Growing Trees That Have Disease Resistance
Below you will find a list of Flowering, Shade and Evergreen Trees from our plant database that are disease resistant. If you click on any of the photos, you will see a Virtual Plant Tag that may contain photos, plant descriptions, usage suggestions and a link to where you can buy that plant for your landscaping. The concept of a tree can be difficult to define since different people might consider the same plant a broadleaf evergreen, needled evergreen, conifer, bush or shrub.
Uses for these trees vary and may thrive in full shade, partial shade or full sun and a variety of soil conditions including wet soil, moist soil, or dry soil.
Europe and Asia have given American gardeners numerous ornamental trees that tolerate or thrive in the environmental conditions in the United States. Suggestions include: summer blooming Aetna Woadwaxen, Mt. Etna Broom or Genista Aetnensis is hardy in zones 7 and 8; several maples, Amur or Acer ginnala and Field or Hedge (A. campestre) and Nikko (A. maximowiczianum) and Trident (A. buergerianum) are tough, adaptable mid-size shade and ornamental trees that have interesting cultivars; with summer flowering and attractive blue fruit, Asiatic Sweetleaf, Sapphireberry or Symplocos paniculata is surprisinly hardy to zone 4; Chinese or Lacebark Elm (Ulmus parvifolia) is an all around good tree for American gardens and plant breeding is offering interesting cultivars and hybrids; Chinese Pistache (Pistacia chinensis) has multi-season effect; Crapemyrtle and hybrids (Lagerstroemia) look delicate with their soft crape paper type flowers, but are surprisingly tough and recent breeding and hybridizing is offering increased hardiness and more compact or dwarf forms for today's smaller gardens; Common or European Hornbeam (Carpinis betulus) resembles Beech trees (Fagus) but is smaller growing; Corneliancherry Dogwood or Cornus mas is a low-maintenance shrub or tree with seasonal interest throughout much of the year; Ginkgos are trouble-free; Golden-larch or Pseudolarix amabilis, similar to native Baldcypress, has lovely, brilliant fall color; Japanese Tree Lilac or Syringa reticulata is fantastic for Zone 7 and north; with interesting leaves that look similar to redbud leaves, the Katsuratree or Cercidiphyllum japonicum deserves much wider landscape use; perhaps the most cold hardy, Kobus Magnolia is also one of the earliest to bloom in the spring; highly ornamental throughout the summer, Korean Evodia or Korean Bee Tree (Tetradium or Evodia daniellii) is worthly of wider use; Lavalle Corktree or Phellodendron lavalleei is a sturdy mid-size shadetree; Star Magnolia (M. stellata) has excellent cultivars.Click here to search all Trees
