Tree and Shrubs

Family: Pineaceae
Zone:8 - 11
Natural Range: SouthernMexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 50'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Needles to 7" long.  Narrow crown with numerous horizontal branches densely clothed with foliage at the tips.
Notes: In the wild Pinus techumanii  grows in the mountains of Mexico and central America at elevations between 450m and 2900m.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Pinaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Himalayas
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: sun
Height: 150', much smaller in cultivation
Attributes:  Evergreen, conical crown, blue green leaves to 8 inches long.  Graceful, drooping foliage.  Long cylindrical cones.
Notes:  Rare in cultivation.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Great Plant Picks

Family:  Pinaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun
Height: 80', much smaller in cultivation
Attributes:  Evergreen, conical crown, blue green leaves to 11 inches long.  Graceful, drooping foliage.  Long cylindrical cones.
Notes:  Rare in cultivation.  Predominantly grows at 600 - 3000 m elevation on the high plateaus of Yunnan but extending north into Sichuan and south into Myanmar.  1 gallon size plants.

Pot Size:   2 Gallon Pot 2' - 4'

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:Pittosporaceae
Zone: 7 - 10
Natural Range: China, Japan, Taiwan
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade, sun
Height: 15'
Attributes:  Evergreen.  Narrow, wavy leaves to 7" long.  Formed in whorled clusters of 3-6.  White flowers.
Notes: Textually interesting and reliably hardy shrub that is still relatively uncommon in cultivation.

Pot Size: 4" Band Pot

Family: Platanaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range: California
Soil:  Average, moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 25' - 75'
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attributes: Deciduous, palmate, deeply lobed with small serrated margins.  Erect trunk with mottled white and gray flaking bark.  Yellow fall foliage
Notes:  Naturally found in moist areas near rivers and streams.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Platanaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range: Arizona, New Mexico and south into Mexico
Soil:  Average, moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 25' - 75'
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attributes: Deciduous, palmate, deeply lobed with small serrated margins.  Erect trunk with mottled white and gray flaking bark.
Notes:  A stunning and quite rare native Sycamore.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family:  Podocarpaceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: New Zealand
Soil: Average
Light: Sun to part sun
Height: 24"
Bloom Time: NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Olive green needles.
Notes:  A New Zealand conifer found on both the North and South Island.  Found in montane and alpine slopes and is often found growing in open grassland scrub fields.  These are seed grown.

Pot Size:  Small 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: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Japan
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 8'
Bloom Time:  February to April
Attributes: Deciduous.  Small shrubby cherry with twisted branches.  Numerous small pinkish white flowers with dark center.
Notes: Great smaller growing cherry.  Works well in pots.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon 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: Pineaceae
Zone:4 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 15' - 30'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous with needles resembling a true larch.  Slow growing, broadly conical tree with horizontal branching.  Needles appear in clusters on short shoots.  Bright gold fall foliage.
Notes: Not often available.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family:  Rutaceae
Zone:  4 - 9
Natural Range:  Eastern and Central United States
Soil:  Average,  drought tolerant
Light:  Sun, , part sun, shade
Height:  15’
Bloom Time:  June
Attracts:  Butterflies
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous, trifoliate, shiny green leaves to 5" long.  Cymes of small white flowers.  Pendulous seed clusters.
Notes:   Native to open woods, glades and ravines.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot 3' - 4'

Family:  Juglandaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: Caucasus, Iran, Turkey
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part sun to sun
Height: 30'
Bloom Time: May  to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  Green winged nutlets to 20" long.  Pinnate leaves to 18" long
Notes: Native to Caucasus to northern Iran.

Pot Size:  Small Band Pot

Family:  Styracaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: China, Japan
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part sun to sun
Height: 30'
Bloom Time: May  to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  Multi-stemmed shrub or tree.  Numerous small white flowers held in dangling corymbs.  
Notes: Still quite limited in cultivation

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Styracaceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part sun to sun
Height: 30'
Bloom Time: May  to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  12" long hanging panicles of white flowers.
Notes: A Far Reaches Farm and Steve Hootman of the Rhododendron Species Foundation collection from China.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:3 - 9
Natural Range: Hybrid
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 45'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous.  Columnar growth and yellow, orange and red fall foliage.
Notes:  Selected at Starhill Forest Arboretum by Guy Sternberg

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot 1' - 2'

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: Hybrid; Gambel hybrid
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 15' - 30'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous. Red fall foliage. 
Notes:  A TAYLORMADE oak.  Reported to be smaller growing than Jack Maze.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot 1' - 2'

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:3 - 9
Natural Range: Hybrid; Quercus alba x Quercus robur fastigitate form
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 45'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous.  Columnar oak with red fall foliage.
Notes:  Great for narrow situations.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot 1' - 2'

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range: Southwest
Soil:  Average, drought tolerant
Light: Sun
Height: NA
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous.
Notes:  Beautiful southwest native oak.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: Colorado; Hybrid; macrocarpa x gambelii
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 15' - 30'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous. Small, blue tinged foliage.  Fall foliage turns to red-mahogany late in the season.
Notes:  Beautiful southwest native oak.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot 2' - 3'

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range: Southwest US
Soil:  Average, dry
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15' - 30'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous. Small, blue-green foliage. 
Notes: Natural hybrid between Quercus turbinella x grisea. This form has rounded bluish leaves.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range: South Western US; Hybrid; macrocarpa x gambelii
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15' - 18'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deep green, lobed foliage turning apricot in fall.
Notes:  Beautiful southwest native oak.  Only now becoming available.

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:   7 - 9
Natural Range:  Spain, Morocco,
Soil:  Average, well drained
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  35’ - 65'
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous or semi evergreen.  Coarsely toothed or lobed, rounded leaf that can vary in size from 3 to 6 inches long and 2 to 3 inches wide.  Larger leaves when young.
Notes:  Stately tree.

Pot size: Small Band Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range:Western Asia, Europe
Soil:  Average humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 40' - 60'
Bloom Time:  April
Attributes: Deciduous. Oblong-lanceolate green leaves to 5" long.  3 to 8 pared lobes.  Deeply furrowed gray bark.
Notes:  Slender growth when young, eventually developing broad pyramidal crown with age.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range: Oregon, California
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 40'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Leaves can be toothed or smooth even on the same tree.  Green leaves with gold-white underneath.
Notes:  Beautiful western native oak.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:6 - 10
Natural Range: Southern California and Baja California
Soil:  Average, drought tolerant
Light: Sun
Height: 5' - 10'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen, Shrubby with leathery texture.  Gray-green foliage.
Notes:  Beautiful southwest native oak.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: Asia
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous.  Dissected leaves with pink new growth.
Notes:  Very unusual Oak.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot 1 - 2'

Family:  Fagaceae
Zone:  7 - 9
Natural Range:  California
Soil:  Average, drought tolerant, well drained
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  60'
Bloom Time:  March to April
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Blue-green leaves.  Light colored bark.  Slow growing.
Notes:  Quercus douglasii is native to Coast ranges and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. 
 
Pot size:  Medium Band Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:4 - 9
Natural Range: New Mexico
Soil:  Average, dry
Light: Sun
Height: 30'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous. Single trunk, non suckering.  Spreading canopy. 
Notes: This selection was made from the Gila National Forest.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:4 - 9
Natural Range: Utah, Colorado, Wyoming to New Mexico
Soil:  Average, dry
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15' - 30'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous. Small, blue-green foliage. 
Notes:

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range: Pacific Northwest
Soil:  Average, summer dry
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 25' - 50'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous.  2 - 5" broad and 3-6" long leaves that once they turn brown in the fall usually remain on tree through the winter.
Notes:  Beautiful western native oak.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range: Pacific Northwest
Soil:  Average, summer dry
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 25' - 50'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous.  2 - 5" broad and 3-6" long leaves that once they turn brown in the fall usually remain on tree through the winter.
Notes:  Beautiful western native oak.

Pot Size:  Small Band Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:7 - 9
Natural Range:New Mexico
Soil:  Average, well drained
Light: Sun
Height: 16'
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attributes:  Evergreen.  Small graceful, spreading habit.  Gray green leaves to about 4" long.
Notes:  Newly selected cultivar.  Originally collected by Allan Taylor

Pot Size: Large Band Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:7 - 10
Natural Range: Mexico, Southwest US
Soil:  Average, dry
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15' - 30'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Narrow leathery leaves with green upper surface and whitish underside of leaf.
Notes: Stunning species Oak.

Pot Size:  5 Gallon Pot 4' - 5' tall

Family:  Fagaceae
Zone:  5 - 10
Natural Range:  California
Soil:  Average, well drained
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  15’ - 30'
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Red new growth.
Notes:  One of the prettiest trees.
 
Pot size:  Small Band Pot

Family:  Fagaceae
Zone:  6 - 9
Natural Range:  Texas, Mexico
Soil:  Average, well drained
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  35’
Bloom Time:  March to April
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Blue-green leaves with oblong shape and shallow lobes.  Yellow to brown fall foliage.
Notes:  Most often found growing in canyons or protected slopes.  Dense crown with distinct blue cast that contrasts with the surrounding green foliage of Junipers and other oaks.

Pot Size:  Small Band Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:7 - 9
Natural Range: Southestern United States
Soil:  Average to wet
Light: Part shade
Height: 40'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Semi-evergreen.  Scaly gray trunk.  Narrow, elliptic to oblong leaves to 4" long.
Notes:  In the south it the leaves are reported to remain on the tree throughout the fall and some of the winter.  Deciduous further north.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Fagaceae
Zone:  7 - 9
Natural Range:  California
Soil:  Average, well drained
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  60'
Bloom Time:  March to April
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Irregular, spreading and arching branches.  Yellow and orange fall foliage.
Notes:  The late winter early spring, leafless silhouette is quite stunning.  In the wild Quercus lobata grows in rich deep soil in dense riparian forests and open foothill woodlands and savannas.  Elevations between 600 - 1,700m. 
 
Pot size:  Medium Band Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:3- 9
Natural Range:Northern and Central United States, Southeastern Canada
Soil:  Average humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: NA
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attributes: Deciduous.  Rounded crown.  Acorn cups are covered with a mossy-like scale near the rim.  Leathery, dark green leaves to 12" long.
Notes:  This selection is very slow and dwarf with broadly spreading, vase shape.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:3 - 9
Natural Range: United States
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 30'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous.  Rather large and deeply cut lobed leaves.
Notes:  This form is a stand out in leaf shape.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:3- 9
Natural Range:Northern and Central United States, Southeastern Canada
Soil:  Average humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 40'
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attributes: Deciduous.  Rounded crown.  Acorn cups are covered with a mossy-like scale near the rim.  Leathery, dark green leaves to 12" long.
Notes:  Long lived and quite stunning as a mature tree.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone: 4 - 9
Natural Range: Eastern United States
Soil:  Average, drought tolerant
Light: sun
Height: 50', smaller in cultivation.
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous.  Rounded crown.  Dark brown to black and coarsely furrowed bark.  Good fall foliage.
Notes: Often found growing on dry, infertile rocky soil.  Slow growing.

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