Japanese Maple. Had one by the front door of the house I grew up in. Reminds me of my childhood home.

Weeping Willow!

Everything about the Gingko tree is pretty cool

Weeping willow trees. We had one at my childhood home. When it was sold, the new owners tore it out. I was very sad.

Fiddy.

Not too expensive.

Being the most common tree in America doesn’t make the sycamore any less awesome.

They’re big and their canopy is lush. Their limbs are all twisty and knobbly. They’ve got huge leaves that sound amazing blowing in the wind or crunching underfoot. The colloquialism for their seedpods is hilarious and the pods themselves are almost as cool as sweetgum seed pods.

Just some great trees all around.

Number three…

The larch.

Delonix regia, the original flamboyant.

The one that gives weed

Aspen. Having lived and vacationed in Colorado in the past made my wife and I fall in love with them for their color in the fall. We’ve traveled back just to see them.

Red-black tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red–black_tree

Araucaria species. Because of their shape. They are the best.

I also really really like Magnolia trees, the large grandiflora ones ( those with the large glossy leaves and white flowers). I mean the flowers are amazing, but the way their trunks develop in very large specimens is so good, those semi buttressed roots and aerial offshoots hanging down are crazy amazing.

So yeah, araucarias and magnolias.

Eucalyptus. Houses koalas, smells nice, is sturdy, and has a chance to explode when on fire due to the oil inside.

The walnut tree. Its leaves are dense so it casts a cohesive shadow, perfect for shelter from the sun. I LOVE how it smells, especially when developing walnuts, and green walnuts are entirely unique in how they taste!