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 ‘Attaryi’ | Japanese Maple | Bushy, deciduous tree with large, rounded and deeply cut mid-green leaves turning red in the autumn. Small, red-purple flowers appear in April in long drooping chains. Leaves tend to scorch in hot, dry weather. |
8-20 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Tree/Shrub | ACER japonicum ‘Emmett’s Pumpkin’ | Full Moon Maple | Large, rounded foliage is tinted with orange in the spring, matures to green and then turns a lovely pumpkin orange in the fall. Habit is open and bushy. |
6-10 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Tree/Shrub | ACER japonicum ‘Oregon Fern’ | Full Moon Maple | A small, upright tree with deeply dissected foliage and broad canopy. Turns deep red to purple in the fall. |
8-10 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Tree/Shrub | ACER japonicum ‘Ruby’ | Full Moon Maple | Olive green foliage is overlaid with burgundy and turns red in the autumn. |
4-6 feet | 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 ‘Elwood Orange’ | Japanese Maple | Consistent variegation decorates the large, light green to light brown (and all the colors between), deeply divided leaves of this small, upright broad Japanese maple. One of the best reticulated (netted) varieties, it can show so many colors at one time, especially in the spring and early summer. Foliage turns golden orange in fall. |
4-6 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Tree/Shrub | ACER palmatum ‘Emperor 1’ (syn. Red Emperor) | Japanese Maple | Purple foliage similar to A. ‘Bloodgood’, but leafs out later in the season, helping it to avoid spring frosts. |
15-20 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 ‘Red Emperor’ | Japanese Maple | Similar to A. ‘Bloodgood’, but leafs out later in the season, helping it to avoid spring frosts. |
15-20 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Tree/Shrub | ACER palmatum ‘Spring Delight’ | Japanese Maple | Soft green, heavily dissected leaves with pinkish red margins in the spring. In summer, the foliage then turns to vivid green prior to putting on a dazzling autumn show of assorted bright orange hues. |
7-8 feet | Full 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 palmatum ‘Yama Nishiki’ | Snow Peak Japanese Maple | Strong white variegation on the leaf margins make this a striking plant. Grows into a small upright tree. Keep out of afternoon sun for best coloration. |
8-10 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Tree/Shrub | ACER pseudoplatanus ‘Eskimo Sunset’ | Sycamore Maple | Small tree with fabulous pink-splashed foliage. Best in some shade. |
20-25 feet | Part Shade | 5 | ||
Tree/Shrub | ACER pseudosieboldianum ‘Arctic Jade’ | Korean Maple | A hardier selection to sub for Japanese Maples with large, green, deeply cut leaves reminiscent of A. japonicum ‘Aconitifolium’, with an excellent branching habit. In autumn, the foliage is a brilliant display of orange and red tones. |
15-20 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
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 rubrum ‘Vanity’ | Red Maple | Shrimp pink spring growth matures to green and white on this dense-growing red maple. Becomes more pink to red in the fall. If conditions are ideal, could exceed its expected growth rate. Clay tolerant. |
20-40 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 ‘Monumentale’ | Columnar Sugar Maple | A VERY narrow growing cultivar with all the branches growing upward. When 12 feet tall its only 1 foot wide! |
12-15 feet | Sun | 4 | ||
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 ‘Blue Moon’ | Full Moon Maple | Bronze spring foliage becomes yellow-green in the summer. A sister seedling to A. ‘Moonrise’ and more chartreuse than A. ‘Aureum’. |
10-15 feet | 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 ‘Kawaii’ | Full Moon Maple | A low, mounding cultivar with dissected foliage colorful through the season. Emerging leaves are red, turning green with a red edge then back to red in the fall! |
2 feet tall by 4 feet wide | 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 ‘Royalty’ | Red Full Moon Maple | An upright deciduous tree with a broad canopy. Foliage is deep purple in spring with long narrow leaf lobes. Fall color ranges from orange to red to purple. |
8-10 feet | Full Sun/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 ‘Mikasa Yama’ | Siebold's Maple | A hardy cultivar with new growth pubescent pale green on a narrow upright tree. Fall color brilliant yellow to orange. |
12-15 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Tree/Shrub | ACER sieboldianum ‘Seki no kegon’ | Siebold's Maple | A low-growing Japanese maple with pendulous habit. Green leaves turn orange-yellow in the fall. Some listing hardiness as Zone 4! |
3-4 feet tall by 6-7’ wide | 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 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 | ||
Edibles | ACTINIDIA arguta ‘Issai’ | Hardy Kiwi | A self-fertile clone of hardy kiwi requiring no pollinator. Fruit is smooth-skinned and 1” in size. |
10-15 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Edibles | ACTINIDIA kolomitka ‘Arctic Beauty’ | Hardy Arctic Kiwi | A fast-growing vine with new growth tipped in pink and white. This is a male cultivar and won’t produce fruit. |
10-15 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 4 |