Stunning, almost black-purple foliage at flush gives this variety some real eye appeal. Foliage fades as it ages to a deep purple-green and the form of this plant is large and stately with a beautiful smooth gray bark.

Purple Fountain’is adeciduous, columnar, dark leaved tree that matures into one of the most breathtaking specimen trees in the woody ornamental world. The combination of its riveting, bronze-purple, wavy margined leaves and cascading branches makes it incredibly gaze worthy and unique. While its foliage takes on a more burgundy-green shade as it matures in the summer, you can still maintain the darkest purple growth if the tree is placed in full sun. ‘Purple Fountain’ differs from other weeping varieties due to its far more singular, columnar form and strongly upright growth that requires no staking. It even lights up the landscape in the fall and winter with a yellow, darkening to orange-brown display of color followed by its tight flowing form clothed in vibrant gray bark that jumps off a snowy backdrop in the winter. 

Nikita’s Gift Persimmon is easy to grow and typically starts producing fruit in 2 to 3 years after planting. Naturally compact it is the perfect addition to the collectors garden or the novice orchardist as it is rarly bothered by pests and diseases. It is a high producer (over 50 lbs) of sweet, flavorful, reddish-orange fruit in the fall. Plus the green foliage turns a beautiful rainbow  or orange to yellow shades in the fall. Persimmons are widely planted across Asia because of they are delicious and easy to grow. Nikita’s Gift is a cross between an Asian and an American persimmon. Although it is self-fruitful, a larger harvest is seen when planted near a male persimmon.

A native tree that will produce over 30 lbs of delicous, sweet persimmons in late September is a win for any home orchard. Not bothered by pests or diseases this is truely a gardeners dream tree. One of the earlies to ripen, Prairie Star™ Persimmon is self-fertile and can be seedless. the large fruit is ready to enjoy when it is soft like a tomato and can be eaten fresh or baked in cookies or cakes! Although it is self-fertile, like most fruit trees you will see a heavier crop if planted near a male tree for pollination. Most trees start to fruit 2 to 3 years after planting.

A result of breeding work by Professor Elwyn Meader of the University New Hampshire, this selection is both cold hardy and self-fruitful needing no fertilization from another Persimmon variety to produce seedless fruit.  This Persimmon is productive and the fully ripe fruit is sweet and can taste similar to butterscotch or caramel.

A distinct selection of native Persimmon noted for its rapid, upright growth and weeping branches. Will reach 10 to 15 feet tall and 5 to 7 feet wide. Female variety, so will produce golden 1″ fruit in the fall. Not only a unique ornamental, ‘Magic Fountain’ produces a much sought after fruit. Let the fruit remain on the tree after the leaves fall, and through a few hard freezes to insure sweetness.

Rare and wonderful, this selection has small, April and May blooming flowers that are surrounded by huge white bracts that look like wings! Large green leaves serve as the backdrop for this interesting, partial shade-loving, small tree. Dependable and quite unusual for partial shade. Huge bracts surrounding spring flowers look the wings of a dove. Excellent specimen tree or understory planting for a tree line.

Tiered horizontal branches hold dark green leaves that provide the backdrop for masses of white, star-like flowers in late spring. Large showy red fruit and purple-red fall foliage. A perfect small specimen that has spectacular burgundy-red fall color, large red, songbird-attracting fruit and a mottled bark that is subtly spectacular in winter.

This could be the perfect dogwood you’ve been waiting for! Another selection of the spectacular hybrids from the ‘Rutgan’ series of Dogwood, ‘Venus’ has the beauty of the goddess it was named for. Very hardy, with superb disease resistance, this intoxicating selection is exquisitely round shaped with a low branching habit that will have its flowers nearly touching the ground. And what flowers! They are enormous 5-6″ sized, snow-white bracts surrounding a tiny green center that unfurl in a blinding performance of spring glory in mid-May that will leave you breathless. Once these massive blooms fade, you will get a great look at clean, deep green foliage that will stay beautiful even summer’s heat followed by a brilliant display of color in fall makes this the perfect worry free specimen for any partial shade location.

You may have heard all the bad news about growing pink Dogwoods but this Cornus florida, Cornus kousa cross should get every Dogwood lover excited because of its great flower color and its great disease resistance. ‘Stellar Pink’ forms a dense, rounded tree that thrives in full sun to partial shade and shows significant resistance to anthracnose, the disease that has plagued many older, native pink Dogwoods. Not only is this selection easier to grow, its flower power is just so impressive! 3 to 4″ diameter flowers open in early to mid-May and cover the tree in a blanket of pink. This showy specimen continues to shine in summer and fall with bright red, bird attracting fruit and a purple-red fall foliage show that can only be called stellar!