Ag & Natural Resources Extension Educator, Purdue Extension Whitley County
COLUMBIA CITY – As winter begins to ebb in a few weeks, people will be thinking about landscape issues again. An unfortunate question I am sometimes asked is similar to this: “I lost my prized shade tree. What can I plant that will grow fast and give me shade?”
While there is no instant fix to this scenario, let’s review a few trees that might be better choices here in northern Indiana…