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The Graceful and Arching Weeping Cherry Tree

Have you ever thought of planting the heavy blooming Weeping Cherry Tree that is so famous in the springtime in Washington D.C.? This gorgeous, rapid growing ornamental tree displays its profuse flowering of delicate pink blossoms during each spring in zones 5-8. These showy pink flowers arrive on pendulous...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 11-18-2009
Tatarian Maple is a highly ornamental tree

Growing 15--20 feet tall, the Tatarian Maple is a beautiful addition to the landscape, and makes a wonderful tree for planters, patios, or small areas. It has an excellent small tree form and possesses an attractive foliage quality. Have you noticed that everything about this small oriental-looking tree...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 11-15-2009
A Spectacular Flowering Crabapple -- Sugar Tyme®

Showing off its masses of gorgeous, sugar-white fragrant flowers, Sugar Tyme® Crabapple puts on quite the show in May! After its spectacular flowering , you can enjoy this Crabapple's colorful, crisp and lustrous green foliage that emerges. This lovely ornamental tree produces large, brilliant red...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 11-13-2009
The Handsome and Ornamental 'Showy Mountain Ash'

Showy Mountain Ash is a handsome and showy tree for the border of your property. It is a hardy tree that can tolerate heat or cold, strong winds and low humidity. Showy Mountain Ash is a smaller, rounded ornamental tree with white flowers, handsome foliage, and showy red fruit. A profuse flowering tree...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 11-08-2009
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

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