TREE DIES WHAT WOULD BE A VERY NICE TREE TO REPLACE IT????

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Golden_Eagle Wauseon, OH(Zone 5a) May 20, 2009

My Sourwood tree died and would like to replace it with a nice shade tree that lets light in and would get 75 feet tall. Or another tree that I would consider would be a Kentucky Coffee Tree but I don't know much about these and would like to know if anyone has one and would you get another one? I am interested in a hardwood tree. Don't really want a Maple.

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Sarahskeeper Brockton, MA(Zone 6a) May 20, 2009

I'm quite happy with my Little Leaf Linden. It's pruned so we can walk under it and the grass grows fine. I'm not sure how much light you are looking for.
It's a little messy after blooming and very small twigs come down now and then. It's not bothered by bugs like maple and Oak.
Here it was last July in full bloom at age 18 or so. The flowers are small but have a heavenly fragrance, bees love it for a week or so.
Andy P

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Sarahskeeper Brockton, MA(Zone 6a) May 20, 2009

These are the fragrant flowers.

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Sarahskeeper Brockton, MA(Zone 6a) May 20, 2009

It has interesting branching.
Andy P

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Weerobin Saint Louis, MO(Zone 6a) May 20, 2009

have a Kentucky coffee tree which is doing well.
It has really nice bark texture, which I admire.
It also has nice yellow fall color. No significant bloom.
Mine is in an understory situation, so it's not very full.
Sawtooth oak is another option - it's relatively fast growing and his handsome lanceolate foliage.
And for something a little different, how about a katsura, either standard or weeping.
Nice fall color also. Graceful habit, pretty foliage.

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Resin Northumberland, United Kingdom(Zone 9a) May 21, 2009

Andy P - your tree has some potentially dangerous weak branching there, it could split where you see the folds of included bark at the branch bases. Best have it examined by an ISA-registered arboricultural consultant.

Weerobin - Sawtooth Oak isn't a good idea, it is becoming invasive in the eastern US.

I'd recommend one of your local Ohio native oaks - Swamp White Oak is very attractive, and good if you have heavy, damp soil; on drier soil, Chinkapin Oak is good, or Scarlet Oak.

Resin

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Weerobin Saint Louis, MO(Zone 6a) May 21, 2009

Resin, I had heard of sawtooth oak being invasive in some climates,
but I haven't seen a single seedling of sawtooth oak in my yard yet (and my tree is 30ft tall at least).
I am very sensitive to invasives, as I spent an incredible amount of effort ridding my yard of choking eurasion honeysuckle.
So, I would definitely avoid any potentially invasive species.
I am just a weekend gardener, so I have no formal horticultural expertise.
But surely if it was invasive in our region, it would be showing it's tendencies by now.

I also was thinking about american beech (fagus grandifolia) or american hornbean (carpinus caroliniana).



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