Suburban Backyard Trees

Plant native trees whatever you do. Silver maple grow really fast, but can be a bit messy.

Trees by the house sucks.

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Why native trees ?

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That's just me. I prefer native trees to shitty weeds like chinese tallow and other potentially invasive species that take over and choke out native species.

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how hard and expensive would it be to plant a semi-mature hardwood?

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The bigger you go the more expensive it will be. A friend of mine just had two 20' live oaks planted in his yard. They ran about 5k I believe for both.
You can get a couple 4" diameter that would be 8-12 ft prob dependant on spieces but that would run between 500 or so I would guess planted. When you get over that size, price jumps considerable because they take so much more to handle them.

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river birch

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Wait a couple years and you'll hate them. They shed like crazy.

bark or limbs? I like the bark look of them, and they cannot possibly shed more limbs than my giant pecan trees

My dad has a red oak in his back yard we planted in '96. It was just a sapling, now its maybe 30' tall. Slow growing by my standards but looks good when the leaves turn. I hate my Bradford pears. They stink, the leaves suck, and limbs break constantly. My silver maple got some kind of fungus its not going to be ling before I have to cut it down.

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I hate my Bradford pears.

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I had 2 of these when I bought my house. Within 2 months, 1 died, and the other split in half.

I will never plant Bradford pears. Too weak.

I also planted a maple in my yard last year about the same time as the river birches. All 3 trees were somewhere around 6'-8' when I planted them. The river oaks are now +20', and the maples is maybe 10'

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Maples grow pretty slow

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Depends on the kinda of maple

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Wait a couple years and you'll hate them. They shed like crazy.

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yes they do. I hate them in my yard.