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2008 Spring Tree Sale Tree Descriptions Click on name for photo
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EVERGREENS
Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana): Full sun, grows in a wide variety of soils. A dense pyramidal evergreen growing to 40 to 50 feet, with an 8-15 foot spread. Medium green needles are flat and scale-like. Reddish brown bark is considered part of its ornamental interest. Should grow in almost any soil and does well in poor gravelly soils. Great choice for a windbreak or hedge.
White Cedar (Thuja occidentalis): Grows best in loamy, moist soil. A dense pyramidal evergreen, grows to 50’. May be planted as ornamental hedge or windbreak. Good source for wildlife food, shelter and nesting cover.
Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii): Full sun to light shade, well drained soils. Moderately fast growth once established to 100+ feet. Largest timber producing tree in North America, high value Christmas tree. Avoid planting in low areas, as trees are susceptible to frost damage, and do not plant with Blue Spruce due to potential disease. Provides winter cover for wildlife.
Fraser Fir (Abies fraseri): Full sun to partial shade, well-drained soils. Grows to 60 feet. Has a wonderful fragrance and attractive purple cones. One of the most highly prized Christmas trees. Will not tolerate drought.
Red Pine (Pinus resinosa): Full sun, sandy soils. Fast growing to 100 feet. Excellent timber tree. Good for reforestation and erosion control. Seeds provide food for many songbirds and mammals.
White Pine (Pinus strobus): Full sun to partial shade, wide range of soils – best suited to moist, sandy loam. Fast growing to 100+ feet. One of the best timber species, our state tree. Excellent windbreak. Seeds provide food for many birds and mammals. Provides cover and nesting for many birds.
Blue Spruce - Colorado (Picea glauca): Full sun to partial shade, sandy to moist soils. Moderate rate of growth - to 100 feet. Used as a dense windbreak, most familiar as an ornamental tree. Dense, symmetrical growth provides excellent winter cover for wildlife. Do not plant with Douglas Fir due to potential disease.
Norway Spruce (Picea abies): Full sun to partial shade, range of well-drained soils, prefers moist soil. Fastest growing spruce to 150 feet. Makes an excellent windbreak, cover for wildlife, and ornamental planting. At maturity, small branches droop like pendulums off larger branches, giving the tree a graceful weeping form.
White Spruce (Picea glauca): Full sun to partial shade, range of soils. Moderate to slow growth to 50 feet. Heat and drought tolerant, a highly adaptable tree. Makes an excellent windbreak and cover for wildlife. Nice symmetrical growth. HARDWOOD TREES
Black Cherry (Prunus serotina): Full sun, moist well drained soil. Fast growing up to 70 feet. Dense foliage with green lustrous leaves with clusters of white flowers in late May, produces black cherries in August. Fruit provides food for a wide variety of birds and mammals. An excellent ornamental tree and valuable timber tree for furniture making, also makes excellent firewood.
Cottonwood (Eastern) (Populus deltoids): Sun to light shade, broad range of soils. Rapid growth to 80’ with rounded to oval crown. Bark is thick and deeply fissured. Leaves are nearly heart-shaped. No serious disease problems.
Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum): Full sun to partial shade, adaptable to a range of soils, prefers moist soil. Fast growing to 90’with 50-80’ width and an oval to round crown. Leaves have deeply cut lobes, silvery on the underside in summer; yellow foliage in fall. Black Oak (Quercus velutina): Full sun to partial shade, moist, rich, well-drained soils to poor, dry sandy or heavy glacial clay. A common, medium-sized to large oak (to 80’) sometimes called yellow oak or smoothbark oak. Good crops of acorns provide wildlife with food. The wood, commercially valuable for furniture and flooring, is sold as red oak. Red Oak (Quercus rubra): Full sun, range of well-drained soils – prefers dry upland. Fast growing to 75 feet. Foliage turns a deep red in the fall. It is the fastest growing of all the oaks and is easily transplanted. Tolerant of urban conditions. Acorns eaten by a variety of wildlife.
Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron trulipifera): Full sun to partial shade, prefers well-drained soils but tolerates all but very wet and very dry soils. Fast growing to 150 feet. Dense foliage that turns yellow in the autumn, tulip shaped flowers are greenish-yellow marked with orange, blooming in mid June. One of the most valuable hardwoods for timber.
Black Walnut (Juglans nigra): Full sun, deep well-drained fertile soils. Grows to 100 feet. Extremely valuable hardwood, produces high quality veneer lumber when properly cared for. For best nut production space 30 feet apart. Nuts loved by humans and animals.
HABITAT TREES & SHRUBS
Arrowwood: (Viburnum dentatum): Full sun to partial shade, prefers sandy soil. A vigorous grower to 15 feet with a 6-15 foot spread. Flat clusters of creamy-white flowers in early June. Red- to blue-black berries are popular with wildlife. Glossy red fall foliage. Good all-around shrub for wetlands to uplands.
Button Bush: (Cephalanthus occidentalis): Moist to wet soils, full to partial shade. A wetland shrub with showy flowers and fruit. Matures to 15-20 feet. The pin-cushion-like, round flower heads produce seeds eaten by waterfowl and songbirds. Blooms in June and sets fruit in September and October. A popular choice for use in native plant gardens, shrub borders and along marsh edges and stream margins.
Crabapple – Japanese Flowering: (Malus floribunda): Full sun, tolerant of most soil types. Very showy white flowering specimen plant with crab apples beginning the 3-4th year. Beautiful ornamental yard tree; screening and excellent for wildlife food and cover.
Highbush Cranberry: (Viburnum trilobum): Full sun to partial shade, well drained to moist soils. Grows fast to 12 feet. White flower clusters in May, scarlet berries midsummer through winter that provide food for many birds. Fruit can also be used for jams. Excellent for wetlands, streams, shores, forest borders.
Red-osier Dogwood: (Cornus stolonifera): Full sun, prefers wet to slightly moist soils. Fast growing to 9 feet with a 10 foot spread. Flowers in June that go to whitish berries in August-October that are devoured by wildlife. Red bark throughout the year. Shade intolerant. Grows in thick clumps that form great wildlife habitat. Great in all wetland types, shores, banks and dunes.
Silky Dogwood: (Cornus amomum): Full to partial shade, well drained to moist soils. Fast growing dense spreading shrub reaching 10-12 feet. Dense foliage turns red in fall. Small flat clusters of yellowish-white flowers in late May, followed by blue or grayish berries that attract birds in the fall. Bark is scarlet red in color all winter long. A good wetland or waters’ edge plant, excellent for wildlife.
American (Common) Elderberry: (Sambucus canadensis): Full sun to partial shade, a wide variety of soils, prefers moist. Vigorous fast growing shrub to 10 feet in height, with a 6 to 8 foot spread. Grown for its clusters of reddish-purple berries in the late summer that are used for making preserves, pies or wine; also a great food source for wildlife. Good from marsh to meadow, forest edge to floodplain.
Forsythia (Forsythia x intermedia): Full sun to partial shade, wide range of soils. This fast growing shrub to small tree provides early spring pale to deep yellow, bell shaped flowers on last year's growth. A great addition to the home landscape or as a border plant. Wildife cover.
Indigobush (Amorpha fruticosa): Well drained to moist sandy soils. Shrub grows to 20’ with long clusters of purple flowers that are very attractive. Dense branching habit. Wildlife cover and food source. Good for uplands, lowlands and marsh edges.
Common Lilac: (Syringa vulgaris): Full sun to partial shade, wide range of well-drained soils. Dense, vigorous growth to 15 feet with 6-10 foot spread. Masses of very fragrant, lavender flowers in late spring. A favorite!
Ninebark: (Physocarpus opulifolius): Full sun, wide range of soils, drought tolerant. Grows to 8 feet tall with an 8 foot spread. Has white to pink flowers June through July, resembling large spiraea. Red fall fruit persists through winter. Provides good food and cover for wildlife. From shores and swamps to woodland edges.
FRUIT TREES
Note: All fruit trees are grafted on semi-dwarf rootstock.
Honeycrisp Apple: Very popular early apple. Large red fruit with exceptionally crisp and juicy flavor. Flesh is cream colored. Ripens about 1 week after McIntosh. Needs another apple variety for cross pollination, however avoid the red delicious or Joburn as the only pollinator.
Joburn Apple: A Braeburn with red on red-striped color and less acid than the standard store variety. Medium to large fruit with a firm, juicy texture. Pollinate with LindaMac or Smoothie
LindaMac Apple: Bright red, true McIntosh apple. The fruit has a crisp, sweet flavor and attractive, 100% solid bright red blush color. Matures early to mid September. Needs another apple variety as pollinator.
Smoothie Golden Delicious: An attractive Golden Delicious with a silky, glossy finish. Smoothie produces fruit of excellent quality. The most russet resistant Golden Delicious. Needs another apple variety for pollination.
Barlett Pear: The leading commercial variety pear! Fruit is medium size with smooth yellow skin. Flesh is distinctive, smooth, juicy and excellent for canning and fresh use. Tree is very adaptable, vigorous and productive. Needs another pear variety for pollination.
Harrow Sweet Pear: Fruit is yellow with a red blush, very sweet and juicy with excellent taste, and keeps well in cold storage for about 10 weeks. Best for fresh eating and cooking. The tree is medium in size, hardy, and has good resistance to fire blight. Needs another pear variety for pollination.
Early Red Haven Peach: Freestone fruit with good color and quality. Early ripening, productive, with some resistance to bacterial spot. No pollinator needed.
Starfire Peach: Early peach with medium-large fruit and 70-90% red blush. Yellow, non-browning flesh. Fruits hang well and require multiple pickings. A hardy, grower-friendly tree.
Hedelfingen Black Sweet Cherry : Large, firm fleshed, high quality black cherry that resists cracking more than other cherries. Good choice for fresh eating, freezing and canning. Winter hardy and a good pollinator. Needs another cherry variety for pollination.
Regina Sweet Cherry: New variety from Germany with large, firm fruit and a high splitting tolerance. A large, sweet , dark cherry with reddish flesh and a sweet tart flavor ripening in mid to late July. Needs another cherry variety for pollination.
SPRING SPECIALS
Streambank and Wetland Edge Pack: Special assortment of Arrowwood, Buttonbush, Highbush Cranberry, American Elderberry and Silky Dogwood designed for lakescaping your shoreline or increasing the habitat value of your wetland. This promotional package includes a copy of Lakescaping for Wildlife and Water Quality, the Minnesota DNR’s 175 page comprehensive, color guide to designing shoreline landscapes for stabilization, water quality and habitat value. Purchase a 50- or 100-plant package and the book is free!
Food Plot and Woodland Buffer Pack: Does your wildlife area lack that “natural” look? Blend your food plot into the landscape with the help of a bountiful buffer including American Elderberry, Japanese Flowering Crabapple, Indigobush, Ninebark and Red Osier Dogwood. This buffer pack is great for softening the transition between field and woods by providing low cover, food and visual interest. The buffer pack can also be used alone as a landscape package for smaller properties, with plants selected to increase your year-round bird population. This promotional package includes the Minnesota DNR’s Landscaping for Wildlife, a highly acclaimed color publication including complete directions for designing wildlife habitat in backyards, farmlands and woodlands. Purchase a 50- or 100-plant package and the book is free!
SUPPLIES
Plantskydd Animal Repellent: Plantskydd is considered one of the most cost-effective and environmentally safe animal browse deterrents available. It is an odor based repellent and works by emitting an odor that animals associate with predator activity, therefore deterring before animals nibble on plants. This all-natural, non-toxic deterrent provides effective protection for up to 6 months against deer and rabbits. Plantskydd contains no synthetic additives and is not in anyway harmful to animals, plants and the environment. Apply to conifer & hardwood trees, shrubs, ornamentals and flowers. 1 Quart pre-mixed protects 80-100 plants, 2.2 lbs. Powder concentrate will protect 700-900 plants. Granular form is designed for use in gardens, covers 600 sq. ft.
Plastic Spiral Tree Wrap. 24 inch high plastic spiral wrap with ventilation holes. Excellent protection for young trees against frost cracks, rodents, weed trimmers etc. Great choice for the fruit and crap trees that we offer.
“Trees Planted” Sign: Keep your new youngsters alive by letting everyone know that there are tree seedlings in the area.
Tree Planting Spade: This spade is a very sturdy and helpful tool when planting many seedlings. Makes digging in clay soils much easier then using a shovel. A recommended tool if planting multiple seedlings.
Tree Tubes: Tree tubes can be an important tool when attempting to establish difficult to grow tree seedlings or planting on challenging sites. The translucent tubes provide maximum protection from animal browse damage, wind, chemical sprays and equipment. In addition, the greenhouse environment created by the shelter promotes seedling growth.
Tree Mats: The mats measure nine square feet and keeps weeds from threatening your seedlings. It blocks 92% of the sunlight to kill existing weeds and grasses. More weed control means faster growth for seedlings.
Soap: Small bars of Pure & Natural brand soaps can be placed around your seedlings to deter animal browsing.
Marking Flags: Bright colored marking flags help identify seedlings in hard to see areas. |