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The Golden-yellow 'Gold Cot' Apricot

Resembling a small, yellow peach, ‘Gold Cot’ Apricot is a large freestone fruit that will keep in the refrigerator for several weeks. It can be used for preserves, drying, desserts, and canning. Apricots contain carotenoids which are antioxidants that help prevent heart disease , reduce "bad cholesterol"...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 11-06-2009
What is a Chocolate Persimmon?

The Chocolate Persimmon was named 'Chocolate' because of its chocolaty-brown flesh that is a sweet and tasty. This persimmon is also spicy, firm, juicy, dark flecked, and late maturing. The Chocolate Persimmon is a small to medium, oblong cylindrical fruit with a rounded apex and bright red skin...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 11-02-2009
The Oklahoma Redbud Tree Commands Attention!

The Oklahoma Redbud tree will be one of the first trees to flower in early spring; a true harbinger of spring! This redbud tree will treat you to a blizzard of bright blooms of petite purple-red flowers in large clusters. These flowers arrive before the green foliage appears. The heart-shaped leaves...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 11-01-2009
The Jane Magnolia x Jane Tree

The Jane Magnolia tree, Magnolia x Jane , displays impressive reddish purple flowers outside, with a white inside that opens late in the spring to avoid frost damage. These flowers, appearing just before the foliage, are a gorgeous tulip-shape with a lightly scented fragrance. This tree needs to be planted...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 10-25-2009
The Popular Kwanzan Flowering Cherry Tree

Of all the flowering cherry trees, Kwanzan Flowering Cherry tree is one of the most popular and is a beautiful vase-shaped ornamental tree. This hardy deciduous tree is a moderate grower with an upright and spreading form; grows to a height of 20 to 30 feet. The bundles of large double pink blossoms...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 10-23-2009
The Handsome Japanese Tree Lilac

The Japanese Tree Lilac is a small, specimen tree or large shrub that has stiff spreading branches with a somewhat oval-rounded to vase shaped crown. This handsome landscape tree grows upright, to about 30 feet, and has a wide trunk. It produces very showy, cream-white flowers in large panicles in June...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 10-21-2009
The Showy Japanese Red Maple Tree

It is fall, and I see the brilliant red colors of the Japanese Red Maple trees that break up the green monotony of many lawns and gardens. What a beautiful specimen! It is by far one of the most popular ornamental plants in the plant kingdom. This small deciduous tree is a very showy, versatile species...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 10-18-2009
The Heavy Producing Chinese Apricot

The Chinese Apricot is an early bearing, heavy producing variety of apricot tree that is recommended for difficult climates prone to late spring frosts. This apricot is cold hardy, frost hardy, and sets heavy crops of small to medium size sweet fruit. It blooms very early and needs well-drained, moderately...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 10-12-2009
The Profuse Blooming Cleveland Select Flowering Pear Tree

There’s nothing more beautiful in spring than a flowering pear tree covered in snowy white blooms. The Cleveland Select Flowering Pear Tree will provide you with this multitudinous display of white blooms. It is a beautiful tree with dark, glossy green leaves and displays its defining feature of white...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 10-03-2009
The Beautiful Aristocrat Flowering Pear

The Aristocrat Flowering Pear Tree is a large, beautiful tree that is attractive in all four seasons . It produces masses of early spring flowers that are a lovely white, then followed in the summer by bright, glossy green, disease resistant foliage. These wavy leaves turn a deep to reddish-purple in...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 09-30-2009

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