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Aspen - Quaking
Aspen - Quaking Fast-Growing Tree with Unique Leaves The Quaking Aspen is a fast-growing tree with outstanding fall color. Plant a row of them along your driveway or just one as a focal point in your front yard. Your Quaking Aspen has many attractive features, but one of the most endearing is what gives it its name. The Aspen’s ability to “quake” has been admired and memorialized by writers and poets for generations. Imagine sitting beneath your Aspen on a summer day with the slightest of warm breezes ruffling your hair. Hear the soft rustle of the heart-shaped leaves above you. Look up to see the deep green leaves sparkle in the mottled sunlight as they twist and turn on the flat leaf stalks that catch the drifting air. Few experiences capture the magic of nature so well as a Quaking Aspen dancing on a summer breeze. Quaking Aspens grow 20-50 feet tall with a narrow, rounded crown. You’ll love their unique bark that is very light in color and turns a chalky white as it ages. In the fall, your Aspen will turn to shades of zestful yellow and orange, brightening your fall landscape as winter approaches. The Quaking Aspen is one of the most widely distributed trees in North America. It’s tolerant of many soil types, and doesn’t require a lot of special care. Pioneers and American Indians used Aspen bark for various medicinal purposes and wildlife love them. Overall, the Quaking Aspen is a lovely landscape tree with uniquely endearing features. The quaking leaves and the golden fall colors will brighten any landscape! * Fast-growing* Unique leaves* Fall color
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Showy Mountain Ash - Sale Price: $121.35 Small Deciduous Tree with Ornamental Features The Showy Mountain Ash is a small, understory tree with ornamental features. Plant one as a specimen tree in your front yard, or use one as a small shade tree. Your Showy Mountain Ash is just that—showy! It grows to 30 feet in height with a 25 foot spread, and has an open, rounded crown. The leaves have a lovely, tropical appearance. The dark green leaves have grey green undersides which playfully flutter in the sunlight as it catches the contrasting shades. Spring brings six inch flat clusters of ¼-inch, five petaled flowers. The delicate, white blooms stand out like tiny white bridal bouquets amid the tree’s branches. When summer arrives, those flowers will have become orange-red fruit, providing a stunning accent to the green, tropical-look of the leaves. The berries appear in clusters on the tree, and will even persist well after the leaves have dropped for the season. Your Mountain Ash becomes more interesting with age. The smooth, grey bark of its youth will turn rough and scaly with age, giving your tree more definition and interest in the winter months after its leaves have gone. As your tree matures and its production increases, you’ll be able to experiment with the tiny berry-like fruit. They are very acidic raw, but birds and other animals love them. The fruit is also sometimes made into jelly, and parts of the tree have also been used medicinally. All in all, the Mountain Ash is a “showy” tree in any season and will be an asset for your landscape. * Spring flowers* Edible fruit* Unique foliage |
| Cottonwood - Siouxland - Sale Price: $64.25 Fast-Growing Landscape Tree The Siouxland Cottonwood is a fast growing tree that would look great in a stand along a driveway or border, or as an accent tree. If you don’t like the fluffy fall seeds of poplars, then the Siouxland Cottonwood may be for you. The Siouxland is a male cultivar of the Cottonwood, so doesn’t produce seed. It still has all the endearing features of the Cottonwood, but without the mess. Extremely fast growing, hardy and easy to care for, the Siouxland will provide you with years of carefree beauty. The Siouxland can grow to a majestic 70 feet tall with a spread of 40 feet. Its grey/whitish bark gives a distinctive flair, and the heart-shaped leaves rustle on the slightest of breeze. The foliage is a light green with a lighter green or even silvery shade on the underside. This aids it in catching the sun’s rays and drawing the eye as it dances on the wind. In the fall that dancing foliage turns to a delightful yellow shade before winter enforces its time of rest. The Siouxland is a Cottonwood sure to please. It’s a no-mess, no-fuss tree that will provide you years of beauty and enjoyment. * Fast-Growing * Seedless * Hardy * Fall color |
| Accolade® Elm - Sale Price: $114.20 The Accolade® Elm, Ulmus 'Morton', has an excellent resistance to Dutch Elm disease. This tree has an upright, spreading shape and is a large, broadleaf deciduous tree with a graceful vase shape similar to American elm. It is a fast growing tree and the leaves are simple and a glossy, dark green color that change to yellow in the fall. With good sun exposure fall color becomes a bright yellow. Elms prefer full sun and adapt easily to extremes in pH, moisture, wind and heat. They do prefer well-drained, sandy, loamy or clay soils. The aggressive roots can probably break sidewalks and raise pavement if trees are improperly located. The Accolade Elm has an excellent disease and pest resistance, drought tolerance, and good yellow fall color. It has a rapid growth rate and adaptability to urban conditions. Accolade® Elm creates an excellent shade tree for larger yards or street plantings. * Upright * Bright fall color * Excellent shade tree |
| Overcup Oak - Sale Price: $59.95 The Overcup Oak tree, Quercus lyrata, is a long-lived, very sturdy shade tree that will thrive in a wide variety of soil conditions. This oak tree is long overlooked by growers; the tree is just starting to be more popular and thus more readily available for home landscapes! It is an important tree in difficult urban landscaping situations with uniform branching forming a rounded shape with an open crown. The ‘Overcup’ Oak has brilliant reddish or gray brown bark and displays leathery dark green leaves in summer; fall color is a rich yellow-brown. The ‘Overcup’ Oak is easy to transplant and tolerates most soil conditions and partial shade to full sun. Acorns are produced annually and are relatively small, usually between 1/2 an 1 inch. This oak tree derives its name from the acorn cap that very nearly covers the acorn. The tree can produce very prolific acorn crops but generally does not begin to produce for 15 + years. ‘Overcup’ Oak trees can create a wildlife habitat on land where most oak species cannot survive! * Long lived * Popular * Great landscaping tree |
| Aristocrat Flowering Pear - Sale Price: $114.25 The Aristocrat Flowering Pear tree, Pyrus calleryana 'Aristocrat', is a beautiful tree that is attractive in all four seasons. It produces masses of white flowers in early spring, (before the leaves appear), followed by bright, glossy green, disease resistant foliage. Leaves turn a deep to reddish-purple in mid to late fall to provide spectacular fall color. The clean winter outline is upright to pyramidal when young and becomes broadly oval at maturity. Aristocrat Flowering Pear trees have a more dominant trunk and open form that helps this deciduous, flowering species, to be less susceptible to wind damage. Home owners and landscapers place this tree in prominent locations because of the year around beauty it provides. It is tolerant to a wide range of soil pH’s. |
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