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Sunburst Honey Locust
Extremely salt tolerant. The Sunburst Honeylocust is fast growing up to 2 ‘ a year. The wood is dense, hard, and durable. It is a very fine textured tree with a broad, pyramidal crown, and an excellent lawn tree for filtered shade. This deciduous tree displays clusters of yellow-green, fragrant flowers open in May-June. The leaves are divided into many small, oval leaflets giving a fern-like appearance to the foliage; leaves are normally green, but the 'Sunburst' cultivar has light yellow leaves. Prefers full sun. Does best in moist bottomlands or soils with high pH. Easy to transplant because it withstands a wide range of conditions. This tree is a version of improved thornless, podless varieties. The Sunburst Honeylocust tree, Gleditsia triacanthos inermis, 'Sunburst', is smaller in stature than the common Honeylocust tree. Sunburst Honeylocust trees display yellow new growth, and the yellow leaves persists throughout the season. ... details
Overcup Oak The Overcup Oak has brilliant reddish or gray brown bark and displays leathery dark green leaves in summer. This oak tree is long overlooked by growers; the tree is just starting to be more popular and thus more readily available for home landscapes. The Overcup oak is easy to transplant and tolerates most soil conditions and partial shade to full sun. The Overcup Oak tree, Quercus lyrata, is a long-lived, very sturdy shade tree that will thrive in a wide variety of soil conditions. An important tree in difficult urban landscaping situations with uniform branching forming a rounded shape with an open crown. Fall color is a rich yellow-brown. The tree can produce very prolific acorn crops but generally does not begin to produce for 15 + years. The oak tree derives it's name from the acorn cap that very nearly covers the acorn. Acorns are produced annually and are relatively small, usually between 1/2 an 1 inch. |
