It’s a crime how underused this American Beauties tree is considering how rewarding, how attractive, and how easy to grow it is. It’s always an eye-opener to see a mature specimen with its narrow form, deep green, peach-like foliage, its outstanding bloom, and its riveting fall color. Sourwood’s clean foliage is a cooling presence in the landscape and great protection for your landscape’s birds. It also is the perfect background for its sprays of small, white, lily of the valley-like flowers that are borne on long, terminal, drooping strings in July and August. These slightly fragrant flowers are a magnet for native insects and butterflies and stand out as one of the few trees with a considerable summer bloom. Sourwood follows up its summer show with an incredible display of fall color with a searing burst of deep crimson foliage. Sourwood thrives in full sun or partial shade is nearly pest free, and is ready to make your landscape a better place for you and your garden critters!

Talk about a tough survivor of a plant, Eastern Hophornbeam will tolerate the poorest, rockiest soil and thrive while providing outstanding nest and cover for native songbirds. Round growing, this easy to grow small tree covers itself with 5″ long, deep green, Birch-like foliage starting in April, right about the time its flowers are fully in view. Eastern Hophornbeam has both make and female flowers with the male ones being the larger and more persistent with big, catkin-like blooms that will keep showing into the following winter after the foliage has fallen off. Female flower develop a fruit that looks like Hops giving this plant its name. Plant this selection in full sun, keep it moist the first year then let it go on its own…it is so tolerant and easy to grow that the only thing you’ll ever have to do after the first year is watch the birds that nest in its branches!

There is no tree that offers a more breathtaking display of fiery foliage color in the fall than Black Gum. It’s a shame more are not out there in landscapes but ‘Wildfire’ may help change that. ‘Wildfire’ not only excels at lighting up the fall with its vibrant shades of yellow, orange and scarlet, it also offers incredible spring color with its blazing, bright red emerging foliage that matures into a deep green color by summer. Like the species, ‘Wildfire’ has the same nearly inconspicuous bloom that is a nectar magnet to native insects, the same bird attracting fruit and the same great cover that native birds prize. It’s a plant that deserves a place of landscape honor.

This upright-branching selection is quite a landscape showoff, with bird-enticing fruit in late summer and vivid red foliage that will brighten up your autumn horizon. Superb fall foliage color. Fruit attracts native birds for eating and for nesting shelter. Tolertes wet soils. Easy to grow and one of the best shade trees available.

‘Chapparal’ makes a landscape statement with its dark green, large foliage that covers tightly weeping branches to form a dense, almost inpenetrable umbrella that works even in smaller landscape spaces. With few pests or problems, this easy care selection gives great form and texture…all you have to do is sit back and enjoy!

Vigorous and upright, this large growing conifer is perfect for specimen use or functions well in large windbreaks. Fine textured, medium green foliage turns a beautiful orange to red-brown before dropping in the fall.

Compact, dense pyramidal form with bright golden foliage with hints of burgundy in the spring. Golden foliage does not burn in the sun. Especially showy with its golden orange fall color. Much more compact than other Dawn Redwoods. Easy to grow. Outstanding, non-fading, non-burning foliage. Spectacular, large growing specimen plant. Superb fall foliage color.

Gladiator™ is an excellent ornamental tree with a profusion of bright pink flowers followed by small reddish-purple fruit on an upright crown. Foliage is glossy bronze-purple and disease resistant.

This flowering crab is a beauty in many settings, including the city, with long lasting pink-purple color from summer through fall.  It is highly tolerant and easy to grow with very little maintenace, and pruning only when desired.  Reaching a max height of 20 feet it can be conveniently planted in a variety of areas as long as there is sun.

A new, upright, oval-shaped crabapple. Abundant pink buds opening to white flowers. Persistent dark red fruit. Disease-resistant. Adds interest to the landscape all season with spring blooms, nice foliage and summer to fall fruits. Low maintenance and easy to grow. Great for smaller spaces.