Hardy Pecan

The Hardy Pecan tree, Carya Illinoinensis, is a good-looking, majestic tree that grows to a height of 70 to 100 feet with a spread of 40 to 75 feet. It has low wide dispersal branches. The tree provides a reward of sweet edible fruits and lots of summer shade after reaching maturity. Hardy Pecan trees have moderate water requirements and have a reasonable tolerance to salt and alkali soils.

This deciduous, resilient, shade tree is ideal for lawns because it does not shed its leaves until late fall and it is almost resistant to the attack of insects. It begins to bear nuts in 12-15 years.

Chinese Chestnut

The Chinese Chestnut, Castanea mollissima, can be used as a nut tree and a shade tree, or planted in rows as a windbreak. The nuts are sweet-flavored and create edible nuts in winter. This deciduous tree has moderate water requirements and it has a reasonable tolerance to salt and alkali soils. Landscapers plant the Chinese Chestnut as an decorative. Chinese Chestnut trees do well in hot dry climates and are blight resistant. The foliage is dim green in summer.
This hardy tree will bear fruit in 7-8 years when placed on a good site. The dark green leaves are 5”-8” in length with a easy shape that turn yellow and gold in the fall. It produces edible chestnuts after organization. The outer shell of the nut is prickly and must be detached. This variety of chestnut is resistant to chestnut blight (but not resistant). This tree tolerates heat, drought, transplanting, and dehydrated and acidic soils.

Carpathian Black Walnut

The Carpathian Black Walnut tree, Juglans nigra, 'Carpathian', can be planted as a nut manner 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 simple to open. The best enlargement and nut production comes when it is located in deep, dry, light loamy soils.

Carpathian Black Walnut trees are self-pollinating but they will usually do better with one more adjacent Black Walnut. This selection comes from parent trees in central Michigan where trees crop in abundance although winter temps thrust to -34' F. It is an outstanding shade tree that bears excellent thin shell English Walnuts.

Quaking Aspen

The Quaking Aspen tree, Poplus tremuloides, is the most widely dispersed tree in North America. It is recognized by a lot of common names: trembling aspen, golden aspen, mountain aspen. This deciduous tree grows on a lot of soil types, particularly sandy and gravelly slopes, and it is rapid to pioneer troubled sites where there is disturbed soil. Quaking Aspen trees are quick growing and extremely hardy.

Poplus tremuloides provides benefits for many kinds of nature. It will produce both as a single or multi-stemmed tree. The Aspen is esthetically attractive with light bark, wobbly leaves, and yellow fall color.

Emerald Arborvitae

The Emerald Arborvitae, Thuja occidentalis 'Smaragd', also known as white cedar, exhibits a thin, dense pyramidal form with bright green green foliage which holds its color well through winter. This arborvitae makes an outstanding screen, and can grow at a rate of about four feet for each year. When young, the Emerald Arborvitae has a bright green color to its foliage which darkens as the plant ages. This arborvitae makes an exceptional hedge plant, but also used for foundation plants, informal hedges, entranceways, privacy screens, non-thorny barriers, or specimen shrub. It will grow particularly well in marshy areas and in alkaline soil. This resilient arborvitae prefers full sun to flourish and will do best in an area with high atmospheric moisture. Because this plant often grows of course into a perfect pyramidal shape, little pruning is essential. If the winter is particularly cold, the foliage of an emerald green arborvitae will twist yellow-brown. This pyramidal beauty will become one of your favorites with its excellent cold and heat tolerance.

American Hornbeam

The American Hornbeam tree, Carpinus caroliniana, is a shade tolerant below story tree. American Hornbeam trees are also recognized by the common names of Musclewood, Ironwood, Blue Beech, and Water Beech trees. The word "hornbeam" comes from the words "horn" for "toughness" and "beam" an old English word for "tree" and refers to this tree's extremely hard, rough, wood. This deciduous species provides nuts that are eaten by a lot of birds such as grouse, bobwhite, pheasant and wild turkey. Cottontail rabbits and deer nibble on the shoots of this tree.

Carpinus caroliniana exhibits leaves that are thin and beautifully transparent. This shade tree will give cool, dense shade in the summer because of its many leaves giving a dense look. In late autumn the leaves twist deep scarlet and orange as long as good fall color tree.

Emerald Arborvitae

The Emerald Arborvitae, Thuja occidentalis 'Smaragd', also known as white cedar, exhibits a thin, dense pyramidal form with emerald green foliage which holds its color well through winter. This arborvitae makes an excellent screen, and can produce at a rate of about four feet for each year. When young, the Emerald Arborvitae has a intense green color to its foliage which darkens as the plant ages. This arborvitae makes an outstanding hedge plant, but also used for base plants, tranquil hedges, entranceways, solitude screens, non-thorny barriers, or specimen shrub. It will grow particularly well in swampy areas and in alkaline soil. This hardy arborvitae prefers full sun to thrive and will do best in an area with high atmospheric damp. Because this plant often grows obviously into a perfect pyramidal shape, little pruning is essential. If the winter is particularly cold, the foliage of an emerald green arborvitae will twist yellow-brown. This pyramidal beauty will turn out to be one of your favorites with its exceptional cold and heat tolerance.