Trees

The Facts Height: 30′ – 40′ Spread: 25′ – 35′ Sun: Full Sun to Part Shade Water: Medium to Wet Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast Betula nigra, commonly called river birch, is a vigorous, fast-growing, medium-sized, Missouri native deciduous tree which occurs on floodplains, swampy bottomlands and along streams throughout the state. In cultivation, it can be trained as either a single trunk or multi-trunked tree. As a single trunk tree, it develops a

The Facts Height: 50′ Spread: 10′ – 12′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium to Wet Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast Here is a relatively new variety of Pond cypress that is a study in contrast. There are few trees as tough as a pond cypress. They can withstand drought, total immersion, deep hard winter and endless sweltering summers. Few conifers have such delicate, feathery foliage. These ‘needles’ practically beg for a caressing touch and the Po

The Facts Height: 15′ – 25′ Spread: 8′ – 12′ Sun: Full Sun to Part Shade Water: Medium. Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast These hollies are among the most popular for their rapid growth rate (alomst 3 ft. per year), their deep green foliage and constant berry production. Because of its continual berry display, it provides interest in any landscape year-round. It can also be trained to grow as a small tree, providing a different look that is perfect for specimen planti

The Facts Height: 40′ – 60′ Spread: 20′ – 30′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Moderate Like any deodar, this evergreen is native to the Himalayan region. Its name derives from the man who returned with and cultivated it from Afghanistan in the 1970’s. Cedrus deodora ‘Karl Fuchs’, is a graceful cedar that has a pyramid shape and long, stiff distinctly blue needles with barrel-shaped cones. It is an extremely hardy cedar and known for its splendid b

The Facts Height: 30′ – 40′ Spread: 30′ – 40′ Sun: Full Sun to Part Shade Water: Dry to Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast Golden raintree is a small, open-branching, irregularly-shaped, deciduous tree with a rounded crown. Features pinnate or bipinnate, feathery, compound leaves (to 18” long), each leaf having 7-17 irregularly lobed leaflets. Leaves emerge pinkish bronze to purplish in spring, mature to a bright green in summer and turn yellow (quality varia

The Facts Height: 25′ – 35′ Spread: 30′ – 40′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Moderate This Himalayan native, is quite similar to the regular deodar. It is among the most elegent of the evergreen conifers, however. Its yellow-green foliage give it a most luxorious touch as the golden needles droop softly against the blue sky. Like its cousin, this cedar is touted in many Hindu legends and is revered throughout the region. The golden deodar develop

The Facts Height: 25′ Spread: 15′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast These bright evergreens, kin to the true deodars, are of a smaller stature than their cousins. Its attractive, conical form in youth and venerable elegance in old age lends distinction to any garden. This Cedar forms a narrow pyramid of pendulous branches covered in bright yellow-green foliage that would cheer-up any garden, especially in winter. Though small

The Facts Height: 40′ – 50′ Spread: 30′ – 40′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Moderate Cedrus deodara, known as Deodar cedar, is an evergreen conifer native to the Himalayas. Its impressive stature only helps match its name which derives from the Sankrit word ‘devdar’, meaning ‘timber of the gods’. This cedar is pyramidal when young, maturing to flat-topped trees with broad-spreading horizontal branches. Deodar cedar is perhaps the most pendulou

The Facts Height: 30′ – 35′ Spread: 20′ – 30′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Dry to Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast Pistacia chinensis, or Chinese Pistache, is fast growing to be a favorite in Oklahoma. Though called the “Ugly duckling” of the tree world because of its sometimes shape in its youth, this tree grows into one of the most beautifully shaped trees around. Its canopy becomes rounded and arched on top leaving it flat underneath giving you a sense of co

The Facts Height: 50′ – 70′ Spread: 40′ – 60′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Moderate The Cedar Elm, or Ulmus crassifolia, has long been a traditional favorite in the south. Its wide adaptability makes it a very popular choice as it can tolerate a number of soil and atmospheric conditions. This tree is selected not only for its adaptability, but for its regal beauty as well. Featuring lustrous, dark green leaves that are 1 – 2” and small clusters

The Facts Height: 20′ – 30′ Spread: 15′ – 20′ Sun: Part to Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Moderate This tough, hardy and colorful ornamental chokecherry is the perfect choice for tough spots to grow in. Its most notable and unique feature are its first emerging lush and green leaves turning bright reddish purple in early summer. The new growth later in the season adds color and texture among the already turned leaves. The Canada Red fea

The Facts Height: 40′ – 55’ Spread: 30′ – 40’ Sun: Full Sun to Part Shade Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast ‘Jeffersred’, sold under the trade name of ‘Autumn Blaze’, is an older cultivar that was discovered by nurseryman Glenn Jeffers in the late 1960s. This is an upright, fast-growing, deciduous tree that will typically grow 40-55’ tall with ascending branching and a dense, broad-oval crown. Its growth rate tends to exceed other maples. Each medium gre

The Facts Height: 30′ – 50′ Spread: 35′ – 55′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast A graceful tree that forms a rounded canopy with arching branches. A classic beauty beloved in front and back yards, providing shade to the free spirits of summer for hundreds of years past and the ones to come. It resembles American elm (Ulmus americana) with its vase shaped growing habit. ALLEE was cloned from a tree growing at the University of Georgia campus at

The Facts Height: 20′ – 35′ Spread: 8′ – 15′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Moderate These lustrous junipers, native to Missouri, are often found in Oklahoma as screens; whether for privacy or for wind. An excellent choice as Canaertii’ is a female variety that produces round, blue, berry-like cones (1/4” diameter) with whitish bloom. Cones are often profuse and are considered to be highly ornamental. This juniper is a broadly conical, sometimes

The Facts Height: 30′ Spread: 12′ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast This native evergreen makes a dramatic focal point in any sunny location. Its intense powdery blue, scale-like needles that are soft to the touch and upright tight pyramidal form screams from far distances drawing the curious onlooker closer for a more detailed inspection. It produces chocolate brown globular cones. When mature, the exfoliating bark adds in

The Facts Height: 40′ – 50’ Spread: 20′ – 25’ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Very Slow This highly coveted tree is truly one-of-a-kind. The Blue Atlas Cedar can be found in its natural habit in the Atlas Mountains in northwest Africa. The tree’s silvery blue to bluish-green needles, about 1 1/2” long, can be stiff and clustered. Once it’s started to hit its stride, the Blue Atlas produces barrel-shaped male cones that are about 2-3” long on the l

The Facts Height: 40′ – 60’ Spread: 20′ – 45’ Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium to Wet Soil: Well-Drained Growth Rate: Fast Bald cypress is a long-lived, pyramidal conifer. Although it looks like a needled evergreen (same family as redwoods) in summer, it is deciduous (“bald” as the common name suggests). It is native to southern swamps, bayous and rivers, primarily being found in coastal areas from Maryland to Texas and in the lower Mississippi River valley to a

The Facts Height: 40′ – 50′ Spread: 25′ – 35′ Sun: Full Sun to Part Shade Water: Dry to Medium Soil:...

Trees Most trees should be pruned while they are dormant and sap is not flowing, which is between December and February. The few...

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