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Planted several on our acre in AZ, along with other species. They are beautiful; we keep them pruned.
Memories from my childhood. We had a big cottonwood tree in the corner of the back yard. My dad made a swing out of a burlap sack filled with straw and hung it from a branch. The tree provided shade for the back yard for most of the day. So many memories under that big old cottonwood tree!
Do not plant cottonwoods anywhere in your yard! An arborist told me they are meant to be planted along riverbanks to prevent erosion but never a "city" tree. I had to have two removed from my yard many years ago, but unfortunately, another one grew from a seed and recently had it removed. Still sending up shoots that are impossible to fully eradicate!
Don't do it. Don't plant cottonwoods. They reproduce like weeds and are filthy every season, Sticky things all over in the spring, then the cotton blasts and is all over everything, then the seed pods drop then the millions of leaves fall.