Create Depth and Interest in Your Yard
If you're looking to add some depth and interest to your yard with some stand-out foliage then this list is for you!
Smooth Sumac
Red Dragon Hazelnut
Princeton Sentry Ginkgo
Adam's Needle
Northern Pin Oak
Smooth Sumac
The Smooth Sumac is a valuable native plant throughout the northern United States. Very similar to Staghorn Sumac in form and function with the main difference being the smooth new growth on this species. This plant will colonize into small groupings of short, low branching trees. Wonderful for naturalizing in the landscape. Absolutely fabulous fall color! 10' tall x 10' wide.
Smooth Sumac Quick Facts:
Bloom Time: June
Color: Green, Orange, Red
Plant Size: Around 10' tall x 10' wide
Fall Color: Red, Orange
Fruit: Berry Clusters
Sunlight: Full Sun
Soil Conditions: Normal, Sandy, Clay, Acidic, Dry
Growing Zones: 3 - 9
Red Dragon Hazelnut
The Red Dragon Hazelnut is a small tree with curled and twisted stems and branches and dark purple leaves. Imagine a Harry Lauder's Walkingstick with purple leaves and you have a good idea how this small tree will perform in the garden. The leaves emerge a dark purple and fade to a dark green with purple undertones in the summer. Mature growth size is around 6' to 10' tall and wide. It's best if this small ornamental tree/shrub is grown in zones 4-9.
Red Dragon Hazelnut Quick Facts:
Bloom Time: May
Color: Green, Purple
Plant Size: Around 6'-10' wide and tall
Fall Color: Orange
Sunlight: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Soil Conditions: Normal, Sandy, Clay, Acidic, Dry
Growing Zones: 4 - 9
Princeton Sentry Ginkgo
The Princeton Sentry Ginkgo is an excellent tree for the home landscape and city trees and parks. Considered to be prehistoric, you can even find fossils of Ginkgo leaves! This tree is very urban tolerant and has no insects or disease pests as it has out-evolved them all. Princeton Sentry Ginkgo is an upright male cultivar, and it will not produce fruit which is possible with a seedling grown Ginkgo. Ginkgo trees are slow-growing shade trees. It has beautiful golden yellow leaves, making it worth the wait!
Princeton Sentry Ginkgo:
Color: Green, Yellow
Plant Size: Around 50' tall x 30' wide
Fall Color: Yellow
Sunlight: Full Sun
Soil Conditions: Normal, Clay, Wet, Dry
Growing Zones: 4 - 8
Adam's Needle
Adam's Needle is a "cactus looking" type of deciduous shrub that has dense clumps of erect narrow green leaves. The creamy-white flowers are born on 3-5' tall spikes in mid-summer. The part of the plant that produces the flower will die out after the bloom is finished, and small plants around the main plant will take over. An excellent plant for rock garden or foundation planting. Needs a dry, sunny location. Remove old leaves or winter burned leaves in early spring and allow new leaves to develop from the center of the plant.
Adam's Needle Quick Facts:
Bloom Time: June
Color: Green, White
Plant Size: Around 3-5’ tall (in bloom) x 4’ wide
Flower Color: White
Fall Color: Green
Sunlight: Full Sun
Soil Conditions: Normal, Sandy, Clay, Dry
Growing Zones: 4 - 9
Northern Pin Oak
The Northern Pin Oak is a native tree to Waterloo, Wisconsin. This tree is highly adaptable to heavier soils and more alkaline soils than Pin Oak. It is pyramidal in shape when young, attaining a height of about 60' and spread of 45'. It has glossy green leaves that turn red in fall. This works great as a specimen tree or for street trees. Hardiness zone 3.
Northern Pin Oak Quick Facts:
Color: Green, Red
Plant Size: Around 50-60' tall x 35-45' wide
Fall Color: Red
Sunlight: Full Sun
Soil Conditions: Normal, Sandy, Clay, Acidic, Dry
Growing Zones: 3 - 6
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