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Due to their size and expense, gardeners tend to put a lot more thought into the trees they ultimately buy for their landscape. While a perennial might only live for 6 or 7 years, a tree might grace your garden for 50 years or more\u2014outliving the person who so carefully selected it, in fact. Here at Fine Gardening, we feel strongly that trees should look good in more than one season (for all of the reasons above AND because they take up a lot of real estate). Therefore, on today\u2019s episode, we may be highlighting our favorite flowering trees for every season, but these choices have more going for them than just some fleeting blooms. Listen to hear about which trees we\u2019re willing to sacrifice a chunk of our paycheck on and why.\xa0\xa0\xa0

Amanda Bennett is vice president of horticulture and collections at Atlanta Botanical Gardens in Georgia.\xa0