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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: Variety Dependent Spread: Variety Dependent Sun: Full Sun Water: Medium Soil: Well Drained Growth Rate: Fast This perennial is tried and true in the hot Oklahoma summer sun. Verbena is a great source of vibrant color for hanging containers, windows boxes and garden beds alike. Reds, pinks, whites and purples pop in the landscape. Like Phlox, Verbena comes in tall and creeping. The majority of the time, though, creeping Verbena is what is found in t