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Trees
Crape Myrtle Peppermint The Peppermint Crape Myrtle is ideally suited for formal or informal design in the home landscape, street plantings and community plantings. After flowers fade and fall from the tree, fruit remains in the form of small brown capsules. Use it by driveways, walkways and especially below high decks and balconies for a view of the spectacular flower show that appears over the crown of this plant. The Peppermint Crape Myrtle, 'Lagerstroemia indica "Nana", is a semi-dwarf shrub with peppermint pink blossoms. Large clusters of pink flowers appear on the tips of new branches beginning in early summer and continue into fall. Crape myrtle leaves are oval and 1 to 2 inches long; they are bronze-colored when they first unfold in the spring and become yellow before falling late in autumn. It can be planted as a specimen or in groups, and looks attractive when underplanted with a ground cover.
Arborvitae American It is one of the most popular of all trees for windbreaks and year around privacy screening. The scale-like leaves are abruply pointed. It may be sheared and shaped to fit into most every landscaping need. When established it can stand considerable heat and drought. The leaf color is bright green above and pale green below and they may turn a yellow brown is some winters.
Canadian Hemlock The Canadian Hemlock tree, Tsuga canadensis, is also called Eastern Hemlock or Hemlock spruce. This evergreen conifer is a fast-growing long-lived tree which unlike many trees grows well in shade. It may take 250 to 300 years to reach maturity and may live for 800 years or more. This stately tree is a very hardy specimen and is an easily transplanted conifer which grows well in a variety of soils. They stand shearing and pruning well and are excellent as hedges.
Concolor Fir This rapid growing fir tree is the most drought-resistant of all native firs. It is a rapid grower after it becomes established. Concolor Fir trees are large, densely-growing, narrow trees with a dome-shaped crown growing to 50 feet or more. It makes a handsome ornamental and decorative Christmas tree. Although it can exist on poor, dry sites, the white fir grows most vigorously in moist, well-drained, acid soils in protected locations.
Russian Olive The Russian Olive tree, Elaeagnus Angustifolia, is an excellent windbreak and wildlife tree. The best windbreak tree for high wind areas. The Russian Olive has low water requirements and displays a high tolerance for salt and alkali. Its stems, buds, and leaves have a dense covering of silvery to rusty scales. Leaves are egg or lance-shaped. At three years of age, plants begin to flower and fruit.
Southern Red Oak The acorns are usually produced singly, and biennially. They are 1/2 to 3/4 inch long, roughly spherical and orange-brown. The Southern Oak tree is deciduous and is a good shade tree adapted to drier sites. It is a tree of the Old South, ranging from Maryland to Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. The Southern Red Oak tree, Quercus falcata, is characterized by its rough bark.
Eastern White Pine The White Pine takes six to eight years to produce a six-foot tree on good sites. It grows best in full sun or partial shade and in ordinary soil. apart for screening purposes.
Norway Spruce Norway Spruce trees, placed on a good site, should reach 5 ft. It is highly valued as an ornamental and timber tree. The branches of Norway Spruce trees droop gracefully as tree matures, making this a very attractive ornamental.
Black Hills Spruce densata, is noted for its dark green foliage and conical form. It prefers rich moist soil in full sun, and also thrives in dry, well-drained sites.
Eastern Red Cedar Typically, the trunk is straight and the tree has a pointed, dense, conical crown that may be varied or irregular, depending on ecotype or competing vegetation. It is the primary species in most windbreaks. The wood of the Red Cedar is fragrant and is used extensively for furniture.
Loblolly Pine It thrives in a variety of soils, including well-drained upland areas with poor nutrient concentrations to poorly drained lowland areas and abandoned fields.
Austrian Pine in height in 6-7 years starting with a 2 year old seedling.
Scotch Pine It can reach a height of six feet in six years with good care.
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