Winter-proof trees for the garden

Native trees survive every winter

You are guaranteed not to go wrong with native deciduous and coniferous trees, because these are perfectly adapted to the prevailing climate and therefore do not require any special ones protective devices. They also offer native species Birds, Insects and other animals both a habitat and food - an advantage that should not be underestimated, which unfortunately many exotic species do not bring with them. The ubiquitous, exotic cherry laurel, for example, has a number of properties that are well received by gardeners - from an ecological point of view, however, the shrub is worthless. Instead, choose a house tree from this very varied list of the most common species to be found in Germany:

• Fruit trees: apple, pear, sweet and sour cherries, plums and plums, reindeer clods and mirabelle plums, walnuts
• Wild fruit trees: service tree, mountain ash (rowanberry), Rock pear, Cornelian cherry, Wild apple
• Deciduous trees: maple, birch, beech, oak, alder, ash, hornbeam, chestnut, linden, poplar, willow, hawthorn, elm
• Evergreen deciduous trees: Holly, Evergreen Oak
• Conifers: yew, spruce, pine, larch, fir, juniper

Winter-proof exotic species for the home garden

There are also numerous imported tree speciessome of which have been successfully cultivated in German gardens for decades or even centuries. As a rule, species such as

• Sweetgum tree (Liquidambar styraciflua)
• Chinese bluebell tree (Paulownia tomentosa)
• Sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa)
• Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)
• Gleditschie (Gleditsia triacanthos)
• Tree of Gods (Ailanthus altissima)
• Japanese maple / fan-leaf maple (Acer japonicum)
• Caucasian wingnut (Pterocarya fraxinifolia)
• Plane tree (platanus acerifolia)
• Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)
• Japanese pagoda tree (Styphnolobium japonicum)
• Trumpet tree (Catalpa bignonioides)
• Tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)

Origin provides information about winter hardiness

If you are unsure about the winter hardiness of the selected tree, throw it take a look at the climatic conditions in his home country: which climatic zone is the from Kind? You will not be able to cultivate tropical and subtropical species in the garden in this country; you usually have to keep them in pots and overwinter them frost-free during the winter months. The same applies to trees from the Mediterranean region, for example for almost all types of citrus. Only the three-leaved orange (Poncirus trifoliata) can withstand a few degrees below zero for a short time.