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Super Hardy Hybrid Willow
Prices start at : 4.49 USD / each

Healthy 2-3 foot trees. They have a life span of 70 years under good conditions. Plant 3-5' apart. They can grow up to 20 feet in only one season! Trees are disease-resistant and do not spread by seed or suckers.
  • Spread: Plant 3-5' apart for hedge.
  • Genus: Salix hybrid
  • Season Color: Spring, Summer
  • Max Height (feet): 80-100'
Illinois
Bloomington
Ginnala Maple
Prices start at : 12.99 USD / each

Plant six feet apart in rows eight feet apart. For a windbreak plant two to five rows for the most effective protection. Cultivate for the first two years. Shipped 18 to 24 inches tall.
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
  • Colors: Green, Mixed
  • Season Color: Summer
Illinois
Bloomington
Fosythia, Magical Gold
Prices start at : 18.99 USD / 1 Plant

Plant it by the house, as a hedge or in naturalistic gardens. Everyone's favorite spring-blooming shrub is now even easier to grow and enjoy. Nicely sized at 3-4', this shrub won't overtake a space.
  • Height: 3-4 feet
  • Ornamental Use: Beds, Cut Flowers
  • Zone: 5-8
  • Planting Time: Fall, Spring
  • Life Cycle: Perennial
Pennsylvania
Warminster
Sambucus, Black Lace
Prices start at : 19.99 USD / 1 Plant

Lacy dark leaves accentuate the large 6” pink flowers that appear in early summer. This easy-growing elderberry is an excellent choice to add color and texture to your garden. Reminiscent of a finely cut Japanese maple, these vigorous, deer-resistant...
  • Resistant To: Deer
  • Spread: 5-7 feet
  • Sun: Full Sun, Part Sun
  • Planting Time: Fall, Spring
  • Height: 6-10 feet
  • Bloom Season: Summer
Pennsylvania
Warminster
Sambucus, Lemony Lace
Prices start at : 19.99 USD / 1 Plant

‘Lemony Lace' stays tidy and manageable at 5' tall, but it can also be cut back like a perennial in the fall, so feel free to experiment with its fabulous mounded form. Delicate, deeply cut chartreuse leaves give this elderberry shrub an elegant lacy...
  • Genus: Sambucus
  • Ornamental Use: Beds
  • Life Cycle: Perennial
  • Zone: 3-7
  • Bloom Season: Spring
  • Sun: Full Sun, Part Sun
Pennsylvania
Warminster
Weigela, Czechmark Trilogy
Prices start at : 19.99 USD / 1 Plant

Large flowers in lovely hues of white, pink, and red present themselves in abundance in spring on this easy to grow hardy shrub. Deer-resistant plants stay compact and attractive all season long, with glossy green foliage, and are superb additions to...
  • Sun: Full Sun
  • Resistant To: Deer
  • Ornamental Use: Beds, Borders
  • Zone: 4-8
  • Planting Time: Fall, Summer
  • Bloom Season: Spring
Pennsylvania
Warminster
Clethra (Summersweet), Einstein
Prices start at : 19.99 USD / 1 Plant (4" pot)

Wildly brilliant, like its namesake, ‘Einstein' summersweet shrub displays a mass of curly white blooms that grow up to 12” long. The flowers emit a sweet fragrance that appeals to both pollinators and people! Nicely sized at 3-4', with lush dark...
  • Life Cycle: Perennial
  • Sun: Full Sun
  • Spread: 3-4 feet
  • Planting Time: Fall, Spring
  • Zone: 4-9
Pennsylvania
Warminster
Viburnum, Wabi-Sabi
Prices start at : 18.99 USD / 1 Plant

‘Wabi-Sabi' stays short at a mere 2-3', making it a perfect, low-maintenance choice for borders, woodland plantings, or by your house foundation just below your windows. Doublefile viburnum shrubs are prized for their horizontal branching habit and...
  • Planting Time: Fall, Spring
  • Sun: Full Sun, Part Sun
  • Bloom Season: Spring
  • Ornamental Use: Beds, Borders
  • Resistant To: Deer
  • Genus: Vibernum
Pennsylvania
Warminster
Russian Olive
Prices start at : 12.99 USD / each

Plant six feet apart in rows eight feet apart. For a windbreak plant two to five rows for the most effective protection. Cultivate for the first two years.
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Deer Resistant: No
  • Colors: Green
Illinois
Bloomington
Washington Hawthorn
Prices start at : 9.99 USD / each

Grows to 25-30' tall. Can be sheared to any size you desire. Set in single rows 2' apart. Washington Hawthorns have dense, twiggy growth and sharp thorns make it a trespass-proof barrier.
  • Spread: 24''
  • Genus: Crataegus phaenopyrum
  • Max Height (feet): 30
  • Zones: 3-8
Illinois
Bloomington
Black Walnut
Prices start at : 9.99 USD / each

Plant six feet apart in rows eight feet apart. For a windbreak plant two to five rows for the most effective protection. Cultivate for the first two years. Shipped 18 to 24 inches tall.
  • Deer Resistant: No
  • Colors: Green
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
Illinois
Bloomington
Viburnum, Chicago Lustre
Prices start at : 14.99 USD / 1 Plant

An easy and economical choice for creating a hedge or screen, ‘Chicago Lustre' is covered with thick, glossy leaves, puts on copious white fragrant flowers in the spring, and displays decorative berries in the fall.
  • Resistant To: Deer
  • Planting Time: Fall, Summer
  • Sun: Full Sun, Part Sun
  • Ornamental Use: Beds
  • Genus: Vibernum
  • Zone: 4-8
Pennsylvania
Warminster
Spirea, Double Play Candy Corn
Prices start at : 19.99 USD / 1 Plant

To top it off, dark purple blooms appear in late spring. This neat little shrub puts on an ever changing display of color! In the early spring the leaves are bright red, then transform to yellow and finally to green.
  • Resistant To: Deer
  • Spread: 18-24 inches
  • Bloom Season: Fall, Spring
  • Ornamental Use: Beds, Borders
  • Genus: Spirea
  • Zone: 4-7
Pennsylvania
Warminster
Crimson King Maple
Prices start at : 49.99 USD / each

Deep crimson-purple foliage all summer on well-proportioned 30-40 foot trees. For summer color, this hardy shade tree can't be beat. The most vigorous of the red leaf maples, it makes an excellent specimen as a lawn tree or street tree.
  • Max Height (feet): 40
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Genus: Acer platanoides 'Crimson King'
  • Colors: Dark Red, Purple
Illinois
Bloomington
Chinese Yew Taxus wallichiana  chinensis   - Taxus chinensis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It is commonly called the Chinese yew, though this term also refers to Taxus celebica or Taxus sumatrana. The underside of each leaf has two broad yellow stripes and is densely covered with minute projections.
  • Variety: chinensis
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Family: Taxaceae
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Botanical Name: Taxus wallichiana chinensis
  • Common Name: Chinese Yew
New York
Locke
Chinese Yew Taxus wallichiana  chinensis   - Taxus chinensis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It is commonly called the Chinese yew, though this term also refers to Taxus celebica or Taxus sumatrana. The underside of each leaf has two broad yellow stripes and is densely covered with minute projections.
  • Family: Taxaceae
  • Botanical Name: Taxus wallichiana chinensis
  • Common Name: Chinese Yew
  • Height: 30-40 feet
  • Quantity: 2.19 lb
  • Germination: 91%
New York
Locke
Japanese Yew Taxus cuspidata
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* Much used for hedges, foundation and bank plantings, and similar purposes; can be pruned to grow as a tree; likes moist, well-drained soil; new growth yellow-green, later a rich dark green; tolerates shade well; slow growing; prefers to be out of strong...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Germination: 98%
  • Genus: Taxus
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 14
  • Purity: 99%
  • Common Name: Japanese Yew
New York
Locke
Jetbead Rhodotypos scandens
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

It is native to China , possibly also Japan . * Rhodotypos scandens , the sole species of the genus Rhodotypos , is a deciduous shrub in the family Rosaceae , closely related to Kerria and included in that genus by some botanists.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Family: Rosaceae
  • Purity: 98%
  • Species: scandens
  • Collection Locale: Russia
  • Germination: 91%
New York
Locke
Isu Tree DISTYLIUM racemosum
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* The ashes of the wood are used in glazing porcelain. * Distylium racemosum is an evergreen Shrub growing to 2 m (6ft) by 3 m (9ft) at a slow rate. * A very valuable wood, it is used for small articles, musical instruments etc.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 17,796
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Species: racemosum
  • Purity: 98%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 38
  • Genus: DISTYLIUM
New York
Locke
Jetbead Rhodotypos scandens
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

It is native to China , possibly also Japan . * Rhodotypos scandens , the sole species of the genus Rhodotypos , is a deciduous shrub in the family Rosaceae , closely related to Kerria and included in that genus by some botanists.
  • Species: scandens
  • Purity: 98%
  • Quantity: 0.43 lb
  • Common Name: Jetbead
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 16
  • Crop Year: 2012
New York
Locke
Isu Tree DISTYLIUM racemosum
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* The ashes of the wood are used in glazing porcelain. * Distylium racemosum is an evergreen Shrub growing to 2 m (6ft) by 3 m (9ft) at a slow rate. * A very valuable wood, it is used for small articles, musical instruments etc.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 17,796
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 38
  • Common Name: Isu Tree
  • Family: HAMAMELIDACEAE
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Botanical Name: DISTYLIUM racemosum
New York
Locke
Tree False Spirea Sorbaria arborea
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It thrives in forest edges and riparian environments. * This species is native to China: Gansu, Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Yunnan. Its natural habitat is semi-forest, on soil cool and non-arid.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Purity: 50%
  • Lot#: 9701
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Crop Year: 1997
  • Collection Locale: Hungary
New York
Locke
Oriental Arborvitae Platycladus orientalis   Compacta
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It is native to northwestern China and widely naturalised elsewhere in Asia east to Korea and Japan , south to northern India , and west to northern Iran . It is called ce bai in Chinese.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 58
  • Species: orientalis
  • Germination: 83%
  • Cultivar: Compacta
  • Common Name: Oriental Arborvitae
  • Crop Year: 2017
New York
Locke
Japanese Yew Taxus cuspidata
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* Much used for hedges, foundation and bank plantings, and similar purposes; can be pruned to grow as a tree; likes moist, well-drained soil; new growth yellow-green, later a rich dark green; tolerates shade well; slow growing; prefers to be out of strong...
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Seeds Per Pound: 12,712
  • Germination: 98%
  • Height: 25-30 feet
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
New York
Locke
Tree False Spirea Sorbaria arborea
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It thrives in forest edges and riparian environments. * This species is native to China: Gansu, Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Yunnan. Its natural habitat is semi-forest, on soil cool and non-arid.
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Genus: Sorbaria
  • Height: 5-30ft
  • Collection Locale: Hungary
  • Common Name: Tree False Spirea
  • Crop Year: 1997
New York
Locke
Box-Leaved Holly, Japanese Holly Ilex crenata
Prices start at : 10.95 USD / 1 packet

* Very amenable to trimming, this species is often grown as a hedge in N. * Ilex crenata ( Japanese Holly or Box-leaved Holly ; Japanese : inutsuge ) is a species of holly native to eastern China , Japan , Korea , Taiwan , and Sakhalin .
  • Species: crenata
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 27
  • Seeds Per Pound: 25,356
  • Quantity: 0.14 lb
  • Collection Locale: Japan
New York
Locke
Box-Leaved Holly, Japanese Holly Ilex crenata
Prices start at : 10.95 USD / 1 packet

* Very amenable to trimming, this species is often grown as a hedge in N. * Ilex crenata ( Japanese Holly or Box-leaved Holly ; Japanese : inutsuge ) is a species of holly native to eastern China , Japan , Korea , Taiwan , and Sakhalin .
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 27
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Family: Aquifoliaceae
  • Quantity: 0.14 lb
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Genus: Ilex
New York
Locke