Shade/Ornamental Trees

Ostrya Virginiana Ironwood

Ironwood

This tree is not salt tolerant. Muscle like bark and trump are ornamental attractive
Growth rate: Slow 1’ per year

Physocarpus Amber Jubilee Ninebark

Amber Jubilee Ninebark

Selected for its striking foliage in glowing tones of orange, yellow and gold. With its bold array of colors, it will stand out as a lovely focal point in a small garden landscape. Delicate white blooms are produced in spring, and fall foliage is highlighted with tones of red and purple, making this ninebark appealing over the entire season. Plant in full sun for best performance.
Growth rate: Medium 1-2’ per year

Physocarpus Summerwine Ninebark

Summer Wine Ninebark-Tree

Neat compact branching and fine, deeply cut, dark crimson-red leaves. This native variety has pinkish-white, button-like flowers in mid-summer. It is very showy and extremely hardy.
Growth rate: Medium 1-2’ per year

Populus tremuloides Quaking Aspen

Quaking Aspen

The small leaves of this native tree tremble in the slightest breeze for a beautiful effect. It can be found in moist, shallow, rocky, or clay soils. The bark is an attractive greenish-white.
Growth rate: Fast 2-3’ per year

Quercus bicolor Swamp White Oak

Swamp White Oak

Excellent in both wet and upland soils. This tree has a course, less deeply incised leaf than Q. alba and acorns borne on 2-4” stalks
Growth rate: Slow 6”- 1’ per year

Quercus ellipsoidalis Northern Pin Oak

Northern Pin Oak

An attractive shade tree with a pyramidal-oval habit of growth, pointy leaves and excellent rich red fall color, fast growing for an oak; grows best in loose, slightly acidic soils, but more tolerant of alkaline soils than its popular relative the pin oak.
Growth rate: Medium 1-2’ per year

Quercus macro Bur Oak

Bur Oak

The hardiest of the oaks, this shade tree is singularly majestic, with its picturesque wide-spreading habit of growth and gnarled branches, best for larger landscapes; extremely tough and adaptable but relatively slow growing, plant for future generations. Vary adaptable
Growth rate: Slow 6”- 1’ per year

Quercus rubra Northern Red Oak #10

Northern Red Oak

A beautiful and artistic shade tree with a picturesque loosely pyramidal habit of growth and good red fall color; fast growing for an oak, an extremely tough and adaptable tree, best for larger landscapes; prefers loose, slightly acidic soils. Under ideal conditions can be expected to live to a ripe old age of 300 years
Growth rate: Fast 2’ per year

Salix ‘Pendula’ Weeping Pussy Willow

Weeping Pussy Willow

A strongly weeping form of pussy willow on a standard, this tree is perfect for use as an accent or specimen plant for confined areas. It’s large, silky soft catkins appear in early spring for a pretty effect
Growth rate: Medium 1'-2’ per year

Salix alba Niobe Weeping Willow

Niobe Weeping Willow

Niobe Weeping Willow is a dense deciduous tree with a rounded form and gracefully weeping branches. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other landscape plants with less refined foliage. This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. It is quite adaptable, preferring to grow in average to wet conditions, and will even tolerate some standing water.
Growth rate: Fast 2-3’ per year

Syringa reticulata Ivory Silk Lilac

Ivory Silk Lilac

A most attractive small flowering tree with cherry like bark. It bears white flowers clusters in early July.

Growth rate: Medium1-2’ per year

Tilia ‘Boulevard’ Linden

Boulevard Linden

Great street tree because of its narrow growth.
Growth rate: Medium 1-2’ per year