Fall Foliage

Family:  Hamamelidaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: China, Japan
Soil: Average, humus rich, well drained
Light: part shade
Height: 6' - 10'
Attributes: Deciduous. 3" heart shaped leaves with cream-white variegation.  Brilliantly colored fall leaves that are shaped like a redbud.
Notes:  One of the showiest fall colored shrub, yet is still infrequently encountered in gardens.  Plant in an area that is mostly shady with a few hours of direct sun. The fall display has colors ranging from green - blue - red - yellow.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family:  Hamamelidaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: China, Japan
Soil: Average, humus rich, well drained
Light: part shade
Height: 6' - 10'
Attributes: Deciduous. 3" heart shaped leaves.  Brilliantly colored fall leaves that are shaped like a redbud.
Notes:  This form takes heat better and is a more robust grower with larger leaves.  One of the showiest fall colored shrub, yet is still infrequently encountered in gardens.  Plant in an area that is mostly shady with a few hours of direct sun. The fall display has colors ranging from green - blue - red - yellow.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Hamamelidaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: China, Japan
Soil: Average, humus rich, well drained
Light: part shade
Height: 6'
Attributes: Deciduous. 3" heart shaped leaves.  Brilliantly colored fall leaves that are shaped like a redbud.
Notes:  This form has congested, upright habit.  One of the showiest fall colored shrub, yet is still infrequently encountered in gardens.  Plant in an area that is mostly shady with a few hours of direct sun. The fall display has colors ranging from green - blue - red - yellow.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Hamamelidaceae
Zone: 5 - 8
Natural Range: China, Japan
Soil: Average, humus rich, well drained Light: part shade
Height: 6' - 10'
Attributes: Deciduous. Brilliantly colored fall leaves that are shaped like a redbud.
Notes:  Picked as a Great Plant Picks in 2004.  One of the showiest fall colored shrub, yet is still infrequently encountered in gardens.  Plant in an area that is mostly shady with a few hours of direct sun. The fall display has colors ranging from green - blue - red - yellow.  When the leaves overlap you can get two tones, one color on the outside and another where they were touching.

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Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Oleaceae
Zone:  4 - 9
Natural Range: Southwestern US into northern Mexico
Soil:  Average to dry, humus rich
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  10’
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous, small tree or shrub usually with simple leaves or some times with pinnate leaves.  Can have multiple trunks.  Silver-gray bark.  Foliage has a gray-green.  Bright yellow fall foliage.
Notes:From our collections outside of Moab.

Pot Size: 4" Band Pot

Family: Oleaceae
Zone:  3 - 9
Natural Range: Europe
Soil:  Average, moist humus rich
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  5' - 7'
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Dense, curly dark green foliage.  Compact habit.
Notes:Slow growing.

Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot

Family: Oleaceae
Zone:  3 - 9
Natural Range: Nova Scotia, Alberta, south to Florida and Texas
Soil:  Average, moist humus rich
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  25' - 50'
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Pyramidal when young, maturing to rounded brown.  Purple flowers.  Pinnate foliage.  Yellow fall foliage.
Notes:This form has white, gray and green variegated foliage.

Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Ericaceae
Zone:  5 - 8
Natural Range:  Pennsylvania into Tennessee
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light:  Part sun, sun
Height:  12"
Bloom Time:  Spring
Attracts:  Bees
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Semi-evergreen glossy leaves.  Small white-pink flowers with purple-blue fruit in summer.  Red fall foliage.
Notes:  Discovered in 2003 by Stefan Bloodwroth of the Blomquist Garden of Native Plants.  Will produce fruit even even with only one plant.  Noted to be self-sterile and colonies are often too far apart to produce viable seed.
 
Pot size:  1 Gallon Pot

Zone: 5 - 8
Natural Range: Hybrid
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade-sun
Height: 15'
Bloom Time: February to March
Attributes:  Deciduous, Six inch long scalloped leaves with deep green new growth and contrasting under side of the leaf giving an outlined look.  Light brown bark with layered horizontal growth.  A blaze of bright yellow ribbon like blooms with contrasting dark reddish center in winter.
Notes:  Great when used as an architectural element in the garden.  In the wild Hamamelis grow in forests as an understory plant and along streams.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family: Nyssaceae
Zone:  5 - 9
Natural Range: Arkansas
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  20'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attracts:  Birds, bees
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Weeping habit with bright red fall foliage.  Greenish white flowers
Notes: Unusual selection with cascading effect.  Staking is recommended as it develops the central leader.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot 1' - 2'

Family: Nyssaceae
Zone:  5 - 9
Natural Range: Arkansas
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  20'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attracts:  Birds, bees
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Light green leaves ringed  with an irregular creamy white margin.  Greenish white flowers
Notes: Bright orange-red and pink fall foliage.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot 1' - 2'

Family: Hamamelidaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15' - 30'
Bloom Time:  February to March
Attributes: Deciduous, large shrub or small tree that develops a patchwork of gray, green and creamy bark with age.  Burgundy fall foliage.
Notes:  Smaller and slower growing than other Parrotia.  A recently described and introduced species to western horticulture.  Originally grown by Roy Lancaster who received cuttings from Mikinori Ogisu of Japan.  Subsequently introduced and distributed in the US by Ozzie Johnson.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Anacardiaceae
Zone:  6 - 9
Natural Range: China to Philippines
Soil:  Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 30'
Attributes: Deciduous tree with oval rounded crown.  Compound, pinnate foliage to 10" long with 10 to 12 leaflets.  Bright reddish-pink new growth, yellow, orange and red fall foliage. 
Notes: Great foliage.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family:  Salicaceae
Zone: 1 - 9
Natural Range: Canada to Mexico
Soil:  Moist, well-drained, humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 20' - 50'
Attributes:  Deciduous.  White bark, deep green leaves that quake in the slightest breeze and bright golden yellow fall foliage.
Notes:  Typically growing in large groupings of the same clone.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family: Rosaceae
Zone: 3 - 9
Natural Range: Rocky Mountains
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 2' - 6'
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attributes: Deciduous.  Silver green leaves to nearly 3 inches long.  White flowers and dark purple fruit in summer.  Reddish fall foliage.
Notes: Great multi-stemmed, smaller growing cherry.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot 12" - 18"

Family: Rosaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: Western China
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 20'
Bloom Time:  March to April
Attributes: Deciduous.  Glossy reddish-brown bark that peels with age.  Small white flowers.
Notes: The outstanding bark is the main ornamental feature.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: Asia
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 45'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous.  Long serrated leaves.
Notes:  Fast-growing oak species that can produce acorns at age 6 or younger. 

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range: Southeastern United States
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 50'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous.  Elliptical to oblanceolate leaf 6" long. Brown, copper, red and burgundy fall foliage.
Notes:  Discovered in 1940 and is now endangered in the wild.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: Southeastern United States
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 40'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous.  Pyramidal when young, spreading canopy with age.
Notes:  Good fall foliage.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range: South-central United States
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 40' - 80'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous.  Red, orange, peach fall foliage. 
Notes:  Good fall foliage.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Anacardiaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: E. Ashia; China, Japan, Korea
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 15-30 feet tall
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Pubescent branches, dioecious flowers June, then turning brilliant scarlet in fall.  Non suckering tree like multi-branching.
Notes:  In the wild Rhus trichocarpa grows in dense forests and thickets the mountains of Japan between 900 - 1200 m.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Roseaceae
Zone: 5 - 10
Natural Range: Canada and Western United States
Soil:  Average, moist
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 10'
Bloom Time:  Late spring, early Summer
Attributes: Deciduous.  Thicket forming shrub.  Pinnately compound leaves with up to 7 leaflets.  Pink flowers in groups of up to 5.  Red rose hips through winter.
Notes:  Great for wildlife.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family:  Elaeagnaceae
Zone:  2 - 9
Natural Range:  PNW
Soil:  Average to dry
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  4' - 8'
Bloom Time:  May to July
Attracts:  Birds
Pest Resistance:  Deer
Attributes:  Deciduous. Gray green leaves brown scales on the undersides of the leaves.  Small yellow flowers with red berries in fall.
Notes:  Like other Elaeagnus the silvery foliage is the main attraction.
 
Pot size:  Medium Band Pot

Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: China; North-west Yunnan, Cangshan Range
Family:  Rosaceae
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 20 feet tall
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Crimson fruit becoming pink later in the season.  Orange-yellow fall foliage.
Notes: Great fall foliage

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family: Theaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: Southeastern United States
Soil:  Average, humus rich, well-drained loamy soil
Light: Part sun, Sun
Height: 10' 
Bloom Time:  July
Attributes: Deciduous.  Large white flowers with orange-yellow anthers and purple stamen filaments.  Scarlet fall foliage.
Notes:  Found growing as an understory shrub in the Appalachian Mountains.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Theaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range: Japan; Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu Islands
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15'
Bloom Time:  June to July
Attributes: Deciduous.  Large, white camellia like flowers.  Red fall foliage.  Horizontal branches and smooth cinnamon, mottled bark.
Notes:  Selected from the Polly Hill Arboretum.  Larger flowers and brilliant bark.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family: Theaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: Hybrid;  S. monadelpha x S. pseudocamellia
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  Two inch white camellia like flowers.  Red fall foliage.  Horizontal branches and smooth cinnamon, mottled bark.
Notes:  A nice intermediate form between both parents with bark like S. pseudocamellia flowers  more like S. monadelpha.

Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Anacardiaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 15'
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Pubescent branches, dioecious flowers June, then turning brilliant scarlet in fall.  Non suckering tree like multi-branching.
Notes:  Great new foliage.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Ericaceae
Zone:  7 - 9
Natural Range:  PNW
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light:  Sun, part sun, Shade
Height:  4'
Bloom Time:  March to April
Attracts:  Bees
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Evergreen.  Orange-red new growth turning dark green.  Pale pink flowers.  Purple-black berries in summer.
Notes:  Good small and relatively slow-growing evergreen shrub.
 
Pot size:  Quart Size Pot

Family:  Ericaceae
Zone:  7 - 9
Natural Range:  PNW
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light:  Sun, part sun, Shade
Height:  4'
Bloom Time:  March to April
Attracts:  Bees
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Evergreen.  Coral pink new growth turning creamy white and green.  Red and green winter foliage.  Pale pink flowers.  Purple-black berries in summer.
Notes:  Great new foliage selection.
 
Pot size:  Quart Size Pot

Family: Adoxaceae
Zone:  5 - 9
Natural Range:  Hybrid; USPP 29,573; CBRAF
Soil: Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 4' - 8'
Attracts:  Birds
Pest Resistance: Deer
Bloom Time:  Spring
Attributes: Deciduous shrub with large white flower clusters in spring, bright orange berries in fall.  Orange-red fall foliage.
Notes: Fist Orange berried Viburnum.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family: Adoxaceae
Zone:  6 - 9
Natural Range:  Washington, Oregon to central California along the Cascades
Soil: Average, humus rich
Light: Part shade, sun
Height: 4' - 8'
Attracts:  Birds, Butterflies
Pest Resistance: Deer
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes: Deciduous shrub with good red fall foliage.  White flowers, black fruit.
Notes: Great for wildlife. 

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:Adoxaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: China, Japan, Taiwan
Soil:Average, humus rich
Light: Part shade, sun
Height: 8' - 20'
Pest Resistance: Deer
Bloom Time: March to April
Attributes:Deciduous shrub with white to pink blush, lacecap flowers.  Red fruit that turns black.  Red, purple and orange fall foliage.
Notes:Rounded leaves with deep veining, layered branching.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Adoxaceae
Zone:  5 - 9
Natural Range:  Europe, northern Africa, Asia Minor, Caucasus, northwestern Iran
Soil: Average, humus rich
Light: Part shade
Height: 4' - 8'
Attracts:  Birds, Butterflies
Pest Resistance: Deer
Bloom Time:  May
Attributes: Deciduous shrub with light and dark green, and creamy gold leaves.  Creamy white flowers.  Yellow fall foliage.
Notes: Great foliage!  Avoid direct hot sun.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Adoxaceae
Zone:  5 - 9
Natural Range:  Hybrid
Soil: Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 4' - 6'
Attracts:  Birds
Pest Resistance: Deer
Bloom Time:  Spring
Attributes: Deciduous shrub.  White flowers, green berries turning pink and blue.
Notes: Good berry production even without another nearby pollinator.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family:  Caprifoliaceae
Zone:  4 - 9
Natural Range: Hybrid;  'Verweig9' PPAF; CBRAF
Soil:  Average, moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 18"
Bloom Time: June to July
Attributes: Deciduous shrub with orange and red summer-autumn foliage.  Pink flowers
Notes: Small growing and tidy habit making it perfect for the front of the border.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Ulmaceae
Zone:  5 - 9
Natural Range:  Eastern Asia
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light:  Sun, part shade
Height:  15'
Bloom Time:  March to April
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  White speckled variegation surrounding a green center.  Yellow and orange fall foliage.
Notes:   Graceful tree with a vase-shape with age.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot