Tree and Shrubs

Family:  Sapindaceae
Zone: 4 - 8
Natural Range: Korea; Ulleung Do Island
Soil:  Average, moist, humus rich
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 12' - 24'
Attributes: Deciduous.  Palmate, toothed leaves with orange, yellow and red fall foliage.
Notes:  Great cold hardiness.

Pot size:  Large Band Pot

Family:  Sapindaceae
Zone: 3 - 9
Natural Range: Hybrid
Soil:  Average, moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade
Height: 8'
Attributes: Deciduous.  Pink and red new growth maturing to pink, then turning white and finally to green and white splashed.
Notes:  This form tends to be busy with multiple leaders.  Does best when sheltered from the hot afternoon sun.

Pot size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Sapindaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: Japan
Soil:  Average, moist, humus rich
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 12'
Attributes: Deciduous.  Palmate, toothed leaves that emerge bright red.  Lime green foliage as the season progresses.  Orange-red fall new foliage.
Notes:  Great for small gardens or containers.

Pot size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Sapindaceae
Zone: 4 - 9
Natural Range: Japan
Soil:  Average, moist, humus rich
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 12'
Attributes: Deciduous.  Narrow, palmate leaves.  Downward arching branches.  Orange-yellow fall foliage
Notes:  Great for small gardens or containers.

Pot size:  1 Gallon Pot 3' - 4'

Family:  Spindaceae
Zone:  7 - 9
Natural Range:  China
Soil:  Average, moist humus rich
Light:  Part sun
Height:  15'-25'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Narrow, palmate leaves.
Notes: A Far Reaches collection from Guizhou China.
 
Pot size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Sapindaceae
Zone: 5 - 8
Natural Range: Manchuria, Korea
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: part shade
Height: 20 feet tall
Attributes: Deciduous, large three lobed leaves with snakebark striped silver bark.
Notes:  One of the nicest of the snakebark maples.  The foliage alone is reason enough, with its large leaves.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot 2' - 4'

Family:  Sapindaceae
Zone: 4 - 9
Natural Range: Manchuria China, North and South Korea
Soil:  Average, moist, humus rich
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 25'
Attributes: Deciduous.  Densely-branched, rounded crown.  Gray-brown exfoliating bark in vertical strips.  Trifoliate leaves to 3" long that turn bright orange to red in fall.
Notes:  One of the better maples for fall color.

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Pot size:  Medium Band Pot

Family:  Sapindaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: Hybrid; Acer circinatum x Acer psudosieboldianum
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Part shade, sun
Height: 25' 
Attributes: Deciduous.  Pinkish new growth and red fall foliage.
Notes:Acer circinatum hybrid found in the Morton Arboretum collections.

Pot size:  Large Band Pot

Family:  Sapindaceae
Zone: 6 - 8
Natural Range: Hybrid; A. davidii and A. pennsylvanicum
Soil:  Average, moist, humus rich
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 10'
Attributes: Deciduous.  Striped bark with pink and green splashed new growth turning to cream-white and green.  Bark turns scarlet and white.
Notes:  This form has a weeping habit with a dramatic cascade effect with age.

Pot size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Sapindaceae
Zone:7 - 10
Natural Range:California
Soil:  Humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15' -  20'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes: Deciduous, spreading canopy.  Palmate leaves. Silvery-gray bark, pink to white fragrant flowers in upright clusters to 12" long.
Notes:  Slow growing, attractive shrub or tree.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family: Sapindaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Northern China
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 30-90 feet tall
Attributes: Deciduous.  Cylindrical panicles of white flowers in summer .  Large compound leaves.  Slow growing in cultivation
Notes:  Often planted on temple grounds in China.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Sapindaceae
Zone:  4 - 9
Natural Range:  Eastern North America
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  50’
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attracts:  Bees
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous, dark green palmately compound leaves with five to seven leaflets.  Yellow-orange fall foliage.  Yellow-green inflorescence to 7" long.
Notes:  Attractive ornamental shade tree with good fall foliage. 

Pot size: Large Band Pot

Family: Sapindaceae
Zone: 3 - 9
Natural Range: Hybrid
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 20' - 40'
Attributes: Deciduous.  Palmate leaves with rounded crown.  Bright red-orange fall foliage.  Greenish-yellow flowers to 12" long. 
Notes:  This selection is a narrow, upright form with better fall color.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family: Sapindaceae
Zone: 3 - 9
Natural Range: Pennsylvania to Iowa, south to Alabama and Arkansas
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 20' - 40'
Attributes: Deciduous.  Palmate leaves with rounded crown.  Yellow fall foliage.  Greenish-yellow flowers to 12" long. 
Notes: 

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family: Sapindaceae
Zone:3 - 9
Natural Range:Europe
Soil:  Humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15' -  25'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  Narrow palmate leaves. Small white flowers.
Notes:  Smaller growing than the species.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Sapindaceae
Zone:3 - 9
Natural Range:Europe
Soil:  Humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15' -  25'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  Deeply lobed, cut-leaf. Small white flowers.
Notes:  Smaller growing than the species.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Sapindaceae
Zone:3 - 9
Natural Range:Europe
Soil:  Humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15' -  25'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  Deeply lobed leaves splashed with electric yellow.
Notes:  Slower growing than the species.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Sapindaceae
Zone: 3 - 9
Natural Range:Europe
Soil:  Humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15' -  25'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  Palmate leaves that emerge pale greenish or greyish yellow turning lime green with white cast. Small white flowers.
Notes:  Smaller growing than the species.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Sapindaceae
Zone: 3 - 9
Natural Range:Europe
Soil:  Humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15' -  25'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  Palmate leaves that emerge silvery white new spring foliage with deep green veins.  Small white flowers.
Notes:  Smaller growing than the species.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Zone:3 - 9
Natural Range:Europe
Soil:  Humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15' -  25'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  Palmate leaves. Small white flowers.
Notes:  Peeling bark with age species.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family: Sapindaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range:Hybrid; A hippocastanum x pavia
Soil:  Humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15' -  30'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  Compound leaves edged with a prominent golden-yellow margin.  Smaller leaves than the typical A. x carnea.  Pale red flowers.
Notes:  Tropical looking.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Sapindaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range:Hybrid; A hippocastanum x pavia
Soil:  Humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15' -  30'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  Compound leaves edged with irregular yellow-chartreuse margins.  Smaller leaves than the typical A. x carnea.  Pale red flowers.
Notes:  Broader light variegatian than 'Aureomarginata' Tropical looking.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Ericaceae
Zone:8 - 10
Natural Range: Hybrid
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Part sun, dappled shade
Height: 4'
Bloom Time:  June to December, sporadically all year.
Attributes: Evergreen. Upright, arching branches with narrow, dark green leaves.  Large, woody, potato like tuber.  Pendulous creamy flowers with a checkerboard of darker red highlights.
Notes:  A super cool, and easily grown Huckleberry relative from the high Himalayas,  growing as an epiphyte in large mossy trees among Rhododendrons, Vaccinium, Gaultheria, and an array of orchids and ferns.  Grown best in a pot or hanging basket in cooler climates but in protected gardens can be grown among other Ericaceous plants.

Pot Size:  Small Band Pot

Family: Ericaceae
Zone:8 - 10
Natural Range: Himalayas
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Part sun, dappled shade
Height: 4'
Bloom Time:  June to December, sporadically all year.
Attributes: Evergreen. Upright, arching branches.  Large, woody, potato like tuber.  Pendulous white flowers.
Notes:  A super cool, and easily grown Huckleberry relative from the high Himalayas,  growing as an epiphyte in large mossy trees among Rhododendrons, Vaccinium, Gaultheria, and an array of orchids and ferns.  Grown best in a pot or hanging basket in cooler climates but in protected gardens can be grown among other Ericaceous plants.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family: Ericaceae
Zone:8 - 10
Natural Range:  Himalayas
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Part sun, dappled shade
Height: 4'
Bloom Time:  June to December, sporadically all year.
Attributes: Evergreen. Upright, arching branches with narrow, dark green leaves.  Large, woody, potato like tuber.  Pendulous creamy flowers with a checkerboard of darker red highlights.
Notes:  A super cool, and easily grown Huckleberry relative from the high Himalayas,  growing as an epiphyte in large mossy trees among Rhododendrons, Vaccinium, Gaultheria, and an array of orchids and ferns.  Grown best in a pot or hanging basket in cooler climates but in protected gardens can be grown among other Ericaceous plants.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family: Ericaceae
Zone:8 - 10
Natural Range: Hybrid
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Part sun, dappled shade
Height: 4'
Bloom Time:  June to December, sporadically all year.
Attributes: Evergreen. Upright, arching branches with small rouded leaves.  Large, woody, potato like tuber.  Pendulous creamy flowers with a checkerboard of darker red highlights.
Notes:  A super cool, and easily grown Huckleberry relative from the high Himalayas,  growing as an epiphyte in large mossy trees among Rhododendrons, Vaccinium, Gaultheria, and an array of orchids and ferns.  Grown best in a pot or hanging basket in cooler climates but in protected gardens can be grown among other Ericaceous plants.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Ericaceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: Southeastern United States
Soil:  Average, moist humus rich
Light: part shade
Height: 4' - 8'
Attracts:  Bees, butterflies and birds
Bloom Time:  June to August
Attributes:  Evergreen, glossy, simple, alternate leaves.  Graceful, arching stems.  White bell flowers.
Notes:  Great for texture in container plantings.  Previously known as Leucothoe populifolia. 
 
Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Betulaceae
Zone:  8 - 11
Natural Range:  Mexico south to Argentina
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  80’
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Oval leaves with toothed margins.  Separate male and female catkins on the same tree.
Notes: Alnus acuminata grows in the temperate zonal high elevation mountain ranges in tropical and subtropical Central and South America and Mexico.  This collection was made in Guatemala and is quite rare in cultivation.

Pot size: 4" Band Pot

Family: Betulaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Japan
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 15' - 30'
Attributes: Deciduous.  Very distinct variety with long leaves and conspicuous double-toothed margins.
Notes:  Graceful habit with long slender branches and downy buds in winter.  Leaves closely resemble Hornbeam.  The texture of the veining and toothed margins are very attractive/

Pot Size:  Small Band Pot 18" - 24"

Family: Betulaceae
Zone: 3 - 9
Natural Range: Europe
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 30-60 feet tall
Attributes: Deciduous.  Very unusual cut-leaf form.
Notes:  Single trunk or multi trunk specimen tree with soft feathery texture.    

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot 3' - 4'

Family:  Betulaceae
Zone:  4 - 8
Natural Range:  Japan, Korea, E Asia
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  30’
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous, Glossy toothed leaves with showy gray bark.  Monoecious flowers are formed March and April.
Notes: Rare in cultivation.

Pot size: 1 Gallon Pot

Family: Betulaceae
Zone: 5-9
Natural Range: PNW
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 30-60 feet tall
Attributes: Deciduous.  Very unusual cut-leaf form.
Notes:  Found in 1938 by T.J. Starker of Oregon State College northwest of Portland, Oregon. 

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Betulaceae
Zone: 2 - 9
Natural Range: Alaska to N. California & Rockies to WY
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 10'
Attributes: Deciduous.  Thicket forming shrub with horizontal branching.  Reddish-brown bark turning gray.  Oval, toothed leaves.  Long creamy yellow catkins.
Notes:  A smaller growing native Alnus that is good for wildlife.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: Brazil, Northern Argentina, Paraguay
Family:  Araucariaceae
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 50 feet tall
Attributes:  Evergreen.  Young plants develop a narrow pyramidal shape but with age becomes flat and candelabra like.
Notes:  Distinct species of Araucaria with whorled branches, spirally arranged.  In the wild Araucaria angustifolia grows up to 2,300 m in elevation.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: South-central Chile and adjacent Argentina and Brazil
Family:  Araucariaceae
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 50 feet tall
Attributes:  Evergreen.Young plants develop a narrow pyramidal shape but with age becomes flat and candelabra like.
Notes:  Slow growing species with whorled branches, spirally arranged

Pot Size:  4"  Band Pot

Family:  Ericaceae
Zone: 7 - 10
Natural Range: PNW
Soil:  Average to dry, well drained
Light: Part shade-sun
Height: 15'- 30'
Attributes:  Evergreen, Bright red - orange bark, peels to reveal a green new layer.  White flowers in hanging cluster, orange - red fruit.
Notes:  Once established they resent root disturbance and do not take to transplantation.  Use as a specimen tree to show off its ornamental bark.

Pot Size:  Small Band Pot  12" - 18"

Family:  Fabaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Morocco
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 16'
Bloom Time: May to July
Attracts: NA
Resistant To:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Silvery foliage with bright yellow fragrant flowers. 
Notes:  Fast growing species that can be maintained as a smaller shrub.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Rosaceae
Zone: 3 - 9
Natural Range: North America
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: sun, part shade
Height: 8-14"
Attributes: Deciduous.  Ground-cover type of growth with glossy foliage, white flowers in spring, dark purple berries in late summer, and orange-red fall foliage.
Notes:  Developed by Dr. Mark Brand, University of Connecticut.

Pot size:  4" Band Pot

Family: Garryaceae
Zone:7 - 10
Natural Range: Himalayas
Soil:  Average
Light: Part shade to shade.
Height: 4'
Bloom Time:  Spring
Attributes: Evergreen.  Mat-green leaves with toothed edges.  Star shaped, dark purple-red flowers with yellow pollen.  Reddish orange fruit.
Notes: Attractive small, open shrub from the cool forests of China. 

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family: Garryaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range: Himalayas
Soil:  Average
Light: Part shade to shade.
Height: 4'
Bloom Time:  Spring
Attributes: Evergreen.  Mat-green leaves with toothed edges.  Star shaped, dark purple-red flowers.  This form has wider leaves and small yellow spotting.
Notes: A Cistus Nursery introduction. Attractive small, open shrub from the cool forests of China. 

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family: Garryaceae
Zone:7 - 10
Natural Range: Himalayas
Soil:  Average
Light: Part shade to shade.
Height: 4'
Bloom Time:  Spring
Attributes: Evergreen.  Mat-green leaves with toothed edges.  Star shaped, dark purple-red flowers with yellow pollen.
Notes: Attractive small, open shrub from the cool forests of China. 

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Garryaceae
Zone: 6 - 10
Natural Range: Japan
Soil:  Average
Light: Part shade
Height: 4'
Bloom Time:  Spring
Attributes: Evergreen.  Green leaves
Notes: An easily grown broad leaf evergreen shrub that is a great foundation plant.

Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Cupressaceae
Zone:  7 - 10
Natural Range: S Chile, S Argentina
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 25' - 50'
Attributes:  Evergreen, short trunk and narrow crown.  Red-brown bark, peeling in threads.
Notes:  Native to the Valdivian temperate rain forests and drier steppe-forests of central-southern Chile and Argentina.

Pot Size:  Small Band Pot

Family:  Salicaceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: Chile and Argentina
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, Part sun
Height: 15'
Bloom Time: January to February
Attributes: Evergreen.  Small, glossy green leaves.  Gracefully layered branching.  Vanilla fragrant yellow flowers.
Notes: Attractive, narrow upright, layered growth.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: Tibet
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Part shade, sun
Height: 4'
Attributes:  Evergreen.  1" yellow flowers.  Red stems with dark green, holly like foliage with contrasting white underside.  
Notes: A rare species from Tibet with  large flowers that are much bigger than other Berberis species.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Berberidaceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range:  Chile
Soil:  Average, drought tolerant
Light: Sun
Height: 4' - 8'
Bloom Time:  March to May
Attracts:  Bees, Birds, Butterflies
Pest Resistance:  Deer
Attributes:  Evergreen, glossy, dark green leaves.  Rich orange flowers.
Notes: More compact when given full sun.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

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