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.

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.

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 self-fertile clone of hardy kiwi requiring no pollinator. Fruit is smooth-skinned and 1” in size.

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 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. Also known as ‘Standing Ovation’.

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.

Small multi-trunked tree or large shrub bearing in mid-spring clouds of white flowers that produce edible fruit that is attractive to the birds.

Magnificent, bipinnately compound leaves with fine silver edges. The leaflets on this cultivar are smaller than other forms.

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

A compact habit with fragrant flowers in spring, purple berries in summer and deep red fall foliage.

A short columnar habit covered in clusters of white flowers in spring that turn into berries of bright red and orange. this is such an important source of nutrition of the birds. In fall the glossy green foliage turns brilliant red and gold.

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.

‘Little King’ has a densely compact rounded habit compared to the species. The low branching makes this more of a large shrub than a tree. The bark exfoliates revealing cinnamon and peach hues – very showy, especially if the lower branches have been pruned.

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

Broad pyramidal birch whose bark turns white at an earlier age than the species. More resistant to birch borer and nice yellow fall color.

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.

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.

Gold foliage form.  Treat as a large shrub in our climate by coppicing each spring.

A great native shrub that will thrive in a sunny, well-drained location. Four inch long, deep green leaves with hairy, gray reverse tightly pack this branching plant to form a dense, compact, spreading plant that pushes flower stalks from leaf bases on the upper ends of branches in late May filling the garden with sweet […]

Round heads of white flowers in midsummer.  This cultivar from Bailey Nursery is more compact than the species.  Great for wet areas.

A larger-flowered, long-blooming selection. Round heads of pinkish white flowers in August. Shiny foliage. Native to wet areas.

Heart-shaped leaves emerge red, then turn green. Fall color gold.  Very fast-growing to 30′ then growth slows. Becomes quite large in old age.

A new gold foliage form with new growth tinged with pink.

A large-growing weeper with stronger central leader.