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The following descriptions should help you make your decision when placing your order. 

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Bristol Black Raspberry

Hurry and reserve your black raspberries! For the first time, we are able to offer this heirloom quality, high-producing black raspberry. Its upright growth habit and cluster formation make its berries very easy to pick. It has medium to large, firm, glossy fruit with the very best black raspberry flavor. Bristol is a vigorous grower that shows tolerance to powdery mildew.

Ginkgo – Ginkgo biloba

This graceful deciduous tree is related to the conifers and was native to North America millions of years ago. It has unique, fan-shaped leaves that turn bright yellow and gold in autumn. Ginkgos are also virtually pest-free. We cannot guarantee it will help restore your memory, but you will certainly enjoy this unique specimen!

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Lacebark Elm  – Ulmus parvifolia

With its graceful open-branched form and attractive foliage, the lacebark elm reaches a height of 40-50 feet. Its colorful exfoliating bark resembles sycamore.  Its leaves have a yellowish to reddish purple fall color. A tough, durable tree for just about any situation.   

 
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Purple Smoketree – Cotinus coggygria ‘atropurpureum’

Back by popular demand! This mutli-stemmed, deciduous shrub reaches a height of 10 feet with a comparable spread. It has dark burgundy to purple leaves with fine-textured, lacey plumes of blooms that create a cloud of ‘purple smoke’ in mid-late summer. This unique specimen is maintenance free and can be used as a shrub border or a mass planting.

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Pink Rhododendron – ‘Roseum Elegans’

A gardening favorite, this pink variety was grown from rooted cuttings and has been proven hardy for northern gardens. Leaves are dark, lustrous green all year and plants flower profusely in spring. Shrubs can reach a mature height and spread of 5-8 feet. You should be enjoying blooms from these transplants in as little as one year!

       
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Arborvitae – Thuja occidentalis
Also known as white cedar, it can grow to 40 feet tall with a 10-15 foot spread. This tree has a pyramidal shape and makes an elegant hedge or wind break.

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Austrian Pine – Pinus nigra

If you are looking for a tough, fast growing evergreen, Austrian Pine will fit the bill. Growing up to 60 feet tall, it has long, dark, stiff needles and tolerates, dry, rocky and windy conditions.

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Blue Spruce – Picea pungens glauca
Growing 75-100 feet tall, this widely planted evergreen has stiff, silvery blue to green needles and can be used as a single planting or for a dense, colorful screen or windbreak. A beautiful Christmas tree or specimen planting.

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Canadian Hemlock – Tsuga canadensis 
Considered by many to be the most beautiful of evergreens, it has a lacy, graceful growth with short, soft, light green needles. Likes moist, well-drained soil and will perform well in shaded areas. Grows up to 70 feet with a 35 foot spread. Often slow to establish, but well worth the effort!

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Concolor Fir – Abies concolor

Also known as White Fir, this soft-needled evergreen grows to 75 feet. It has an ashy gray trunk and silvery-blue fragrant foliage that make it an excellent Christmas tree choice. As with most firs, it does require good drainage.

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Dawn Redwood – Metasequoia glyptostroboides
This fast growing deciduous conifer reaches a height of 70-100 feet with a width of 25 feet. It has very soft, bright green needles that turn orange to reddish brown in the fall. This is an excellent ornamental tree.

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Eastern Red Cedar – Juniperus virginiana
This dense pyramidal native evergreen grows up to 40’ and has a spread of 8-15’. The medium green needles are flat and scale-like. Exfoliating grayish to reddish brown bark is considered part of its ornamental interest. It should grow in almost any type of soil. Due to its fast, dense growth, this tree is a good choice for an evergreen screen or hedge, space 5’ apart.

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Eastern White Pine – Pinus strobes  
This is one of the fastest growing evergreens. Adaptable to many conditions, it has long, soft needles and grows 75-100 feet. Good tree for specimens, naturalizing, windbreak or dense screen.

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Norway Spruce – Picea abies 
A fast growing spruce with draping branches, it can reach 80 feet and is valuable as a windbreak and wildlife shelter. Thrives in average soil conditions, but prefers some moisture to maintain its deep green color.

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Butternut – Juglans cinerea

This tree bears a sweet edible fruit and grows to 60 feet with a 30-50 foot spread. It prefers moist, rich, well-drained soil but also tolerates drier, rocky soil conditions. 

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Gobbler Sawtooth Oak – Quercus acutissima

Large, round-headed tree growing 40-60 feet. As its name implies, it produces small acorns that are excellent food for turkeys and other wildlife. Disease and insect resistant, this tree will tolerate a wide range of conditions.

Red Mulberry – Morus rubra

This wonderful native tree achieves a height of 60 feet and a spread of 50 feet when found in the open. The fast growing and adaptable mulberry prefers moist soils. It produces abundant amounts of red, sweet berries on their female trees, which serve as a source of food for wildlife in early summer – or a source of jams and jellies for humans!

 
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River Birch – Betula nigra

A unique eastern native birch that has dark cinnamon to yellow exfoliating bark and is excellent for low, swampy areas.  It is very fast growing. This variety is resistant to the bronze birch borer.

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Shagbark Hickory – Carya ovata

With its narrow, upright growth habit, this native reaches a mature height of 80-90 feet and has fall colors of yellow and golden brown. It is most popular for its sweet edible nuts and shredding or ‘shaggy’ bark.

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Sugar Maple – Acer saccharum
How sweet it is! The sugar maple sap is the source of the popular maple syrup produced in Ohio. Growing up to 70’ tall, its leaves give off brilliant tones of yellow, orange and red in the fall.

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Sweet Gum – Liquidambar styraciflua

An Ohio native, it is planted as a shade tree and prized for its brilliant red fall colors and rapid growth. The name Sweetgum comes from the taste of its hardened sap that bleeds from wounds on the tree. While most commonly found in the wild in floodplains, river bottoms, and moist woodland sites (where it may reach 80 feet tall and 40 feet wide), it adapts well to dry soils in urban situations.

 Its fall color is yellow-bronze.

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Sycamore – Platanus occidentalis

One of our largest native trees, the sycamore can reach a height of 70-100 feet. Fast growing, this massive shade tree has beautiful, gray exfoliating bark. It is tolerant of adverse urban conditions, but readily grows in wet areas and along stream banks.

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Tulip Poplar – Liriodendron tulipifera

A very fast grower to 70-90 feet high, it produces large, green tulip-shaped blooms in late spring. The large, unique leaves turn golden yellow in the fall. Virtually pest free and gypsy moth proof. If you want a good shade tree in a short period of time, this is the tree for you.

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White Oak – Quercus alba

This native beauty can reach a mature height of 80 feet. It is a broad, dense-headed tree with purple-red fall color. It is an excellent tree for wildlife, as it produces a good crop of acorns. It is also valuable as a timber tree.

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Alleghany Serviceberry – Amelanchier laevis

An excellent four-season ornamental tree with  white Spring flowers, red to purple Summer fruits, brilliant Autumn foliage color, and unique Winter bark, buds, and texture. Gorgeous! It is adaptable to a wide range of soil and light conditions and reaches a low mature height of 10-15 feet.

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American Crabapple – Malus coronaria

Also called ‘sweet crab’, it is a small, spreading tree that reaches a height of 10-30 feet. The flowers are pink, sometimes fading to white, and very fragrant. The attractive flowers resemble the common apple bloom. The fruit ripens in September and can be used to make jelly, or left for wildlife to enjoy.

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Eastern Redbud – Cercis canadensis
A beautiful native tree that reaches 20-30 feet and has dark green heart shaped leaves. Appropriately named, the redbud has flowers that are reddish purple in bud and open to a rosy pink with purplish tinge in early spring. A great hardy landscape addition!

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White Flowering Dogwood – Cornus florida 

What a beautiful native tree! Growing to a height of 20-40 feet, the white dogwood has dense foliage that turns bright scarlet in fall. Clusters of large white flowers bloom in May. Bright red berries in the fall are great food for birds. The white dogwood is considered by many to be the most ornamental of our native trees.

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American Cranberry – Viburnum trilobum

A hardy native that can grow 8-12 feet with an 8-12 feet spread. It has white flower clusters in May that turn to bright red berries in fall.

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Butterfly Bush – Buddleia davidii
This common landscape plant is a vigorous grower (4-6 feet) and bears lilac colored blooms all summer. Aptly named, this shrub attracts loads of butterflies and hummingbirds.

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Common Lilac – Syringa vulgaris

An old fashioned favorite! It has dense, vigorous growth to 15’ tall and 6-10’ wide. Masses of extremely fragrant, light lavender flowers emerge in late spring.

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Pawpaw – Asimina triloba

After years of customer requests, we are happy to bring you the pawpaw! This unique native is easily recognized by its large, tropical-looking foliage, and prized for its delicious banana-like fruits that mature in late summer. It can 8-20 feet tall and up to 15 feet wide. Its long leaves turn gold to brown in the fall.

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Silky Dogwood – Cornus amomum

Growing to a height of 8 feet, this native shrub has dense foliage that turns red in the fall. The bark is scarlet red in color all winter. Its flat clusters of white flowers in spring bear blue or grayish berries in the fall that attract many bird species. Very good for soil erosion on banks. Will thrive in wet areas.

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Streamco Willow – Salix purpurea

With a mature height and spread of 10-12 feet, this extremely fast growing dense shrub was developed primarily for erosion control and stabilization of stream banks. Its very vigorous growth can withstand flooding and can be planted in any soil.

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Winterberry – Ilex verticillata
Native to eastern U.S., this shrub has a height and spread of 6-12 feet. It is considered one of the best shrubs for fall and winter color. Female plants produce bright red berries in early fall among yellow late fall foliage. It will tolerate wet soil conditions.