Among the best known of eastern North American trees because it is well adapted. We offer these seedlings as an alternative to more expensive named selections.

Used as a specimen native tree, this is an American classic. Potentially imposing in mature size - to 75 ft. tall. Many cultivars have been selected and these are always popular, handsome trees.

This variety has a significant advantage over seedlings due to its prominent white stripes on green bark, so much so that the trunk appears mostly white. Twigs and young branches are covered with a waxy white bloom - as on a grape skin. In winter the tree evokes a chalk drawing look in the landscape. Exceptionally hardy.

Medium-to-large tree of rounded shape. Attractive foliage is sometimes affected by disease; fall color is variable, from yellow to orange mixed with red. The selection 'Autumn Splendor' offers major advantages by comparison: consistency of fall color, disease resistance, and smaller stature.

Holds its yellow autumn leaves a full month longer than Heritage®. Has glossier leaves, a tighter habit, and better heat tolerance than Heritage® in Zone 9. You already know Earl Cully's Heritage® is a money-making super tree. Try this one for comparison, especially if you're in the Gulf States.

Selected by Earl Cully almost 20 years ago for its outstanding peeling bark, extreme hardiness, resistance to borers, and ability to grow in waterlogged or dry soils. Whether you clump them in a container or grow them as singles, this is among the easiest of plants to finish: even our smallest liners can grow to 5-6 ft. in a single season. Named Urban Tree of The Year for 2002 by the Society of Municipal Arborists.

This is proving to be the most adaptable river birch to dry and alkaline soil conditions in addition to be completely hardy in zone 3. So, no die back from winter injury and no iron chlorosis or the mortality that can cause. The parent tree is the largest of this species observed in the upper Northern Plains; it has a proven track record of over 40 years. Ivory colored with striking coppery-bronze exfoliations the bark is appealing year round. Resistant to borers as well.

This is the most prized of white barked birch. It grows in classic conical form; it doesn't often look natural in a clump though it is often used that way. It is a easy to use adaptable tree.

Still uncommon in cultivation, this is an exceptional ornamental tree. Like Wisteria, it is most noted for its drooping clusters of fragrant white flowers, touched with yellow in the center. Introduced into cultivation by André Michaux in 1796, its roots were chipped and boiled to yield a yellow dye for homespun fabrics before synthetic dyes became available. Adapted across a wide range of soil pH, it prefers a reasonably moist, yet well-drained soil with full sun and space to grow.

Uncommon in American gardens, this medium to large tree ought to be used more for its pest-free character, corky bark, and symmetrical cone-shaped outline. Stays remarkably green through the toughest drought. Often used as rootstock for C. avellana 'Contorta' because it has less potential to produce suckers below the graft union as compared to C. avellana.

Native widely distributed in the East. Heat tolerant, tough and having more ornamental character to recommend it than is widely acknowledged. The astringent fruits are most attractive, accented on top with large, persistent calyces. Fruit can be abundant, but isn't usually messy because it persists late into winter, providing a tasty treat for wildlife after the first hard frosts. The deeply furrowed, blocky bark on mature trees is especially handsome when accented by winter snow. Its unobtrusive size and ease of care make this a tree that deserves more attention by designers and landscape firms, and our propagation numbers reflect big recent up-tick in demand.

Heat tolerance helps this native tree outperform F. sylvatica in the Southeast, and yet it is also cold hardy. Best for large, open area where it is free to grow, reaching heights of 70-90 ft.

Witness to the birth and extinction of countless species over a period of 150 million years, Ginkgo survives to charm us with its unique fan-shaped leaves and butter-yellow fall color. Consider that even after Hiroshima was devastated by nuclear blast, fire and radiation in 1945, at ground zero it was the lone re-generating tree the following spring. Merits wider use: many new grafted male cultivars are becoming very popular. These are un-sexed seedlings, used almost exclusively for grafting.

Among the most popular of the fruitless male selections. Not as strongly upright as the variety 'Fastigiata', Liners require staking early. With age it attains a handsome form and consistent brilliant gold color in autumn. This clone and 'Saratoga' come from the Saratoga Horticultural Foundation.

Fast growing, more so than Princeton Sentry, it is pyramidal with ascending branches becoming half as wide as tall at maturity. It was discovered in New Brunswick New Jersey.

This male clone grows to 60 ft. tall but only half as wide. With its strong central leader, its form is more pyramidal than truly columnar.

One of our favorites, an attractive male selection with distinctly narrow, elongated leaves remiscent of the tail from a fancy gold-fish. Definitely a "top three" selection.

Green Gable is a destined to be a great addition to American horticulture, with notably glossy foliage, beautiful fall color and, due to its dominant central leader, superior pyramidal form.

With all the great ornamental attributes of blackgum, including exceptional fall color and ease of care, this selection allows even more flexibility of location because of its columnar habit. Tupelo Tower™ was selected from a Zone 4 seedling population and is a full zone hardier than other available cultivars.

A graceful, slow growing native tree that tolerates shade and grows to 40 ft. tall. Bark peels in vertical strips. Very easy to grow in the nursery and relatively fast to finish. Pleasing yellow fall color.

Guy Sternberg, Starhill Forest Arboretum, introduced this fine oak hybrid in recent years. Tight branch habit, straight stems, and columnar form. Here in Oregon the persistent golden winter foliage contrasts with the typical russet of oak or beech leaves.

Selected at Starhill Forest Arboretum by Guy Sternberg for it's good columnar habit and exceptional fall color. Here in Oregon we have noted it's ability to grow very rapidly but with straight stems, while other columnar selections have the habit of having wavy growth similar to Q. robur fastigiata. Indeed the fall color is a stand out of among oaks for us, with yellows, orange and some red. The retained winter foliage is darker by several shades when compared to other oaks.

Also selected at Starhill Forest Arboretum by Guy Sternberg for its narrow and upright growth. The much shinier foliage is a little smaller than the other sections with smaller lobes.

Selected almost a century ago by New Jersey nurseryman William Flemer for its aesthetic merit. By stroke of good fortune, 'Princeton' has demonstrated moderate resistance to Dutch elm disease. Typical of this iconic American species in form and hardiness, it is an important part of the American experience, a relic selection from America's urban forest history, still adapted to its future so many generations later.