Trees

Parrotia persica (PERSIAN WITCH HAZEL)

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This delightful rare 20-40'tall and nearly as wide tree is best known for its spectacular fall colors of yellow, orange, red and purple; in winter it shows off with its peeling bark coming off to expose green, white and tan patches; an exquisite specimen...

Prunus 'Okame' (OKAME FLOWERING CHERRY)

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Ideal for the small garden, this graceful little hybrid (to 20') is covered with pendulous, single carmine blossoms in spring and attractive orange-red foliage in fall; its fine texture also recommends for bonsai. S/M/GDr ...

Mahonia nervosa (LONGLEAF OREGON GRAPE)

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The Cascade or Longleaf Oregon Grape is a handsome and striking species! This low slowly-spreading 2' shrub has long lustrous deep-green leaves with many holly-like leaflets. The foliage takes on a rich reddish-bronze in the winter months. In spring, 8"...

Olea 'Manzanillo' (OLIVE OF SEVILLE)

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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...

Parrotia persica 'Persian Lace' (VARIEGATED PERSIAN WITCH)

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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

Prunus 'Shogetsu' (JAPANESE FLOWERING CHERRY)

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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...

Prunus mume (UME JAPANESE APRICOT)

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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...

Pistacia chinensis (CHINESE PISTACHE)

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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...

Olea europaea 'Arbequina' (EARLY-BEARING OLIVE)

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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,...

Liquidambar styraciflua 'Slender Silhouette' (COLUMNAR SWEETGUM)

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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...

Koelreuteria bipinnata (CHINESE GOLDENRAIN TREE)

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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...

Liquidambar styraciflua 'Variegata' (VARIEGATED SWEETGUM)

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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 ...

Magnolia grandiflora 'Brackens Brown Beauty' (SOUTHERN MAGNOLIA)

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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 ...

Platanus acerifolia 'Bloodgood' (LONDON PLANE TREE)

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Hardiness zones 5-9 A beauty of a large park-like tree to 40-80' tall x 30-40' wide, which is handsome, vigorous and with a nice symmetrical form, bright-green palmate leaves that turn a bronzy yellow-gold in the fall, the inconspicuous flowers appear in...

Nyssa sylvatica (TUPELO/BLACK GUM)

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Hardiness zones 3-9 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...

Metasequoia glyptostroboides (DAWN REDWOOD)

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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...

Pinus veitchii (MEXICAN WHITE PINE)

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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...

Pinus leucodermis 'syn. heldreichii' (BOSNIAN PINE)

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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...

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

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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. 

Pinus attenuradiata (KMX PINE)

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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...

Magnolia virginiana 'Silver Mist' (SWEETBAY MAGNOLIA)

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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...

Pinus halepensis (ALEPPO PINE)

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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...

Pinus aristata (COLORADO BRISTLECONE)

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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...

Pinus pinaster (CLUSTER PINE)

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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 ...