Trees - K -  Plant Nursery

Golden Raintree
Koelreuteria paniculata

The Golden Raintree, Koelreuteria Paniculata, is an excellent tree and unrivaled for late yellow flowers. Golden Raintrees are also known as Chinese Flame trees. It is one of the very few yellow flowering trees. This deciduous tree is excellent as a small lawn tree, or for shading a patio. Golden Raintrees display a beautiful show of fall color with 2 inch golden seed pods against a dark green-leafed background. The seed pods look like tiny Chinese lanterns. It has rounded outline, spreading and ascending branches, open, reddish copper-colored foliage in the spring. It is a tough and an adaptable tree used for many landscaping applications. They are very tolerant of polluted air environments.

Boxwood - Koreanes
Koreanes Boxwood

The Boxwood, Korean, Buxus sinica var. insularis, is a dense, compact, many-branched, broad, mounded evergreen shrub with a loose and open habit. It has evergreen leaves that turn yellow-brown to purplish in winter. It prefers full sun to partial shade; mulch to keep root system cool and moist; the evergreen foliage needs to be protected from drying winds, especially in winter. Korean Boxwood is a slow-growing, compact shrub that is best used as a hedge or foundation plant. May be massed or used as a specimen or accent. Formal gardens or shrub borders. Formerly known as, and sometimes still sold as, Buxus microphylla var. koreana.

Kwanzan Flowering Cherry
Kwanzan'

The Kwanzan Flowering Cherry tree, Prunus serrulata "Kwanzan", is one of the most popular cultivars of the flowering cherry trees. This deciduous tree rapidly grows to  height of 20 to 30 feet.  The blooms are a clear pink, double flower .  The blooms tend to last 3 weeks, yielding to a light green foliage with a red tinge. The Kwanzan flowering cherry tree is also known as a Japanese flowering cherry tree. The leaves turn to a reddish-copper fall color. A beautiful ornamental flowering tree.