2011 Needles and Leaves Nursery Plant Availability BOTANICAL NAME EVERGREENS - Arborvitae Dark Green Arborvitae 8' w/h 10' w/h Emerald Green Arborvitae 4' w/h 5' w/h 6' w/h 7' w/h Globe Arborvitae 6' w/h THUJA OCCIDENTALIS 'NIGRA' THUJA OCCIDENTALIS 'SMARAGD' THUJA OCCIDENTALIS 'GLOBOSA' Hetz Midget Arborvitae THUJA OCCIDENTALIS 'HETZ MIDGET' These field grown landscape plants are dwarf and compact. Good substitute for Boxwood. 24" w/h 30" w/h Holmstrup Arborvitae THUJA OCCIDENTALIS 'HOLMSTRUP' Taller sizes available. Light foliage plants also available at a discount. 6' w/h 7' w/h 8' w/h 9' w/h 10' w/h Pyramidal Arborvitae 14' w/h THUJA OCCIDENTALIS 'FASTIGIATA' Techny Arborvitae THUJA OCCIDENTALIS 'TECHNY' Taller sizes available. Limited quantity in all sizes. Light grade available. 5' w/h 6' w/h 7' w/h 8' w/h 9' w/h 10' w/h 12' w/h Woodward Globe Arbovitae These field grown plants are as wide as high for that immediate impact. 6' w/h EVERGREENS - Juniper Eastern Redcedar 36" w/h 4' w/h THUJA OCCIDENTALIS 'WOODWARDII' JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA EVERGREENS - Pine Austrian Pine Larger sizes available for In-Ground purchase. 4' w/h 5' w/h 6' w/h 8' w/h 10' w/h PINUS NIGRA Compact Austrian Pine Narrow and compact habit, ideal for the smaller yard and garden. Call for In-Ground savings. 16' w/h Mugo Pine ENCI ENCI Strain - Semi-dwarf 60" w/h PINUS NIGRA 'COMPACTA' PINUS MUGO MUGO Page 1
EVERGREENS - Spruce Baby Blue Eyes Colorado Blue Semi-dwarf, compact, powder blue pyramidal evergreen, slow growth rate. Specimens available for In-ground purchase. 14' w/h 16' w/h 18' w/h PICEA PUNGENS GLAUCA 'BABY BLUE EYES' #5457 Black Hills Spruce Larger sizes for in-ground purchase and move by tree spade are available. 4' w/h 5' w/h 14' w/h PICEA GLAUCA 'DENSATA' Colorado Blue Spruce PICEA PUNGENS GLAUCA Larger sizes available 16'-26'. Call for inground purchase savings. See Colorado Blue 'Select' for additional sizes. 4' w/h 5' w/h 6' w/h 16' w/h 18' w/h Colorado Green Spruce Larger sizes available for in-ground purchase. Limited Quantities. 9' w/h Colorado Select Blue Spruce Selection for consistant blue needle color. Specimen quality. 6' w/h 7' w/h 8' w/h 10' w/h Columnar Blue Spruce Upright narrow width blue spruce. Only several plants available. 16' w/h PICEA PUNGENS PICEA PUNGENS GLAUCA 'SELECT' PICEA PUNGENS GLAUCA 'FASTIGIATA' Moerheim Blue Spruce PICEA PUNGENS GLAUCA 'MOERHEIM' Beautiful Specimens. Powder blue needles. All sizes are available for in-ground purchase. 12' w/h 14' w/h 16' w/h 18' w/h Page 2
SHRUBS - Buckthorn Fernleaf Buckthorn Limited Quantity. 30" w/h SHRUBS - Burning Bush European Euonymus, Spindletree 5' w/h tree form 6' w/h shrub form 8' w/h shrub form RHAMNUS FRANGULA 'ASPLENIFOLIA' EUONYMUS EUROPAEA SHRUBS - Chokeberry Autumn Magic Black Chokeberry 3' w/h Top Graft ARONIA MELANOCARPA 'AUTUMN MAGIC' Black Chokeberry Extra heavy branching and fullness to these specimen plants. Ideal for massing! Larger sizes width equals height. 6' w/h heavy ARONIA MELANOCARPA SHRUBS - Dogwood Golden Glory Cornelian Cherry CORNUS MAS 'GOLDEN GLORY' Dogwood 2" cal tree form 3' w/h shrub form 4' w/h shrub form 5' w/h shrub form 6' w/h tree form 9' w/h shrub form 10' w/h shrub form 12' w/h shrub form Pagoda Dogwood Lmited quantities in larger sizes. 5' w/h multi-stem 6' w/h twin 10' w/h single SHRUBS - Euonymus European Euonymus, Spindletree 5' w/h tree form 6' w/h shrub form 8' w/h shrub form SHRUBS - Filbert American Hazelnut 5' w/h heavy 6' w/h heavy 7' w/h heavy SHRUBS - Hazelnut American Hazelnut 5' w/h heavy 6' w/h heavy 7' w/h heavy SHRUBS - Lilac Dwarf Korean Lilac 15" w/h Top Graft CORNUS ALTERNIFOLIA EUONYMUS EUROPAEA CORYLUS AMERICANA CORYLUS AMERICANA SYRINGA MEYERI 'PALIBIN' Page 3
Minuet Lilac Light purple flower buds open to lavender flowers on this slow growing lilac. Large dark green leaves wrap branches. Reaches 8'-10' in height. 6' w/h heavy SYRINGA X PRESTONIAE 'MINUET' SHRUBS - Maple Amur Maple ACER GINNALA Larger sizes also available. See TREES for single trunk form and pricing. 10' w/h multi-stem 12' w/h multi-stem 14' w/h multi-stem 14' w/h twin 16' w/h multi-stem Bailey Compact Amur Maple 18' w/h multi-stem Compact Amur Maple 6' w/h shrub form 7' w/h shrub form 8' w/h shrub form Flame Amur Maple Larger sizes for in-ground purchase and tree spade move available. For single stem see TREES. 8' w/h multi-stem 10' w/h multi-stem ACER GINNALA 'BAILEY COMPACT' ACER GINNALA 'COMPACTUM' ACER GINNALA 'FLAME' SHRUBS - Potentilla Gold Drop Potentilla 24" w/h McKay's White Potentilla 24" w/h SHRUBS - Serviceberry Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry See "Trees" section for single stem caliper. 4' w/h shrub form 5' w/h shrub form 6' w/h shrub form POTENTILLA FRUITICOSA 'GOLD DROP' POTENTILLA FRUITICOSA 'MCKAY'S WHITE' AMELANCHIER x GRANDIFLORA 'AUTUMN BRILLIANCE' Flambeau Allegany Serviceberry New leaf growth is purplish turning green, upright and taller than broad habit. 3' w/h shrub form AMELANCHIER LAEVIS 'FLAMBEAU' Saskatoon Serviceberry Multi-stem upright form. Excellent maroon-yellow fall color. 4' w/h shrub form 5' w/h shrub form 12' w/h multi-stem 14' w/h multi-stem Shadblow Serviceberry Few available, but very nice specimens. 6' w/h multi-stem 7' w/h multi-stem AMELANCHIER ALNIFOLIA AMELANCHIER CANADENSIS SHRUBS - Viburnum Page 4
Blackhaw Viburnum Some sizes available in a limited quantity. Tolerant of clay soils. 10' w/h shrub form 12' w/h shrub form VIBURNUM PRUNIFOLIUM Chicago Lustre Arrowwood VIBURNUM DENTATUM 'SYNNESTVEDT' Viburnum Upright-rounded, multi-stemmed shrub, 10-12' height, metallic blue fruit in October, fall color yellow-gold with orange tints. 'Morton' variety also grown. 6' w/h heavy Common Snowball Tree Pure white, sterile, true snowball shaped flower clusters on a small 8-10' ht. tree with a spread of 6-8'. Bright green leaves turn vibrant red in fall. 5' w/h tree form 6' w/h tree form Mohican Wayfaring Tree Vib. Leaf texture adds to the beauty of this full bodied plant. Larger 8' sizes for that instant plant wall! 6' w/h heavy Northern Burgundy Arrowwood Viburnum Fall color is a beautiful blend of burgundy and wine red. 6' w/h heavy SHRUBS - Witchhazel Common Witchhazel 6' w/h VIBURNUM OPULUS 'STERILE' VIBURNUM LANTANA 'MOHICAN' VIBURNUM DENTATUM 'MORTON' HAMAMELIS VIRGINIANA Page 5
TREES - Saratoga Ginkgo Our quantity is very limited on these slow growing trees. Please call! TREES - Birch Dwarf River Birch Shrub form available in this slow growth Dwarf River Birch variety. 2" cal 5' w/h multi-stem 6' w/h multi-stem 8' w/h multi-stem GINKGO BILOBA 'SARATOGA' BETULA NIGRA PUMILA Heritage River Birch BETULA NIGRA 'CULLY' #4409 2" cal single 8' w/h clump 10' w/h clump 12' w/h clump 14' w/h twin 16' w/h clump Whitespire Birch BETULA POPULIFOLIA 'WHITESPIRE' Larger sizes available for in-ground purchase. 10' w/h clump 12' w/h clump 14' w/h clump 16' w/h clump TREES - Catalpa Northern Catalpa 3.5" cal 4.5" cal TREES - Cherry Sargent Cherry 4.5" cal 4.5" cal CATALPA SPECIOSA PRUNUS SARGENTII TREES - Coffeetree Kentucky Coffeetree GYMNOCLADUS DIOICUS Caliper up to 8" size and some multi-stem natural looking trees available. 4.5" cal 12' w/h twin TREES - Crabapple Anne E Crabapple Pink buds opening to white flowers. Small, bright red fruit that persist into winter. A weeping crab similar to Red Jade. Few remain. Baccata Columnar Crab Upright, narrow tree, white flowers, yellow fruit with red cheek. Larger sizes available. 4.5" cal 20' w/h clump Bob White Crabapple Dense rounded tree, pink buds open white, persistant medium yellow fruits. 4.5" cal MALUS 'MANBECK WEEPER' MALUS 'BACCATA COLUMNARIS' MALUS 'BOB WHITE' Page 6
Coralburst Crabapple Grafted on 3' standard. Compact rounded head. Coral-pink buds open to double petal pink flowers. 3" cal Top Graft 3.5" cal Top Graft Top Graft Donald Wyman Crabapple Compact rounded tree, white flowers, green foliage, persistent small bright red fruits. 3.5" cal Firebird Crabapple A small compact rounded with dark green foliage. Red tight buds open to a white flower. Small bright red fruit persists through winter. 1.5" cal 2" cal 5' w/h tree form Golden Raindrops Crabapple Vase shaped upright form. White blossoms in spring turn to 1/4" golden yellow fruit. Unique deeply cut, glossy green leaves with a good yellow fall color. 2.5" cal 3" cal 3.5" cal MALUS 'CORALCOLE' MALUS 'DONALD WYMAN' MALUS SARGENTII 'SELECT' #12621 MALUS 'GOLDEN RAINDROPS' Klehm's Improved Bechtel MALUS 'KLEHM'S IMPROVED BECHTEL' Crabapple Improved strain of Bechtel Crab. Rounded in shape with double salmon rose #CVI blossoms appearing late. 1.5" cal 2" cal 2.5" cal 3" cal Mary Potter Crabapple Horizontal spreading tree, pink buds open to white blossoms, dark green foliage, small persistent red fruit. Similar to M. sargenti but larger. Only a few larger sizes available. 4.5" cal 5" cal MALUS 'MARY POTTER' Prairie Fire Crabapple MALUS 'PRAIRIE FIRE' An upright growing tree often as wide as tall with red flowers, maroon persistent small fruit and leaf fall color. 1.5" cal 2" cal 2.5" cal 3" cal 6' w/h multi-stem 8' w/h multi-stem Profusion Crabapple Spreading tree, purplish flowers, new foliage purple becoming bronze green, maroon fruit. Few remain. 4.5" cal Purple Prince Uniform 20' height and spread. Purple foliage becomes bronze green with age. Single rose-red blooms. Persistent blue-purple 3/8" fruit. 1.5" cal 2" cal 2.5" cal Red Jewel Crabapple Multi-stem upright shape, red fruited white flowering crab with persistent hanging fruit for winter interest. 6' w/h multi-stem 8' w/h multi-stem MALUS 'PROFUSION' MALUS 'PURPLE PRINCE' #8478 MALUS 'RED JEWEL' Page 7
Red Splendor Crabapple Upright spreading tree, pink flowers, glossy reddish green foliage, small persistent red fuit. 3.5" cal Royalty Crabapple Dense growing tree, upright in habit, purplish flowers, glossy dark purple foliage, medium dark red fruit. One of the best purple leaf crabs available. Sargent Crabapple Broad growing compact heavy branched specimen. Shrub form is wider than tall, excellent feature plant specimen! 4.5" cal 9' w/h shrub form Snowdrift Crab Broad oval tree, one of the later blooming crabapples with pink buds opening to white flowers, green foliage, small orange-red fruit. 5' w/h multi-stem MALUS 'RED SPLENDOR' #CVI MALUS 'ROYALTY' MALUS SARGENTII MALUS 'SNOWDRIFT' Spring Snow Crab MALUS 'SPRING SNOW' Dense rounded tree, white fragrant flowers, bright green foliage, fruitless. 5' w/h multi-stem 6' w/h multi-stem 10' w/h multi-stem Tina Sargent Crabapple MALUS SARGENTII 'TINA' Dwarf Sargent crabapple with pink to red buds open to white flowers, small red fruit. These plants are grafted on a 42" or 48" standard. 1.25" cal 1.75" cal Top Graft 2" cal Top Graft 2.5" cal Top Graft 3" cal Top Graft 3.5" cal Top Graft Top Graft Velvet Pillar Multi-stem tight upright form. Single pink flowers. Sparse red 1/2" fruit. Purplish foliage. Good disease resistance. 8' w/h multi-stem Weeping Candied Apple Crab Pendulous branches, rosy pink blooms, foliage dark green...red overcast, candy apple red fruits. Excellent feature tree! 3.5" cal TREES - Dogwood Corneliancherry Dogwood See Cornus Mas 'Golden Glory' under SHRUBS for additional sizes in shrub form. 1.5" cal tree form MALUS 'VELVETCOLE' #4758 MALUS 'WEEPCANZAM' #4038 CORNUS MAS 'GOLDEN GLORY' TREES - Hackberry Chicagoland Hackberry CELTIS OCCIDENTALIS 'CHICAGOLAND' Larger caliper 'Prairie Pride' variety is available for in-ground purchase. #R 5" cal Page 8
Common Hackberry TREES - Hawthorn Thornless Cockspur Hawthorn CELTIS OCCIDENTALIS CRATAEGUS CRUSGALLI INERMIS Larger sizes available for in-ground purchase. Truck spade accessible. 1.5" cal 4' w/h shrub form 5' w/h shrub form 6' w/h shrub form Washington Hawthorn Larger 16'-25' height and caliper available for purchase in-ground. 2.5" cal 12' w/h multi-stem 16' w/h multi-stem CRATAEGUS PHAENOPYRUM Winter King Hawthorn CRATAEGUS VIRIDIS 'WINTER KING' Some specimen 6" caliper size available for truck-spade move. 1.5" cal 2" cal 2.5" cal 4.5" cal 5" cal 10' w/h multi-stem 12' w/h multi-stem TREES - Honeylocust Imperial Honeylocust GLEDITSIA TRIACANTHOS INERMIS 'IMPCOLE' Limited larger specimen and park grade trees also available. Call for pricing. #1605 4.5" cal Shademaster Honeylocust GLEDITSIA TRIACANTHOS INERMIS 'SHADEMASTER' Few 4" avalilable. Some larger 5"+ sizes available. #1515 5" cal Skyline Honeylocust GLEDITSIA TRIACANTHOS INERMIS 'SKYCOLE' Larger caliper trees available for inground purchase. #1619 4.5" cal TREES - Hornbeam TREES - Ironwood Ironwood 2.5" cal 3.5" cal 4.5" cal 8' w/h twin OSTRYA VIRGINIANA TREES - Lilac China Snow Pekin Lilac SYRINGA PEKINENSIS 'CHINA SNOW' Upright rounded ornamental tree with amber colored exfoliating bark. 1.5" cal tree form 2" cal tree form 2.5" cal tree form 3.5" cal tree form Ivory Pillar Japanese Tree Lilac SYRINGA RETICULATA 'WILLAMETTE' Upright pyramidal shape and more narrow than other varieties. Dark green leaves and large white flower spikes. 2" cal 2.5" cal 3" cal 3.5" cal 6' w/h multi-stem Page 9
Ivory Silk Tree Lilac An attractive flowering ornamental tree. Multi-stem and larger tree caliper sizes available for in-ground. SYRINGA RETICULATA 'IVORY SILK' 4.5" cal 5" cal 5' w/h multi-stem 6' w/h multi-stem 10' w/h multi-stem 12' w/h multi-stem 16' w/h multi-stem Japanese Tree Lilac Heavy caliper, multi-stem, specimen quality upright to wide spreading plants. 8' w/h multi-stem Snowcap Tree Lilac Upright pyramidal compact form. Ht. 15-20', Spread 10-12'. Abundant creamy white flowers spikes in late June. 1.5" cal 2" cal 2.5" cal 3" cal TREES - Linden American Basswood Larger sizes, single and multi-stem available for in-ground purchase. 1.5" cal 2" cal 2.5" cal SYRINGA RETICULATA SYRINGA RETICULATA 'ELLIOTT' TILIA AMERICANA Greenspire Linden TILIA CORDATA 'GREENSPIRE ' Also larger caliper and multi-stem sizes available for in-ground purchase. 5" cal Prestige Linden Broader shape than greenspire 5" cal 12' w/h multi-stem 14' w/h multi-stem Redmond Linden Larger caliper and multi-trunk12-26' trees available. Truck tree spade accessible. 14' w/h multi-stem TREES - Maple Amur Maple Small single stem ornamental tree. Larger sizes available. See SHRUB LISTING for 5'-16' height multi-stem specimen landscape plants. TILIA CORDATA 'NORBERT' TILIA x EUCHLORA 'REDMOND ' ACER GINNALA Armstrong Maple ACER x FREEMANII 'ARMSTRONG' Narrow upright form with ascending braches. Ht. 40-50', Spread 15'. Great for boulevard or building accent. Few 6" for in-ground purchase. Autumn Blaze Maple ACER X FREEMANII 'JEFFERSRED' In-ground savings for those instant shade larger sizes! #4864 4.5" cal 5" cal Page 10
Columnar Compact Maple ACER PLATANOIDES 'COLUMNARE COMPACTA' Form is more compact in height and width. All larger size varieties available for In-Ground savings. 1.5" cal Columnar Maple ACER PLATANOIDES 'COLUMNARE' Crescendo Sugar Maple A excellent drought tolerant selection from the Morton Arboretum. Durable tatter resistent, dark green foliage and outstanding orange-red fall color. 1.5" cal Crescent Sugar Maple 1.5" cal Curiel's Gold Amur Maple Small 15 ' ht. tree with a larger leaf than species. Turns a varigated color of gold, pink and orange in autumn. 2.5" cal 3" cal 3.5" cal ACER SACCHARUM 'MORTON' ACER SACCHARUM 'CRESCENDO' ACER GINNALA 'CURIEL'S GOLD' Emerald Lustre Maple ACER PLATANOIDES 'POND' #4837 4.5" cal Emerald Queen Maple Limited quantities. Hedge Maple Few large caliper specimens remain. See 'SHRUBS' for shrub form for that instant hedge! 4.5" cal ACER PLATANOIDES 'EMERALD QUEEN' ACER CAMPESTRE Marmo Maple ACER x FREEMANII 'MARMO' Broad 35' spread upright oval crown tree with the Fall color like 'Autumn Blaze Maple'. Seedless hybrid of Red and Silver Maple. Resistance to frost cracking 2.5" cal 3" cal 3.5" cal 4.5" cal 5" cal Pattern Perfect Tartarian Maple Larger 'Tataricum' species trees available up to 5" and some multi-stem. 3" cal 3.5" cal ACER TATARICUM 'PATTERN PERFECT' Princeton Gold Norway Maple ACER PLATANOIDES 'PRINCETON GOLD' In-Ground purchase available for these distinctive trees at a savings! #6727 4.5" cal 5" cal Red Maple 'Red Sunset' variety is also available. 3.5" cal 14' w/h clump 16' w/h twin ACER RUBRUM Page 11
Red Sunset Maple Clump and twin 'Rubrum' species are available for native and natural areas. 1.5" cal ACER RUBRUM 'RED SUNSET' Royal Red Maple ACER PLATANOIDES 'ROYAL RED' 2" cal 2.5" cal 3" cal 3.5" cal Sienna Glen Maple Excellent branching and vigorous grower. Fall color is burgundy reds. Minnesota harrdy. Smaller leaves and finer branching appears delicate in the landscape. 2.5" cal 1.5" cal 2" cal Superform Maple 2" cal Tatarian Maple 3" cal 3.5" cal 4.5" cal ACER X FREEMANII 'SIENNA GLEN' #11322 ACER PLATANOIDES 'SUPERFORM' ACER TATARICUM TREES - Oak Burr Oak QUERCUS MACROCARPA Larger caliper sizes available. Call for pricing. 1.5" cal 2" cal 2.5" cal 4.5" cal Chinkapin Oak QUERCUS MUEHLENBERGII English Oak Caliper sizes > 5" available at in-ground savings. 5" cal Northern Red Oak Limited quantities. Swamp White Oak Larger caliper sizes available at in-ground savings. 2" cal 2.5" cal 3" cal 3.5" cal 4.5" cal 18' w/h twin White Oak 1.5" cal QUERCUS ROBUR QUERCUS RUBRA QUERCUS BICOLOR QUERCUS ALBA TREES - Pear Autumn Blaze Pear PYRUS CALLERYANA 'AUTUMN BLAZE' #4591 3" cal 3.5" cal 4.5" cal 5" cal Page 12
TREES - Redbud Eastern Redbud Wisconsin seed source. Some treeform (4" + caliper) and larger (12', 14' + ) multi-stem specimens available and truck spade accessible. 2.5" cal single 3" cal single 4' w/h multi-stem 5' w/h multi-stem 6' w/h multi-stem 7' w/h multi-stem 8' w/h multi-stem 10' w/h multi-stem 16' w/h multi-stem CERCIS CANADENSIS TREES - Serviceberry Allegany Serviceberry Low branched about 12-18" from ground. Few of these large trees remain. See also SHRUB Listing for additional varieties. 14' w/h AMELANCHIER LAEVIS Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry AMELANCHIER x GRANDIFLORA 'AUTUMN BRILLIANCE' #5717 6' w/h Branch 7' w/h Branch Robin Hill Apple Serviceberry 1.5" cal 2" cal 2.5" cal AMELANCHIER x GRANDIFLORA 'ROBIN HILL' Page 13