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Originally Posted by MacDougalbry
A good ornamental tree for a smaller yard is a Japanese Tree Lilac (Ivory Silk Lilac, pruned to tree form.) This tree flowers late in the season, long after most other trees are done.
As for planting on city property, I did research this. Supposedly, you can get a utility line assignment and an excavation permit to do this, but when I inquired about this, the permits department had no clue what I was talking about.
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Well, you will have to continually prune a lilac to keep the tree form, since their natural form is a shrub. I think maybe the one I am thinking of might be the same one as you have mentioned here, as I have seen it pruned in the tree form, but mine is called Korean or Miss Kim. The one I have though is just about to flower right now, is not a late flowering variety. Beautiful small heart shaped leaves, does not sucker compared to most lilacs, and has to be the most fragrant lilac I have ever smelled, and I have pretty well had just about every lilac there is. It is very very easy to shape into a nice round shape, keeps that shape with minimal care, and does not get real large, hence nice for around your foundation, or in beds of mass plantings of shrubs as it will not overtake the bed, even nice in perennial flower beds as it does not get real large.
The columnar aspens are not that hardy in our Chinook zone, they can take cold, but in a very warm winter with a lot of Chinooks, which is the case here, they can start to dry out, perhaps not the whole tree, but once they do start to dry out in patches, they look pretty ugly and the end is near.