Slender Silhouette Sweetgum Tree

Pruning advice for liquidambar slender silhouette trees.

Slender silhouette sweetgum tree. We love slender silhouette american sweetgum liquidambar styraciflua slender silhouette for its very narrow shape. Slender silhouette sweet gum is a deciduous tree with a narrowly upright and columnar growth habit. Liquidambar styraciflua slender silhouette boasts exquisite autumn colour and a striking architechtural presence. In fall this tree trades its green leaves for the typical sweetgum kaleidoscope of purple red orange and yellow.

Columnar sweet gum trees do not require regular pruning but you can trim them if they look a little untidy. The deeply lobed dark green leaves first turn yellow then to reddish purple as the autumn progresses. No that s not a typo. There are few trees that measure up to the promise of being narrow but slender silhouette sweetgum does even into maturity.

Maple like bright green foliage cloaks the branches throughout summer before autumn turns the leaves to scarlet crimson and purple creating a. The ideal structure is for one central leader so if you see any competing branches remove the weakest along with any suckers. Columnar sweet gum a splendid new introduction to the united kingdom liquidambar styraciflua slender silhouette is an exceptionally narrow tree with good strong red and orange autumn colour. Like its parent it produces lustrous maple like green leaves which take on spectacular shades of orange and crimson in the autumn before they fall especially if they are grown in acidic soils with lots of sun.

A slender upright tree with yellow to reddish purple autumn colour. The best time of year to prune a sweet gum tree is january or february. Imagine a tree that could reach 50 feet tall and possibly be only 5 to 7 feet wide. Photos and documentation give a range of 3 to 10 feet wide but this tree appears to lean towards the narrower width.

Liquidambar slender silhouette is a new introduction from the usa which really lives up to its name with a very slender upright habit. Its average texture blends into the landscape but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition. Slender silhouette is a fast growing tree that s easy to maintain. We are still open.

Slender silhouette rises to 60 feet in height like any sweetgum but it only gets 6 feet wide. This tall thin tree is perfect for tight spaces small gardens or as a striking vertical accent. Once established a 5 m tall specimen will have a spread of only 1 m. Unlike most sweet gum trees this variety is narrowly columnar fitting into much smaller spaces than its larger spreading cousins.

The upright branches and twigs form a tight column and do not exhibit the corky fissures of other varieties.