This is my favorite tree! It grows 4-5 ft. a year when it's established! Faster than a red maple. Awesome shade tree. The leaves are huge and the tree can grow to 90 ft. I have 5 young tulip trees in my yard and this year they should take off!!!! This is my mother in law's house and she had no shade at all! I needed to plant these to help with the A/C in the summer. Geez this house gets hot and the A/C runs constantly all because of no shade trees!