Full Tree Selection

Type: Pear Tree

• Mature Height: 30-40'
• Mature Width: 20-35'
• Growth Rate: Average
• Availability: Lots

Description: A pear tree's spring flowers, glossy summer foliage, and deep fall color make this a desirable plant. It is an excellent lawn, specimen plant, or street tree. Pyramidal when young, it becomes upright or rounded with age.

Type: Crabapple

• Mature Height: 15-25'
• Mature Width: Average
• Growth Rate: Average
• Availability: Lots

Description: There are few plants that create greater intrigue or visual impact during all four seasons than the flowering crabapple. In the spring all eyes are enticed with delicate colors offered by emergin leaves and buds. Unopened flower buds may hint of one color and as flowers open, other hues are revealed in a spectacular floral display. As flowers fade the rich foliage offers another subtle contribution to the landscape.

Type: Blue Ash

• Mature Height: 40'
• Mature Width: 30'
• Growth Rate: 12-18" per year
• Availability: Lots

Description: The blue ash is a native tree with dark green foliage during the growing season but changing to yellow in the fall.

Type: European Ash

• Mature Height: 75'
• Mature Width: 75'
• Growth Rate: 12-18" per year
• Availability: Lots

Description: The European ash is a rather large tree with dark green summer foliage and little or no fall color.

Type: Green Ash

• Mature Height: 50-60'
• Mature Width: 20-30'
• Growth Rate: Average
• Availability: Lots

Description: Glossy, green, summer foliage turns yellow in fall, but drop too quickly to provide effective color. Green Ash develops a broad crown with age.

Type: White Ash

• Mature Height: 50-80'
• Mature Width: 40-80'
• Growth Rate: Average
• Availability: Lots

Description: The large, dark green, compound leaves of this tree turn yellow to purple in fall. White Ash does not grow as fast as Green Ash, but it will eventually become a larger tree. A native tree for large areas, but not used much by homeowners because of potential pests and its large size.

Type: Cathedral Live Oak

• Mature Height: 60-80'
• Mature Width: 60-120'
• Growth Rate: Rapid
• Availability: Lots

Description: Cathedral Live Oak is a vibrant clonal live oak that will provide consistently uniform trees in the nursery and in the landscape. Cathedral has a strong, easily maintained, central leader and sturdy wide-angled branches. Cathedral has strikingly dark green leaves with a dense, full growth habit that will make it an instant hit and lasting knockout in the landscape. Cathedral Live oak will make a wonderful street tree, parking lot tree, or specimen tree whenever a large maturing, evergreen shade tree is desired.

Type: Live Oak

• Mature Height: 60-80'
• Mature Width: 60-120'
• Growth Rate: Rapid
• Availability: Lots

Description: Live oak is a large picturesque shade tree with wide-spreading horizontal branches. It needs plenty of room to grow since the trunk can grow to more than 6 feet in diameter and canopy spread can be up to 100 feet. Live oak is amazingly durable, can be grown successfully in urban areas and, if properly planted and cared for, can have a life span of hundreds of years.

Type: Overcup Oak

• Mature Height: 30-40'
• Mature Width: 30-40'
• Growth Rate: Medium
• Availability: Lots

Description: Overcup oak grows forming a rounded silhouette with an open crown. The dark green, leathery, lobed leaves have fuzzy, white undersides and turn a brown color before dropping in the fall. The rought, reddish or gray/brown bark is very attractive.

Type: Shumard Oak

• Mature Height: 75-90'
• Mature Width: 35-60'
• Growth Rate: Moderate
• Availability: Lots

Description: Shumard Oak matures into a large tree with an oval or rounded canopy. This tough oak is deciduous, and its orange to red fall color varies from year to year and according to location.

Type: Willow Oak

• Mature Height: 60-75'
• Mature Width: 40-50'
• Growth Rate: Rapid
• Availability: Lots

Description: A Willow Oak is an excellent street tree that forms a rounded, compact head with most of the foliage toward the outside of the crown. Its long, light green, willow-like leaves create dense shade and a graceful effect. Willow Oak thrives in moist soils but is known to adapt well to harsh urban environments.

Type: Black Locust

• Mature Height: 40'
• Mature Width: 25'
• Growth Rate: Average
• Availability: Lots

Description: Black Locust is hard wooded, grows best in a synny location and tolerates any soil that isn't swampy. This hardy tree is a legume and has a suckering root system that forms thickets if not controlled. The gragrant, white flowers appear after the leaves and are borne in drooping clusters. The fruit is a brown pod and the bark is coarse and fissured.