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Trees
Crape Myrtle White It is a favorite among Southern gardeners because of its beauty and low maintenance. The crape myrtle is valued mainly for its long period of striking summer flowers. After flowers fade and fall from the tree, fruit remains in the form of small brown capsules. These fruits remain throughout the winter providing winter interest along with the attractive, exfoliating bark which peels away to expose a trunk which ranges in color from many handsome shades of brown to gray. The White Crape Myrtle is ideally suited for formal or informal design in the home landscape, street plantings and community plantings. Crape myrtle leaves are oval and 1 to 2 inches long; they are bronze-colored when they first unfold in the spring and become yellow, orange or red before falling late in autumn. Crape Myrtle are easy to grow and if they are used for hedges, plant them 4 ot 5 feet apart.
Arborvitae American The American Arborvitae, Thuja occidentalis, is a conifer evergreen tree that is widely used as an accent tree or as a privacy hedge tree. The scale-like leaves are abruply pointed. The leaf color is bright green above and pale green below and they may turn a yellow brown is some winters. It is one of the most popular of all trees for windbreaks and year around privacy screening. It may be sheared and shaped to fit into most every landscaping need.
Canadian Hemlock This evergreen conifer is a fast-growing long-lived tree which unlike many trees grows well in shade. It may take 250 to 300 years to reach maturity and may live for 800 years or more. It has a graceful pyramidal form with foliage of spray-like appearance. Shelter small plants from drying winds. They are graceful and make great ornamental plantings.
Concolor Fir The Concolor Fir tree, Abies concolor, is also known as white fir, concolor fir, silver fir, Rocky Mountain white fir, Colorado Fir, Lows Fir, Pacific white fir. Concolor Fir trees are large, densely-growing, narrow trees with a dome-shaped crown growing to 50 feet or more. This evergreen conifer tree is native to the mountainous regions of the western United States. This rapid growing fir tree is the most drought-resistant of all native firs. It makes a handsome ornamental and decorative Christmas tree.
Russian Olive It is extremely tolerant of environmental factors. The best windbreak tree for high wind areas. Its stems, buds, and leaves have a dense covering of silvery to rusty scales. Prized for its silvery gray foliage. Prefers a sunny location and is tolerant of most soil types.
Southern Red Oak It is a tree of the Old South, ranging from Maryland to Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. The acorns are usually produced singly, and biennially. They are 1/2 to 3/4 inch long, roughly spherical and orange-brown. Songbirds, turkey, a variety of small mammals and deer eat the nuts. The Southern Oak tree is deciduous and is a good shade tree adapted to drier sites.
Eastern White Pine It carries long, soft bluish green needles with large brown cones. Eastern White Pine trees are widely used as a screen or windbreak. It can tolerate wet, swampy areas.
Norway Spruce Norway Spruce trees, placed on a good site, should reach 5 ft. seedling.
Black Hills Spruce It is a truly cold adapted tree and is very resistant to winter injury. This evergreen conifer tree has a medium growth rate and requires little, if any, pruning. This tree is commonly used for windbreaks, privacy screens and accent plantings.
Eastern Red Cedar The Eastern Red Cedar, Juniperus Virginiana, is a small to medium-sized aromatic evergreen tree. Typically, the trunk is straight and the tree has a pointed, dense, conical crown that may be varied or irregular, depending on ecotype or competing vegetation. Birds devour the fruit.
Loblolly Pine This evergreen conifer has pine needles that are 6 to 9 inches long.
Mugho Pine Mugho pine trees do not need special soil.
Austrian Pine The spreading branches of a young tree form a pyramidal outline, but at maturity, it sometimes achieves a picturesque flat topped head.
Scotch Pine It is a fast growing, irregularly shaped tree.
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