Beautifully rounded leaves of soft gold. Best in light shade.

Rusty colored leaves radiate in an almost circular pattern. A medium-sized shrubby tree.

Bronze spring foliage becomes yellow-green in the summer.  A sister seedling to A. ‘Moonrise’ and more chartreuse than A. ‘Aureum’.

A bright yellow foliage form that holds its color well through the summer.  Sun tolerant and vigorous.  Fabulous fall color in gold and reds.

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!

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.

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.

Red, deeply palmate leaves are larger than other cultivars.

Colorful red-toned foliage on either end of the season on this small upright tree.  New stems are also purple.

A Buchholz introduction with large, serrated green leaves tinted with red and brilliant fall color.  Forms a small upright tree.

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.

A hardy cultivar with new growth pubescent pale green on a narrow upright tree.  Fall color brilliant yellow to orange.

A low-growing Japanese maple with pendulous habit.  Green leaves turn orange-yellow in the fall.  Some listing hardiness as Zone 4!

‘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!

Similar to A. griseum but exfoliating bark is buff and tree is much hardier.

A fast-growing vine with new growth tipped in pink and white. This is a male cultivar and won’t produce fruit.

Fruit-bearing selection of Arctic Kiwi. Fruit is small and smooth-skinned like a large grape. It does not have the dramatic spring variegation of A. ‘Arctic Beauty’ which is its pollinator.

A large shrub with great foliage and white bottle-brush flowers in July. Wide-spreading, it will form a dense thicket.

A shrubby horse chestnut with red flowers in the summer.

A hybrid with large panicles of deep red flowers in spring.  Habit is oval to rounded and compound palmate foliage is dark green.

Dark green palmate leaves are  irregularly edged in yellow.  Large showy panicles of deep red flowers in spring.  Habit is oval and rounded.

A new slender-growing form that only gets 4 feet wide.

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.

Wide-spreading groundcover with lustrous green summer foliage, white bell flowers tinged pink followed by red berries. Bronze winter foliage.                                 

A fast-spreading cultivar of the native Bearberry with dark green winter foliage. Pretty spring flowers and attractive rosy-red late summer thru winter berries. Likes acid soils. Good bird (and bear!) food.

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.

An eastern native with large tropical leaves and custardy, banana-flavored fruits. A beautiful and exotic tree that has been hardy for us!  

The largest growing of the birch, this native had beautiful exfoliating amber bark. Fall color is gold. Grows best in cool moist conditions.

Beautiful birch with compact habit and very white bark at an early age.

Native birch with reddish-brown exfoliating bark. Resistant to birch borer and excellent for moist sites.

A compact, low-branching version of the river birch with creamy tan exfoliating bark. For small gardens or hedging.

Cultivar with striking cream to white margins on the leaves. Typical exfoliating bark. Slower growing than the species.

Borer resistant cultivar of the native paper birch with brilliant white bark and distinctive pyramidal habit. 

A selection of B. ‘Dakota Pinnacle’ discovered at Parkland Nursery in Alberta even more narrow, dense and upright.  Tolerant of tough urban sites.

A cross between Crimson Frost Birch and Whitespire Birch with a better upright habit. Purple leaves all summer and exfoliating white bark.

Irregular tree with weeping branches. Dramatic specimen.

A dwarf shrub with small, serrated leaves that emerge in spring in shades of yellow, orange and red and mature to chartreuse.

Gray leafed selection of weeping form with long wand-like spikes of lavender flowers in the spring.  One of the hardiest.

A Sheridan Nursery selection growing to 5′ with a natural pyramidal shape.

A vigorous Sheridan Nursery selection that’s great for low hedges. It holds its green color well in winter.

Attractive rounded shrub grown primarily for the showy, late season striking amethyst purple fruit. On this cultivar, the fruit ripens earlier than on the species.

A Proven Winners intro with dusky purple foliage on an upright plant.  Pink flowers in late summer followed by amazing purple berries.

Interesting dense, round native with fragrant maroon flowers in May. Foliage is a shiny dark green that is also fragrant when crushed.

An beautiful new cultivar with wine-colored, magnolia-like blossoms in early summer. The large foliage is a dark glossy green. From a cross with Sinocalycanthus.

Weeping small tree with very finely cut ferny foliage and yellow pea-like flowers in the spring. Hardy and adaptable.

A dwarf columnar form of dense habit.

An upright, dense, and narrow cultivar that eventually becomes oval. The dark green, ovate , sharply toothed leaves are disease-resistant and attractive through the season.

Small tree with smooth gray “muscled” bark for winter interest.Bright gold fall color. Very hardy VT native.

A new selection with red fall color and narrow habit!  Introduced by Johnson Nursery in Wisconsin.

Small shrub with gray foliage and blue flowers in late summer and fall.  Can be grown as a herbaceous perennial in Zone 4.