Accent Your Yard with a Flowering Tree

Crabapple trees bring beautiful blooms, foliage and berries to your home

You'll find flowering trees serving as focal anchors in landscapes all over Maine.

Ranging from crabapples, cherries, flowering pears, dogwoods and many more, these trees are a great way to add winter interest and wild life attraction to your yard while you enjoy spectacular blooms from late April right thru the end of the gardening season.

With true dwarf varieties along with majestic specimens, there's a flowering tree made for every situation.

Here are a few of our favorites at Estabrook's:

Magnolias

When you talk about flowering trees, you have to start with magnolias. Their spectacular white, pink or even yellow blossoms will start off your season with a bang!

Amelanchier

Our native Shadblow Serviceberry (Amelanchier) is also one to remember when it comes to spring blooms. The added bonus of berries will attract more birds later in the season.

Flowering Pears and Cherries

With masses of white and pink blooms, these delicate flowering trees are next to bloom and create a spring snow storm as the blossoms start to fall.

Crabapples

Perhaps the most popular flowering tree here in Maine is the crabapple. These stunning beauties feature vibrant blooms along with small to rather large fruit that will attract plenty of wildlife the nature enthusiast can enjoy all fall.

Dogwoods

One of the longest blooming trees is the flowering dogwood. This beauty will start to bloom in June and show its color for about a month. The white and sometimes pink blossoms look like a star on top of each branch and are truly stunning.

If you're looking to make an impact in your landscape, a flowering tree is the perfect choice. Serving both form and function, these stunning selections will be a cornerstone of your yard for years to come. Visit us and have our experts help you choose one that's right for your yard.

The Front Yard is Part of Your Home!

Welcome visitors to your home with a cheerful front yard

Creating a beautiful, welcoming front yard is a wonderful way to express yourself and give your home warmth and personality. Try to envision your front yard as another room of your house. It should convey your sense of style through shape, texture and color. Although working with living elements that change with the seasons and grow over time is challenging, the rewards are great.

Tie Your Home to Your Landscape

Take cues from your architecture, neighborhood and surrounding environment. The style of your home plays a large role in the design of your landscape: formal, informal, contemporary, rustic, colonial, cottage. The area surrounding your home should be reflected in your design: wooded, seaside, field, waterside. And consider the color of your home - a color coordinate landscape flows.

Need help? Try our Plan Before You Plant service. Book now and receive a $25 gift card towards your plant purchases!

Create a Welcoming Entry

A front entry is the gateway to your home, so make it the focal point. This is where you meet and greet family and friends. The entry should be warm and inviting with enough space to enter and objects to attract the eye.

Front Yards Need to Work

Since your front yard is the most public place of your home, they need to function as well as be attractive. Each yard needs a practical way to get from the drive to the main entry. Although utilitarian, a path or walkway can be more than a just getting from point A to point B. Well designed walks can create a mood. A gently curving walk is an invitation to slow down and enjoy. Straight concrete walk can soften with plantings and points of interest.

A welcoming front yard and entry is a wonderful way to express your creativity, and add interest and value to your home.