Carpathia Black Walnut

The Carpathian Black Walnut tree, Juglans nigra, ‘Carpathian’, can be planted as a nut bearing landscape tree. Common names for the Carpathian Black Walnut tree are Persian Walnut, English Walnut, Carpathian Walnut and Madeira Nut. This deciduous tree bears nuts that are thin-shelled and easy to open. The tree’s crown is rounded, spreading and open. This selection comes from parent trees in central Michigan where trees crop abundantly although winter temps plunge to -34′ F.

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Improved Duarte Plum Tree

The Improved Duarte Plum tree produces very large fruit that is heart shaped and blood red in color. The flavor is excellent and widely regarded as one of the best tasting plums on the market. The fruit dries well and has a long storage life.The fruit has a slightly tart taste when cooked. The tree is a prolific producer of fine quality plums.

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Korean Hornbeam (carpinus coreana)

Pale green serrated leaves. Exceptional orange and yellow autumn coloring. The most desirable Hornbeam species for bonsai because of its shorter internodes. Has a clump style trunk. Deciduous. Keep outdoors. 19 years old. 19″x15″x22″. Potted in a 12″ blue rectangular container as shown. Suitable 14.5″x10.5″ humidity tray is recommended. To purchase add $11.95. Shipped via UPS Ground - $59.95.

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Improved Duarte Plum Tree

The Improved Duarte Plum tree produces very large fruit that is heart shaped and blood red in color. The flavor is excellent and widely regarded as one of the best tasting plums on the market. The fruit dries well and has a long storage life.The fruit has a slightly tart taste when cooked. The tree is a prolific producer of fine quality plums.

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Balsam Fir

The Balsam Fir, ‘Abies balsamea’, exhibits a relatively dense, dark-green, pyramidal crown with a slender spire-like tip. The scientific name “balsamea” is an ancient word for the balsam tree, so named because of the many resinous blisters found in the bark. Balsam fir and Fraser fir have many similar characteristics.The species thrives in cooler climates and demands abundant soil moisture and a humid atmosphere. A large percentage of Christmas trees are Balsam Firs.

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Stanley Prune Tree

The Stanley Prune has large, sweet, juicy flesh. The dark blue skin enfolds delicious, greenish-yellow meaty flesh. It is a freestone.The Stanley Prune is late blooming, extremely cold hardy and reliable. Harvest is late summer. It needs a pollinator and is a heavy producer.

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48″ Tree Bark Protectors

Do you want to keep gnawing critters and wild string trimmers at bay? Then these mesh trunk shields are for you! Deer, squirrels, rabbits and woodchucks cannot bite or rub tree bark through this rigid plastic mesh. Trunks are shielded by open mesh netting, which prevents moisture and mildew build-up. Also, the protectors won’t harbor insects and animals, and won’t inhibit growth. These tubes are more attractive than other solutions and designed to blend in. Flexible and easy to install. They come in three lengths, 4″ diameter. Priced each, but only sold in bundles

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Improved Duarte Plum Tree

The Improved Duarte Plum tree produces very large fruit that is heart shaped and blood red in color. The flavor is excellent and widely regarded as one of the best tasting plums on the market. The fruit dries well and has a long storage life.The fruit has a slightly tart taste when cooked. The tree is a prolific producer of fine quality plums.

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This entry was posted on Friday, September 15th, 2006 at 1:48 pm and is filed under Trees. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Comments and pings are closed.

Black Locust

The Black Locust tree, Robinia pseudoacacia, is sometimes called the yellow locust. Black Locust trees grow naturally on a wide range of sites but does best on rich moist limestone soils. It has escaped cultivation and become naturalized throughout eastern North America and parts of the West. . It is widely planted as an ornamental, for shelterbelts, and for land reclamation. It is a very thorny tree which can attain a height of 70-80 feet and can have a diameter of 2-3 feet.

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Red Mulberry

The Red Mulberry tree, Morus Rubra, is a medium-sized tree, reaching approximately 50, and occasionally, 70 feet in height. The trunk can reach a diameter of up to two feet. The broad, rounded crown consists of many shorter branches, making red mulberry a desirable shade tree.Red mulberry is found on a variety of sites in the East and Central U.S. and is tolerant of shade. The fruit is an edible red-purple drupe that resembles blackberry. It has dark green leaves, and the fall color of the leaves is yellow.

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Sawtooth Oak

The Sawtooth Oak tree, Quercus acutissima, is a wide spreading shade or lawn tree. This deciduous tree is a great source for wildlife food because it begins to produce acorns in its sixth year in the nursery. It is a highly prized oak for wildlife enthusiasts because of the short time it takes for the tree to produce acorns. The leaves go from yellow to golden brown in the fall, and open to a brilliant golden yellow in the spring. Its growth rate is rapid for an oak tree, and it is a fast growing shade tree.

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Tree Ring Soaker Hose

About the Tree Ring Soaker Hose: You get a six foot piece of soaker hose with female couplers on each end, including one “y” connector.

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Chestnut Crabapple Tree

The Chestnut Crabapple blooms in early to mid-May. It has a pleasant nut-like flavor. It produces a very large crabapple, up to 2″ in diameter that ripens in early September. Outstanding flavor and good texture for fresh eating as well as being a pollinator. A very hardy plant with a medium storage life. The fruit quality holds well on the tree, being quite spritely at first and becoming sweeter later on. An excellent pollinator for other fruit apples.

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Chinese Flame Goldenrain Tree

The Chinese Flame tree, Koelreuteria bipinnata, is a deciduous tree that has a round canopy. It is a medium to rapid growing tree with medium green oval leaves. The beautiful yellow flowers, 2″ long, in clusters 8-14″ long, bloom June-August. The seed pods are long and orange, red or salmon-colored papery in color. Chinese Flame trees are drought tolerant and can tolerate poor drainage, poor soils, smog and temperature extremes. The beautiful flower clusters attract birds and bees.

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Heritage® Birch

The Heritage River Birch tree, Betula nigra, ‘Heritage’, is the most prominent of all the cultivars of River Birch trees. It is faster growing, has larger, glossier leaves and is less prone to leaf spot than the other species. The bark exfoliates on younger trees and opens to a lighter, salmon-colored trunk. The exposed inner bark is gray-brown to cinnamon-brown to reddish brown. This tree is handsome without leaves because of its graceful silhouette and exfoliating bark.

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Improved Duarte Plum Tree

The Improved Duarte Plum tree produces very large fruit that is heart shaped and blood red in color. The flavor is excellent and widely regarded as one of the best tasting plums on the market. The fruit dries well and has a long storage life.The fruit has a slightly tart taste when cooked. The tree is a prolific producer of fine quality plums.

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This entry was posted on Friday, September 8th, 2006 at 5:10 pm and is filed under Trees. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Comments and pings are closed.

Indian Summer Crabapple Tree

The Indian Summer Crabapple has abundant pink flowers with an extended blooming period. It blooms with King bloom of Red Delicious apple tree. Attractive rose-red flowers in spring followed by bright red fruit 3/4″ in diameter. Excellent disease resistance.Indian Summer crabapples can take cold, shifts in temperatures, semi-arid climate and brisk winds. With sweeping branches, symmetrical shapes and modest proportions they add beauty as well as providing good pollen.

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Autumn Blaze® Red Maple

The Autumn Blaze Red Maple, Acer fremanii, ‘Autumn Blaze’, is an extremely fast-growing maple with brilliant red fall color. Under good conditions it can grow 3ft. or more per year. It is tolerant of clay soils and droughty conditions. This deciduous tree develops a dense oval head with strong branching which makes it a popular shade tree as well as an ornamental tree. This tree will grow in a wide range of climates from Michigan to Central Florida.

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Willow Oak

The Willow Oak tree, Quercus phellos, is one of the most popular trees for streets, parks, estates, and residential properties. This shade tree is also grown as far north as Cape Cod with reasonable success. A beautiful specimen oak, the Willow Oak is a relatively fast growing species, about 2’ a year. The Willow Oak is a good street tree because it is tolerant of heat, drought, air pollution and standing water. Acorns are a good food source for birds and squirrels. The small leaves are easy to clean up in the fall.

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Corkscrew Willow

The Corkscrew Willow tree, Salix matsudana, ‘Tortuosa’, is a small to medium-sized, upright spreading tree of about 30 feet in height with a 15-foot-spread. This deciduous tree is also known as Tortuosa or Dragon’s Claw Willow. The main ornamental feature of this plant is the contorted and twisted branches and twigs. Corkscrew Willow trees tolerate any soil, especially wet soils with poor drainage. It is a fast growing tree with narrow light green leaves.

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Weeping Cherry

The Weeping Cherry tree, Prunus subhirtelia ‘Pendula’, has a medium growth rate for its arching vertical growth, but a rapid growth rate for its many weeping stems. If desired, stems that weep to the ground can be pruned up to a desired height (either staggered in height for informality, or clipped to precisely the same height for formality) so that mowing, growth of other ornamentals, or maintenance access can be achieved underneath the tree.

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MN Snowflake Mock Orange

The Minnesota Snowflake Mock Orange, Philadelphus x virginalis, is a compact, deciduous shrub that grows to only 3′ tall. Features fragrant, double white flowers that bloom profusely in late spring. Flowers appear in clusters with 5-7 flowers per cluster. It has oval, dark green leaves (to 3.5″ long). Blooms on previous year’s growth, so prune immediately after flowering. May be cut to the ground (also after flowering) if shrub becomes scraggly, unkempt or otherwise in need of rejuvenation.

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Improved Duarte Plum Tree

The Improved Duarte Plum tree produces very large fruit that is heart shaped and blood red in color. The flavor is excellent and widely regarded as one of the best tasting plums on the market. The fruit dries well and has a long storage life.The fruit has a slightly tart taste when cooked. The tree is a prolific producer of fine quality plums.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, September 7th, 2006 at 7:54 pm and is filed under Trees. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Comments and pings are closed.