Trees - T -  Plant Nursery

Bald Cypress
Taxodium distichum

The Bald Cypress, Taxodium distichum, is a lofty, deciduous conifer of slender, pyramidal habit. A stately tree, for parks, yards. Landscapers and land owners use this tree in wet areas. Bald Cypress trees have moderate water requirements. In swamps, it develops large flares at the base of the trunk, the so-called "cypress knees". In the fall, the Bald Cypress leaves may turn a rich brown. The needle like leaves are dark green in the spring and summer. The "cypress knees" only develop when grown in or near water for most of the year. This species is very adaptable to wet and dry sites and thrives in many soil types.

Cascade Falls Bald Cypress
Taxodium distichum 'Cascade Falls'

The Bald Cypress Cascade Falls, Taxodium distichum 'Cascade Falls', is an exciting, very-weeping bald cypress. The weeping form of this Bald Cypress is very attractive and eye catching as it displays it's bright green foliage. Cascade Falls is tolerant of a wide range of soil and moisture conditions. All members of the bald cypress family are deciduous conifers. The new foliage is light green and will turn orange brown in the fall. With the cinnamon color, exfoliating bark, and unusual weeping form, it has great winter interest. Pruners can be used to control the length of the branches and whether the tips touch the ground or are allowed to cover the ground. Stake it to a certain height and then let it cascade down. If you don’t stake it up, this plant would be like a ground cover. In a landscape application you could let it flow over a rock wall like a green waterfall. Use this plant as a specimen or in a near water location. It also grows well in standing water and compacted soils.

Yew - Densiformus
Taxus densiformus

The Dens Yew, or Yew Densiformus, 'Taxus x media 'Densiformis', is one of the most popular evergreens shrubs today. This very popular yew is a rapid grower with a spreading habit and fluffy bright green needles. With a plant height of 4’ and a width of 6’, the dark green foliage adds color to every garden. Plant in full shade in a moist area, for it is intolerant of poor drainage and can be damaged if exposed to excessive winter sun and wind. This low maintenance shrub has dark green foliage that will turn a nice red to burgundy color in the fall. Tolerant to deer, pollution, rabbits and seashore breezes, this evergreen is not to be left out of any landscape.

Yew - Dark Green
Taxus x media 'Dark Green'

Dark Green Yew, taxus x media 'Dark Green', is an excellent evergreen with beautiful dark green foliage for the shade garden or shady side of the home. It is has a spreading compact habit, and its forest-green foliage does not burn in winter. It exhibits a small wide spreading form, with soft textures, and rich green short needles that are easily pruned into various shapes. This yew can be used as a low hedge or specimen plant and requires good drainage and prefers a shady location with loamy soil. It grows 3-5 feet tall and 6-8 feet wide. Yews are widely used landscape plants because of their rich, dark green evergreen foliage and versatility. They are maintainable at various heights and spreads. Remove 1/2 to 3/4 of the new growth each year with hand pruners; you can control the size and maintain a healthier shrub with a more natural form.

Yew - Taunton Spreading
Taxus x media 'Tauntoni'

Taunton Spreading Yew, taxus x media 'Tauntoni', is a spreading evergreen that has short dark green needles and is very hardy. Taunton has a low graceful and lovely form, tolerant of summer heat, and excellent resistance to winter burn. It grows well in both sun or shade and is very popular as an accent, specimen, or foundation plant. It grows 3-4 tall and 4-6 feet wide. Yews are widely used landscape plants because of their rich, dark green evergreen foliage and versatility. They are maintainable at various heights and spreads. Remove 1/2 to 3/4 of the new growth each year with hand pruners; you can control the size and maintain a healthier shrub with a more natural form.

Arborvitae - Technito™
Technito Arborvitae

Arborvitae - Technito™, Thuja occidentalis ‘Bail John’ grows to 6 feet tall, has the attractive dark green color of Techny, and retains its color through winter. This cultivar, being noticeably more dense, is an improvement because it requires less shearing. Technito's form is a compact pyramidal outline. It has reddish-brown, furrowed bark; good green winter color; and medium-fine texture. It prefers moist, well-drained soil and has a very slow growth rate. It prefers sun to light shade, and its compact habit makes it useful for screening in restricted spaces. It thrives in a wide variety of soils but prefers fertile soils with consistent moisture throughout the growing season. Due to its dense growth, it will make a great informal hedge with no shearing, or a lovely formal hedge if sheared.

Arborvitae - First Edition™ Technito®
Technito Arborvitae

The 'First Edition™ Technito® Arborvitae, Thuja occidentalis 'Bailjohn' has the attractive dark green color of Techny and retains it through winter just as well. This cultivar, being noticeably more dense, is an improvement because it will require less shearing. Forms a compact pyramidal outline. Arborvitae are the most popular evergreen used in our urban landscapes. The reason for their popularity probably lies in their versatility. Whether used for screening or as a specimen, there is an arborvitae cultivar in just the right size or shape for almost every yard. Easy to grow, arborvitae do best in full sun and moist to well-drained soils. They also tolerate partly shaded locations but their foliage may not be as full and dense.

Arborvitae - Techny
Techny'

The Techny Arborvitae, Thuja occidentalis, is a fast growing Arborvitae tree that grows well in full sun or light shade. Techny arborvitae trees are very winter hardy. This cultivar is the most resistant to winter and drought damage and is the Arborvitae of choice for tougher conditions. This beautiful evergreen species has a deep dark green color. It can be sheared to shape when used as a hedge or privacy screen.

Black Walnut - Thomas Black
Thomas Black'

The 'Thomas Black' Black Walnut tree, Juglans nigra, 'Thomas Black', is one of the most popular nut trees in America, not only because of its expensive wood, but the nuts are in high demand for cookies, cakes and ice-cream. The Thomas strain is the best seedgrown clone of all. It produces many bushels of nuts large in size and easily cracked. The straw colored kernels are tangy flavored and delicious. This deciduous majestic shade tree is one of the trouble free trees to grow. Black Walnust trees reach up to 50 ft. tall, and one mature tree often sells for several thousand dollars. Many people plant these trees not only for the abundant crop of nuts, but as a timber investment for their children’s future. The nuts are rounder in shape than common walnut.

Arborvitae - Degroot's Spire
Thuja occidentalis 'Degroot's Spire'

The Degroot's Spire Arborvitae, Thuja occidentalis 'Degroot's Spire', is a striking accent plant with a narrow, columnar form and rich green, twisted foliage. Degroot's Spire Arborvitae retains its attractiveness with age unlike some evergreens. This tree turns bronze in winter contrasting beautifully with the snow. Its striking narrow-columnar form makes it the perfect choice when a strong vertical accent in the garden or landscape is desired. It's growth rate is a tad on the slow side, but a row of DeGroot's Spire creates an attractive and functional screen, or becomes a handsome green wall for that special outdoor area. It requires very little pruning. This arborvitae is an excellent variety for small spaces, is an easy care plant, attracts wildlife, drought tolerant and deer resistant.

Arborvitae - Hetz Midget
Thuja occidentalis 'Hetz Midget'

The Hetz Midget Arborvitae, Thuja occidentalis 'Hetz Midget', is a dense, slow growing evergreen that requires no shearing to maintain its naturally round, globe form. Being one of the smallest miniature landscape evergreens, with a very neat and tidy form, it can be used in a front row of layered foundation plantings or as an accent or border in perennial beds. The Hetz Midget can also make a great informal hedge. It has fine rich green foliage during the summer that takes on a purple cast in the winter months. This arborvitae prefers sun to partial shade; moist, well-drained soil; protection from strong winds. The tree is identified primarily by unique flat and filigree sprays made up of tiny, scaly leaves. The tree loves limestone areas and can take full sun to light shade.

Arborvitae - Holmstrup
Thuja occidentalis 'Holmstrup'

The Holmstrup Arborvitae, Thuja occidentalis 'Holmstrup', is a compact evergreen with dense branching which creates a pyramidal form. The bright green color and light bushy foliage gives this plant a textured appearance in the landscape. The Holmstrup does well in light shade and tolerates poor drainage. The colorful apple-green needles create a dense tree with the flattened sprays that overlap and radiate in vertical manner. A very versatile dwarf evergreen tree, Holmstrup Arborvitae is used as a landscape accent, windbreak or screen. They are very attractive when planted in pairs to frame a focal point in your landscape.

Arborvitae - Nigra
Thuja occidentalis 'Nigra'

The Nigra Arborvitae, Thuja occidentalis 'Nigra', is one of the busy varieties for cold climates. Unlike some evergreens, 'Nigra' will keep its dark green color all winter long. Scale-like leaves are ovate, mid to dark-green on top, lighter beneath. Females bear small cones with a small terminal hook on each scale. This low maintenance arborvitae needs full sun to partial shade and prefers sandy loam to clay loam. Useful as a specimen, accent, windscreen, or commonly used in foundation plantings. Makes one of the finest year-round hedges that forms a natural fence around your home.

Arborvitae - Sherwood Moss
Thuja occidentalis 'Sherwood Moss'

The Sherwood Moss Arborvitae, Thuja occidentalis 'Sherwood Moss', is a dwarf, cone-shaped Arborvitae with unusual soft, feathery foliage. It requires sun and deep, well-drained soil. The unique texture makes this a very unusual variegated plant that shines in winter with its bronze winter color. It is not a globe, not a pyramid, but a well shaped mound that has no equal. Arborvitae is one of the most versatile, easy-to-grow evergreens suited to cold, northern landscapes. They are often used as specimen plants, hedges, foundation plantings and windbreaks. Arborvitaes are highly adaptable plants.>/p>

Arborvitae - Emerald
Thuja occidentalis 'Smaragd'

The Emerald Arborvitae, Thuja occidentalis 'Smaragd', also known as white cedar, exhibits a narrow, compact pyramidal form with emerald green foliage which holds its color well through winter. This arborvitae makes an excellent screen, and can grow at a rate of about one feet per year. When young, the Emerald Arborvitae has a bright green color to its foliage which darkens as the plant ages. This arborvitae makes an excellent hedge plant, but also used for foundation plants, informal hedges, entranceways, privacy screens, non-thorny barriers, or specimen shrub. It will grow especially well in swampy areas and in alkaline soil. This hardy arborvitae prefers full sun to thrive and will perform best in an area with high atmospheric moisture. Because this plant often grows naturally into a perfect pyramidal shape, little pruning is necessary. If the winter is especially cold, the foliage of an emerald green arborvitae will turn yellow-brown. This pyramidal beauty will become one of your favorites with its excellent cold and heat tolerance.

Arborvitae - Teddy
Thuja occidentalis 'Teddy'

The Teddy Arborvitae, Thuja occidentalis 'Teddy', is a tiny, globe-shaped evergreen with finely textured, almost feathery foliage. The blue-green needles take on a bronze tint in winter. It is a loveable, huggable dwarf globe with soft juvenile foliage. The foliage is so soft, it almost feels like fur! Gently shear for perfect spheres to look its best, or allow it to mature naturally into an oval shape. It requires full sun to partial shade, and it is best to follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. This arborvitae lends itself well as an easy care plant that can be used as an accent plant in borders, containers or rock gardens. It is also deer resistant.

Arborvitae - Woodward
Thuja occidentalis 'Woodwardii'

The Arborvitae Woodward, 'Thuja occidentalis 'Woodwardii', is a compact round plant that never needs trimming to maintain its shape. The Woodward is an excellent foundation plant and it is well suited for a short border or lining a sidewalk. This plant is fast growing for an Arborvitae and it displays bright green foliage. Place the Woodward in moist, acidic, and well drained soils.

Arborvitae - Green Giant
Thuja plicata 'Green Giant'

The Arborvitae Green Giant, 'Thuja plicata 'Green Giant', is a giant arborvitae that has bright green, fern-like foliage. This plant is very adaptable to wet or dry soils. The Green Giant is fast growing for an arborvitae and it is also very dense and they are used extensively for borders, screens, windbreaks or as an accent tree. When used as a hedge, the Green Giant can be trimmed and kept to a dense 6 foot hedge.

Arborvitae - Spring Grove
Thuja plicata 'Spring Grove'

The Arborvitae Spring Grove, 'Thuja plicata 'Spring Grove', a Proven Winners selection, was selected for its superior winter color and hardiness. It maintains a rich green color even in Midwest winters. The tight, pyramidal habit works nicely for landscape designs, borders, screens, and windbreaks. This plant is also very deer resistant. The Spring Grove is fast growing for an Arborvitae.

Thundercloud Plum
Thundercloud Plum

The Thundercloud Plum, Prunus cerasifera 'Thundercloud', displays fragrant, single pink flowers that bloom in spring before foliage emerges. It seldom bears fruit, but has beautiful, glossy, deep purple foliage throughout the growing season. Its fast growth rate and upright to upright-spreading nature quickly forms a 15 to 25-foot-tall, dense silhouette. Its dense crown forms into a round vase shape. Thundercloud is a highly decorative tree with beautiful foliage, so it'll make an excellent tree for Japanese gardens, or just about anywhere you would like an extravagant, showy specimen tree. It prefers sandy or clay soils, and its water needs range from normal to moist. Enjoy this low maintenance tree that also tolerates deer and rabbits.

Frontyard® Linden
Tilia americana 'Bailyard'

The Frontyard® Linden, Tilia americana 'Bailyard', is a great 'Frontyard' tree, selected because of its symmetrical branching and broadly pyramidal shape. It has an excellent symmetrical branching habit even as a young tree, and then gets nicely rounded with age. This Linden offers excellent shade with its dense foliage. It displays fragrant yellow flowers in summer with large, dark green foliage that turns yellow in the fall. It prefers moist, fertile, deep soils and tolerant of difficult, dry or heavy soils. It needs full sun, but will tolerate some shade. It is best used for farmstead windbreaks, and park trees in open landscape areas because of its large size and spreading root system.

Boulevard Linden
Tilia americana 'Boulevard'

The Boulevard Linden, Tilia americana 'Boulevard', has a narrow pyramidal form with ascending branches. Large, dark green foliage combines beautifully with fragrant yellow flowers in early summer. This linden is an attractive specimen where height is needed but width is limited, such as boulevards. It is best used for farmstead windbreaks, and park trees in open landscape areas because of its large size and spreading root system. This deciduous tree requires full sun, will tolerate some shade, and needs well drained soil. It has a pyramidal shape when young, becoming rounded when mature.

Little Leaf Linden
Tilia cordata

The Little Leaf Linden tree, 'Tilia cordata ', is a very good lawn shade tree and is ideally suited to home situations. It's pyramidal to pyramidal-rounded shape and dense foliage make it an excellent landscape tree. The leaves are dark green, turning yellow or yellow-green in the fall. The small, fragrant yellowish flowers appear in June. Littleleaf Linden is widely used as a street tree and for residential landscaping. The small, yellowish summer flowers are highly fragrant. Small, round seeds are produced and they persist well into winter. The Little Leaf Linden is fairly tolerant to a wide range of site conditions and requires little maintenance. It tolerates clay soils better than many tree species and is fairly tolerant of pollution.

Shamrock® Linden
Tilia cordata 'Baileyi'

The Shamrock® Linden, Tilia cordata 'Baileyi', is a vigorous grower that has a broad conical form. The open branching creates a less dense shade. It displays fragrant yellow flowers in summer. The shiny dark green foliage develops a yellowish-green fall color. It requires full sun to light shade and prefers moist, deep, fertile, well drained soils. This Linden is tolerant of difficult growing sites and soils, is urban and pollution tolerant. It attracts bees when in bloom. It is best used for farmstead windbreaks, and park trees in open landscape areas because of its large size and spreading root system.

Toba Hawthorn
Toba Hawthorn

The Toba Hawthorn, Crataegus x mordenensis 'Toba', is hardier than some of the other Hawthorns. This tree was introduced by the Morden Station of Manitoba, Canada. It bears fragrant, large, double white flowers that turn to pink. The foliage is glossy, and it bears 1/2 inch red fruit. The glossy dark green foliage turns to yellowish-brown in fall. A unique feature of this tree is that the trunk is somewhat twisted. Toba has a broad, upright habit that is rounded; silver gray bark on twisted branches; site adaptable. The bark is amber colored with medium texture; branches are armed with slender 1-3 inch thorns. Can be used as an ornamental plant or in groupings.

Corkscrew Willow
Tortuosa'

The Corkscrew Willow tree, Salix matsudana, 'Tortuosa', is a small to medium-sized, upright spreading tree of about 30 feet in height with a 15-foot-spread. This deciduous tree is also known as Tortuosa or Dragon's Claw Willow. The main ornamental feature of this plant is the contorted and twisted branches and twigs. Branches arise from the trunk at an acute angle and grow up almost parallel to the trunk before they curve back to the horizontal. The winter branch pattern is most interesting and accounts for the popularity of the tree. Corkscrew Willow trees tolerate any soil, especially wet soils with poor drainage. It is a fast growing tree with narrow light green leaves.

Triumph™ Elm
Triumph Elm

The Triumph™ Elm, Ulmus 'Morton Glossy', is a selection that resulted from a controlled cross between Vanguard™ Elm and Accolade® Elm, conducted by Dr. George Ware at the Morton Arboretum. Introduced through Chicagoland Grows®, it has an upright habit with strong branching, lustrous dark green foliage and excellent disease and pest resistance. Triumph develops softly arching branches as it matures. An excellent shade tree for home and commercial landscapes, Triumph elm is a wonderful park or street tree, offering excellent disease and pest resistance to Dutch elm disease, elm yellows and elm leaf beetle. Elms are adaptable to a wide variety of soil conditions and come in graceful, vase-shaped and weeping forms. Elms prefer full sun and adapt easily to extremes in pH, moisture, wind and heat. The aggressive roots can probably break sidewalks and raise pavement if trees are improperly located.

Canadian Hemlock
Tsuga canadensis

The Canadian Hemlock tree, Tsuga canadensis, is also called Eastern Hemlock or Hemlock spruce. This evergreen conifer is a fast-growing long-lived tree which unlike many trees grows well in shade. It may take 250 to 300 years to reach maturity and may live for 800 years or more. It has a graceful pyramidal form with foliage of spray-like appearance. This stately tree is a very hardy specimen and is an easily transplanted conifer which grows well in a variety of soils. Shelter small plants from drying winds. They stand shearing and pruning well and are excellent as hedges. They are graceful and make great ornamental plantings.