There are quite a number of really good quality garden trees that are underutilized in landscape work. The purpose of this website panel is to give you a passing familiarity with some really beautiful garden friendly trees that you might consider for your yard. These have been chosen on the basis of: attractive form, well behaved root system, not too messy and a leaf canopy that allows light in and doesn't shade out plants below it.

There are few trees in southern California that have reliable fall color.

These are some of the few that do and are also well behaved garden trees.

Double click on a picture to see a larger image and name of tree.