Shade Trees


Birch Heritage
Size available: 6-8, 8-10, 12-14
Zone: 4-8

Full Sun
Height: 30-40ft
Spread: 30-35ft

  • Fast growing tree with peeling brown bark
  • Does well in moist but well drained soil
  • Ideal specimen
  • Very low maintenance


Cherry Autumnalis
Size Available: 10gal, 2-2.5”cal
Zone: 4-8

Full-Part sun
Height: 20-35ft
Spread: 15-30ft

  • Showy pink flower that can bloom twice a year – once in spring and again in fall
  • Tolerates the winter cold and summer heat better than most flowerings cherries
  • Fast growing can reach 24 inches per year once established


Cherry Kwanzan
Size Available: 2-2.5 cal
Zone: 5-8

Full/Part Sun
Height: 25-30ft
Spread: 20-25ft

  • Vase-shaped when young and spread as it ages
  • Double-pink flowers that blooms mid-May


Cherry Okame
Size Available:  10 gal
Zone: 5-9

Full/Part Sun
Height: 15-30ft
Spread: 20-30ft

  • Early spring blooms pink flowers
  • Leaves turn bronze and orange in fall

 


Cherry Yoshino
Size Available:  1.75-2” cal
Zone: 4-8

Full/Part Sun
Height: 25-30ft
Spread: 25-30ft

  • Double white to pink flowers 
  • A beautiful, spreading, arching crown


Dogwood Kousa
Size Available: 10 gal, 8-10ft
Zone: 5-8

Full Sun/Part Shade
Height: 15-30ft
Spread: 15-30ft

  • Can be single stem or multi-stem
  • White to cream color flower in May-June
  • Red berries after flower

 


Hornbeam
Size Available: 2.75-3” cal
Zone: 3-9

Full Sun/Part Shade
Height: 20-35ft
Spread: 20-35ft

  • Is a slow-growing, deciduous, small to medium-sized understory tree with an attractive globular form

 


Lilac Ivory Silk
Size Available 2-2.5” cal
Zone:3-8

Full Sun
Height:20-25ft
Spread: 10-15ft

  • Round, dense form
  • Creamy white flowers cover the plant
  • 6-12″ long panicles of flowers in June


Linden Green Mountain
Size Available: 2-2.5” cal
Zone: 4-8

Full Sun
Height: 40-50ft
Spread: 25-35ft

  • A fast-growing variety that is heat and drought tolerant
  • Silver undersides of leaves contrast nicely with green tops

 


Maple Autumn Blaze
Size available: 10 gal, 2-2.5cal
Zone:3-8

Full sun, Part sun/Shade
Height: 50-60ft
Spread: 30-40ft

  • Low maintenance and will tolerate most soil conditions
  • Rapid Growth
  • Long lasting orange-red fall color
  • Excellent tree for lawn, park or street

 


Maple Brandywine
Size Available: 1.75-2” cal
Zone: 4-9

Full Sun
Height: 20-30ft
Spread: 10-20ft

  • Brandywine is famous for its super long lasting fall color. It starts a bright red and deepens to a brilliant purple-red over time


Maple Crimson King
Size Available: 10 gal
Zone: 4-8

Full/Part Sun
Height: 40-50ft
Spread: 40-50ft

  • Well-formed, symmetrical tree
  • Tree provides cooling summer shade
  • Stunning crimson foliage
  • Forms a thick, rounded head


Maple Crimson Queen
Size Available: 10 gal
Zone: 5-8

Full/Part Sun
Height: 8-12ft
Spread: 8-12ft

  • A low-branching, dwarf tree with a delicate, weeping form
  • The foliage holds its beautiful crimson color throughout summer and can turn bright scarlet in autumn


Maple Japanese Red Leaf
Size Available: 8 ft
Zone: 5-8

Full/Part Sun
Height: 15-25ft
Spread: 15-25ft

  • Produces attractive, reddish purple foliage, especially in spring and fall
  • Grows in a rounded shape

 


Maple October Glory
Size Available: 10 gal
Zone: 3-9

Full Sun
Height: 40-50ft
Spread: 30-40ft

  • Outstanding, reliable, bright orange to deep, reddish purple fall color
  • A tall form with a dense, rounded crown and large, medium green leaves in spring and summer

 


Maple Trident
Size Available: 1.75-2” cal
Zone: 4-9

Full Sun
Height: 25-35ft
Spread: 15-25ft

  • The trident-shaped leaves turn shades of red and orange in autumn


Oak Swamp
Size Available: 25 gal
Zone: 3-8

Full/Part Sun
Height: 60-70ft
Spread: 60-70ft

  • Moderate to quick grower
  • Rounded, thick growing head
  • Lustrous, dark green foliage with silver backing


Pear Cleveland Select
Size Available: 3-3.5” cal
Zone: 5-8

Full/Part Sun
Height: 30-40ft
Spread: 15-20ft

  • Showy clusters of gleaming white blooms in early spring
  • Dark green summer foliage turns a brilliant purplish red-orange in fall


Pear Redspire
Size Available: 20 gal 1.75-2” cal
Zone: 5-9

Full/Part Sun
Height: 30-40ft
Spread: 20-30ft

  • The narrow crown enable this tree to be used in tight overhead spaces
  • The leaves emerge as red/purple, then become 1.5 to 3 inches long, glossy green with wavy margins and a red blush


Redbud Forest Pansy
Size Available: 2-2.5” cal
Zone5-8

Full/Part Sun
Height: 20-25ft
Spread: 25-30ft

  • Deep rose-colored flowers in spring
  • Burgundy leaves change to purple
  • Darker blooms than the species


Sweetgum
Size Available: 2-2.5” cal
Zone: 5-9

Full Sun
Height: 60-70ft
Spread: 40-50ft

  • Provides brilliant fall color, with leaves turning vibrant shades of yellow, orange, red and purple.
  • Yields long-stemmed, woody, burr-like fruit that is approximately 1½” in diameter.
  • Grows in a pyramidal shape, becoming more oval or rounded with age


Sycamore
Size Available: 2-2.5” cal
Zone: 4-9

Full/Part Sun
Height: 65-75ft
Spread: 45-55ft

  • Unique, gray-brown flaky scales that shed to expose mottled peeling patches of white, gray, and green
  • The leaf surface is bright green and paler underneath., margins are broadly toothed


Tulip tree
Size Available: 2-2.5” cal
Zone: 5-9

Full Sun
Height: 50-60ft
Spread: 30-40ft

  • Beautiful large garden tree with unique bluish-green leaves gives spectacular show of yellow fall color
  • In warm season, displays handsome tulip-shaped greenish-yellow and orange flowers


Zelkova Green Vase
Size Available: 10 gal
Zone: 5-8

Full Sun
Height: 50-80ft
Spread: 50-75ft

  • It has a spreading, generally upright branching, vase-shaped habit
  • Medium green leaves turn to shades of yellow, orange, brown, deep red to reddish-purple in fall