Scarlet Oak Ornamental Leaves

Scarlet Oak Ornamental LeavesWhen considering an oak tree most think its primary quality is as a shade tree. However, the scarlet oak offers a little more. This oak has a vivid red fall color and a smaller more rounded spread making it a wonderful ornamental tree for the urban and suburban settings. The fall foliage also hangs on into the winter offering some color against the white snowy backdrop. The scarlet oak also produces acorns in the fall every 2 years that attracts

In landscape design it's not uncommon to offset a forest edge of native trees by brining a cultivar out into the yard

Like with all dogwoods

In these circumstances

Care should be taken when pruning as inexperience can result in diminishing

Cornus kousa provides less ecological value to native wildlife than our native flowering dogwood (Cornus florida)

the foliage transitions to shades of orange-red to scarlet—not quite the swirling psychedelic display of our native dogwoods

Plant a weeping willow where you have the space

Well drained soil is necessary for this plant to succeed

As a front-of-border specimen

Maybe a lot with this cultivar as the rings of purple flowers around each cone might really 'rule them all'

Yoshino Cherry won't match the wildlife value of native North American Prunus species

The flowers attract bees