Available Varieties
Quaking Aspen Hardiness Zones: 1-8
Picea pungens
A tall, fast growing tree, usually 2025 metres (6682 ft) at maturity, with a trunk 2080 centimetres (7.931 in) in diameter; records are 36.5 metres (120 ft) in height and 1.37 metres (4.5 ft) in diameter. The bark is relatively smooth greenish-white to gray and is marked by thick black horizontal scars and prominent black knots. The leaves on mature trees are nearly round, 48 centimetres (1.63.1 in) in diameter with small rounded teeth, and a 37 centimetres (1.22.8 in) long, flattened petiole. Young trees (including root sprouts) have much larger1020 centimetres (3.97.9 in) longnearly triangular leaves.
Picea pungens
A tall, fast growing tree, usually 2025 metres (6682 ft) at maturity, with a trunk 2080 centimetres (7.931 in) in diameter; records are 36.5 metres (120 ft) in height and 1.37 metres (4.5 ft) in diameter. The bark is relatively smooth greenish-white to gray and is marked by thick black horizontal scars and prominent black knots. The leaves on mature trees are nearly round, 48 centimetres (1.63.1 in) in diameter with small rounded teeth, and a 37 centimetres (1.22.8 in) long, flattened petiole. Young trees (including root sprouts) have much larger1020 centimetres (3.97.9 in) longnearly triangular leaves.
Narrow Leaf Poplar Hardiness Zones: 3
Populus angustifolia
Height: 60 ft Spread: 35 ft Form: pyramidal Type: deciduous tree Annual Growth Rate: more than 18 inches Comments: This hardy tree has ascending branches and prefers moist soils. The bark on young trees is green but becomes gray with age. In mountainous regions, the tree can be used at elevations of 8,000 to 10,000 feet. The narrow leaves do not develop an ornamental fall color. Suckers could be a maintenance problem. Poplars are problem-prone plants that require more care than other trees.
Populus angustifolia
Height: 60 ft Spread: 35 ft Form: pyramidal Type: deciduous tree Annual Growth Rate: more than 18 inches Comments: This hardy tree has ascending branches and prefers moist soils. The bark on young trees is green but becomes gray with age. In mountainous regions, the tree can be used at elevations of 8,000 to 10,000 feet. The narrow leaves do not develop an ornamental fall color. Suckers could be a maintenance problem. Poplars are problem-prone plants that require more care than other trees.
Robusta Poplar Hardiness Zones:
3-8
Populus x canadensis Robusta
This is a Poplar Hybrid tree, Populus x canadensis Robusta, will grow six feet per year with average and normal conditions. This fast growing tree is often planted as a hedge, screen, windbreak, or to line a road or drive. You can expect this tree to be over 20 tall and 15 wide in just three years. It can grow to over 70 tall. This deciduous tree will require supplemental water until established. We haven't found any tree that grows as fast as it does. It normally lives 30-50 years. It is wind, disease, and insect-resistant and it can take the cold as far north as Canada. A fast way to have shade trees for new homes.
Populus x canadensis Robusta
This is a Poplar Hybrid tree, Populus x canadensis Robusta, will grow six feet per year with average and normal conditions. This fast growing tree is often planted as a hedge, screen, windbreak, or to line a road or drive. You can expect this tree to be over 20 tall and 15 wide in just three years. It can grow to over 70 tall. This deciduous tree will require supplemental water until established. We haven't found any tree that grows as fast as it does. It normally lives 30-50 years. It is wind, disease, and insect-resistant and it can take the cold as far north as Canada. A fast way to have shade trees for new homes.
Canada Red Hardiness Zones:
2
Prunus virginiana var. Schubert
This tree has a purplish foliage for most of the summer, but the leaves emerge as bright green in the spring. As these leaves harden, they turn the deep reddish purple. The tree has a dense, pyramidal to oval shape, and grayish bark. The flowers are white in terminal racemes.
Prunus virginiana var. Schubert
This tree has a purplish foliage for most of the summer, but the leaves emerge as bright green in the spring. As these leaves harden, they turn the deep reddish purple. The tree has a dense, pyramidal to oval shape, and grayish bark. The flowers are white in terminal racemes.
ChokeCherry Hardiness Zones:
2
Prunus virginiana
Is a native, deciduous, thicket-forming erect shrub or small tree. Stems are numerous and slender, either branching from the base or limbs with main branches upright and spreading. Heights vary considerably according to variety and site quality, ranging from 3 to 19.5 feet. On good sites in the Great Basin, chokecherry may grow to almost 40 feet with trunk diameters of approximately 8 inches. Leaves are alternate with glands along the margins of the leaf base.
Prunus virginiana
Is a native, deciduous, thicket-forming erect shrub or small tree. Stems are numerous and slender, either branching from the base or limbs with main branches upright and spreading. Heights vary considerably according to variety and site quality, ranging from 3 to 19.5 feet. On good sites in the Great Basin, chokecherry may grow to almost 40 feet with trunk diameters of approximately 8 inches. Leaves are alternate with glands along the margins of the leaf base.
Dawn Redwood Hardiness Zones:
4-8
Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Is a deciduous conifer, with soft needle-like leaves that look like evergreens, but are bright green in the spring and brilliant orange/red in the fall. The needles are shed in the cold season of winter. Dawn Redwood trees are a very ornamental and interesting large tree, one of the few deciduous conifers in the world. It is feathery pyramidal in form with a straight, fluted trunk. It grows very fast to 40 and can grow to 70 called "a living fossil" because it was first discovered in Japan in 1941 and then found growing in the wild in China. The species is over 50 million years old. It is a very hardy tree and tolerates windy sites.
Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Is a deciduous conifer, with soft needle-like leaves that look like evergreens, but are bright green in the spring and brilliant orange/red in the fall. The needles are shed in the cold season of winter. Dawn Redwood trees are a very ornamental and interesting large tree, one of the few deciduous conifers in the world. It is feathery pyramidal in form with a straight, fluted trunk. It grows very fast to 40 and can grow to 70 called "a living fossil" because it was first discovered in Japan in 1941 and then found growing in the wild in China. The species is over 50 million years old. It is a very hardy tree and tolerates windy sites.
Colorado Blue Spruce Hardiness Zones: 2-7
Picea pungens
Is a medium-sized evergreen tree growing to 25-30 m tall, exceptionally to 46 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 1.5 m. The bark is thin and scaly, flaking off in small circular plates 5-10 cm across. The crown is conic in young trees, becoming cylindric in older trees. The shoots are stout, orange-brown, usually glabrous, and with prominent pulvini. The leaves are needle-like, 15-30 mm long, stout, rhombic in cross-section, dull gray-green to bright glaucous blue (very variable from tree to tree in wild populations), with several lines of stomata; the tip is viciously sharp
Picea pungens
Is a medium-sized evergreen tree growing to 25-30 m tall, exceptionally to 46 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 1.5 m. The bark is thin and scaly, flaking off in small circular plates 5-10 cm across. The crown is conic in young trees, becoming cylindric in older trees. The shoots are stout, orange-brown, usually glabrous, and with prominent pulvini. The leaves are needle-like, 15-30 mm long, stout, rhombic in cross-section, dull gray-green to bright glaucous blue (very variable from tree to tree in wild populations), with several lines of stomata; the tip is viciously sharp
Larch Hardiness Zones:
2-5
Larix decidua
Is a medium-size to large deciduous coniferous tree reaching 25-45 m tall, with a trunk up to 1 m diameter (exceptionally, to 55 m tall and 2 m diameter). The crown is conic when young, becoming broad with age; the main branches are level to upswept, with the side branches often pendulous. The shoots are dimorphic, with growth divided into long shoots (typically 10-50 cm long) and bearing several buds, and short shoots only 1-2 mm long with only a single bud. The leaves are needle-like, light green, 2-4 cm long which turn bright yellow before they fall in the autumn, leaving the pale yellow-buff shoots bare until the next spring.
Larix decidua
Is a medium-size to large deciduous coniferous tree reaching 25-45 m tall, with a trunk up to 1 m diameter (exceptionally, to 55 m tall and 2 m diameter). The crown is conic when young, becoming broad with age; the main branches are level to upswept, with the side branches often pendulous. The shoots are dimorphic, with growth divided into long shoots (typically 10-50 cm long) and bearing several buds, and short shoots only 1-2 mm long with only a single bud. The leaves are needle-like, light green, 2-4 cm long which turn bright yellow before they fall in the autumn, leaving the pale yellow-buff shoots bare until the next spring.