Which types of deciduous trees: rowan? - Tips?

Well, you yourself posted that oak leaves are not compostable. Moreover, the tree would be way too big for me on a 650 sqm property.

My maples only lost their leaves very late, the serviceberry roughly a month earlier.

Himalayan birches and some willows are also beautiful, but I would still differentiate between solitary trees and group trees. Mix groups with evergreen bushes or cypresses.

Serviceberries drop fruit, cherry trees drop their leaves... but I wouldn't find that bad on a lawn or in the back garden.

Good evening Yvonne,

Thanks for the oak info: for me it was always taboo because of the non-compostable leaves...

"Non"-compostable is in my opinion not correct; if I remember correctly, it just takes longer for the oak leaves to properly decompose. Because of a higher acid content, I think ... but I no longer know which acid it is

Rhenish greetings

Oh, I thought until now that the non-decomposable oak leaves were only the case with exotic oak species from other countries. Yes, in the back garden I also don’t find it so bad when something falls. So it doesn’t bother me anyway, but on the street side I fear the wrath of the neighboring Germany-clean people for whom leaves are dirt and flower petals are filth.

A foreign oak(?) species, and he didn't know what to do with the leaves because they are not compostable

Thanks for the oak info: for me it was always taboo because of the non-compostable leaves...

“Non”-compostable is in my opinion not correct; if I remember correctly, it just takes longer for the oak leaves to properly rot

Yes, but I was told back then (as a child): not compostable. Since they are too big anyway, I didn’t look it up. And so the argument stands, as with willWohnen: only foreign... Although, non-compostable is also wrong... my info was that it doesn’t rot on its own or something.

Now we will all google the acidity

Oh dear, what will come my way as a compost beginner after further research...

One should generally create a separate compost heap for leaves, as they simply decompose differently than the rest of the garden waste. By the way, oaks also do not grow slowly; after ten years, a 10cm seedling has already become a stately tree. It just simply never stops growing...