Free Trees

I found out that Oakland has a nonprofit called Urban Releaf that offer free tree planting on sidewalks in low to moderate-income communities. Which means we can get a tree planted by this organization in front of our house for free! There are 30 species of trees to choose from. I've looked over the list and have narrowed down to three species. Now I just need to decide where to put the tree because our sidewalk out front has plenty of plants already.

Saint Mary Magnolia. The big flowers are so gorgeous!

Purple leave Plum, pretty pink flowers in the spring and little plums in the summer. Yum!

Maidenhair Tree (ginkgo tree)

The leaves turn yellow in the fall. It also produces the ginkgo fruit in which the pit is used for medicinally purposes.

I love the leaf shape.