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Trees
 Red Maple Autumn Flame The Autumn Flame® Red Maple tree, Acer rubrum, 'Autumn Flame', is a fast growing tree that is also one of the first trees to show fall color. This tree is a large tree that can achieve a trunk size of three to five feet in diameter. It requires full sun for best effect. The Autumn Flame® Red Maple is pyramidal when young with ascending branches. This deciduous trees leaves will always contain a hint of scarlet. The lobed leaves are a nice bright green. It is not tolerant of drought or very hot dry weather.
Arborvitae American The American Arborvitae, Thuja occidentalis, is a conifer evergreen tree that is widely used as an accent tree or as a privacy hedge tree. American Arborvitae trees have a broad pyramidal shape with erect branches that are dense and crowded together. The scale-like leaves are abruply pointed. The leaf color is bright green above and pale green below and they may turn a yellow brown is some winters. It is one of the most popular of all trees for windbreaks and year around privacy screening. It may be sheared and shaped to fit into most every landscaping need.
Canadian Hemlock The Canadian Hemlock tree, Tsuga canadensis, is also called Eastern Hemlock or Hemlock spruce. It has a graceful pyramidal form with foliage of spray-like appearance. This stately tree is a very hardy specimen and is an easily transplanted conifer which grows well in a variety of soils. Shelter small plants from drying winds. They stand shearing and pruning well and are excellent as hedges. They are graceful and make great ornamental plantings.
Concolor Fir This evergreen conifer tree is native to the mountainous regions of the western United States. The Concolor Fir tree, Abies concolor, is also known as white fir, concolor fir, silver fir, Rocky Mountain white fir, Colorado Fir, Lows Fir, Pacific white fir. Concolor Fir trees are large, densely-growing, narrow trees with a dome-shaped crown growing to 50 feet or more. It is a rapid grower after it becomes established. It makes a handsome ornamental and decorative Christmas tree.
Russian Olive Russian Olive trees can be made into a hedge by planting 10’ apart in the row. Its stems, buds, and leaves have a dense covering of silvery to rusty scales. At three years of age, plants begin to flower and fruit. Highly aromatic, creamy yellow flowers appear in June and July and are later replaced by clusters of abundant silvery fruits. Wildlife loves the fruit. Prized for its silvery gray foliage.
Southern Red Oak Songbirds, turkey, a variety of small mammals and deer eat the nuts. The Southern red oak is also referred to as Spanish oak. Southern Red Oak trees are a medium-sized tree with a short trunk and large branches supporting a rounded crown. The Southern Oak tree is deciduous and is a good shade tree adapted to drier sites. The Southern Red Oak tree, Quercus falcata, is characterized by its rough bark.
Eastern White Pine Eastern White Pine trees are widely used as a screen or windbreak. It can tolerate wet, swampy areas. Space 6 ft.
Norway Spruce apart. It is highly valued as an ornamental and timber tree.
Black Hills Spruce It is a truly cold adapted tree and is very resistant to winter injury. This tree is commonly used for windbreaks, privacy screens and accent plantings. It will reach a height of six feet in nine years on a good site.
Eastern Red Cedar Eastern Red Cedar trees can grow on a variety of soils. The wood of the Red Cedar is fragrant and is used extensively for furniture. The foliage is bright green to dark green.
Loblolly Pine It is also called yellow pine, North Carolina pine, and oldfield pine and is the most commercially important forest species in the southern United States.
Mugho Pine Mugho pine trees do not need special soil.
Austrian Pine The spreading branches of a young tree form a pyramidal outline, but at maturity, it sometimes achieves a picturesque flat topped head.
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