Specimen Trees

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✾ This indicates that a plant blooms for 6 weeks or longer

✓ This indicates that the plant is listed as Resistant/Tolerant to Deer

Acer griseum – Paperbark Maple

Characteristics: This small deciduous, upright oval to rounded tree is noted for its peeling cinnamon to reddish brown bark. This is a nice winter interest; foliage is dark green but then turns red in fall. Tree is a slow grower 6”-12” per year, grows average of 20’-30’ tall.
Light: Full sun to part shade
Moisture: Well drained soils, normal watering

Acer palmatum ‘Sango-Kaku’ – Coral Bark Japanese Maple

Characteristics: Simple leaves with narrow pointed lobes that turn a golden yellow in the fall. The winter bark is a coral red that turns almost a salmon color when the cold intensifies. Grows 25′ tall.
Light: Full sun to part sun
Moisture: Prefers moist, well-drained soil also drought tolerant

Acer palmatum atropurpureum ‘Bloodgood’ – Bloodgood Japanese Red Maple

Characteristics: Small deciduous upright tree with deep reddish purple foliage all summer long. Foliage is opposite and deeply lobed, will grow upright to 30’ over a long time.
Light: Full sun to part shade
Moisture: Medium moist soils, normal watering

Acer palmatum dissectum atropurpurea– Cutleaf Japanese Red Maple

Characteristics: An extremely fine textured deciduous tree with a broad rounded cascading shape. Foliage is a brilliant red that changes to oranges and yellows in the fall. Grows 6’-8’ tall.
Light: Full sun to part shade
Moisture: Well drained moist soil, normal watering – NOT drought tolerant

Betula nigra – River Birch

Characteristics: A fast growing upright, medium sized deciduous tree which can have a single trunk or a multi trunk. Salmon-pink to reddish brown bark peels to reveal lighter new bark. Diamond shaped medium to dark green foliage turns yellow in fall.
Light: full sun to part shade
Moisture: medium to wet soils, very adaptable

Betula pendula ‘Youngi’ – Youngs Weeping Birch

Characteristics: This small deciduous, upright oval to rounded tree is noted for its peeling cinnamon to reddish brown bark. This is a nice winter interest; foliage is dark green but then turns red in fall. Tree is a slow grower 6”-12” per year, grows average of 20’-30’ tall.
Light: Full sun to part shade
Moisture: Well drained soils, normal watering

Buddleia davidii – Butterfly Bush

Characteristics: Produces cone shaped clusters that have an arching habit, irresistible to butterflies. Flowers are fragrant and come in a wide range of colors. Lance shaped green foliage on arching stems, grows 4-15′ tall depending on variety.
Light: Full sun to part shade
Moisture: Prefers moist, well-drained soil

Carpinus betula ‘Fastigiata’ – European Hornbeam

Characteristics: A columnar tree with dense branches, and forest green foliage. Grows 30′ tall.
Light: Full sun
Moisture: Moist, well-drained soil

Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca Pendula’ – Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar

Characteristics: An evergreen conifer, drooping twisted branches filled with powdery blue needles. Slow growing matures at 10’ tall. Can be staked to create shape.
Light: Full sun
Moisture: Well drained soils, normal watering

Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca’ – Blue Atlas Cedar

Characteristics: An evergreen conifer, growing habit is usually loose pyramidal when young, becoming more flat topped with long spreading branches. Needles are silvery blue to blue in color. Fast growing when young then slows down, grows to 40’-60’ over time.
Light: Full sun
Moisture: Well drained soils, normal watering

Cedrus deodara ‘Aurea’ – Golden Deodar Cedar

Characteristics: Large pyramidal evergreen with long graceful arching branches. Foliage is golden yellow which highlights the tops and ends of the branches. Slow growing 15’-20’ mature height.
Light: Full sun
Moisture: Well drained soils

Chamaecyparis obtuse ‘Gracilis Compacta’ – Compact Hinoki Cypress

Characteristics: Broad upright pyramidal evergreen, spreading loose and open branches. Foliage is bright golden yellow feathery sprays. Grows 12” per year, matures at 8’-10’ tall.
Light: Full sun to part shade
Moisture: Moist, well drained soils

Corylus avellana ‘Contorta’ – Harry Lauders Walking Stick

Characteristics: This deciduous rounded multi stemmed upright tree, features twisted and spiraling branches, twigs and leaves. Foliage is round and light green, typically grows 8’-10’ tall.
Light: Full sun to part shade
Moisture: Well drained soils

Cotinus coggygria ‘Purple Smoke’ – Purple Smoke Tree

Characteristics: Produces large plumes of feathery flowers that covers all branches looking like a cloud of smoke. Grows 9-10′ tall.
Light: Full sun to part shade
Moisture: Moist, well drained soils

Fagus sylvatica – European Beech

Characteristics: An irregular, spreading tree, with long weeping branches that reach the ground. Leaves are elliptic, wavy edged and purple. This tree’s bark is smooth and silvery.
Light: Full sun to part shade
Moisture: Moist, well drained soils

Ginkgo biloba – Ginkgo Tree

Characteristics: The foliage is fan-shaped, leaves start out emerald green and turn gold in the fall. Grows 40-70′ tall.
Light: Full sun to part shade
Moisture: Prefers moist, well-drained soil

Hydrangea paniculata ‘Grandiflora’ – Peegee Hydrangea

Characteristics: A fast growing upright deciduous tree. Flowers are showy, closely packed creamy white florets that fade to pink and eventually brown, that persists into fall. Large florets make branches arch downward, grows 10’-25’ tall.
Light: Full sun to part shade
Moisture: Well drained soil

Lagerstroemia – Crape Myrtle

Characteristics: One of the longest flowering deciduous trees, flowers start in summer in big showy clusters and come in white and many shades of pink and purple. Lustrous green leaves form a thick canopy and also has an exfoliating bark. Sizes range with varieties.
Light: Full sun
Moisture: Moist, well-drained soil

Magnolia grandiflora ‘Bracken’s Brown Beauty’ – Brackens Brown Beauty Magnolia

Characteristics: Lustrous, leathery foliage is rich, dark green above with a cinnamon brown underneath. Produces large, highly fragrant creamy white flowers in early summer followed by red fruits. Grows 30-50′ tall.
Light: Full sun to light shade
Moisture: Moist, well-drained soil

Magnolia stellata ‘Royal Star’ – Star Magnolia

Characteristics: A very slow growing upright deciduous tree blooms early spring and is smothered in brilliant white star shaped flowers. Blooms before the leaves appear. Foliage is a medium to dark green, grows 15’-20’ tall mature.
Light: Full sun
Moisture: Moist, well-drained soil

Picea abies ‘Pendula’ – Weeping Norway Spruce

Characteristics: Irregularly shaped slow growing evergreen, stiff dark green needles dense spreading toward the ground. Limbs grow in a wild awkward configuration if properly trained.
Light: Full sun to part shade
Moisture: Well drained soil

Picea pungens ‘Glauca Globosa’ – Globe Spruce

Characteristics: Globe shaped evergreen shrub is dwarf, flat topped and densely branched. Bright blue needles hold their color all year. Grows 3-5′ tall.
Light: Full sun to part shade
Moisture: Well drained soil, drought tolerant

Prunus cerasifera ‘Thundercloud’ – Purple Leaf Flowering Plum

Characteristics: A decorative fast growing upright spreading deciduous tree. Foliage is long and elliptical, a deep coppery purple that lasts throughout the growing season. Produces dainty pink flowers before leaves form, grows 15’-20’ tall.
Light: Full sun
Moisture: Well drained soil, drought tolerant after established

Prunus cistena – Purpleleaf Sand Cherry

Characteristics: This small deciduous, upright oval to rounded tree is noted for its peeling cinnamon to reddish brown bark. This is a nice winter interest; foliage is dark green but then turns red in fall. Tree is a slow grower 6”-12” per year, grows average of 20’-30’ tall.
Light: Full sun to part shade
Moisture: Well drained soil

Prunus serrulata ‘Kwanzan’ – Kwanzan Flowering Cherry

Characteristics: Large double pink flowers in early spring before foliage. Foliage is bronze color turning orange in the fall. Grows 30-40′ tall.
Light: Full sun to part shade
Moisture: Drought tolerant, well-drained soil

Prunus subhirtella ‘Pendula’ – Pink Weeping Cherry

Characteristics: An upright umbrella like fast growing deciduous tree, with graceful weeping branches that hang toward the ground. The small pale pink flowers are profuse and appear in early spring.
Light: Full sun to part shade
Moisture: Well drained soil

Prunus subhirtella ‘Snofozam’ – Weeping Snow Fountain Cherry

Characteristics: A slow growing compact cascading deciduous tree has graceful branches that bend towards the ground. In the spring this tree is covered in a floral blanket of pure white ornamental flowers. Dark green foliage turns orange in fall, grows 12’-15’ tall.
Light: Full sun to part shade
Moisture: Well drained soil

Pyrus calleryana – Pear

Characteristics: Spectacularly showy deciduous tree covered with clusters of white flowers and again in fall when its leaves turn bright yellow, mahogany and red. Flowers appear in early spring before the leaves.
Light: Full sun to part shade
Moisture: Well drained soil

Salix integra ‘Hakuro Nishiki’ – Dappled Willow

Characteristics: New foliage is bright pink then turns to a variegated leaf of white and green. Bark turns red in winter, grows 10-15′ tall.
Light: Full sun to part shade
Moisture: Prefers moist, well-drained soil

Tilia cordata ‘Greenspire’ – Greenspire Littleleaf Linden

Characteristics: An oval shape with pyramidal form leathery dark green foliage that turns yellow in the fall. Foliage is fragrant and loses its leaves in the winter. Produces yellow flowers and grows 40-50′ tall.
Light: Full sun
Moisture: Prefers moist, well-drained soil

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