In addition to theireye-catching foliage, these trees are also fast-growing.

They generally grow around two feet or more a year.

Tuliptree with wide-spread canopy of bright green leaves in garden

The Spruce / Evgeniya Vlasova

red maple tree with brilliant foliage

The Spruce / Autumn Wood

Image of fall foliage color of Autumn Blaze maple tree.

‘Autumn Blaze’ is valued for its spectacular fall foliage color.Brian North/Getty Images

Sawtooth oak tree in a park.

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Leyland Cypress trees

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The river birch has interesting peeling bark.

Image byF.D. Richardsunder a Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

Tuliptree branch with variegated green leaves and cream-colored tulip-like flowers

The Spruce / Evgeniya Vlasova

A tiger swallowtail butterfly drinks at the font of a white-flowering crepe myrtle bush.

David Beaulieu