Zone 7 Deciduous Trees: Tips On Selecting Hardy Deciduous Trees For Zone 7
USDA planting zone 7 is a pretty good place to be when it comes to growing hardy deciduous trees. Summers are warm but not blazing hot. Winters are chilly but not frigid. The growing season is relatively long, at least in comparison to more northern climates. This means that selecting deciduous trees for zone 7 is easy, and gardeners can choose from a very long list of beautiful, commonly planted deciduous trees.
Zone 7 Deciduous Trees
Below are just some examples of zone 7 deciduous trees, including ornamental trees, small trees, and suggestions for trees that provide fall color or summer shade. (Keep in mind that many of these hardy deciduous trees are suitable for more than one category.)
Ornamental
- Weeping cherry (Prunus subhirtella ‘Pendula’)
- Japanese maple (Acer palmatum)
- Kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa)
- Crabapple (Malus)
- Saucer magnolia (Magnolia soulangeana)
- White dogwood (Cornus florida)
- Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
- Cherry plum (Prunus cerasifera)
- Callery pear (Pyrus calleryana)
- Serviceberry (Amelanchier)
- Virginia sweetspire (Itea virginica)
- Mimosa (Albizia julibrissin)
- Golden chain (Laburnum x watereri)
Small Trees, Under 25 feet (8 m.)
- Chaste tree (Vitex agnus-castus)
- Fringe tree (Chionanthus)
- Hornbeam/ironwood (Carpinius caroliniana)
- Flowering almond (Prunus triloba)
- Flowering quince (Chaenomeles)
- Russian olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia)
- Crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia)
- Red osier dogwood (Cornus stolonifera syn. Cornus sericea)
- Green hawthorn (Crataegus virdis)
- Loquat (Eriobotyra japonica)
Fall Color
- Sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
- Dogwood (Cornus florida)
- Smoke bush (Cotinus coggygria)
- Sourwood (Oxydendrum)
- European mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia)
- Sweet gum (Liquidambar styraciflua)
- Freeman maple (Acer x freemanii)
- Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)
- Sumac (Rhus typhina)
- Sweet birch (Betula lenta)
- Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum)
- American beech (Fagus grandifolia)
Shade
- Willow oak (Quercus phellos)
- Thornless honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos)
- Tulip tree/yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipfera)
- Sawtooth oak (Querus acuttisima)
- Green vase zelkova (Zelkova serrata ‘Green Vase’)
- River birch (Betula nigra)
- Carolina silverbell (Halesia carolina)
- Silver maple (Acer saccharinum)
- Hybrid poplar (Populus x deltoids x Popular nigra)
- Northern red oak (Quercus rubra)
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