Trees & Shrubs
| Type | Botanical Name | Native | Common Name | Description | Height | Light Req. | Zone | Add to My List |
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| Tree/Shrub | ABELIA mosanensis ‘Sweet Emotion’ | Fragrant Abelia | Clusters of very fragrant, pale pink flowers through spring on a nicely rounded shrub that has good fall color. |
60-72 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ABELIOPHYLLUM distichum | White Forsythia | Fragrant, early spring-blooming shrub with blush-white forsythia-like flowers. |
3-5 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER griseum | Paper Bark Maple | Beautiful, exfoliating cinnamon bark and good fall color. Needs a protected site in Vermont. Adaptable to different soils and clay tolerant. |
15-20 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER griseum x maximowiczianum ‘Cinnamon Flake’ | Cinnamon Flake Hybrid Maple | Vigorous hybrid with a rounded canopy and striking cinnamon-colored flaking bark. Trifoliate leaves turn beautiful shades of red and orange in the fall. |
20-25 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER japonicum ‘Aconitifolium’ | Full Moon Maple | Unique monkshood-like leaves with beautiful seed pods in spring and wonderful reddish purple foliage in fall. Forms a small, spreading tree. |
8-10 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER japonicum ‘Green Cascade’ | Full Moon Maple | Very finely cut green leaves. A graceful and weeping habit forms a mound with brilliant fall foliage. |
7 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER japonicum ‘Branford Beauty’ | Full Moon Maple | Unique monkshood-like leaves on a low wide-spreading tree. |
4 feet high by 10 feet wide | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER japonicum ‘Taki No Gawa’ | Full Moon Maple | Large orbicular leaves turn fantastic flaming shades in the fall. Forms a broad-crowned upright tree. |
12-15 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER japonicum ‘Vitifolium’ | Full Moon Maple | A cultivar with lobed, grape-leaf -like foliage that emerges bronze, matures to green and turns back to beautiful sunset shades in the fall. |
10-15 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER palmatum ‘Amber Ghost’ | Japanese Maple | Pink to amber spring foliage is highlighted by darker veins. The leaves mature to deeper amber then turn fiery red and gold in the fall. A Buchholz Nursery intro. |
10-12 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER palmatum ‘Bloodgood’ | Japanese Maple | Bloodgood has non-dissected foliage that grows into a small, rounded, deciduous tree which typically grows to 15-20′ tall and features purplish-red flowers in spring, deep reddish-purple summer foliage, red samaras (seed pods) in late summer to early fall and good crimson-red fall color. |
15-20 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER palmatum ‘Crimson Queen’ | Japanese Maple | One of the most popular lace leaf Japanese maples with excellent burgundy foliage and attractive mounding habit. Grows wider than tall. |
4-6 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER palmatum ‘Grandma Ghost’ | Japanese Maple | Vibrant green and white variegations on the leaves of this upright Japanese maple give it a unique appearance. The leaf veins are prominent with multicolored reticulation (netting) further adding to the contrast turning Uber/salmon colors in fall A unique plant that really glows! |
6-7 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER palmatum ‘Inabe Shidare’ | Japanese Maple | A lace-leaf Japanese maple with deep purple spring foliage, turning more red in summer then to fiery red in fall. |
5-6 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | Acer palmatum ‘Koto No Ito’ | Japanese Maple | A small tree with cascading very finely divided leaves emerging with crimson shades then turn bright green for summer. Fall foliage is a brilliant golden-yellow. |
6-10 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER palmatum ‘Manyo No Sato’ | Japanese Maple | Spectacular leaf coloration distinguishes this upright, but broad, form of Japanese maple. Very deeply divided, narrow leaf lobes display reliable light yellow-green and purple-red variegation, producing a striking effect. In fall, leaves turn orange to red. |
6-8 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER palmatum ‘Orangeola’ | Japanese Maple | A cultivar with a mounding habit and dissected orange-red foliage in the spring. Fall color is also a fiery orange to red. |
3-4 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER palmatum ‘Purple Ghost’ | Japanese Maple | A medium size tree with an upright habit. Spring leaves are a deep purple-red with prominent black veins that turn fiery red to orange in fall. |
7-8 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER palmatum ‘Summer Gold’ | Japanese Maple | Bright gold foliage matures to light green. Can be grown in full sun without burning. |
10-12 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER palmatum ‘Tamukeyama’ | Japanese Maple | Dissected, red leafed form with crimson fall color. Habit is mounding, wider than tall. |
8-10 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER palmatum ‘Viridis’ | Japanese Maple | Lacy green foliage on a mounding small tree. |
12-15 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER palmatum ‘Waterfall’ | Japanese Maple | A cascading form with vivid green dissected leaves and gold fall color. |
12-15 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER pseudosieboldianum ‘Ice Dragon’ | Jack Frost Korean Maple | From Iseli Nursery’s Jack Frost hybrids, this cultivar has a more cascading habit and finely dissected foliage. Leaves emerge orange-red before turning green then color up again in the fall. |
8-10 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER pseudosieboldianum ‘North Wind’ | Jack Frost Korean Maple | From Iseli Nursery’s Jack Frost hybrids, this cultivar has new growth emerging red, maturing green then back to brilliant scarlet-orange in the autumn. |
20-25 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER saccharum ‘Apollo’ | Columnar Sugar Maple | A semi-dwarf, narrow-growing cultivar with all the branches growing upward. |
30 feet tall by 10 feet wide | Sun | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER saccharum ‘Newton Sentry’ | Sugar Maple | A slow grower with a strongly upright form reaching 30 feet tall and 8 feet wide. Brilliant yellow, orange and some red color are displayed in fall. |
25-30 feet | ||||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER shirasawanum ‘6910’ | A very new full moon maple bearing charteuse-yellow fan-shaped leaves in spring then maturing to mid-green in summer and finally changing to brilliant shades of red and orange for fall. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER shirasawanum ‘Aureum’ | Full Moon Maple | Beautifully rounded leaves of soft gold. Best in light shade. |
9-10 feet | Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER shirasawanum ‘Autumn Moon’ | Full Moon Maple | Rusty colored leaves radiate in an almost circular pattern. A medium-sized shrubby tree. |
12-15 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER shirasawanum ‘Gloria’ | Shades of bronze and red with green veins color the beautiful foliage of this Full Moon Maple. Smaller and slower growing than most Japanese Maples. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER shirasawanum ‘Haru Iro’ | Orange-red leaves with pronounced light green veins. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER shirasawanum ‘Johin’ | Spring brings shades of orange to purple on the new growth maturing to solid green in summer then turning orange and red in fall. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER shirasawanum ‘Jordan’ | Full Moon Maple | A bright yellow foliage form that holds its color well through the summer. Sun tolerant and vigorous. Fabulous fall color in gold and reds. |
15-20 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER shirasawanum ‘Moonrise’ | Full Moon Maple | Emerging spring leaves are a vivid carmine red with lime green veins. Mature foliage is gold. More sun tolerant than A. shirasawanum ‘Aureum’. Strong, upright branching form. |
10-15 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER shirasawanum ‘Mr. Sun’ | Full Moon Maple | From Buchholz Nursery, a cultivar with very sharply pointed green foliage reminiscent of a child’s drawing of the sun. Yellow to orange fall color. |
10-12 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER shirasawanum ‘Purple Thunder’ | Full Moon Maple | deep purple-red finely cut foliage in spring turns to blazing red in fall on this smaller tree. |
10-12 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER shirasawanum ‘Seasons of Change’ | Full Moon Maple | Colorful red-toned foliage on either end of the season on this small upright tree. New stems are also purple. |
15-20 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER shirasawanum ‘Sunny’ | A gorgeous golden full moon maple with spring foliage emerging red with yellow veining then turning all yellow through summer with fall foliage turning bright reds and oranges. |
Part Shade | 5 | ||||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER sieboldianum ‘Kumoi Nishiki’ | Siebold's Maple | Green foliage is heavily mottled with white. Striking in the fall when the leaves turn shades of orange and red. Strong-growing small tree. Considered hardier than some Acer palmatum varieties. |
10-12 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER sieboldianum ‘Shoryu no tsume’ | Siebold's Maple | ‘Claw of the Dragon’ maple named for its foliage with very narrow elongated lobes. Fall color is a brilliant red. Listed as hardy to Zone 4! |
10-12 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER sieboldianum ‘Sode no Uchi’ | A very cold tolerant Japanese Maple with small green leaves edged in red. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER triflorum | Three-Flowered Maple | Similar to A. griseum but exfoliating bark is buff and tree is much hardier. |
20-25 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER x conspicuum ‘Phoenix’ | This is a hybrid maple between the Chinese Acer davidii and the American Acer pennsylvanicum combining the beauty of both with gorgeous striped bark and very large leaves. |
Part Shade | 5 | ||||
| Tree/Shrub | AESCULUS parviflora | Bottlebrush Buckeye | A large shrub with great foliage and white bottle-brush flowers in July. Wide-spreading, it will form a dense thicket. |
8-12 feet | Sun/Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | AESCULUS neglecta ‘Erythroblastus’ | Horse Chestnut | Magnificent silvery cream spring foliage turns lime green by midsummer. Slow-growing southeast native. |
30-40 feet | Sun | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | AMELANCHIER ‘Autumn Brilliance’ | Serviceberry | A large multi-stem shrub or small tree with white flowers in very early spring. Foliage is blue-green turning red in the autumn. Red berries in summer mature to purple and are edible. Excellent native for groves or border. |
20-25 feet | Sun/Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ARONIA arbutifolia ‘Brilliantissima’ | An improved and compact form with clusters of white flowers in spring followed by larger bright red berries. The fall foliage is bright red making it stand out. |
Full sun | 4 | ||||
| Tree/Shrub | ARONIA melanocarpa ‘Iroquois Beauty’ | Black Chokeberry | A compact habit with fragrant flowers in spring, purple berries in summer and deep red fall foliage. Deer and drought resistant |
24-36 | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ARONIA melanocarpa ‘Low Scape Mound’ | Black Chokeberry | A new low, mound-shaped cultivar from Proven Winners. Same great shiny foliage, red fall color and black fruit of the species and just as tough. |
12-24 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Edibles | ASIMINA triloba | Paw Paw | An eastern native with large tropical leaves and custardy, banana-flavored fruits. A beautiful and exotic tree that has been hardy for us! All Paw-Paws produce best when planted near another cultivar. |
15-30 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 |