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Eastern Red Cedar
Eastern Red Cedar Hardy Evergreen Great for Wildlife The Eastern Red Cedar is an evergreen conifer. You could use several as a large privacy screen or just one would look beautiful as a specimen plant. If you’re a bird-lover, this is the tree for you. The Eastern Red Cedar grows in a 40-60 foot pyramidal shape that is dense but somewhat irregular, providing terrific cover for birds and other wildlife. The bark has a shredding nature that is hidden from view but useful for nest construction. The ¼ inch dark blue cones that are produced by the female tree are a valuable food source for many species of birds. The Eastern Red Cedar has blue-green foliage that sometimes turns a darker brown-green shade in the winter months. Plant several along your driveway for that rich pine aroma as you arrive home. Step close and you’ll detect the cedar scent that is prized by many who construct cedar chests from them, or use them in closets for their natural ability to repel insects. People also love to clip a few springs for use indoors during the holiday season. They make wonderful wreaths or just scatter a few boughs around for their invigorating pine bouquet. Hardy and easy to transplant, the Eastern Red Cedar is a tree you can plant and forget about. It will adapt to almost any conditions and provide you years of enjoyment. * Evergreen * Hardy * Valuable for wildlife .
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| Arborvitae - Excelsa - Sale Price: $51.35 Arborvitae Excelsa, Thuja plicata 'Excelsa', is a beautiful Western Red Cedar that develops into a tall “two story” privacy screen; can be used as a height-controlled screening tree. Excelsa may be left natural or can be pruned on sides and top to create a large hedge. This is a superb tree that holds its color throughout the year! The Excelsa Cedar is natural-looking, good-smelling, and an indigenous cedar tree that is suitable for rural, semi-rural and some urban settings; also works as a windbreak and is deer resistant. It prefers full sun and partial shade; adapts well to various soil conditions. Arborvitae Excelsa is a vigorously growing, pyramidal evergreen with a rich green color that remains outstanding year round. A fast growing arborvitae, Excelsa is one of the better plants introduced in the last few years for screening! * Adaptable * Privacy screen * Vigorous grower |
| Flame Willow - Sale Price: $49.95 The Flame Willow, Salix 'flame', gets its name from the stems that turn red in late fall and lasts until early spring. It grows multi-stemmed, more like a shrub, unless trained otherwise. The Flame Willow is very hardy and responds well to pruning; can be pruned or left to grow in its natural form. Grow in full sun to part shade with ample moisture; tolerates a wide range of soils; when planted in wet well, drained soils, the Flame willow is a fast grower. Plant this willow as a specimen or in a line along a border. It grows fast and can also be planted as a privacy screen where the fall color will remain fabulous! Both in summer and winter the branches retain their orange red glow. For a great showing of the bright new stems, you can cut them back to almost ground level before they come out of dormancy in the spring! * Hardy * Brightly colored stems * Fast grower |
| Yellow Buckeye - Sale Price: $85.65 The Yellow Buckeye tree, Aesculus octandra, is an ornamental tree and may also be known as the big buckeye, buckeye, large buckeye, Ohio buckeye, and sweet buckeye. The smallish creamy yellow or occasionally pinkish flowers appear in 6 panicles from late spring to early summer, followed by fruits each with 2 to 4 seeds. The dark green leaves turn yellow before falling. The bark is dark brown, becoming furrowed with age. Yellow Buckeye trees have nuts that are attractive to squirrels. The Yellow Buckeye is the largest of the buckeye tree species. This tree tolerates shady conditions when young, but it needs full sun to partial sun to reach full maturity. Zones 4-8 Wildlife Tree Large Tree Shade Tree |
| Chinese Chestnut - Sale Price: $78.50 The Chinese Chestnut is currently planted as a replacement for the American Chestnut, which was obliterated by blight in the 1900s. Most store-shelf chestnuts usually come from Spain, but the Spanish Chestnut tree is not at all cold-hardy and can be vulnerable to blight as well. The Chinese Chestnut serves both as an ornamental dark-green shade tree and as a less-risky nut producer, providing its caretaker with pounds of sweet chestnuts to roast, puree, boil and even make gluten-free flour out of. This all-purpose deciduous tree is blight-resistant and prefers moist, acidic, well-drained soils in full sun, but can manage in dry soils of varying pH; hot, arid climates are OK as well. A good all-around choice for a yard shade tree, the Chinese Chestnut will bring yellow and gold color to your autumn landscape and is amazing when planted near Autumn Purple Ash. Zones 4-8. |
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