Are you struggling to find that perfect, low-maintenance tree? While all trees have some natural litter, these trees are notable for their "less mess" qualities. A cleaner tree means more time for you to enjoy the tree in your yard rather than cleaning up after it.
Maples are a customer favorite, and seedless maple trees like the Sun Valley® Red Maple is a top pick. Sun Valley is completely seedless- this means you won't see those "helicopters" all over your lawn! Other excellent options in this category are Autumn Fantasy® Maple, Autumn Blaze Maple, and Celebration® Maple.
Spruce trees are an evergreen tree that keeps its beautiful green color throughout each season. Seasonal shedding of needles is not noticeable and is unproblematic.
Dogwoods offer a native feel to the landscape. These trees will provide ornamental beauty through their flowers, architectural branching, and the overall beauty they bring to the landscape. Dogwood tree leaves do drop in the fall and may require some cleanup. However, for a fruiting tree, dogwood fruit is in the "less mess" category. Birds will devour the fruit before you even have to worry about it.
04 Espresso™ Kentucky Coffee Tree →
This tree is a new take on your classic tough shade tree. Its beautiful oval to vase shape mature form offers a gentle filtered shade below. Bluish-green leaves turn yellow in the fall. Less mess with this best pick— it's a seedless selection!
05 Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry →
This tree is as versatile as they come, grown in both the multi-stem clump form and single trunk form. It's a shade tree, a privacy tree, a parkway tree, a #utilitree, and an ornamental & flowering tree. Dainty spring blooms offer a subtle floral aroma. In the summer, the tree grows a sweet summer treat- edible blue berries! Its fruit is edible and is consumed first by birds before we have a chance to taste them, placing this tree in the low-maintenance lineup. In the fall, the small leaves turn a bright red.
Skyline Honeylocust may be the perfect Chicagoland tree pick. Its small, fern-like foliage is unproblematic in the fall, and this honeylocust variety is thornless with fewer seed pods!
Spring Snow Crabapple is a fruitless crabapple! It may just be the perfect flowering tree. Spring Snow is fast-growing, and fragrant show-stopping blooms burst open in the spring. This crabapple will not grow to be too large. Yet Spring Snow is stout enough to plant in smaller landscapes.
08 Musashino Japanese Zelkova →
Proven time and time again to do exceptionally well in urban conditions, Musashino Japanese Zelkova is well-suited for the parkway. This upright branched tree's small leaf size reduces the need for cleanup.
Arborvitae is an evergreen tree that sheds its branchlets seasonally. However, the shedding branchlets turn brown and are held by the tree for a bit before dropping them.
Princeton Sentry is an upright top-performing shade tree. It's unlike other ginkgos in that this male selection is fruitless/seedless! Enjoy the beauty of an ancient ginkgo tree without the mess!
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