Slow-growing fastigiate specimen with unusual contorted foliage. Great purple fall color.

Selected by the University of Minnesota for its bright cherry red winter stems.

A more compact cultivar with typical bright red twigs, white flowers and brick red fall color.

Green leaves are edged with a broad band of gold. Red stems are prominent in the winter.

A selection from Proven Winners with dense, glossy puckered foliage that is resistant to leaf spot.

A disease resistant upright tree with yellow and green variegated foliage. It has large white bracts in May or June. The foliage turns orange and red in the fall. It prefers full sun to partial shade, in a rich, well-drained soil. It is a sport of Cornus X ‘Celestial’ (a hybrid between our native C. […]

Creamy yellow bells very early spring followed by rich yellow foliage on a spreading plant.

A cultivar with dissected burgundy leaves on an upright spreading plant.  Red catkins provide interest in early spring.  Disease-resistant selection from Oregon State University.

A cultivar with not only the twisted and contorted branches of C. ‘Contorta, but also deep red foliage!

Grows to 8’, but for best purple foliage, cut to the ground in spring. It will then reach 4’-5’.

This cultivar has the same burgundy foliage and smoky blooms of C. coggygria ‘Royal Purple’ but in a much more compact form.

The darkest cultivar to date, the foliage becomes almost black in midsummer.

From a cross between C. coggygria and C. obovatus, this hybrid has brilliant orange-red fall color and pink “smoke” in June.

A cultivar with lime-green to brilliant gold foliage in spring, green summer foliage coloring to coral, orange and red in the fall.  Coppice for best effect.

A cross between the American Smoketree – C. obovatus, and C. Velvet Cloak.  Plum foliage and large pink smoke panicles.

After about 10 yrs. in our garden the plants are about 10″ high and 18″ across. Leaves are smaller than on other C. apiculata types. Typical red fruit and glossy foliage.

Small native tree with abundant June flowers followed by red berries.  Dense-growing with distinctive horizontal branching. This form is thornless.

Green leaves with cream edges. Pink buds open to intensely fragrant white flowers in spring.

Dwarf shrub covered with white flowers in June. Forms a graceful spreading mound. Foliage turns burgundy in the fall

A Proven Winner selection similar to D. ‘Nikko’ with very profuse pink bell-shaped spring blooms.  Tidy mounding habit.

A Proven Winner selection similar to D. ‘Nikko’ with very profuse white spring blooms. Tidy mounding habit.

Adaptable native cultivar that is deer resistant and drought tolerant.  Typical small yellow blooms in summer followed by striking orange fall color.  Emerging spring foliage is also russet orange.

This cultivar has dark burgundy foliage throughout the whole season!

Beautiful blue-green foliage similar to Cercis with fantastic fall color. Small dark purple flowers in the fall. A Witchhazel relative. In Vermont, best in moist, sheltered sites.

A witchhazel relative with beautiful blue-green foliage similar to Cercis. This cultivar edged with white. Small dark purple flowers in the fall.

Creamy white bells with no red veining on a more compact plant.

A deciduous relative of rhododendron with small creamy, bell-shaped, red-veined flowers in the spring and red foliage in the autumn.  This upright selection from Summer Hill has large leaves, red stems and a bit more red in the flowers.

A smaller, more compact form with clusters of small, dark red bells in the spring.  Good red fall color.

Spikes of small magenta bells cover the compact mounds of bronzy evergreen needle foliage in very early spring. Protect during snowless winters.

Weeping form of our native Beech. More spreading than pendulous.

The European beech makes an excellent trimmed hedge as seen here at Rocky Dale as well as a lovely and adaptable shade tree.

Much sought after yellow-leafed weeping form. Habit is graceful and narrow. Provide some shade to prevent leaf scorch.

Dark purple leaves on a narrow weeping plant.  Descending and ascending branches give this cultivar an interesting profile.

A very slow-growing cultivar with dense twiggy branching and a globose habit.

A slow-growing columnar form with bright green rounded foliage.

Columnar form with purple foliage.

A very slow-growing form with foliage heavily variegated with white on mature plants.

Dark purple leaves with undulating edges on a dense upright plant.

A dwarf, often multi-stemmed form with typical green foliage and rounded habit.

Striking white variegated foliage on an upright tree.  Best color on the new growth.

Creamy white mottling most prominent on the new growth of this cultivar.

A seedling of F. ‘Purpurea Pendula’, but more narrow in growth with the top branches erect and secondary branches weeping.

This dwarf version of the purple beech is an excellent choice for the smaller garden.

A slow-growing dwarf weeping form with purple foliage and wide, mounding habit.

A narrow-growing form with handsome burgundy foliage.

Large broad crown with persistent purple leaves. One of the best.

Possibly the same as F. ‘Tricolor’, but having a slightly different variegation.   Deep purple leaves edged in pink.                                       

A dwarf cultivar that forms a small upright pyramid with attractive rounded foliage.

Not a lot of info on this cultivar — an upright, dwarf that forms a narrow pyramid and leaves with creamy yellow variegation.

Stems and branches twisted, leaves normal. Horizontally growing to 12′. Fantastic winter silhouette.