ORNAMENTALS
VARIETIES
Sargent Tina Crab Apple
Malus sargentii ‘Tina’
Zone: 4
Height: 1.5 m
Spread: 2 m
Foliage: Green
Fruit: Red
Flower: White
A dwarf selection with a dense spreading habit. Bright red buds are followed by pure white single flowers. Suitable for patio or specimen plantings. Good disease resistance.
Flemish Beauty Pear
Pyrus communis ‘Flemish Beauty’
Zone: 4
Height: 3 m
Spread: 6 m
Foliage: Green
Fall: Purple-red
A hardy, productive cultivar for colder climates. Rapidly growing ornamental with waxy, wavy-cupped green leaves. Useful for specimen or street plantings. Tolerant of wet or dry conditions, disease and insect resistant.
Newport Flowering Plum
Prunus cerasifera ‘Newport’
Zone: 4
Height: 5 m
Spread: 4 m
Foliage: Dark purple
Fall: Bronze
Shape: Upright spreading oval
Flower: Light pink
Reddish-purple foliage with bright red tips. Hardy and attractive throughout the growing season. Deep purple fruit.
Princess Diana Serviceberry
Amelanchier x grandiflora ‘Princess Diana’
Zone: 4
Height: 6 m
Spread: 5 m
Foliage: Green
Fall: Brilliant red
Shape: Spreading
Flower: White clusters
Beautiful small native tree with something of interest in every season: clusters of white flowers in the Spring, followed by berries that attract birds. Fall colour is brilliant red, starting early and lasting into the season.
Curly Golden Weeping Willow
Salix alba tortuosa ‘Pendula’
Zone: 4
Height: 10 m
Spread: 8 m
Foliage: Green
Fall: Yellow
Shape: Spreading, weeping
Flower: White clusters
Curiously twisted branches, unique curly leaves and weeping habit. Yellow bark when young. Very fast grower and a very unusual and interesting tree for landscaping purposes. Prefers moist soil.
Schubert Chokecherry
Prunus virginiana “Schubert’
Zone: 2
Height: 5.5 m
Spread: 5 m
Foliage: Maroon-red
Fall: Scarlet red
Shape: Oval
Fruit: Red to dark purple
Vigorous grower, foliage is green turning red as leaves mature. Fruit is attractive to birds and appears after flowers. Use as dwarf accent tree or suitable for screening.
Ivory Silk Lilac
Syringa reticulata ‘Ivory Silk’
Zone: 2
Height: 7.5 m
Spread: 5 m
Foliage: Dark green
Flower: Creamy-white
A sturdy, compact oval tree with large fragrant white panicles in early June. Blue green foliage is disease resistant. Reddish-brown bark. Can be used as a street tree or for accent as a specimen.
Pagoda Dogwood
Cornus alternifolia
Zone: 4
Height: 5 m
Spread: 7 m
Foliage: Green
Fall: Red
Shape: Rounded
Flower: Creamy white
A desirable small native tree with horizontally layered branches and interesting clusters of creamy white flowers followed by dark blue berries. Changes by the season. Can be shaped as a single tree or in clumps.
Camperdown Elm
Ulmus glabra ‘Pendula’
Zone: 4B
Height: 7 m
Spread: 5 m
Foliage: Dark green
Fall: Yellow
Distinctive weeping branches that extend from the top of the trunk downwards towards the ground, giving an umbrella effect. A grafted tree. Very picturesque as an ornamental.
Kentucky Coffee
Gymnocladus dioicus
Zone: 4
Height: 17 m
Spread: 13 m
Foliage: Light blue-green
Fall: Yellow
Shape: Open and spreading
Flower: White
A native tree that is most picturesque, especially during the Winter with its large open branching habit and stubby twigs. Has reddish-brown fruit pods and light blue-green compound leaves.
Black Hawk Mountain Ash
Sorbus aucuparia
Zone: 3
Height: 9 m
Spread: 6 m
Foliage: Dark green
Fall: Rust
Shape: Narrow, oval
Flower: White
A strong tree with thick dark green foliage that appears to be resistant to sun scald. White flowers followed by orange fruit clusters.
Ohio Buckeye
Aesculus glabra
Zone: 3
Height: 14 m
Spread: 7 m
Foliage: Deep green
Fall: Yellow, orange-red
Shape: Oval
Flower: Light yellow
Extremely hardy, small ornamental tree with light yellow flowers and compound leaves. A native tree.
Northern Catalpa
Catalpa speciosa
Zone: 4b
Height: 16 m
Spread: 11 m
Foliage: Green
Fall: Yellow-green
Shape: Upright, oval
Flower: White, large clusters
Large, heart shaped green leaves. White fragrant flowers in July. Large native tree that is drought and heat tolerant.
Katsura
Cercidiphyllum japonicum
Zone: 4
Height: 6 m
Spread: 4 m
Foliage: Blue-green
Fall: Yellow
Shape: Rounded
Flower: Purplish-pink
Heart shaped leaves emerge bright red, changing to blue-green in summer. Pleasant smell, like cotton candy.
Russian Olive
Elaeagnus augustifolia
Zone: 2
Height: 6 m
Spread: 5 m
Foliage: Silver-grey
Fall: Yellow
Shape: Rounded
Flower: Yellow
Beautiful spreading tree with distinct silver foliage. Yellow flowers in June produce sweet scent. Very hardy.
Red Jade Crab Apple
Malus ‘red jade’
Zone: 3
Height: 3 m
Spread: 5 m
Foliage: Medium green
Shape: Weeping, graceful
Fruit: Red, glossy
Flower: Deep pink buds, white flower
Weeping, green-leaved crab apple with white flowers and an abundance of small, glossy red fruit. Beautiful accent tree. Excellent disease resistance.
American Sycamore
Platinus occidentalis
Zone: 4
Height: 25 m
Spread: 20 m
Foliage: Medium green
Fall: Yellow-brown
Shape: Broad, rounded
Flower: Deep red
Native, rugged tree with strong growth. Develops into a massive specimen with mottled, white bark and large leaves.
Prairie Cascade Golden Weeping Willow
Salix ‘prairie cascade’
Zone: 3
Height: 10 m
Spread: 13 m
Foliage: Dark green, very glossy
Fall: yellow
Shape: Weeping, broad
Extremely hardy tree, with very glossy, dark green foliage. Similar to Golden Weeping Willow but more disease resistant.
Amur Cork
Phellodendron amurense
Zone: 4
Height: 13 m
Spread: 9 m
Shape: Broadly vase shape
Foliage: Green glossy
Fall: Yellowish
A rapid growing tree with an interesting soft corky bark and glossy foliage.
London Plane
Platanus acerifolia
Zone: 5
Height: 15 m
Spread: 12 m
Shape: Rounded
Foliage: Medium green
Fall: Yellow
Fast growing tree with medium, maple-like leaves. Attractive mottled bark.
Patriot Elm
Ulmus ‘Patriot’
Zone: 5
Height: 18 m
Spread: 10 m
Shape: Narrow upright vase
Foliage: Dark green
Fall: Yellow
A tall variety of hybrid Elm with a narrowly upright vase shape. Highly resistant to Dutch Elm disease. Fast growing.
Weeping Peashrub
Caragana arborescens ‘Pendula Standard’
Zone: 2
Height: 1.8 m
Spread: 1.8 m
Shape: Weeping
Foliage: Bright green
Fall: Yellowish
Small specimen tree. Very winter hardy.
Flowering Almond
Prunus tribola ‘Multiplex’ Standard
Zone: 4
Spread: 5 m
Shape: Rounded, weeping crown
Foliage: Green
Fall: Yellow to Bronze
Beautiful pink flowers in Spring.