Dan Blazer from Davey's Southwest Milwaukee office shares six salt tolerant trees that are a good idea to plant near roadways, as well as which trees he does not recommended planting near roadways where there is heavy salt traffic. Dan talks about how you can start preparing for winter now by getting these trees planted this fall.

In this episode we cover:

• Trees and salt (0:51)
• Salt tolerant trees - plant these near roadways (2:00)
  • Hybrid elms - princeton and triumph (2:09)
  • Kentucky coffeetree (2:50)
  • Miyabe maple (4:40)
  • Ginkgo biloba (6:16)
  • Honey locust (7:41)
  • Swamp white oak and schuette oak (11:37)
• How are these trees more salt tolerant than others? (4:10)
• Diversity in the landscape (8:29)
• Ash trees and the emerald ash borer (9:39)
• Trees not to plant along roadways (12:34)
  • Conifers (12:46)
• How Dan started his job (13:21)
• Dan's favorite trees and plants (14:33)
  • Canadian hemlock (15:10)
    • Hemlock woolly adelgid (15:42)
  • Rhododendron (17:00)

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To learn more about protecting your trees from salt, read our blog, How to Protect Trees from Winter Salt or Rock Salt Damage.
To learn about how rock salt may be affecting your property, read our blog, How Rock Salt May be Affecting Your Lawn.
To learn more about emerald ash borer (EAB), read our EAB blogs.

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