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| Sure like Red and Pin Oak here, and they hold onto their leaves most the winter to provide some winter break benefits and are pretty in the fall. They also can grow pretty fast compared to some other oaks and tolerate wetter soils. They do drop small acorns, which aren't troublesome and can provide wildlife benefits. White pine still works good here, but heavy snow can sometimes break limbs, and sounds like Black Hills Spruce works good in Iowa.
Forget soft maple varieties, yuck imo, but hard maple trees don't have the proliferation problem softs do while providing great shade in the summer, are pretty in the fall, have stronger limbs and a nice shape.
Messy trees include pecan, hackberries, chinkapin oak, redbud, soft maples, locust, walnut, etc., but if you like picking up fallen limbs after every storm, here you go with the first 5 listed. Black locust can spread like wildfire, and walnuts lose their leaves very early, drop a lot of walnuts, can attract webworms, put out a chemical in roots that hurts competition, and grow a lot of side branches if planted in more open spaces.
Red Oaks in pic are about 15 years post planting, but were about 4'tall at planting. White oaks in front of reds in pic planted at same time much slower growing and need good drainage. Both eventually get really tall and girthy.
Hard Maples also about 15 years after planting, with an bare walnut by basketball for contrast with hard maples.
Edited by WIJDW 6/28/2022 08:51
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