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Bring the Beauty of Each Season to Your Home

This local Autumn Blaze Maple, planted in 2004, is vibrant with red, orange and gold, creating a stunning fall display.

Fire up your outdoor living space with electrifying flame maples.

Discover luscious summer greens and gorgeous fall reds for amazing color displays all year long.

This stand of trees at a local home not only adds privacy, it creates a picturesque puzzle-perfect scene as well.

Fall Foliage Around the Nursery

The Autumn Blaze Maple is a fast-growing, adaptable deciduous tree with stunning autumn colors. It's a cross between red and silver maple and can thrive in various climates. It's low-maintenance and can add elegance to your garden or yard. It grows up to 3 feet per year, reaching a height of 40-50 feet tall with a spread of 30-40 feet wide. Despite its size, it has a compact, symmetrical growth habit.
The Greenspire Linden is a hardy deciduous tree that's popular for its upright form, glossy green leaves, and fragrant flowers. It can grow up to 60 feet tall, tolerates different soil types and climate conditions, and is low-maintenance. This versatile tree is suitable for use as a specimen, shade, or alley tree, and is attractive to bees and other pollinators. Adding it to a pollinator garden is a great idea.
The Amur Ginnala Flame Maple makes a stunning deciduous hedge with brilliant fall color. It is a fast grower that is a perfect choice for areas with needs for large privacy screens that will still allow light through in the winter. It is a naturally multi-stemmed small tree that responds well to heavy pruning. Its mature height is 15 to 20 feet tall and 15 to 20 feet wide.
The Hot Wings Tatarian Maple is a compact and beautiful ornamental tree that will look great on any property. With its small shape, it is well-suited for many types of home landscapes. You can add additional shade to your outdoor space with its thick, oval canopy of branches that mature to 15 -18 feet tall and wide. While flowers are not noticeable, the tree will produce red seed capsules known as samaras. When they are in bloom, these seeds will cover the tree for a beautiful show of color. During the summer, this tree variety is truly a showstopper.
The Sensation Boxelder Maple is a gorgeous deciduous tree that grows up to 20-25 feet tall. It has striking green leaves in the summer, turning golden-yellow in the fall. It thrives in various soil types and can tolerate full sun to partial shade. It is a popular choice for landscaping because of its low maintenance and beautiful fall color, It’s a stunning addition to any outdoor space.
Accolade Elm is a prized deciduous tree known for its beauty. It has a tall, vase-shaped growth habit reaching 50 - 60 feet tall and 30 - 40 feet wide, with a rounded crown of dark green leaves that turn yellow in fall. The tree produces greenish-yellow flowers in spring which develop into winged fruit that ripen in fall. Accolade Elm is tough and resilient, tolerating various soil types and conditions, preferring full sun to partial shade. Dutch Elm Disease has no effect on this tree. It is frequently used as a street tree, in parks, and as a shade tree. Its versatility and elegance make it suitable for any landscape design.
Spring Snow Crabapple is a stunning, low-maintenance tree from the Rosaceae family. It grows up to 20-25 feet tall and wide, making it ideal for small gardens and urban landscapes. The white flowers bloom in early spring. The tree is resistant to pests and diseases and has glossy green leaves that turn yellow in fall.
Quaking Aspen is a tall deciduous North American tree with circular green leaves and smooth white bark often marked with black scars. It can grow up to 50 feet tall 30 - 40 feet wide, and its unique characteristic lies in its ability to propagate through root development. The Quaking Aspen is a valuable part of various ecosystems in North America, serving as shelter and food for different species of animals. Its wood is also highly valued for different purposes such as furniture and paper production.
Pyramidal Mountain Ash is a small, ornamental tree native to Europe and Asia. Its narrow, upright growth forms a pyramidal shape, reaching a height of 20-30 feet and spreading 10-15 feet. It has glossy, dark green leaves that turn yellow and orange in the fall, producing white flowers in spring, which attract pollinators, and red fruit that lasts throughout winter. Pyramidal Mountain Ash thrives in full sun to partial shade and is perfect for urban gardens, small landscapes, and wildlife habitats.
River Birch is a deciduous tree native to North America that is commonly found near streams, rivers, and wetlands. It is a medium to large tree that can reach a height of 40-70 feet and a spread of 40-60 feet. It is known for its distinct peeling bark, which ranges from reddish-brown to white, and its delicate, serrated leaves that turn yellow in the fall. Its fibrous roots also make it a popular choice for erosion control. River Birch is a versatile and attractive tree that is chosen for both its visual appeal and its ecological benefits.
The Amur Maple Flame is a beautiful small tree from northeastern Asia with colorful foliage that looks stunning in the fall. Reaching 15 -20 feet tall and wide, it has a bushy and symmetrical structure as it matures and can thrive in full sunlight or partially shaded areas. It's low maintenance and highly adaptable, making it a great choice for landscaping. It can be used as a specimen, group or mass planting, and is popular for enhancing outdoor living spaces.
Sugar Maple reaches a height of 60-75 feet and a spread of 40-50 feet. The foliage of Sugar Maple is deciduous, with five-lobed leaves that turn brilliant shades of yellow, orange, and red in the fall. Sugar maple is best known for being the primary source of maple syrup and for its brightly colored fall foliage.
Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry is a stunning deciduous shrub/tree that is highly valued for its ornamental beauty. It boasts showy white flowers in spring, blue-black berries for wildlife and stunning orange-red leaves in autumn. It grows up to 20ft tall and 15ft wide, prefers full sun, and well-drained soil. It’s a low maintenance plant, making it a popular choice for homeowners and landscapers. It’s versatile and can add charm to any garden or landscape.
The Autumn Gold Ginkgo is a beautiful ornamental tree native to China, with fan-shaped leaves that turn bright yellow-gold in the fall. It grows up to 50 feet tall and is widely used in landscaping due to its hardiness. Its leaves can reach up to 5 inches long. The tree has medicinal properties, traditionally used in Chinese medicine for treating memory loss and cognitive function. Overall, the Autumn Gold Ginkgo is stunning and has aesthetic and practical value.
The Perfect Purple Crabapple is a gorgeous medium-sized tree maturing at 20 - 25 feet tall and 15 -20 feet wide, with vivid purple foliage that turns deep orange in fall and showy pink-white blossoms in spring. It adapts well to different soil types and thrives in full sun. It attracts beneficial insects and produces small, bitter fruits for making jams and jellies. It's low-maintenance and only requires occasional pruning. It's a great addition to any garden or landscape.
The Emerald Spire Crabapple is a small, beautiful flowering tree with emerald green foliage and pink spring flowers. Standing 15 - 25 ft. tall, it's perfect for small gardens. Birds enjoy the one-inch red berries in fall and winter. Its presence adds color and beauty to any garden while providing wildlife shelter and food.
The Cleveland Pear is a decorative deciduous tree originally from China and Vietnam. Its aesthetic features include a symmetrical shape and white flowers that grow in the spring. This pear can grow up to 30 feet tall and withstand various weather conditions. It is a quick grower, perfect for landscaping projects needing quick results. The tree's nectar-rich flowers attract bees and other pollinators, making it an excellent addition to a biodiverse area.
Northern Red Oak is a stunning tree with red leaves and durable wood, which is highly sought-after by carpenters, builders, and furniture makers. It can grow up to 75 feet tall and has a broad crown providing shade during summers. Northern Red Oak acorns are also a great food source for many wildlife animals. This tree species is essential for ecological and economic benefits, as well as enhancing its surroundings with natural beauty.
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