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These Are The Best And Worst Trees For A Small Backyard
By Sakshi Khaitan
Ash
These trees grow more than 50 feet tall — white ash can even touch 120 feet. Their food droppings and limb debris also muddy the yard, increasing clean-up chores.
Black Walnut
Black Walnuts’ 75-foot-tall profile is miscast in confined spaces and it releases toxic chemicals into the soil, reducing the habitable zone for many sensitive plants.
Callery Pear
The 50-foot deciduous tree is renowned for leaving onlookers breathless with its white flowers or snow-enveloped foliage, but it also does the same to native plants.
Eastern Cottonwood
Eastern cottonwoods and their 100-foot-tall frame are short-lived and are best replaced by their shorter, cottonless compatriots, robusta poplars.
Eucalyptus
These 50- to 100-foot-tall shade trees look ornamental and are effective windbreakers, but they dominate the space and magnify fire hazards due to their oily resins.