thinking maybe magnolia, pine, white dogwood as one cluster ..... crabapple and two kinds of figs in another .....

Well you can see i haven't really thought this out .... :)

I'm learning tree planting is actually fairly complex! There's a lot of practical things to consider, and one must envision what the tree will look like two decades from now. So far, it hasn't been a challenge cause i've just been doing border planting. But now i'm "filling in" the property, and my mind is dazzled ....

Thoughts?