This native tree is hard to find in cultivation but is a true winner for the native landscape because of its ability to thrive in semi-shaded woodland areas and its season to season beauty that other ornamental trees can only envy. Its rounded, somewhat pyramidal head is covered by medium to deep green leaves that whorl around branched providing a backdrop for flattened clustes of small white flowers that bloom from late May into June and fill the woodland with their gentle fragrance. Native insects love the bloom and birds can’t get enough of the profuse fruit that follows in fall that starts green, turns red and matures to black. Yellow to purple-red fall foliage color adds to this plant’s spleandor and completes and outstanding landscape package!

This medium-sized tree has large branches with flowers covering throughout in the spring. Blossoms are very fragrant, pale-pink flowers that resemble wisteria bring pollinators to it. Seed pods turning over in the fall. Lovely shade tree with that will be a showstopper to your landscape.

Fragrant flowers and juicy, thin-skinned fruit make the Meyer Lemon the pre-eminent tropical lemon. Keep away from frost and freezing contitions during New England winters. Will produce and survive in a large container.

This Fringetree was selected because of its outstanding floral display. This has to be one of the most beautiful native trees in North America. The delicate, creamy white flowers are lightly fragrant. They are easy to grow in full sun or part shade in moist, fertile soil. They are pollinated by bees and are a host plant for several species of moths. This is a male selection so, it will not produce fruit as some find that messy. If you have a female tree this will be a suitable pollinator.

This easy to grow and widely underused American Beauties selection is the perfect combination of beauty, utility, and wildlife attractiveness. Long, wide, deep green spear-like leaves cover this multi-stemmed small tree and serve as a perfect backdrop for 4-6 drooping strings of white fringe-like petals from mid-May to mid-June. In late summer, bunches of dark, bluish-black fruit appear, providing prized food for local birds and other garden critters. Even with its attractive fruit and flowers, Fringetree may save its best show for last with a bright yellow fall foliage display that is as bright as it is beautiful. Use Fringetree in your landscape in any sunny location that calls for a small specimen or it can even be grouped along the border to form a unique hedge or windbreak that will enhance your landscape with its ability to house many colorful local birds. 

Pea-shaped, white blooms cover the delicately twisted branches in April-May, followed by lush heart-shaped leaves that turn gold in fall then drop to reveal weeping, twisting branches. Vigorous grower. A very cold tolerant ornamental tree, perfect in the landscape or for an eye-catching specimen plant any month of the year. Drought tolerant once established.

Sparkling Wine puts on a four-season show with dark rose-pink, pea-shaped flowers that adorn its stems in early spring, giving way to unique heart shaped foliage that bursts with a showy burgundy hue.  Its smaller size can be grown as a small tree or kept as a large shrub giving you the option to keep on smaller spaces such as patios or small gardens.

‘Ruby Falls’ is aptly named, with dark maroon heart-shaped leaves, rose-purple flowers, and bright red stems that will grace your garden with color and its wonderful weeping habit. Its dwarf size makes it an easy pick for smaller gardens and borders.

Upright and rounded, this tree’s stiff branches are covered in striking reddish-purple bloom in early May. Foliage emerges after bloom, bright gold matures to yellow and lime in summer. Striking Spring bloom! Foliage is colorful throughout the growing season making this an outstanding specimen tree. Bloom attracts butterflies and birds love this plant’s shelter.

This unique variety of Redbud produces clusters of heavily petaled and fully-doubled dark pink flowers in spring. A sterile variety, it produces no seedpods but attracts lots of wildlife to its flowers.