Trees

OLIVE OF SEVILLE Olea (Manzanillo)

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This small, spreading, self-fertile, 20-30 foot tree produces heavy crops of medium sized, one inch freestone fruit which have a high flesh to pit ratio making them excellent for pressing with their high oil content and also for curing. The fruit is very...

VARIEGATED PERSIAN WITCH Parrotia persica (Persian Lace)

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Lacy splashes of creamy-green, white and deep green, along with pink to red new-growth make this handsome, small tree (to 25') a really special treat. Zone 6

JAPANESE FLOWERING CHERRY Prunus (Shogetsu)

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'Shogetsu' meaning 'moonlight on the pine trees', is a fitting name for this graceful Japanese Flowering Cherry. It is also widely known as the 'Blushing Bride' cherry. It is considered by many to be the finest blossoming tree available. The form of this...

UME JAPANESE APRICOT (Prunus mume)

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Hardiness zones 7-9 Prunus mume is a lovely, small tree 15-30 feet tall, which blooms in late winter or early spring. Its single, almond scented blooms may vary in color from tree to tree, presenting white, deep pink/red or shades of pink between. Its...

CHINESE PISTACHE Pistacia chinensis

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A handsome and undemanding small tree whose glossy green leaves assume gorgeous fall colors of fiery scarlet, crimson and orange. The soft- green flower panicles in April-May are not especially showy; however, female trees produce showy red fruits if a...

EARLY-BEARING OLIVE Olea europaea (Arbequina)

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A delightful olive from the village of Arbeca in northern Spain; dainty, fragrant, creamy-white flowers in spring are followed by an abundant crop of small, succulent oil-rich olives that can be used for both oil production or curing; this handsome,...

COLUMNAR SWEETGUM Liquidambar styraciflua (Slender Silhouette)

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The very columnar and interesting architectural form of this lovely slender sweetgum is perfect as an accent or for a small space. With a very slim silhouette, this tree reaches 40' tall and just 6' wide, (it is also known as 'Fastigiata'). Another...

CHINESE GOLDENRAIN TREE Koelreuteria bipinnata

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This rare flowering tree (30-60') features lovely bright-green compound leaves, a very desirable specimen grown for its gorgeous fragrant yellow flowers which have a touch of red at the base and are held in upright 1-2' clusters during late summer, the...

VARIEGATED SWEETGUM Liquidambar styraciflua (Variegata)

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The leaves of this 30-50' x 25' tree arent only bright in fall but happily striped and mottled with yellow all season. S/M ...

LONDON PLANE TREE Platanus acerifolia (Columbia)

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This highly attractive, quick growing shade tree was developed in 1984, for its superior disease resistance. Fascinating bark is one of its most desirable features, and makes this tree particularly interesting in all seasons. When young, the peeling bark...

SOUTHERN MAGNOLIA Magnolia grandiflora (Brackens Brown Beauty)

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Six inch leaves which are a lustrous green on top and rusty brown beneath gave this handsome stately tree (to 20-40' x 15-25') its name and are the backdrop for its lovely fragrant 5-6" white early summer flowers. S/M ...

TUPELO/BLACK GUM Nyssa sylvatica

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A wonderful and adaptable tree to 30-60' that is much loved by honeybees. With a stately rounded habit and horizontal branching, this wonderful eastern native is found primarily growing in wet bottomlands, (although it can handle some drought) and can be...

DAWN REDWOOD Metasequoia glyptostroboides

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This awe-inspiring tree was known only as a fossil before being rediscovered in 1941 in Modaoqi, China by forester T. Kan; this fast-growing redwood-like tree can reach 70-100'or more! Wonderful, ferny, soft to the touch foliage emerges pale-green in...

MEXICAN WHITE PINE Pinus veitchii

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A wonderful Pine from central Mexico, actually a subspecies of P.ayacahuite; a tall, 80-100' upright tree with long grey-green needles and beautifully decorative pine cones, the long cones bear edible pine nuts; this tree is much used for timber and is...

BOSNIAN PINE Pinus leucodermis (syn. heldreichii)

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The Bosnian pine is a delightful and distinctive conifer to 50-80' with dark-green needles in pairs which form very dense foliage on striking upright branches that are decorated with small cones of brilliant purple-blue before mellowing to brown, mature...

EVERGREEN MAGNOLIA (Magnolia grandiflora) "D. D. Blanchard"

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Hardiness zones 7-9 In addition to its sweetly fragrant white globe flowers, this special southern Magnolia has leaves that are glossy on the top but a showy rusty-orange on their undersides, a striking compact tree to 50 feet tall and 30 feet wide. 

KMX PINE Pinus attenuradiata

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Hardy to zone 7 This interesting hybrid of southern Oregon's Knobcone pine crossed with southern California's Monterey pine has proven to be a fast-growing and drought-tolerant cross and is now being used for reforestation in, interestingly, New Zealand...

SWEETBAY MAGNOLIA Magnolia virginiana (Silver Mist)

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This eastern North American cultivar is distinguished from the species, by its silvery leaf undersides, which look spectacular in a breeze, its dense canopy and compact conical shape. It blooms profusely from May into fall with large, single, creamy...

ALEPPO PINE Pinus halepensis

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This lovey and distinct pine from the Mediterranean region is drought-tolerant and can quickly colonize disturbed areas. As such, it is often used for reforesting in warmer areas. Generally reaching 40-60'high and occasionally up to 80'. This conifer is...

COLORADO BRISTLECONE Pinus aristata

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This very slow-growing, little pine 8-20' of the wind-torn high-elevation mountain tops of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and New Mexico is perhaps one of the prettiest of the pines, noted by naturalist John Muir to be "ever irrepressible and...

CLUSTER PINE Pinus pinaster

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This 90-120' tree is densely planted in France where its tapped (like a rubber tree) for its high-turpentine-resin sap; reddish, deeply-fissured bark curved, 7-10" needles and 5-10" shiny-brown cones in clusters. S/M ...

VARIEGATED JAPANESE BLACK Pinus thunbergii (Aocha Matsu)

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Bright golden-yellow variegation is boldly and very irregularly splashed on the deep-green foliage of this upright 15-25' pine. Each tree is completely unique in its patterning and is definitely an unusual focal point for the landscape. Creates a...

PINK GLOW CRABAPPLE Malus (Dolgo)

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Perhaps the very best for crabapple jelly this pretty tree to 25' produces edible, oblong, pink-red fruit; it is a beautiful picture in spring with its pink-budded white flowers, attractive in summer with glossy-green disease resistant foliage and lovely...

DWARF ENGELMANN SPRUCE Picea engelmannii (Hoodie)

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This cute little Engelmann spruce is a sight with its brilliant steely-blue, long, pointy needles. A dwarf tree which starts out with a somewhat uneven and rambling form before finding its resolve and standing up to take on a dense pyramidal, Christmas...