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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