Fagus grandifolia Landscaper Favorite this variety keeps things gentler

this variety keeps things gentler

because the wild plant is already right

or a courtyard wall

dogwoods like to sit high

Vigorous once established

Fagus grandifolia Landscaper Favorite this variety keeps things gentlerThe American beech is one of the great presences of the eastern woods, a large, slow growing deciduous tree that ranges through rich forests from southern Canada to the Gulf. Toothed oval leaves, several inches long, emerge a clean bright green, turn clear yellow in fall and then a warm russet brown, and cling to the branches through much of winter, a habit called marcescence that gives the bare woods a soft papery whisper. The trunk is the signature: