In line with our Greening Whittlesea Strategy, Council is committed to increasing the number of trees and green cover across the City of Whittlesea. Trees provide our community a range of benefits, including:
- providing much needed shade in urban areas
- contributing to neighbourhood character and the look and feel of the street
- reducing air pollution in an efficient and cost-effective way
- providing habitat for native wildlife
- enhancing people’s health and wellbeing.
The trees that will be planted along our main roads have been specifically chosen to suit the location and will include a range of deciduous and evergreen trees.
Find out more about the trees that will planted through this program below.
Flowering Plum (Prunus x blireana)
A deciduous tree with upright, narrow form, bronzy purple to greenish purple leaves and double rose-pink flowers from early spring.
Features:
- hardy and colourful feature tree
- Bronzy-purple to dark greenish-purple foliage
- Double pink fragrant flowers from spring.
Streets this tree will be planted in:
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Flowering Plum (Prunus cerasifera 'Crimson Spire')
An attractive flowering plum with reddish-bronze foliage when young, turning darker when mature. Blossom starts off white and goes pale pink. It has an upright fastigiate form with dense foliage.
Features:
- Richly coloured foliage and attractive spring blossom
- Dark reddish-bronze foliage.
Streets this tree will be planted in:
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Dogwood (Cornus kousa x C florida 'Rutcan')
A upright to upright spreading, large shrub to small. The ovate foliage has acuminate tips and is coloured a rich deep green. Autumn provides a wonderful display of burgundy-red and orange.
Features:
- Light grey and lightly textured bark. Exfoliating and mottled when older
- Slow to moderate growth
- Pure white floral bracts from middle to late spring
Streets this tree will be planted in:
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Crepe Myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica x L. fauriei cv)
A deciduous tree with green foliage and masses of beautiful, white frilly flowers that appear in summer. The contrasting autumn foliage will also create a vivid display of colour.
Features:
- Clusters of spectacular white, crepe-paper like flowers in summer
- Small oval shaped leaves and attractive exfoliating bark.
Streets this tree will be planted in:
- High Street, Epping
- Edgars Road, Lalor
- Settlement Road, Thomastown
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Trident Maple (Acer buergerianum)
A small deciduous tree with ascending branches when young, maturing to a more rounded canopy. Leaves are small, triangular and tri-lobed. New spring foliage is a rich bronzy-red colour maturing to a dark green in summer. In autumn foliage turns yellow to orange to red.
Features:
- Pale grey ranging to orangey-brown. Bark appears scaly or flaky
- Green and inconspicuous Flowers
- Small, hardy tree with good autumn colour.
Streets this tree will be planted in:
- Dalton Road, Epping
- Edgars Road, Lalor
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Maidenhair Tree (Ginkgo Biloba ‘Lemonlime Spire’)
A medium sized, deciduous tree with distinctive two-lobed, somewhat leathery, fan-shaped, rich green leaves with diverging (almost parallel) veins. Leaves turn bright yellow in autumn.
Features:
- Low growing and long-lived, deciduous tree
- Double-lobed, fan-shaped leaves with veins which spread from the stalk of the leaf.
Streets this tree will be planted in:
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Golden-Rain Tree (Koelreuteria paniculata, 'Golden Candle')
A very showy columnar accent tree which is smothered in loose panicles of golden flowers in early summer and beautiful autumn colour; very adaptable but flowers best in full sun; a very narrow tree that is perfect for small spaces.
Features:
- Rich green summer foliage, turning golden in autumn
- Yellow flowers born in upright panicles on branch ends
- Furrowed silver bark.
Streets this tree will be planted in:
- Settlement Road, Thomastown
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Persian Ironwood (Parrotia persica)
A medium-sized deciduous tree with autumn colour leaves and flaking bark. A wide spreading tree which offers decorative features year-round.
Features:
- Clusters of small flowers with bright red stamen in spring.
- Leaves will change to shades of red, in autumn.
Streets this tree will be planted in:
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Field Maple (Acer campestre)
A deciduous small tree with a dense round canopy, and a somewhat corky bark. Small leaves with rounded lobes, dark green in summer, which turn a beautiful clear yellow in the autumn. Paired samaras spread throughout the tree and hang in clusters well into winter.
Features:
- Compact, slow growing small tree
- Green inconspicuous flowers from September to October
Streets this tree will be planted in:
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