|
|
 |
Water Oak
Water Oak The Water Oak tree, Quercus nigra, is also known as a spotted oak or possum oak. Water Oak trees are a conical to round-topped tree. It is a popular tree in the South as a shade and street tree. This deciduous tree is fast growing and it starts producing acorns before its 10th year. The Water Oak is found along streams and low ground. It is a tall tree with a slender trunk . The Quercus nigra is hardy to zone 6 and is frost tender. The plant prefers medium to heavy soils. It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. It requires moist soil. The plant can tolerate strong winds but not maritime exposure. Acorns are 1/2 inch long, very dark in color, and 1/3 covered by a flattened cap. It matures in September of the second year. The Water Oak trees attractive form makes it a popular landscape and shade tree. Water oak acorns provide food for many animals such as squirrels, white-tailed deer, and wild turkey.
Water Oak related products:
Hydrangea - Cityline™ Paris - Sale Price: $39.95 Hydrangea - Cityline™ Paris, Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Paris Rapa’ (PP10,906), has glossy dark green foliage and large flowers that emerge green and red, and then they mature to an intense dark pink red. This plant is a knockout! Its place is front and center in the shrub border, patio garden, or your best container. Cityline™ Paris only grows 3 to 5 feet tall. Like all the Citylines™, it was bred for stronger stems to hold its large, heavy flowerhead. It has a neat, tight habit so pruning is never required. Large beautiful blooms are great for dried or cut flowers. It requires full sun to partial shade and well-drained soil. Moisture is a necessity for this plant. |
| Dogwood - Grey Twig - Sale Price: $57.05 The Gray Dogwood, 'Cornus racemosa', is a deciduous shrub which typically occurs in moist or rocky ground along streams, ponds, wet meadows, glade and prairie margins, thickets and rocky bluffs. It grows 10-15' tall and features white flowers borne in terminal racemes (hence the species name of racemosa) in late spring and grayish-green, elliptic to lance-shaped leaves (2-4 long). The foliage turns an interesting dusky purplish red in fall. Terminal stems holding the flowers are distinctively red and provide interesting contrast to the clusters of small white berries which form after the flowers have dropped. The red stem color is more easily seen after the fruits are gone, and red color often persists into early winter. Excellent when planted in groups and left alone to spread in naturalized areas or native plant gardens. Use this plant in shrub borders, along streams or ponds or near buildings or when planted as a screen. The Gray Dogwood can be particularly useful because of its ability to grow in poor soils. It is easily grown in average, medium wet, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Tolerant of city air pollution. Zones 2-8. * Fall Color * Wildlife Plant |
| Ninebark - Summer Wine® - Sale Price: $39.95 The Physocarpus Summer Wine, Physocarpus opulifolious 'Summer Wine', is a new Ninebark that is very neat with compact branching and deeply cut, dark crimson leaves. The summer Wine is purple ninebark hybrid that resulted from a cross between Nana and Diabolo. This resulted in a shorter plant with the purple leaves. This plant requires little pruning, but if you need to prune, do it after this plant blooms. Do not prune after mid-August to allow for the flower buds to form for next years flowers. This compact ninebark looks great in a pot. Use this plant in groupings or masses, in perennial or shrub borders, containers and as a short screen. The pinkish white flowers appear in mid-summer. Summer Wine is showy and extremely hardy and is prized as a landscape shrub and as a cut flower. As with other ninebarks, the bark exfoliates in papery strips and with the colorful fruit it produces, this plant is truly a 4 season wonder! Crimson Leaves! |
| Dogwood - Redosier - Sale Price: $61.35 The Redosier Dogwood, Cornus sericea, is a freely spreading shrub with many stems, 3-18' tall; branching is opposite, young stems (and most old ones) often bright, smooth, shiny red. Leaves are opposite, deciduous, oval 5-10 cm long. White threads run through the veins toewards the leaf tip. Flowers are white to greenish, small 2-4 mm across with 4 petals.; flowers are numerous in dense flat-topped clusters. Fruits are white, berry-like drupes, 7-9 mm long. This plant brightens up a winter landscape. Shade tolerant; provides cover and food for wildlife and birds. It is adapted to both wet and dry sites and a variety of soil types. |
| Arborvitae - Grune Kugel - Sale Price: $51.35 Arborvitae - Grune Kugel, Thuja plicata 'Grune Kugel', is a Western Red Cedar that grows slowly into a small neat mound, with shiny mint-green foliage. Grune Kugel forms a dense, lush shrub that can be used to line walkways, in the front of shrub borders, or plant in groups to fill small areas. It is easy to grow and useful for many landscapes! The tips of Grune Kugels foliage turns a bronze cast in winter which protects from winter winds. This shrub needs regular watering weekly, or more often in extreme heat. Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. This arborvitae will tolerate wet areas in your landscape and it can fit into just about any landscape! * Dwarf arborvitae* Easy to care for* Year-around interest |
|
Water Oak User Comments:There are currently 0 comments for Water Oak
|
|