Ivory Silk Japanese Lilac is a smaller tree growing up to 15′ tall with a rounded crown. It has creamy white and amazingly fragrant flowers arranged in dense, terminal clusters (panicles up to 12″ long). It blooms in late May to mid-June, and later than most other varieties of lilac. It makes an outstanding fragrant flowering tree for any landscape with its beautiful flowering, hardiness, and bloom periods that are on full display long after most trees have ended their flowering. It attracts butterfly’s, hummingbirds, and pollinating insects. This tree has an attractive reddish-brown bark. USDA zones 5 -8
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The white oak is a stately native American tree that is an impressive tree for the larger landscape or estate. They are slower growing, but are a stately tree, and valuable native tree.
Flowering Trees
Red Rocket (Lagerstroemia indica 'Whit VI') is a very special variety of Crape myrtle that produces deep wine red leaves in the spring and summer which then change to dark purplish green, providing a striking contrast to its vibrant Red late summer flowers. Red Rocket is a very colorful and fast growing crape myrtle that can grow 3' - 5' per year. It has a vase shaped multi-stem growth habit and is known for its beautiful red flowers that start appearing in July through September. It is a very popular tree, and is valued for its late summer color.
Shade Trees
Sun Valley Maple is a fast growing tree that puts on a colorful leaf display in the fall. It holds its leaves well into the fall.
Shade Trees
Fairview Flame Maple tree is a fast growing red maple that has brilliant red leaves in the late fall. It has smaller leaves, and holds on to its leaves into late November.
Flowering Trees
The Helen Taft Cherry tree is a fantastic flowering cherry tree variety named after a female trailblazer in the early 1900's who also happened to be the wife of President Howard Taft. She was one of the key people who helped create the Cherry Blossom arboretum along the Potomac river bordering Washington DC and Virginia. This specimen is a outstanding flowering tree specimen, and would look great in a grouping, or in a tree line! It is a deciduous upright tree with a spreading crown, reaching both a height and width of 20' x 25'+ after 25 years of growth. We find that this tree is very hardy with minimal problems with insects and disease. It is most comparable to its female parent, Prunus x yedoensis Yoshino, except for its slightly larger size and noticeably large pink flowers. This tree is a true winner, and we are quite impressed with its many positive characteristics. It is Highly recommended!
Shade Trees
Prunus virginiana 'Canada Red' Chokeberry is a fast growing smaller native shade tree full of colorful red/ burgundy leaves, which is a great contrast to the many green leafed trees. The abundant small fruits are also red, and are a favorite of songbirds.
Flowering Trees
The American Yellowwood is a sought after fragrant and showy American native tree with beautiful white racemes flowers. It is a beautiful native tree with long graceful trunks and flowers around May/ June in USDA Zone 6. The white flowering racemes are quite showy.
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