caragana grow well in my rows. It kinda depends what you are wanting. Do you want rows that LOOK nice or rows that will provide the best habitat and food sources for wildlife? As mentioned, crabs are good, especially ones that drop their fruit later in the fall, some mature so early they really wont be a great later season food source for deer. apple trees will be eaten by deer until they are big enough to survive some browsing pressure, youll need to protect them if you have many deer in your area, especially during the winter. Ive heard trailman is a good one for wildlife. Birds love carmine jewel sour cherries, but they will spread via suckers. This can be both good and bad, depending upon your goals. I havent tested this, but Im going to transplant some suckers into an area of my land that is virgin prairie either this fall or next spring. I want to see what they do with no care and if they can compete with grass and spread to form a patch over time. If they can, I think they would be great in low maintenance areas. Dont plant them in a nice groomed yard though, I tried that and its a bad idea! Honeylocust grow really well in my rows. I have some spots in my lilac rows where bushes have died and instead of replacing with more lilac, ive started putting american linden and honey locust into the gaps. Hackberry are also doing pretty good at my land. Once they are established, throwing a handful of urea fertilizer on them early in the spring really gets them going, along with some of the other trees ive mentioned. They survive without, but with some added N they will grow 2x as fast.
