Perkins Pink Yellowwood
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 4-8
- Spacing: 30-50'
- Exposure: Sun/Light Shade
- Deer Resistant: Yes
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Perkins Pink American Yellowwood is a graceful and refined tree that is just as at home on the grounds of grand, formal estates as it is in modest gardens with room for only a few (extra-special) trees. This medium to large ornamental/shade tree casts a dappled shade, and its roots grow deeply, making the area underneath its arching branches a wonderful opportunity for planting up with ferns, hostas, and wildflowers. (Don’t forget a place to sit!) The long chains of fragrant, pale pink flowers in early summer may remind you of Wisteria. Perkins Pink Yellowwood doesn’t bloom every year, but when it does, it paints an unforgettably romantic picture.
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 4-8
- Spacing: 30-50'
- Exposure: Sun/Light Shade
- Deer Resistant: Yes
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The Story
American Yellowwood is native to many eastern and central U.S. states, though it is rather rare in the wild. In locations where it grew in our nation’s early days, settlers valued the hard wood for gun stocks and used the heartwood to make a yellow dye (hence the name “Yellowwood”). The bark covering Yellowwood Trees is smooth, gray, and beech-like and invites you to touch it. A Yellowwood planted on the grounds of the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts is where this variety came from. Perkins Pink Yellowwood was raised from a seed of that tree and was introduced in the 1930s.
The Details
Although Perkins Pink Yellowwood doesn’t bloom every year, it does have another performance that is more reliable—its fall color. In early autumn, the bright green leaflets turn bright yellow, looking especially luminescent against the slate-gray trunks.
How to Grow
An adaptable and easygoing tree, Perkins Pink Yellowwood deserves wider use. It thrives in full sun and in any type of soil that isn’t wet. Give it regular water while it becomes established; afterwards, it will tolerate dry spells on its own. Be sure to protect the thin bark from string trimmers. One other thing you should know about Yellowwood is that it’s a “bleeder.” Like Birch and Maple, it will ooze sap if you prune it in the winter or spring, so wait until summer to make any cuts. Bleeding doesn’t actually harm the tree, but it can look alarming!
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Scale
Size B
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Size B Trees:
6-8' tall, well branched. This unique tree is shipped in our #15 tree container with stem caliper 1" or greater.
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