We recommend the following trees for either sidewalk or yard planting:

    • Akebono Cherry
    • Yoshino Cherry
    • Dogwood
    • Southern Magnolia
    • Red Maple
    • Hot Wing Maple
    • Flowering Ruby Horse Chestnut
    • Catalina Ironwood (difficult to find)
    • Washington Hawthorne
    • Black Tulip Magnolia
    • Flowering Plum
    • Gingko Autumn Gold
    • Strawberry Tree
    • Scots Pine
    • NATIVE SPECIES AVAILABLE
    • *Big Leaf Maple
    • *Ceanothus ‘Ray Hartman’
    • *Wax Myrtle
    • *Cascera Buckthorn
    • *Western Redbud Forest Pansy
    • *Vine Maple
    • *Shore Pine

For more info on a specific species check Cal Poly’s tree selection guide.

The following trees are only available for yard planting: 

    • Fruit Tree
    • Kwanzan Cherry
    • Japanese Maple
    • London Plane
    • Lombardy Poplar
    • Golden Chain (difficult to find)
    • NATIVE SPECIES AVAILABLE
    • *Oregon Crabapple
    • *Twinberry

Small Trees

Kwanzan Cherry
Prunus serrulata
Deciduous
Large double pink blossoms
Kwanzan-Cherry tree

Southern Magnolia
Magnolia grandiflora
“Glen St. Mary” Evergreen, conical, broadleaf
Magnolia-grandiflora tree

Medium Trees

Red Maple
Acer rubrum
“Armstrong” Deciduous
(does well in Eureka)
Red-Maple tree

Catalina Ironwood
Lyonothamnus floribundus
“Asplenifolia”
Fast Growing Evergreen
Catalina-Ironwood

Southern Magnolia
Magnolia grandiflora
“Samuel Sommer” Evergreen
Magnolia-grandiflora tree

Red Horsechestnut
Aesculus x carnea
“Briotti” Deciduous
(wind & salt air tolerant, red blossoms)
red-horsechestnut tree

Golden Chain
Laburnum anagyroides
Deciduous
(all parts of tree poisonous to humans)
golden-chain tree

Large Trees

Suitable for yards only:
30 feet of clearance required

Southern Magnolia
Magnolia grandiflora “Russet” Deciduous
Magnolia-grandiflora tree

London Plane
Plantanus x acerfolia Deciduous
london-plane tree

Tulip Tree
Liriodendron tulipifera Deciduous (not suited for planting under power/cable/phone lines)
tulip-tree