Tree Planting
Recommended Trees
The following varieties are just a few recommendations for trees to
plant on city owned right of way. They show hardiness to Waterloo’s
climate (Waterloo is in hardiness zone 4), display favorable characteristics,
and are generally available at local nurseries.
Street Trees
Freeman maple - Acer X freemanii ‘Autumn Blaze’
Norway maple - Acer platanoides ‘Emerald Lustre’
Red maple - Acer rubrum ‘Autumn Flame’
Sugar maple - Acer saccharum
Hackberry - Celtis occidentalis
Gingko (Male) - Gingko biloba
Thornless honeylocust - Gleditisia triacanthos var. inermis ‘Shademaster’
Callary pear - Pyrus calleryana ‘Chanticleer’
Swamp White Oak - Quercus bicolor
Red Oak - Quercus rubra
American Linden - Tilia americana ‘Redmond’
Littleleaf Linden - Tilia cordata ‘Greenspire’
Low-growing Trees
Amur maple(single trunk) - Acer tataricum subsp. ginnala
Thornless cockspur hawthorn - Crataegus crusgalli var. inermis
Amur maackia - Maackia amurensis
Flowering crabapple - Malus sp. ‘Adams’ or ‘Prairifire’
Japanese tree lilac - Syringa reticulata
Approval must be obtained to plant these trees from the City Forester
even if the trees you want to plant are listed here. Also, there are many
more varieties of trees that may be allowed that are not listed here.
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