Black Walnut

The Black Walnut tree, Juglans nigra, is valued for its wood and shade. Black Walnut trees are a big, moderately growing, majestic tree. This deciduous tree makes a magnificent shade tree, and when planted for a wood plantation, makes a huge long-term asset. This tree has reasonable water requirements and is broadminded to drought. It has enormous, upright spreading, open branches.

The nuts are big and plump and break out of the shell easily. The roots of the black walnut create a substance known as juglone (5-hydroxy-alpha-napthaquinone). This biochemical is toxic to a lot of plants such as the tomato, potato, black and blue berries, and other plants that may grow inside a 50 to 60 foot radius of the stem. Not all plants are responsive to juglone and many trees, vines, shrubs, and flowers will thrive in close nearness to a Black Walnut tree.

Green Giant Arborvitae

The Arborvitae Green Giant, 'Thuja plicata 'Green Giant’ is a giant arborvitae that has glowing green, fern-like plants. This plant is very flexible to wet or dry soils. The Green Giant is fast rising for an arborvitae and it is also very thick and they are used extensively for borders, screens, windbreaks or as an accent tree. When used as a evade, the Green Giant can be trimmed and reserved to a dense 6 foot hedge.

American Arborvitae

The American Arborvitae, Thuja occidentalis, is a conifer evergreen tree that is extensively used because an accent tree or as a privacy hedge tree. American Arborvitae trees contain a broad pyramidal shape with upright branches that are thick and crowded jointly. The scale-like leaves are abruply pointed. The leaf color is bright green on top of and light green below and they may turn a yellow brown is some winters.

This evergreen tree prefers a bottomless well drained site. When established it can stand substantial heat and drought. It is one of the most well-liked of all trees for windbreaks and year around privacy screening. It may be sheared and shaped to fit into the majority every landscaping need.

Boston Ivy

Boston Ivy, Parthenocissus tricuspidata, is also known as Cottage Ivy and Japanese Ivy. This deciduous vine has tendrils which contain 5 to 8 branches, each ending in adhesive-like tips; it has the aptitude to literally cement itself to the wall and so needs no support; good on trees, will also move slowly along the ground; secretes calcium carbonate which serves as adhesive. This vine can arrive at a height or spread exceeding 30 feet.

The plant tolerates dry soil .The glossy, dark green, three-lobed leaves twist bright red in the fall. The showy leaves are detained late into fall or early winter. The plant produces bluish fruits that are not extremely ornamental. The blooms of the Boston ivy are quite inconspicuous but they attract multitudes of bees. Use in full sun to full shade, salt broadminded, handles most all conditions.

Sherwood Moss Arborvitae

The Sherwood Moss Arborvitae, Thuja occidentalis 'Sherwood Moss', is a dwarf, cone-shaped Arborvitae with strange soft, feathery foliage. It requires sun and deep, well-drained soil. The sole texture makes this a very unusual multicolored plant that shines in winter with its figurine winter color. It is not a sphere, not a pyramid, but a well shaped heap that has no equal. Arborvitae is one of the most adaptable, easy-to-grow evergreens right to cold, northern landscapes. They are frequently used as specimen plants, hedges, foundation plantings and windbreaks. Arborvitaes are extremely adaptable plants.

Aristocrat Flowering Pear

The Aristocrat Flowering Pear tree, Pyrus 'Aristocrat', is a beautiful tree that is good-looking in all four seasons. It produces masses of white flowers in near the beginning spring, followed by bright, glossy green, disease opposed to foliage. Leaves turn a deep to reddish-purple in middle to late fall to give spectacular fall color. The clean winter outline is standing to pyramidal when young and becomes generally oval at maturity.

Aristocrat Flowering Pear trees have a more dominant trunk and open form that helps this deciduous, flowering species, to be less vulnerable to wind damage. Home owners and landscapers place this tree in prominent locations because of the year approximately beauty it provides.

Autumn Blaze Red Maple

The Autumn Blaze Red Maple, Acer fremanii, 'Autumn Blaze', is an very fast-growing maple with brilliant red fall color. Under good conditions it can produce 3ft. or more per year. It is broadminded of clay soils and droughty circumstances. This deciduous tree develops a thick oval head with strong branching which makes it a popular shade tree as well as an ornamental tree.

Autumn Blaze Red Maple trees were urbanized in North Central Ohio. This tree will produce in a wide range of climates from Michigan to Central Florida. Landscapers and home owners use this well-liked tree in many settings.

Pygmy Globe

The Pygmy Globe, Thuja occidentalsis, is a sphere shaped dwarf arborvitae tree. These Arborvitae trees have bright green foliage. This slow dense growing evergreen tree does not need to be sheared to uphold the globe shape.

The Pygmy Globe tree or shrub thrives in full sun or light dark. It has great appeal as a specimen planting or as an pronunciation shrub in a yard or garden area.

The Pygmy Globe Arborvitae, Thuja occidentalis 'Pygmy Globe', is a dwarf, globe-shaped evergreen with bright green plants that grows gradually and is very compact. It needs no shearing to maintain its form; this arborvitae makes an excellent, low maintenance foundation plant or dwarf hedge.

Holmstrup Arborvitae

The Holmstrup Arborvitae, Thuja occidentalis 'Holmstrup', is a solid evergreen with dense branching which creates a pyramidal shape. The bright green color and light thick foliage gives this plant a textured look in the landscape. The Holmstrup does well in light shade and tolerates poor drainage. The colorful apple-green needles make a dense tree with the compressed sprays that overlap and give out in vertical manner. A very versatile dwarf evergreen tree, Holmstrup Arborvitae is used as a landscape pronunciation, windbreak or screen. They are very attractive when planted in pairs to border a focal point in your landscape.