Main roads street tree planting program
Our main roads street tree planting program aims to transform streetscapes throughout the City of Whittlesea into vibrant boulevards of diverse, colourful trees that connect people and nature.
In line with our Greening Whittlesea Strategy, we are 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 have been planted along our main roads have been specifically chosen to suit the location and have included a range of deciduous and evergreen trees.
Find out more about the trees that we have planted through this program.
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 was planted in:
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 was be planted in:
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 was planted in:
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 was planted in:
- High Street, Epping
- Edgars Road, Lalor
- Settlement Road, Thomastown.
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 was planted in:
- Dalton Road, Epping
- Edgars Road, Lalor.
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 was planted in:
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 was planted in:
- Settlement Road, Thomastown.
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 was planted in:
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: