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Trees
Renaissance Reflection® Birch Renaissance Reflection has superior bronze birch borer resistance. Plant against a darker background or green lawn to highlight white trunk. This deciduous, hardy birch is easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun. It will add color and interest to any yard. These attributes would be enough to recommend this tree! It's heat resistant and has a rapid growth rate of 3-5 feet per year, developing a slender pyramidal shape. The Renaissance Reflection® Birch, Betula papyrifera 'Renci' (PP12,768), displays brilliant white, exfoliating bark and radiant yellow fall color. It can be grown as a single stem or a multi-stem and like's full sun and moist soil.
Arborvitae American The leaf color is bright green above and pale green below and they may turn a yellow brown is some winters. It is one of the most popular of all trees for windbreaks and year around privacy screening. When established it can stand considerable heat and drought. It may be sheared and shaped to fit into most every landscaping need. American Arborvitae trees have a broad pyramidal shape with erect branches that are dense and crowded together.
Canadian Hemlock This evergreen conifer is a fast-growing long-lived tree which unlike many trees grows well in shade. It may take 250 to 300 years to reach maturity and may live for 800 years or more. It has a graceful pyramidal form with foliage of spray-like appearance. This stately tree is a very hardy specimen and is an easily transplanted conifer which grows well in a variety of soils. Shelter small plants from drying winds. They are graceful and make great ornamental plantings.
Concolor Fir Concolor Fir trees are large, densely-growing, narrow trees with a dome-shaped crown growing to 50 feet or more. It is a rapid grower after it becomes established. This rapid growing fir tree is the most drought-resistant of all native firs. Although it can exist on poor, dry sites, the white fir grows most vigorously in moist, well-drained, acid soils in protected locations. This evergreen conifer tree is native to the mountainous regions of the western United States.
Russian Olive The Russian Olive tree, Elaeagnus Angustifolia, is an excellent windbreak and wildlife tree. The best windbreak tree for high wind areas. The Russian Olive has low water requirements and displays a high tolerance for salt and alkali. Leaves are egg or lance-shaped. At three years of age, plants begin to flower and fruit. Prefers a sunny location and is tolerant of most soil types.
Southern Red Oak Southern Red Oak trees are a medium-sized tree with a short trunk and large branches supporting a rounded crown. The bark is dark gray in color, furrowed, and is marked by rough ridges and plates. It is a tree of the Old South, ranging from Maryland to Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. The acorns are usually produced singly, and biennially. The Southern Oak tree is deciduous and is a good shade tree adapted to drier sites. The wood of the Southern Red Oak is strong and coarse-grained.
Eastern White Pine Space 6 ft. apart for screening purposes.
Norway Spruce It is one of the best conifers for shelters and windbreaks, as its branches grow densely into one another. apart.
Black Hills Spruce It is a truly cold adapted tree and is very resistant to winter injury. This tree is commonly used for windbreaks, privacy screens and accent plantings. It will reach a height of six feet in nine years on a good site.
Eastern Red Cedar The fruit, or cone, is berrylike and dark blue. Birds devour the fruit. Its deep roots and small leaf surface make it very drought resistant.
Loblolly Pine The Loblolly Pine is a stately tree and is often chosen to use for convenient landscape screening.
Mugho Pine The Mugho Pine tree, Pinus mugo mughus, may also be called the dwarf mountain pine.
Austrian Pine It will tolerate both limestone or acidic soils, dry rocky locations and windy conditions.
Scotch Pine It is a fast growing, irregularly shaped tree.
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