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Nut Trees

Butternut

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Butternut Ordering closed for the season
436 Juglans cinerea 40-60' x same. Very large impressive shade tree with broad open crown. Produces oblong edible nuts. Nice cabinet wood. Native. Z3. read more

Chestnut

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Chestnut
American Chestnut Ordering closed for the season
433 Castanea dentata Up to 100'. Once common in the eastern US. Important food source for people and wildlife. Not immune to blight but likely to thrive 10-30 years. Fast growing and precocious. Z4. read more

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Chestnut
Hybrid Chestnut Seedling Ordering closed for the season
434 Castanea 40-60' x 30-40'. Hybrid crosses of mixed parentage. All parent trees show excellent blight resistance. Begins flowering at 3-5 years. Great flavor, high annual nut production. Z4. read more

Walnut

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Walnut
Black Walnut Ordering closed for the season
437 Juglans nigra 70-90'. Spectacular shade tree with open rounded crown. Nuts have sweet earthy rich flavor. May begin to bear in 5-10 years. Z4. read more

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Walnut
Carpathian Walnut Ordering closed for the season
438 Juglans regia 30-50' x 40'. Very large fast-growing tree with edible nuts. Bears in 5–7 years. Almost tropical looking. Z3/4. read more

Shade Trees

American Elm

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American Elm
‘Prairie Expedition’ Ordering closed for the season
456 Ulmus americana 60' x 35-40'. New selection from a lone survivor wild specimen surrounded by other trees that had succumbed to the fatal disease. Further studies at U Minn confirmed its excellent resistance. Z3. read more

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American Elm
‘Princeton’ Ordering closed for the season
457 Ulmus americana 60x70'. Large graceful shade tree with high resistance to disease. Immense vase-shaped canopy. Z4. read more

Birch

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Birch
Paper Birch Ordering closed for the season
447 Betula papyrifera 30-70' x 30'. Medium-sized tree with magnificent chalk-white peeling bark. Valuable wood. Bark used for traditional crafts. Z3. read more

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Birch
Sweet Birch Ordering closed for the season
446 Betula lenta 40-80' x 35-45' Also called Black Birch or Cherry Birch. Graceful horizontal branches on a medium-sized tree with a rounded irregular... read more

Ginkgo

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Ginkgo Ordering closed for the season
459 Ginkgo biloba 50-80'. Slow-growing, long-lived tree with unique fan-shaped foliage. Leaf tea used medicinally. Very adaptable and tolerant. Minimal maintenance required. Z5. read more

Honeylocust

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Honeylocust Ordering closed for the season
448 Gleditsia triacanthos 50’ x 30-35’ Beautiful fast-growing pyramidal leguminous nitrogen-fixing tree. Bright green lacy leaves provide filtered... read more

Hophornbeam

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Hophornbeam
Eastern Hophornbeam Ordering closed for the season
449 Ostrya virginiana 20-40' x 15-20'. Small native upland understory tree is tougher than nails. Shaggy bark. Seeds mature in papery cones resembling hops. Z3. read more

Linden

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Linden
American Linden Ordering closed for the season
455 Tilia americana 60-80' x same. Tall stately tree with rounded crown and low-hung spreading branches. Sweetly fragrant yellow June flowers. Z3. read more

Maple

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Maple
Sugar Maple Ordering closed for the season
445 Acer saccharum 50-100'. Largest of our native maples. Colorful fall foliage. Valued for shade, syrup and lumber. Boil sap to make real maple syrup. Z3. read more

Oak

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Oak
Black Oak Ordering closed for the season
453 Quercus velutina 50-60' x same. Also called Yellow Oak.

Smooth grey bark becomes fissured and black with age. Inner bark is yellow and was formerly

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Oak
Bur Oak Ordering closed for the season
452 Quercus macrocarpa 70-80' x same. Hardiest of the white oaks with a deeply grooved massive trunk and a wide-spreading crown. Dark green foliage. Large fringed acorns. Z3. read more

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Oak
Swamp White Oak Ordering closed for the season
451 Quercus bicolor 50-60' x same. Massive rounded shade tree with short deeply ridged trunk and fan of branches. Yellow to reddish-purple fall foliage. Native. Z3. read more

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Oak
White Oak Ordering closed for the season
450 Quercus alba 50-80' x same. Spectacular broad irregularly rounded oak. Wood valued for lumber and firewood. Slow growing and long-lived. Z3. read more

Tuliptree

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Tuliptree Ordering closed for the season
444 Liriodendron tulipifera 60-90' x 30-50'. Also called Tulip Poplar. Highly ornamental shade tree. Large tulip-like flowers attract hummingbirds. Native to eastern U.S. Z4/5. read more

Willows

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Willow
Niobe Weeping Willow Ordering closed for the season
454 Salix alba ‘Tristis’ 50x50'. The classic weeping willow, a very large majestic graceful wide-spreading tree. Z4. read more