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Ornamental Trees
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Lollipop Crab
Height: 10' Flower: Single, white
Spread: 10' Fruit: Gold-amber
Shape: Rounded Zone: 4-7
'Lollipop' has a form unlike any other crab apple. Covered with white
flowers in spring, followed by abundant gold-amber fruits in autumn.
Shows good resistance to scab, cedar apple rust and mildew. This
cultivar is grafted on a 42” standard.
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Pink Spires Crab
Height: 15-20' Flower: Single, lavender-pink
Spread: 12' Fruit: Purple-red, 1/2", persistent
Shape: Narrow, upright Zone: 2-7
Ideal for a confined screen or border planting, this excellent rosy
bloom crab was selected by W. L. Kerr, Canada Department of
Agriculture, Sutherland, Saskatchewan. Foliage is red-purple in spring
turning to green-bronze in summer, and copper in fall.
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Prairifire Crab
Height: 15-20' Spread: 20' Zone: 4-7
Shape: Upright, spreading becoming rounded
Flower: Single, dark purplish red
Fruit: Maroon, cone shaped, 3/8-1/2", persistent
This disease resistant cross by Dr. Dan Dayton, University of Illinois,
has especially good foliage retention during summer. It blooms later
than most crabs. The bark is a glossy dark red with numerous prominent
lenticels, and the fruit does not drop.
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Royal Raindrop Crabapple
Height: 20'
Flower: Single,
magenta pink, 1 1/4"
Spread: 15' Fruit: Red, 1/4", persistant
Shape: Upright, spreading Zone: 4-7
Certainly one of the prettiest red-leafed crabapples we’ve seen. Has a better summer color and appearance than most redleaf
crabapples. Abundant magenta-pink blossoms stand out handsomely against reddish-purple, cutleaf foliage. Shows good
resistance to fireblight.
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Spring Snow Crab
Height: 25-30' Flower: White, single
Spread: 15' Fruit: None
Shape: Rounded Zone: 4-7
This fruitless Canadian introduction is completely covered with pink
buds that open to fragrant white flowers in spring. It has bright
green, shiny foliage and good heat tolerance.
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Tina Crab
Height: 6-8' Flower: Single, white
Spread: 8-10' Fruit: Red
Shape: Wide spreading Zone: 4-7
This dwarf Sargent-type crab has pink to red buds that open to white flowers, followed by tiny red crabapples. It is disease
resistant and is a highly ornamental small tree for limited spaces.\
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Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry
Height: 20-25' Foliage: Blue-green, small
Spread: 15' Fall Foliage: Brilliant red-orange
Shape: Rounded Zone: 3-8
This tremendously popular tree offers white blossoms in spring,
followed by showy, sweet purplish-black fruit. Heavily branched, the
tree has an interesting spreading branch pattern, and attractive light
gray bark. The brilliant fall leaves are quite persistent. Own root.
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Redbud
Height: 20-30' Foliage: Deep green
Spread: 20-25' Fall Foliage: Brilliant yellow
Shape: Vase-shaped Zone: 4-9
This handsome tree bears small pink flowers in spring before leaves appear. Later brown fruit pods form. This strain is grown
from seed collected at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. It does well in sun and part shade.
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Pagoda Dogwood
Height: 15-20' Foliage: Medium to dark green
Spread: 20-25' Fall Foliage: Red
Shape: Rounded, horizontal branching Zone: 4-7
This graceful small tree has pale yellow flowers in May, followed by
blue-black fruit, and the leaves turn a beautiful maroon red
in the fall. Branches grow in irregular tiers, forming a somewhat
horizontal, layered look to the plant. Pot or plant under conditions of
high humidity until growth is established.
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PeeGee Hydrangea
Height: 8' Foliage: Deep green
Spread: 8-10' Fall Foliage: Insignificant
Shape: Rounded Zone: 4-8
PeeGee Hydrangea, trained to a single stem with a head, blooms in July
and August with very showy, large conical white flowers which change to
pink bronze towards autumn. The flower heads dry easily when cut, and
are perfect for use in arrangements.
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Fruitless Weeping Mulberry
Height: 15' Foliage: Bright green
Spread: 15-20' Fall Foliage: Yellow
Shape: Weeping Zone: 5-8
This vigorous small tree has cascading slender branches that create an
attractive appearance. A fruitless cultivar, grown on own root.
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Autumn Blaze Pear
Height: 35' Foliage: Glossy green
Spread: 20' Fall Foliage: Crimson red
Shape: Pyramidal, rounded Zone: 4-8
This cultivar has a distinct rounded form that distinguishes it from
other pears. The most cold hardy of the Calleryana cultivars, it has
white flowers in spring, dark glossy foliage, and good red fall color.
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European Mountain Ash
Height: 20-30' Foliage: Clear, deep green
Spread: 20-25' Fall Foliage: Red
Shape: Upright, rounded at maturity Zone: 2-7
This valuable ornamental tree bears showy orange-red fruits in August
through September. It prefers acid soils with good drainage.
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Dwarf Korean Lilac
Height: 8' Foliage: Deep green
Spread: 5-6' Fall Foliage: Insignificant
Shape: Globe Zone: 4-7
This tree form has the same fine features of the shrub-form Dwarf
Korean. It makes an excellent globe for accent or interest in the
landscape.
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Japanese Tree Lilac
Height: 25' Foliage: Deep green
Spread: 25' Fall Foliage: Insignificant
Shape: Spreading Zone: 3-7
This handsome small specimen tree or large shrub bears creamy white
flowers in large panicles in June and July. Clumps will have three or
more stems.
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