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Common Name: October Glory Red Maple
It is well-suited as a street tree in northern and mid-south climates in residential and other suburban areas but the bark is thin and easily damaged by mowers.
October Glory (cultivar name is 'PNI 0268') can be grown in the southern portion of zone...
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Common Name: Sun Valley Red Maple
This is a cross between 'Autumn flame' and 'Red Sunset'. Introduced by the USA National Arboretum in 1994. A male tree that turns bright red in the fall....
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Common Name: Dura Heat Riverbirch
A birch with superior leaf color both summer and fall. Bark is also more creamy white than the species. More resistant to borers and leaf miners, and is easily transplanted if necessary....
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Common Name: Deodora Cedar
Cedar grow best when protected from strong winds. They tolerate high pH and clay soil by growing most of their roots in the top few inches of soil. Supply mulch out to the edge of the branches for best growth and to help the tree endure extended drou...
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Common Name: Radicans Japanese Cedar
The Japanese Cedar has compact blue-green foliage and peeling red bark....
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Common Name: Yoshino Japanese Cedar
A pyramidal tree with a stout trunk and erect, wide-spreading branches. Handsome form with rich bright blue-green summer foliage that becomes slightly bronze-green in cold wather, grows fast and develops a handsome form without extensive pruning....
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Common Name: Fine Line Holly
Upright bushy pyramidal-conical form with lustrous dark greenwith yellow-green, translucent rim 1/4" diameter fruits....
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Common Name: Sky Pencil Holly
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Common Name: Steeds Holly
Lustrous dark green flat leaves, might be a good choice for hedging. Usually a dense, multi-branched evergreen that is excellent for textural differences in foundation plantings, hedges, and masses....
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Common Name: Festive Holly
Festive is a dense, medium-sized evergreen shurb. The spiny, stiff foliage is dark green and shiny. 'Festive' can easily be maintained as a tightly-sheared pyramid for a small garden accent. Rich, deep green foliage year round with a tight growth ...
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Common Name: Nellie R. Stevens Holly
A row of these hollies makes one of the best screens available. Its tight growth habit, even in partial shade, makes it nice along the border of a property to block a view or provide protection from the wind. Place it far enough away from the patio...
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Common Name: Hetz Columnar Juniper
Upright columnar evergreen. Bright green foliage. Tolerant of heat, cold and drought conditions. Excellent for topiary. Requires full sun....
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Common Name: Dynamite Crepe Myrtle
Crepe Myrtles grow best in full sun with rich, moist soil but will tolerate less hospitable positions in the landscape just as well, once it becomes established. However, plants left on their own in highway medians appear to be less vigorous unless a...
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Common Name: Lipan Crepe Myrtle
Large shrub form or small tree. Color is medium lavender. Blooms mid-July to September and is mildew resistant....
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Common Name: Natchez Crepe Myrtle
Grows best in full sun and will tolerate some drought and a little salt. This plant will grow in dry soil. Suitable soil is well-drained/loamy, sandy or clay. The pH preference is an acidic to alkaline (less than 6.8 to more than 7.7) soil. 'Natchez...
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Common Name: Pink Velour Crepe Myrtle
Pink Velour has a wonderful dark hot pink flower with dark foliage for a beautiful contrast. One of our favorites. Grows best in full sun with rich, moist soil but will tolerate less hospitable positions in the landscape just as well, once it becom...
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Common Name: Red Rocket Crepe Myrtle
This variety is one of the Whitcomb selctions Grows best in full sun with rich, moist soil but will tolerate less hospitable positions in the landscape just as well, once it becomes established. However, plants left on their own in highway medians ap...
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Common Name: Sioux Crepe Myrtle
Will tolerate some drought and a little salt and will grow in dry soil. Suitable soil is well-drained/loamy, sandy or clay. The pH preference is an acidic to slightly alkaline (less than 6.8 to 7.7) soil. Sioux' grows best in full sun with rich, moi...
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Common Name: Kay Paris Magnolia
A newer introduction. Underside of leaves are a nice orange/brown. It is the offspring of Little Gem and (it is believed) Bracken Brown Beauty. Is considered to be the best of the grandifloras available. More cold tolerant than most. Flowers for...
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Common Name: Little Gem Magnolia
The original parent tree of this cultivar was 42 feet tall in 1997. This cultivar will probably remain smaller than most and will grow slower than many other magnolia cultivars. This makes it well suited for maintaining as a tall hedge.
Southern ...
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Common Name: Ann Magnolia (one of the Little Girl Hybrids)
A hybrid magnolia, originally developed at the U.S. National Arboretum. Has lightly scented deep purple-red flowers....
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Common Name: Krauter Vesuvius Plum
This plum has a light pink flower that will appear before the dark purple foliage. Very similar in appearance to the 'Thundercloud' plum....
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Common Name: Yoshino Flowering Cherry
Short lived tree, but very showy with almost white to light pink flowers. Rounded and spreading growth habit. Blooms usually appear before the leaves, but may occur with the leaves....
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Common Name: Cleveland Select Flowering Pear
Cleveland Select is a ornamental pear that holds up much better than the 'Bradford'. Densely covered in spring with white blooms. Nice purple color in fall....
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Common Name: Overcup Oak
Overcup Oak is one of the most wet site tolerant of the oaks available for planting in landscapes. This should make it suitable for many urban sites where poor drainage is the norm. Despite its tolerance to standing water, like many wet sites trees,...
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Common Name: Nuttall Oak
This is an oak that is very underused in the landscape. It is gaining in popularity because of it's adaptability and rapid growth. Has a nice red color in the fall....
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Common Name: Willow Oak
It grows in low, bottomland, acid wet sites of flood plains yet is drought-tolerant. It thrives in constantly wet to moist soil, although it has been known to adapt to seemingly impossible habitats. Fibrous root system makes transplanting rather eas...
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Common Name: Weeping Willow, Green
This beautiful weeping willow (the best of the green weeping willows) is a hardy deciduous three. It forms a gracefully rounded crown to about 50 feet in height with a spread just as wide. Its bark is dark gray and deeply formed. Branches divide i...
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Common Name: Green Giant Arborvitae
Green foliage with a broad pyramidal habit that prefers full sun with rapid growth and bronze winter foliage. Has lustrous rich medium green summer foliage. A great alternative to Leyland Cypress....
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Common Name: Shoal Creek Vitex
Superb selection, covered with fragrant clear blue panicle-like blooms. Butterfly magnet! Vigorous grower. Blooms on new wood. Cut back hard in spring if desired....
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Common Name: Green Vase Zelkova
Green Vase somewhat resembles the vase shape of American Elms. Zelkova is massive. It has a moderate growth rate and likes a sunny exposure. Major branches grow very upright. Leaves turn a brilliant burnt umber in the fall....
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