Garden designers know what plants work best in contemporary gardens. Based on their suitability to urban environments, their beauty and overall performance, here are the arboreal picks of some of Toronto’s leading landscape designers.
American larch Larix laricina
Copper beech Fagus sylvaticacuprea Cuprea Group
Eastern redbud Cercis canadensis
Eastern white pine Pinus strobus
Ginkgo Ginkgo biloba
Honey locust Gleditsia
‘Ivory Silk’ Japanese tree lilac Syringa reticulata ‘Ivory Silk’
Katsura tree Cercidiphyllum japonicum
Oak Quercus
Serviceberry Amelanchier alnifolia
Sugar maple Acer saccharum
Tricolour beech Fagus sylvatica ‘Purpurea Tricolor’
Photo: Janet Davis
