Trees & Shrubs

Trees & Shrubs

Excitement and anticipation are the air of a new season.  The birds chirping, the sounds of outdoor activity everywhere!  At Van Wilgen’s we have that feeling every day and want to share it with you.  Our team in the nursery yard is here to make it happen. Whether you are looking to freshen up the front of your house, attract birds and butterflies, or just to get outside and dig in the dirt, we are here to help.

Please note, below is a sample of some of our favorite plants that we carry throughout the year, and not a representation of current inventory. To find out what’s in stock, pay us a visit or give us a call. We’re here to help.

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Midwinter Fire Dogwood

While most plants are hunkered down in the winter and looking non-descript, ‘Midwinter Fire’ is alive with color and ready to put on an unforgettable winter show. The color is […]

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Arctic Sun® Dogwood

Arctic Sun® Dogwood

This exquisite dwarf dogwood has golden yellow stems with red tips and orangey fall foliage that will dress up your smaller gardens or landscape in the fall and winter. Its […]

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Huron® Gray Dogwood

Huron® Gray Dogwood

This easy-care, compact native shrub is loaded with pollinator and butterfly value as large flat heads of small white flowers appear in late May and early June to provide loads […]

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Geauge Graytwig Dogwood

A refined selection of Graytwig with the same tough, trouble free makeup, ‘Geauge™’ is taller, narrower, and more vase shaped than the species, but more than able to handle itself […]

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Graytwig Dogwood

Graytwig Dogwood

A great landscape pioneer, this plant does well in difficult spots and tolerates wet, poor soils. Great in masses, this wide spreader is disease-free, has good red-purple fall color, and […]

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Tricolor Cornelian Cherry

This underused form of Dogwood will thrill you with its long-lasting, small yellow early spring flowers and superb, creamy bordered green foliage. Bird love it for its cherry-like late summer […]

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Cornelian cherry dogwood

Cornelian cherry dogwood

Showy small tree with a mounded form. Small yellow flowers are produced abundantly in early spring, followed by bright red, cherry-like fruit in summer. Glossy deep green foliage. Golden yellow fall […]

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Galilean® Dogwood

Tiered horizontal branches hold dark green leaves that provide the backdrop for masses of white, star-like flowers in late May and June. Showy red fruit and purple-red fall foliage. 

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Rosy Teacups® Dogwood

Rosy Teacups® Dogwood

Breathtaking deep rose pink, overlapping flower bracts with red toned edges late May to early June. Bred to be more disease resistant, more drought resistant, and more floriferous than the […]

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Wolf Eyes Chinese Dogwood

Wolf Eyes Chinese Dogwood

You’ll never look at Dogwood the same way again once you catch a glimpse at this stunning piece of landscape eye candy! ‘Wolf Eyes’ dense, spreading form is awash in […]

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Scarlet Fire® Kousa Dogwood

Scarlet Fire® Kousa Dogwood

Be dazzled by the the huge, deep, dark fuschia-pink flower bracts that will light up the rounded small tree in June. Bred at Rutgers University, this precocious tree grows quickly […]

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Satomi Dogwood

Satomi Dogwood

Here’s a plant with landscape gifts that should demand a place in anyone’s yard! Dense and full with showy, red emerging foliage that fades to a pleasing, lustrous green, ‘Satomi’s’ […]

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