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  • The Popular and Flavorful Black Tartarian Cherry

    The Black Tartarian Cherry has a heavy fruit production, is easy to grow, and you get fresh sweet cherries in half the time! The cherries are firm, sweet, dark purplish-black fruits, and inside the thin skin the flesh is sweet, juicy and extremely flavorful. The Black Tartarian Cherry is smaller than...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 11-04-2009

  • The Corkscrew Willow Tree

    The main ornamental feature of the Corkscrew WIllow Tree is the contorted and twisted branches and twigs. Branches arise from the trunk at an acute angle and grow up almost parallel to the trunk before they curve back to the horizontal. The winter branch pattern also is most interesting and accounts...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 10-07-2009

  • 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

  • Growing the Amur Maackia Tree

    Amur Maakia Tree is a small, slow growing, deciduous tree with a broad, rounded habit. It typically grows at a slow-to-moderate rate to a height of about 20 feet. Amur Maackia features erect, narrow, spike-like clusters of fragrant, dull white, pea-like flowers which appear in late spring. Amur Maakia...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 09-30-2009

  • Things to look for in a shade tree

    Shade trees serve as an attractive background in a landscape, and they conserve energy by providing shade in the summer and reducing the severity of winter winds. The features you need to consider in a shade tree are: size, hardiness, form, growth rate, soil type, water needs, and maintenance care. Of...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 06-18-2009

  • Any information available on the Shamrock Linden tree?

    The Shapely Shamrock Linden Tree The school yard in my backyard has three beautiful Lindens. I admire their shape and stature. Each has a broad conical form that stands majestically against the blue sky. The dark, shiny green foliage provides yellow fall color. A Shamrock Linden would also make a wonderful...
    Posted to Common Questions Answered (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 05-21-2009

  • A Sterling Specimen Is The Sterling Silver Linden Tree

    The Sterling Silver Linden tree Tilia tomentosa 'Sterling' is one of the most highly attractive Linden trees . It gets its sterling silver namesake from the fact that the leaves are completely silver when they first emerge and will eventually become a lustrous green on the top of the leaf but...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by patti-nhn on 03-09-2009

  • Firefall Freeman Maple Tree Is Seedless!

    If you are looking for a seedless Maple tree , the Firefall Freeman Maple Acer x freemanii 'AF#1' is a perfect specimen for you. The Firefall is a cross between a Silver Maple and an Autumn Spire Red Maple . Like the others it is a very hardy tree. It will grow well from zone 3 to zone 6. This...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by patti-nhn on 03-07-2009

  • Can you define partial shade?

    A very good question. Partial shade may mean something different to each persons experience or definition of shade. The one constant about shade is that shade is created by the blockage of the suns light. This blockage can occur because of a natural barrier, such as trees, or it can be a man made barrier...
    Posted to Common Questions Answered (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 02-01-2009

  • Marmo Freeman Maple Honoring Margaret Morton

    Maple trees are known for their hardiness and fall color and this is one of the best. The Marmo Freeman Maple Acer x freemanii 'Marmo' is named after Margaret Morton and was selected from the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois. It can handle cold down to zone 3 and also up to zone 8 heat. This...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by patti-nhn on 01-24-2009
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