The following is a list of trees that we started the year with. Additional trees will be added to this list around the middle of Jully. Please phone or email to check for current availability. The height indicated is at maturity, usually around 10 years.
Very rare, adapts to semi-drought.
Likes sun.
H 20’-25’ W 15’-20’
Available Now
Medium growing sprawling native deciduous tree.
Likes sun to part shade.
Fire engine red in fall in open sites.
Sprawling branches often root and form colonies.
ECOLOGY: Moist to wet places, drought tolerant, tough, generally under other trees, sometimes in open areas like clear cuts.
H 15’-20’ W 6’-12’
Available Now
Bright red bark in winter, fall colour.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 15’-20’ W 8’-15’
Available Fall 2010
Acer circinatum ‘Pacific Purple’
Purple foliage from summer to fall.
Likes sun to part shade.
H to 12’ W to 12’
Available Now
Showy green and white striped bark.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 30’-40’ W to 20’
Available Now
Peeling bark, slow growing, fall colour.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 20’-25’ W 8’-15’
Available Now
Variegated, wet soils, drought tolerant.
H 20’30’ W 20’-25’
N/A
Shallow roots, coastal conditions.
Likes sun.
H 35’-50’ W 24’-45’
Available Now
Acer platanoides 'Crimson Sentry’ (Narrow Red Norway Maple)
Shallow roots, coastal conditions.
Likes sun.
H 20’-25’ W 10’-12’
Available Fall 2010
Variegated, large shade tree.
Likes sun.
H 40’-50’ W 30’-40’
N/A
Acer rubrum ’Armstrong’ (Red Maple)
Narrow upright form, good screening, fall colour.
Likes sun.
H 30’-40’ W 6’-12’
N/A
Fast growing, screening, fall colour.
Likes sun.
H 40’-50’ W 30’-40’
Available Fall 2010
Acer rubrum ’Autumn Flame’ (Red Maple)
Fast growing, screening, fall colour.
Likes sun.
H 40’-50’ W 30’-40’
Available Fall 2010
Acer rubrum ’New World’ (Red Maple)
Fast growing, screening, fall colour.
Likes sun.
H 30’-35’ W to 20’
N/A
Acer rubrum ’October Glory’ (Red Maple)
Fast, pyramidal, brilliant colour.
Likes sun.
H 30’-35’ W to 20’
N/A
Acer rubrum ’Red Sunset’ (Red Maple)
Wet areas, fast, upright habit.
Likes sun.
H 40’-50’ W 30’-40’
Available Fall 2010
Aesculus “Briotti”
Available Fall 2010
Albizzia ’Summer Chocolate’
Purple foliage, sheltered site required.
Likes sun.
H to 20’ W to 15’
2 gallon size.
Available Now
By the sea, edible fruits, fall colour.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 20’-25’ ‘W 20’-25’
Available now as multi stem
Available Fall 2010 as standard
Winter flowers, edible fruit, good drainage.
Likes sun.
H 10’-15’ W 5’-15’
Only 2 gallons (3’) available this year.
Tolerates summer watering.
H 25’-40’ W 25’-40’
Available Now
Wet areas, needs summer water.
Likes sun.
H 30’-40’ W 20’-30’
Available Now
Wet areas, tough, adaptable, healthy.
Likes sun.
H 40’-60’ W 30’-40’
Available Now
Betual nigra 'Fox Valley’ (Dwarf River Birch)
Wet areas, tough, adaptable, healthy.
Likes sun
H 15’-20’ W 15’-20’
Available Now
Fast growing.
H W 25’-35’
N/A
Prune to shape, screening, containers.
Likes sun.
H 30’-35’ W 15’-18’
Available Now
Fast grower, adapts to most soils.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 30’-35’ W 20’-30’
Available Fall 2010
Light soils, mulch and water well.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 30’-40’ W 20’-30’
Available Fall 2010
Cercidiphyllum japonicum ‘Amazing Grace’
Graceful weeping tree, likes moist soil.
Likes sun.
H 15’-20’ W 20’-25’
Available Now
Columnar, deep red to bronze foliage.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 20’-30’ W 10’-15'
Available Now
Cercis canadensis ‘Forest Pansy’
Requires good drainage, summer water.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 15’-18’ W 15-20’
Available Now
Chionanthus virginicus
Moist soils, likes lime, good fall colour
Likes sun to part shade.
H 10’-15' W 10’-15'
N/A
Clerodendron trichotomum ‘Carnival’ (Glorybower)
Variegated foliage, fragrant flowers in summer, showy berries.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 8’-12’ W 8’-12’
Available Now
White flowers in summer, showy berries.
Likes sun to part shade
H 10’-15’ W 4’-8’
N/A
Early flowering, needs good drainage and summer water.
Likes part shade to sun.
H 20’-25’ W12’-15’
Available Now
Late flowering, variegated foliage, pink flowers with white eye.
Likes part shade to sun.
H 25’-30’ W 20’-25’
N/A
Cornus kousa ‘Chinensis’ (Korean Dogwood)
Late flowering, needs moist, humousy soil, no clay.
Likes part shade to sun.
H 15’-20’ W 12’-15’
N/A
Cornus kousa ‘Heart Throb’ (Korean Dogwood)
Rose-pink flowers, purple-red leaves in fall.
Likes part shade to sun.
H to 20’ W to 30’
N/A
Late flowering, dark pink flowers.
Likes part shade to sun.
H 15’-20’ W 12’-15’
Available Fall 2010
Large white flower, disease resistant.
Likes part shade to sun.
H W
N/A
Cornus x rutgan ‘Aurora’
Mid season, white flowers, disease resistant.
Likes part shade to sun.
H to 20’-25’ W 20’-25’
Available Now
Bright white flowers, very showy, shrubby, disease resistant.
Likes part shade to sun.
H to 20’ W to 30’
Available Now
Cornus x rutgan ‘Stellar Pink’
Soft pink flowers, red fall colour, disease resistant.
Likes part shade to sun.
H to 20’ W to 20’
N/A
Cryptomeria japonica ‘Elegans’
Conifer, evergreen shrub/tree, juvenile form, bushy. Soft feathery juvenile leaves (needles), 12-25 mm long, is green in summer but turns a rich brownish red in winter (especially in exposed sites). Sometime coneless and cones smaller than those of species. Subject to damage by wet snow.
Sun to part shade.
H 25’-30’ W to 9’
Available Now
Davidia involucrata ‘Sonoma’
Blooms at young age.
Likes sun.
H to 40’ -50’ W to 20’-30’
Available Fall 2010
Good rhodo companion.
Likes sun.
H 20’-25’ W to 15’
Available Now
Eucryphia intermedia ‘Rostrevor’
Good rhodo companion.
Likes sun.
Available Fall 2010
Fagus sylvatica ‘Purpurea Pendula’
Slow growing, weeping, purple foliage.
Likes sun.
H 10’-15’ W 6’-8’
Available Now
Fig ‘Desert King’
Sweet fruit, ripens well in our climate.
Likes hot sun.
H 10’-25’ W 10’-25’
Available in 1 gallon.
Superior fall colour, male form.
Likes sun
H 35’-55’ W 20’-40’
Available Now
Halesia carolina ‘Wedding Bells’
Prefers moist, acidic soils.
Likes sun or shade
H 20’-30’ W 15’-20’
N/A
Takes drought, wind and poor soil.
Likes sun.
H 20’-30’ W 15’-35’
N/A
Likes sun.
Available Now
Liquidamber ‘Gold Beacon’ (Sweetgum)
Adaptable to dry or wet soils.
Likes sun.
Available Fall 2010
Liquidamber ‘Slender Silhouette’ (Sweetgum)
New form, burgundy in fall.
Adaptable to dry or wet soils.
Likes sun, part shade.
H 35’-45’ W 6’-10’
Available Now
Adaptable to dry or wet soils.
Likes sun.
H 40’-50’ W 25’-35’
Available Fall 2010
Liriodendron tulipifera
Stately, best in large spaces.
Moist soil required.
Likes sun.
H 40’-60’ W 20’-40’
Available Now
Magnolia grandiflora ‘Alta’ (Evergreen Magnolia ‘Alta’)
Likes sun to part shade.
Available Now
Magnolia grandiflora ‘Bracken B. Beauty’ (Evergreen Magnolia ‘Bracken B. Beauty’)
Likes sun to part shade.
Available Now
Hardy, tight habit, summer flowers.
Likes sun to part shade.
H to 30’ W to 15’
N/A
This cultivar of Southern Magnolia is slow growing with an upright growth habit more typical of a multi-stemmed shrub than a single-trunked tree. It forms a dense, dark green oval or pyramidal shape.
Flowers in summer, with fragrant white blooms.
Leaves are smaller than the species and have cinnamon coloured indementum (the “fuzz” on the underside of the leaf).
Protect from cold winds,.
Well drained soil.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 12’-15’ W 8’-10’
Available Now
Medium growing compact, pyramidal, evergreen tree that you can prune to shape.
Fragrant creamy white flowers in summer
The lustrous foliage is broad, heavy, dark green with brown pubescent undersides.
Exceptionally hardy.
Needs a sheltered and moist site.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 15’-20’ W 15’-20’
Available Now
Superb, handsome large shrub or small tree. Compact habit
Beautiful, fragrant white flowers in May, after leaves have developed, and sporadically thereafter.
Nodding flowers have a red center and bloom over a long season. Leaves are larger and more tropical looking than many other Magnolias.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 8’-12’ W 8’-12’
Available Now
Compact, slow growing, rounded, deciduous, handsome small tree or large shrub, very showy in bloom.
Fragrant flowers pink in bud, open to nearly pure white in spring. 3 to 4” in diameter, with 25 to 30 petals each.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 10’-15’ W 10’-12’
Available Now
A fast growing upright semi-evergreen tree, it is an oddball among magnolias for its tolerance of wet, even swampy soils.
Fragrant, lemon scented, creamy white flowers in late spring. Red fruits loved by birds
Said to be hardy to minus 25 degrees F.
Grows well in wet or swampy, organically rich, acidic soils.
Likes sun to part shade.
H to 35’ W to 18’
Available Now
MAGNOLIA HYBRIDS
Forms an upright, open spreading small tree, that Is not fast growing.
Deep rose-pink buds open to enormous bowl-like flowers (up to 25cm across) rosy red on the outside, paler on the inside. Richly fragrant. The tree is floriferous with a main display starting about a week earlier than M. x soulangeana with occasional flowers throughout the year.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 15’-20’ W to 15’
Available Now
Rapid growing rounded deciduous tree, considered by many to be the best golden yellow flowering magnolia.
The 4 inch, lemon scented flowers bloom in mid April before the foliage leafs out.
Likes acid soil.
Likes sun.
H 35’-40’ W 25’-35’
Available Now
Medium growing upright deciduous tree. Narrow, formal looking, good in side yards, or as street tree.
Very fragrant, huge translucent pure pink blooms in late spring.
To quote Dennis Ledvina,Green Bay, WI, "Has lustrous pink flowers and will grasp the attention of most guests viewing my collection."
Likes acid soil.
Best in sun.
H to 18’ W to 8’
Available Now
Vigorous upright branched habit it is considered by some to be one of the best white Magnolias in cultivation. Excellent large white bowl shaped flowers which are produced from an early age in late March.
Full sun or partial shade.
H 15’-25’ W
Available Now
This deciduous hybrid offers fragrant, goblet-shaped blooms to 10 inches across in vivid reddish-purple. It forms a pyramidal outline, and will eventually grows up to 30 feet. Moderate growth rate. Use as a specimen or focal point
Likes acid soil, moist and well-drained.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 20’-25’ W 8’-10’
Available Now
It forms a small deciduous tree of upright but bushy habit. Bred in New Zealand, the large heavily textured flowers (up to 20 cm across) are a rich claret colour which holds well. The blooms are produced from a young age.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 15’-20’ W 20’+
Available Now
Slow growing vase-like deciduous, small tree or shrub. Abundant flowers even at an early age.
The pink buds open to fragrant lilac-pink star shaped flowers in mid spring, each with 12 petals.
This cultivar comes from Nymans in Sussex, England.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 15’-20’ W 15’-20’
Available now
Medium growing vase-like deciduous, small tree or shrub. Magnificent in flower, resembling a white cloud.
Fragrant pure white flowers in spring, freely produced at an early age. Each (3 1/2") flower has 15 petals.
This cultivar is from the Arnold Arboretum, 1939. We have a Magnolia ‘Merrill’ growing in the Herb Garden.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 15’-20’ W 15’-20’
Available Now
This newer hybrid from New Zealand has large, rich burgundy-red flowers in a tulip shape. The name conjures up images of the colour of this new selection! Indeed, it does have blooms which open to a wide saucer when mature to really show off that wonderful intense colour. Flowers when young.
Well drained soil.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 15’-20’ W
Available Now
Multi-trunked ornamental tree with an upright oval growth habit in youth, becoming rounded, spreading, and mounding with age. Medium growth rate.
Winter floral buds are large and fuzzy, giving rise to "candles" as they expand and open in March or early April, before the foliage emerges. Fragrant and tulip shaped the petals are pink-purple on the exterior and white in the interior, up to 5" tall by 5" wide.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 20’-25’ W 20’ to 25’
N/A
Vigorous deciduous tree, upright, with a strong central leader.
Flowers tulip-shaped, bright purplish-pink, outer tepals (petals) tend to roll inward.
Leaves dark green all summer.
Best in rich, well-drained soil.
Protect from wind.
Likes sun to part shade.
H to 30’ W to 15’
Available Now
Compact habit, rounded small tree or shrub, ideal for smaller gardens, easy to place.
Fragrant reddish purple flowers in mid spring. Has long, slender, erect red-purple buds, with 6 deeply toned tepals opening to 5". The tepals give a slightly twisted display.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 6’-8’ W 6’-8’
Available Now
Vigorous upright deciduous tree, with an erect open habit. Flowers in mid-spring
Declared as the finest Jury hybrid to date, this stunning selection from New Zealand has fragrant, heavy textured, rounded blooms of the most amazing ruby red. Although it flowers from a very young age, the full richness of the colour will develop as the plant matures.
Large textured leaves.
Likes acid soil.
Likes sun to part shade.
H 20’-25’ W to 25’
Available Now
Is an ideal high profile specimen or accent tree with vigorous growth that matures quickly into a useful upright habit with pyramidal form. A stand-out when blooming against needled evergreens or darker buildings. Well shaped 3 inch flowers are a vivid canary yellow. Retains crisp upright blossom shape and petal colors for an extended period of 2 to 3 weeks. The deciduous leaves open at the same time as the flowers. It was introduced in 1967 as the best of the yellow flowered hybrids.
Likes full sun.
H to 40’ W to 25’
Available Now
Broad rounded shape, drought and salt spray tolerant, yellow fall color. Pink to red buds open to single white flowers. Shiny bright red fruit, less than 1/2”, are long lasting
Likes sun
H 18’-20’ W to 20’
Available Now
Malus floribunda (Crabapple)
Pink to white flowers in late spring. Very showy.
Likes sun
H 15’-20’ W 20’-30’
N/A
Showy, superior to weeping cherries, with arching, graceful branches that go up at the tips. Pink flowers turn to scattered lemon-gold fruits that darken to a golden orange from July to mid-November.
Likes sun
H 12’-15’ W 12’-15’
Available Fall 2010
Upright and open, an irregular, oval crown form making this cultivar well
suited as an ornamental or small street tree. It has snow-white flowers in spring and small firm, cherry-red fruit appear in early September and stay through the winter.
Likes sun
H to 15’ W to 12’
Available Fall 2010
Malus ‘Red Sentinel’
N/A
Dwarf form
Likes sun
H 10’-15’ W 6’-8’
Available Now
Rare golden form, chartreuse in shade.
Likes sun with PM shade, part shade
H 50’-75’ W 20’-30’
Available Now
Nothofagus obliqua
Provides airy shade. Tough.
Wind and drought tolerant.
Likes sun, part shade
H 50’-75’ W 20’-30’
Available Now
Takes wet feet, nice fall colours.
Likes sun to part shade
H 30’-50’ W 15’-25’
Available Now
Parrotia persica (Persian Ironwood)
Available Now
Fast grower, adaptable, very tough.
Likes sun to part shade
H 40’-50’ W 35’-45’
N/A
Pooulus tremula erecta (Trembling Aspen)
Available Now
Prunus ceracifera ‘Pissardi Nigra’ (Purple Plum)
Early, pale pink flowers.
Fast grower, drought tolerant, tough.
Likes sun.
H 15’-25’ W 15’-25’
Available Fall 2010
Late, double hot pink flowers, vase-like habit.
Likes sun to part shade
H 20’-25’ W 15’-20’
Available Fall 2010
Late flowering, semi-double pink flowers, columnar habit.
Likes sun to part shade
H 20’-25’ W 5’-8’
Available Now
Prunus ‘Mt. Fuji
Available Fall 2010
Late, pink buds, double white flowers, horizontal habit.
Likes sun to part shade
H 20’-25’ W 20’-25’
N/A
Early free flowering, pink semi-double.
Likes sun to part shade
H 15’-20’ W 15’-20’
N/A
Early, fragrant double pink flowers. Coppery foilage.
Likes sun to part shade
H 15’-20’ W 15’-20’
Available Now
Early, single, blush pink flowers. Graceful habit.
Likes sun.
H 20’-25’ W 20’-25’
Available Fall 2010
Pyrus calleryana ‘Chanticleer’ (Ornamental Pear)
Mid-spring, white flowers.
Tolerates wet feet and drought.
Likes sun to part shade
H 25’-30’ W 10’-15’
Available Now
Pyrus salicifolia ‘Silver Cascade ’ (Weeping Pear)
White flowers.
Likes sun.
H 12’-15’ W 10’-15’
Available Now
Quercus coccinea (Oak)
Available Fall 2010
Quercus palustris (Pin Oak)
Pyramidal habit
Tolerates wet feet, drought.
Likes sun.
H 50’-60’ W 25’-35’
Available Now
Quercus palustris ‘Pringreen’ (Green Pillar Oak)
Tolerates wet feet, drought, clay and wind.
Likes sun.
H to 50’ W to 10’
Available Now
Takes drought, no wet feet, can be brittle in snow
Likes sun to part shade
H 30’-50’ W 20’-35’
Available Fall 2010
Salix babylonica ‘Aurea’ (Weeping Willow)
Fast growing, graceful habit.
Likes sun
H 30’-50’ W 30’-50’
Available Fall 2010
Sophora japonica
Available Fall 2010
Sorbus americana ‘Red Cascade’ (Mountain Ash)
Compact oval shape with red berries.
Likes sun
H to 18’ W to 8’
Available now
Sorbus ‘Joseph Rock’ (Mountain Ash)
Fast growing, upright with yellow berries.
Likes sun
H to 20’ W 10-12’
Available Fall 2010
Sorbus ‘Pink Pagoda’ (Mountain Ash)
Pink berries.
Likes sun
Available Fall 2010
Summer flowers, fussy, needs good well drained soil.
Likes sun to part shade
H 20’-30’ W 20’-30’
Available Now
Styrax japonica (Snowbell Tree)
Delicate white flowers and foilage. An easy, healthy tree to grow.
Likes sun to part shade
H 20’-25’ W 20’-25’
Available Now
Showy white flowers. Tight pyramidal habit.
Likes sun to part shade
H 20’-25’ W 15’-20’
Available Now
