Trees

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Plant Selection Choose your tree or shrub based on your landscape needs, like flowering, evergreen, screening, hedge, shade or border. Be sure to consider the ultimate size of each plant – which tends to be different in Oklahoma than what you’ll read on a generic label. Speak with a TLC Expert for guidance in selecting the proper tree for your location. Call OKIE Call OKIE at 811 to have your utility lines marked before planting. This service is free of charge, but takes 48 h

The Facts Height: 40′ – 50’ Spread: 20′ – 30′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium to Wet Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Slow The Wildfire Blackgum bursts to life each spring with bright red foliage followed by clusters of white blooms that provide an excellent source of nectar for pollinators and birds. These blooms give way to dark blue fruits that, while edible, are very sour and usually left to the birds. The dark green summer foliage turns to shades of scarlet

The Facts Height: 30′ – 40’’ Spread: 30′ – 35′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Wet to Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast Often called ‘The Graceful Giant’, the Weeping Willow is an old favorite beloved by many. Its open crown of wispy, ground-sweeping branches and long, slender leaves are a sight to behold. The tree’s yellow twigs and green foliage appear early in the season, often used as an indicator to the beginning of spring. Yellow flowers appear on short catkins i

The Facts Height: 8′ – 10′ Spread: 5′ – 8′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast Vitex is a grand beauty throughout the Oklahoma landscape. One of the more attractive qualities is its versatile use. It can be kept in a more compact form as a shrub, trained as a single trunk tree or a stately multi-trunk tree. It makes a rather stunning addition to any yard or garden bed as it features aromatic, compound, palmate, grayish-green leaves with 5-7 lanc

The Facts Height: 50′ – 60′ Spread: 50′ – 60′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium to Wet Soil: Average Growth Rate: Moderate The Swamp White Oak is a regal variety. Its vast, grand and stately presence give and aire of elegance to the landscape. An old-fashioned appearance gently acknowledges memories of childhood summers sitting beneath a shade tree. This oak sports a broad, rounded crown and a short trunk. Leaves are dark, shiny green above and silvery white ben

The Facts Height: 35′ – 40′ Spread: 20′ – 25′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast A vigorous grower, the Summer Red shines with regal stature in the landscape. Outstanding burgundy red foliage emerges in spring and gives way to a dark purplish green in the summer. Its fall display is truly impressive as the older leaves turn yellow, while the younger ones become orange or purple. Its furrowed silver bark and brick red branches add an dimension to

The Facts Height: 35′ – 50′ Spread: 4′ Sun: Full Sun to Part Shade Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast Sweetgums have long been an American favorite. These Liquidambar styraciflua, or ‘Slender Silhouettes’, even more so for their columnar growth habit and brilliant fall color. They are deciduous and require occasional waterings once a solid root system has been established. The start-shaped foliage and columnar habit make it the perfect choice for

The Facts Height: 40′ – 60′ Spread: 30′ – 40′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Dry to Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast This oak is long lived and respected in the horticulture community. Luscious green foliage lines strees and graces homes through spring and summer, giving way to the gorgeous fall color is is also loved for. Shumard oak is a medium sized, deciduous tree of the red oak group. Pyramidal in youth but spreads to a braod open crown with age. Shiny, dark

The Facts Height: 50′ – 75′ Spread: 15′ – 20′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium to Wet Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast Taxodium distichum, commonly known as bald cypress, is a long-lived, pyramidal conifer. It is native to saturated soils, seasonally flooded areas, swamps and stream banks on the coastal plain. Although it looks like a needled evergreen, it is in fact deciduous (“bald” as the common name suggests). Flat, linear needles are yellow-green in spr

The Facts Height: 40′ – 60′ Spread: 40′ – 60′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Any Growth Rate: Medium to Fast The Sawtooth Oak was first arrived in America in 1862 from its native regions Japan, China, Korea and the Himalayas. It is mostly selected for its relatively low maintenance and wide adaptability. This oak is a an attractive and sturdy shade tree. Its name derives from its saw tooth cut leaves which open golden yellow in the spring, giving way to a lustrous d

The Facts Height: 60′ – 80′ Spread: 30′ – 40′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast These true American elms are nothing but grace and beauty with their upright vase-shaped growth habit. The shape of this tree is very fluid as it matures. (See picture stages above.) It grows quickly at 4 to 6 feet per year. The foliage features large leathery dark green in summer and a beautiful yellow in fall; great variation in intensity of fall coloration. This

The Facts Height: 15′ – 20′ Spread: 15′ – 24′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast Cercis canadensis, var. texensis commonly called Oklahoma redbud, is a deciduous, often multi-trunked understory tree with a rounded crown. It is particularly noted for its stunning pea-like rose-purple flowers which bloom profusely on bare branches in early spring (Mar-Apr) before the foliage emerges. This tree is native to eastern and central North Ame

The Facts Height: 25′ Spread: 15′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Moderate Lebanon Cedar (Cedrus libani) is native to the eastern Mediterranean region, including Turkey, Lebanon, and Syria. It is more widely planted as a highly regarded ornamental. This irregular, upright Lebanon Cedar produces a graceful, vertical form with long, pendulous branches covered with long, stiff and dark green needles. The slow-growing tree develops an impressiv

The Facts Height: 30′ Spread: 3′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Moderate Taylor Junipers, similarly to Spartans, are coveted for their low maintenance and narrow growth habit. Semi-soft, blue-green foliage and narrow columnar form provides a refined, elegant look. This handsome selection maintains a more dense, upright form than other similar plants. ‘Taylor’ is an upright narrow columnar eastern red cedar. Silvery blue-green foliage is

The Facts Height: 15′ – 20′ Spread: 4′ – 5′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Moderate Spartan Junipers are widely revered for their narrow growth habit and tall stature, but can appear in shorter, more shrubby forms. This juniper is native to several regions in China, Japan, Mongolia and the Himalayas. Spartans grow into a narrow cone or columnar shape and remain thick as if it had been sheared. It displays vibrant green foliage that gives a very

The Facts Height: 30′ – 50′ Spread: 20′ – 30′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast The bluest of the deodars, Sanders Blue is a true contrast to its cousins. With fresh powdery blue foliage darkening with maturity; displaying the newer foliage nicely. Sanders Blue stands out elegantly from those of its kind. A grand spreading tree with a broad habit of growth, pendulous branches bear bright silvery blue needles; best used for its majes

The Facts Height: 40′ – 50′ Spread: 30′ – 40′ Sun: Full Sun to Part Shade Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast ‘October Glory’ is a female cultivar that, as the cultivar name suggests, is perhaps best noted for its exceptional fall color. It grows with an oval rounded form. Attractive red flowers appear in early spring before the foliage emerges. Flowers give way to red-tinged samaras (to 1 1/2” long). Glossy dark green leaves with red stems have 3-5 lobes

The Facts Height: 60′ – 70′ Spread: 30′ – 40′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Moderate Bald Cypress trees are common sights in the landscape and frequently sought after. The Frio River originates from just that, the Frio River not quite 90 miles west of San Antonio, TX. Like its cousin, the Frio is found along river banks and often in the river itself. Its broadly pyramidal shape lends to its beauty. The striking, almost lime green color of its ne

The Facts Height: 60′ Spread: 45′ Sun: Full Sun to Part Shade Water: Dry to Medium. Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast This tree is truly something special to behold. Its adaptability and beautiful upright stature make for a gorgeous display in any home. It carries a strong central trunk that leads its growth into an upright pyramidal form. The trees branches grow quite dense, giving a particularly full look that adds to it beauty. At an early age it d