Trees

A variety of options that afford shade, seasonal color and value to your landscape. Planting a tree is one of the "greenest" things you can do for Planet Earth!

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Acacia Berlandieri
Common Name: Prairie Acacia
lush green lacy, fern like leaves and graceful curved branching patterns;produces creamy white ball flowers in spring andis essentially thornless.

Acer Freemanii
Common Name: Maple Autumn Blaze
Grows fast into an upright oval form suitable for large yards, commercial landscapes and parks. Its brilliant orange-red fall colored leaves rest on red twigged ascending branches. These trees retain their color interest longer than any other maple ...

Acer palmatum 'Bloodgood'
Common Name: Japanese Maple 'Bloodgood'
First developed in the United States in 1793, this spherical upright tree is considered the standard for red Japanese maples. A full season of color, from wine-red in Spring to scarlet in late Fall, makes this tree a super choice as an accent tree p...

Acer palmatum 'Butterfly'
Common Name: Japanese Maple 'Butterfly'
'Butterfly', which translates to 'Kocho no mai' in Japanese, describes the diversity of its striking leaves. The whorled Spring leaves emerge in all sizes and shapes, from large deeply divided lobes to curly small twists, which fluctuate in the slig...

Acer palmatum 'Crimson Prince'
Common Name: Japanese Maple 'Crimson Prince'
Crimson Prince's reputation for heat tolerance makes it ideal for Texas gardens. The seed form of 'Bloodgood', this variety has a taller growth habit and is faster growing. Its dark burgundy foliage turns red in fall. The trunk is upright, with arc...

Acer palmatum 'Crimson Queen'
Common Name: Japanese Maple 'Crimson Queen'
Strong-growing 'Crimson Queen' features delicate palmate leaves with cascading branches. Its weeping habit and deep red summer foliage make it a wonderful specimen tree. Its finely dissected leaves with deeply divided narrow lobes turn a very brig...

Acer palmatum 'Shojo'
Common Name: Japanese Maple Shojo
Slow growing spreading tree with good branching. Height 6-8 feetwidth 6-8 feet. Likes partial shade. Hardy to -20F. Large dark purple leaves on long red stems dance in the smallest breeze. Red fall color. Does well in containers.

Acer palmatum 'Skeeter's Broom'
Common Name: Japanese Maple 'Skeeter's Broom'
First developed from a 'witches broom' of the 'Bloodgood', this densely layered dwarf tree is a virtual color palette for the landscape. Its burgundy leaves emerge bright red after Winter, turn deep burgundy during Summer and finish the fall season ...

Acer palmatum 'Viridis'
Common Name: Japanese Maple Viridis
A green lace-leaf type Japanese Maple. Growing in a round dome will take 50 years to get 10 feet tall. Leaves dissected to mid-vein and green. In Fall colors are red-orange. Spectacular for a bonsai! When choosing a location, keep in mind that this ...

Acer palmatum 'Waterfall'
Common Name: Japanese Maple Waterfall
Leaves are deeply cut and semi-pendant. Elegant, horizontal branching habit, reaching 6 feet in height by 10 feet in width, makes this plant interesting even during winter months and an excellent choice for night lighting. Beautiful weeping laceleaf ...

Albizia julibrissin
Common Name: Mimosa
Mimosa trees rapidly grow to about 20-25 feet.They have a tropical look, but are very hardy. They adapt to almost any soil type and aredrought tolerant. Can be planted in full sun or partial shade. Showy and fragrant pink flowers, about 1 inches long...

Albizia julibrissin 'Rosea'
Common Name: Mimosa Rosea

Albizia julibrissin 'Summer Chocolate'
Common Name: Mimosa Summer Chocolate
'Summer Chocolate' is not your grandmother's typical green-leafed mimosa. It joins the Forest Pansy Redbud, Japanese Maple and Purple-Leaf Plum as a wonderful burgundy addition to the landscape. This fast growing deciduous tree is one of the last t...

Carya illinoinensis 'Choctaw'
Common Name: Pecan Choctaw
The Choctaw's beautiful foliage, scab resistance and prolific production make it a wonderful yard tree that supplies shade and nuts for a very long time. The tree bears an egg shaped nut with a thin shell within 5 to 7 years. Its large light golden...

Carya illinoinensis 'Desirable'
Common Name: Pecan 'Desirable'
'Desirable' produces an excellent pecan within five to six years and produces about 15 pounds of pecans after ten years. Although not a heavy bearer at first, the older it gets, the more consistent it is in producing a high quality crop. The best q...

Carya illinoinensis 'Maramec'
Common Name: Pecan Maramec

Carya illinoinensis 'Mohawk'
Common Name: Pecan Mohawk
Mohawk's sturdy limb structure, attractive green compound leaves and straight deeply ridged rust trunk make it an excellent choice for the North Texas yard. The deciduous tree produces a high number of pecans at a young age, sometimes in alternating ...

Carya illinoinensis 'Pawnee'
Common Name: Pecan Pawnee
'Pawnee' is nature's gift for gardeners who want a beautiful pecan tree but are limited in space. An excellent choice for areas with a short growing season, the 'Pawnee' performs well in the northern reaches of the southern states. The tree is an ex...

Carya illinoinensis 'Stewart'
Common Name: Pecan Stewart

Carya illinoinensis 'Western Schley'
Common Name: Pecan 'Western Schley'
Western Schley is the mostly highly prized pecan tree in the southwestern United States because it thrives in arid climates with little management required. Growers like its strength, easy trainability and its ability to produce an abundant crop of s...

Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca'
Common Name: Cedar 'Blue Atlas'
If you yearn for a Colorado Blue Spruce and have finally conceded that they sneer at our Texas heat, try this blue-gray conifer. The Blue Atlas Cedar will satisfy your urge for cool blue in the landscape, and you'll be pleased with its irregular pyr...

Cedrus deodara
Common Name: Cedar Deodara
Like the Blue Atlas Cedar, the Deodara becomes wide-spreading and flat-topped with age, so siting the tree is important. The ends of the horizontal branches tip toward the ground, making the limbs look like a personified Disney tree--a majestic, lit...

Cercis canadensis
Common Name: Eastern Redbud
Eastern Redbud is a small to medium sized tree with multiple trunks (most varieties) The heart-shaped leaves appear after the magenta pink flowers bloom in early spring. The flowers are borne in clusters along the bare branches and make the whole ...

Cercis canadensis 'var. texensis'
Common Name: Texas Redbud
Texas Redbud is more drought tolerant and dwarfed than the Eastern Redbud, but larger in height and sports larger leaves than Mexican Redbud. Texas Redbud splashes spring with glorious rose violet blooms resting artistically on bare branches. Large...

Cercis canadensis var. mexicana
Common Name: Mexican redbud
Mexican redbud is smaller in stature, has smaller, glossier, and more wavy-edged leaves, and is more drought tolerant than Texas redbud. It grows as a multi-trunked tree on hard limestone soils in west Texas. The mature Mexican Redbud has a flat-t...

Cercis reniformis 'Oklahoma'
Common Name: Oklahoma Redbud
Oklahoma Redbud shouts Spring in glorious color! Petite red violet flower clusters adorn the gray leafless branches in Spring, making it an ornamental sculpture bursting with beauty. After the flowers wane, the tree begins to leaf out with soft pin...

Chamaerops humilis
Common Name: Mediterranean Palm
Mediterranean Palms are distinguished from the Mexican Fan Palm by their upright leaf growth and leaf stems that are armed with very sharp teeth. In more mature plants, multiple trunks can form. The leaf fans range in color from blue-green to gray-g...

Chilopsis linearis
Common Name: Desert Willow Burgundy
A tough and rugged native Texas tree, its sweetly fragrant burgundy, trumpet-shaped flower clusters appear from Spring to Fall. The Desert Willow's leaves are long and willow-like, contrasting nicely with the fairly large drooping flowers. The winge...

Chilopsis linearis 'Brandy'
Common Name: Desert Willow Brandy

Chilopsis linearis 'Bubba'
Common Name: Desert Willow Bubba

Chilopsis linearis 'Dark Storm'
Common Name: Desert Willow Dark Storm
Dark burgundy or maroon flower clusters resembling those of the Catalpa dangle profusely from the branches of 'Dark Storm' in spring and summer. Consistent waves of bloom follow with little or no pruning and persist until first frost. The attractive...

Chitalpa tashkentensis
Common Name: Chitalpa Pink Dawn
Abundant showy pink flowers (as many as 40 to a cluster), droop from the branches of this ornamental tree from Spring to early Fall. Its willow-like leaves and airy structure allow underneath plantings to flourish. 'Pink Dawn' has 1" long purple thr...

Cotinus coggygria
Common Name: Purple Smoke Tree
Looking like a cloud of smoke surrounding its reddish purple foliage, this native American tree is a show-stopper. Its long-lasting, pinkish purple airy seed clusters sit atop purple foliage that turns scarlet in autumn. If a specimen flowering tre...

Elaeagnus angustifolia 'Russian Olive'
Common Name: Russian Olive
Small tree to 25 ft tall, usually with a short crooked trunk.Gray-brown bark, peeling in long strips, becoming blackish and deeply furrowed on old trunks. Russian olive is widely used as an ornamental, and was often planted in shelterbelts and windbr...

Fraxinus americana 'Autumn Purple'
Common Name: Ash Autumn Purple

Fraxinus texensis
Common Name: Texas Ash
Texas Ash is a smaller, more drought tolerant relative of White Ash, F. americana. It grows on limestone bluffs from Dallas in north central Texas west and south through central Texas. Its water requirements are low, although it can tolerate moderate...

Fraxinus velutina 'Fan tex'
Common Name: Fan-tex Ash
Fan-tex ash is a leafy broad-canopied shade tree with a gray linear furrowing trunk that affords the residential landscape with cool shade in summer. The Fan-Tex holds its luxurious look even under adverse conditions.

Gleditsia triacanthos 'Imperial'
Common Name: Honey Locust Imperial

Gleditsia triacanthos 'Shade Master'
Common Name: Honey Locust

Gleditsia triacanthos 'Skyline'
Common Name: Honey Locust Skyline

Laburnum watereri
Common Name: Goldenchain Tree
Golden-chain tree is a vase-shaped tree that grows no more than 15' high, and with its long drooping cluster of bright yellow flowers drooping from pendulous branches, makes a cheery statement wherever it is planted. Leaves are bright green and bark ...

Magnolia grandiflora
Common Name: Southern Magnolia

Magnolia grandiflora 'Little Gem'
Common Name: Magnolia Little Gem

Magnolia grandiflora 'Teddy Bear'
Common Name: Magnolia 'Teddy Bear'
Teddy Bear Magnolia is a very compact upright variety that excels as a small specimen magnolia. Its glossy green leaves are heavily felted and rust-colored on the reverse. Large lemon-scented white blooms prevail from May to November.

Magnolia soulangiana
Common Name: Saucer Magnolia

Malus  'Prairiefire'
Common Name: Crabapple Prairiefire

Pinus thunbergiana
Common Name: Japanese Black Pine
Excellent, small, irregularly-shaped Pine, dark green, five to seven-inch-long twisted needles are borne in groups of two. Branches are held horizontally in apicturesque silhouette and sometimes can outgrow the central leader forming an attractive mu...

Pistacia chinensis
Common Name: Pistache Chinese
Chinese Pistache is one of the best choices for perfect shade around residences and one story buildings. The tree has luxuriant dark green leaves in summer and bright orange-red leaves covering its wide canopy in the fall.

Platanus mexicana
Common Name: Mexican Sycamore

Populus
Common Name: Cottonwood

Prunus Cerasifera 'Krauter Vesuvius'
Common Name: Plum KV

Punica granatum
Common Name: Pomegranate 'Eversweet'
Eversweet Pomegranate's greatest attribute is its sweet, almost seedless, fruit. A long-blooming season produces orange-red flowers and red-skinned fruit. Its attractive green leaves bear colorful flowers and fruit simultaneously, making both a won...

Pyrus calleryana
Common Name: Pear 'Cleveland Select'
Cleveland Select Pear is a riot of beauty in spring with its masses of snow white flowers totally enveloping its pyramidal form. In spring, the beauty continues with glossy green leaves followed with yellow and orange or purple-red in fall. Clevela...

Quercus macrocarpa
Common Name: Oak Bur
Bur Oak is a long-living sturdy oak with large dark green leaves and rough-textured bark. Acorns almost as large as golf balls distinguish the bur oak from other oaks. Its characteristic look and notable strength make it an excellent shade tree for ...

Quercus muehlenbergii
Common Name: Oak Chinquapin
Cinquapin Oak is a fast-growing oak with a broad canopy that eminates from a straight central leader with numerous branches originating at the same node. The bark is gray and flaky with a yellow brown cast and leaves are dark shiny green with a pal...

Quercus shumardii
Common Name: Oak Shumard Red
Adapted over entire state. One of the finest shade trees for Texas. Summertime foliage a lustrous dark green on stately, formal trees. Deciduous, with brilliant red (sometimes yellow) fall color.

Quercus texana
Common Name: Native Red Oak

Quercus virginiana
Common Name: Oak Live
Imagine a Southern Plantation with a HUGE tree spreading majestically in front of a colonial mansion--that's how big this tree can become. The live oak is a broadleaf evergreen tree that grows fast when young and will outlive the planter by several ...

Rhus copallina
Common Name: Flame Leaf Sumac

Salix Babylonica
Common Name: Weeping Willow

Salix globosa
Common Name: Globe Willow

Sambucus nigra 'Black Lace'
Common Name: Elderberry 'Black Lace'
Black Lace Elderberry has the elegance of a Japanese Maple with the easy-to-grow nature of the common elderberry. The lacy black lacy foliage is covered in masses of pink blooms that emit a lemony fragrance. Use around limestone rocks for a great t...

Sophora affinis
Common Name: Eve's Necklace
A relative of Texas Mountain Laurel but not evergreen, Eve's Necklace bears glossy green leaves and produces cascading rosy-pink flowers in spring. The tree grows upright into a rounded crown. The fall fruit pods resemble a black string of beads, f...

Syagrus romanzoffiana
Common Name: Queen Palm
When young, queen palm has an upright vase-shaped habit starting about a foot up the trunk. The deep green fronds have double rows of leaflets that resemble the fronds used to fan people in Egyptian times. The mature palm is favored for its flowers...

Taxodium distichum
Common Name: Cypress Bald
Bald Cypess is a pyramidal deciduous conifer that makes a stately impression in the yard or scattered in large areas. The dark green flexible needle-like leaves reverse their spring/summer color to orange/brown in fall. Its winter silhouette is beau...

Trachycarpus fortunei
Common Name: Windmill Palm
Windmill Palms grow upright with palmate green leaves that are silvery on the reverse and form a symmetrical crown. The trunks are fibrous, and unlike, the Mediterranean Palm, the Windmill does not have spines along the leaf stems. Windmill is cold...

Ulmus crassifolia
Common Name: Elm 'Cedar'
Cedar Elm is a tough native Texas tree that blooms with red-brown/greenish flowers that set seed in the Fall. This upright tree has a nice spread and a form similar to the American Elm. The mottled bark combines gray, green, orange and brown to cre...

Ulmus parvifolia
Common Name: Elm 'Lacebark'
Atypical of its ridged-trunked relatives, Lacebark Elm displays beautiful mottled bark etched in multi-colored lace-like patterns. The medium-sized tree's rounded crown is adorned with lustrous dark green leaves changing to yellow and reddish purple ...

Ulmus parvifolia 'Allee'
Common Name: Elm 'Lacebark Allee'
'Allee' is a beautiful elm with a vase-shaped spread of over 50' when mature. The loveliness of its mosaic moss green/rust/gray/brown exfoliating bark distinguishes this elm. Besides having the classic growth habit of the lovely elms of by-gone yea...

Ulmus parvifolia 'Bosque'
Common Name: Elm Lacebark 'Bosque'
'Bosque' Elm's silhouette is upright and oval, with a central leader that has uniform secondary branches. Leaves are deep green and turn from yellow to red to red-purple in fall. The bark is a beautiful mosaic of mottled color ranging from moss g...

Washingtonia robusta
Common Name: Washington Palm
When small (in the case of this palm, shorter than 15 feet) the tree casts down its brown spent fans to create a "hula skirt" around the base. One of the tallest of palms, the Mexican Fan Palm and its relative, the California fan palm, can reach the...
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