Native Trees

This service berry tree can be used to replace the utterly invasive bradford pear. The pear is displacing loads of forest space because the local bird population eats the fruit and scatters the seed miles away in the forest in their droppings.

The serviceberry tree (amalanchier) grows to 20 feet or so with beautiful flowers in the spring. In the summer it produces a fruit that attracts birds (a birding friend saw mother blue bird feeding berries to her young just this spring). The fruit is edible by humans also.

The great plus of the serviceberry tree is that it can take a moist foot. It doesn't need it but can handle it. It is a clumping tree that usually has multiple trunks, although it can be found in a single trunk form groomed that way from a local nursery.

The serviceberry also has nice bright orange leaves in fall, making it a lovely addition to your landscape or garden.