Small Ornamental Tree with Outstanding Winter Interest The Winter King Hawthorn is a small ornamental tree with particular winter interest. It would do well anywhere you’d like an ornamental tree but don’t have much room.The outstanding feature of your Hawthorn is its winter features.The silver-grey bark tends to peel, revealing an inner peachy-copper hue. This is best exposed after the dark green leaves transform to their golden reds in autumn and fall to the ground.The younger branches tend toward a lighter green shade, giving your Hawthorn additional color and contrast.It’s in autumn when you’ll also notice the ½ inch bright red berries. The berries remain through the winter and are a welcome treat for your wildlife.Your Winter King Hawthorn can reach a height of 30 feet with an equal spread. The 2 inch glossy green leaves with serrated edges do a terrific job of filling out the canopy, aiding in the dense growth pattern of your tree.You’ll love the clusters of ¾ inch white flowers that appear, their gentle fragrance a welcome addition to your spring yard.The Winter King Hawthorn is a hardy tree that is relatively small in stature but will still provide you with year-round interest.However, the time it truly shines is in the winter. A Hawthorn in your yard during the winter months has the effect of a silvery-grey tree decorated with dangling red berries.It truly is a “winter king” among trees in the usually barren cold landscape, and a must-have for your yard this year.* Outstanding winter interest * Year-round interest * Great for wildlife * Hardy.
Category: Flowering Trees
Gladiator Crabapple Tree
Hot Pink Flowers on a Compact Fruit TreeThe list of trees that fit perfectly under power lines or in small spaces without needing constant pruning or fussing is a short one. Add to that list ‘trees that bear fruit’ and it slims down a whole lot more. At the top of that list should be the new Gladiator crabapple (Malus x adstringens ‘Durleo’).These are excellent ornamental trees with year-round interest. They start in the spring and early summer with a cloud of bright pink ruffled flowers that cover the tree. The glossy bronze-purple leaves stay lush all growing season. After the flowers comes the bounty of small reddish-purple fruit. Tart – but great in preserves – these little fruits come by the bushel full. In the winter, after the leaves have blazed red and fallen from the tree, the amazing bark makes a striking form in the landscape. The trunk gets unique bole-like bumps that make it really stand out from other bare trees in your yard. Crabapples make beautiful trees along driveways and wide paths. They make great windbreaks and screens. Plant several for an eye-catching show.Nature Hills ships strong field-grown trees that arrive in mint condition, ready to plant in your garden. They have healthy roots and strong branching and we know that you will be pleased. Order a few of these show-stoppers today!* First Editions® Plants* Hot pink flowers* Glossy bronze foliage* Fruiting.
Bonfire Peach Tree
Ornamental Peach with Outstanding ColorBonfire Peach is an ornamental peach tree or deciduous shrub. One would be a lovely companion to other plants in your shrub border, or use as an accent along a perennial bed. This would also be an excellent choice as a container plant for your patio and does well even in urban environments.Your Bonfire Peach does produce fruit, but what you’ll really value it for is its colorful foliage and spring display.The first thing you’ll notice are the eye-catching rosy buds that appear in early spring. Those tiny buds soon burst forth into striking, bright pink flowers with deep pink centers that virtually smother the branches in dynamic color. The effect is stunning in any landscape and sure to turn the heads of friends and neighbors.When the spring show ends, it’s only to introduce the summer foliage that presents a uniquely colorful appearance all season long. Long and tapered, each leaf of your Bonfire Peach emerges dark red, transforming to a deep burgundy.That same foliage takes on a gold-tint for autumn. You may not readily notice the tiny fruits your Bonfire Peach provides, but a quick peek beneath the leaves will reveal the tiny, round treasures in late summer/early fall. The red-striated, white flesh is perfect for pies and canning, but is generally not eaten raw.This Peach cultivar is actually a dwarf shrub that grows to about 5 feet in height with an equal spread. It has an oval to rounded habit and is equally as lovely whether left to grow naturally in a shrub form or pruned as a tree.Bonfire Peach is a popular choice for a patio tree, and are often noted for their use in that regard. Bonfire Peach is certainly a one-of-a-kind peach tree with 3-season appeal, and sure to be a valued addition to your home.* Spring display * Summer and fall foliage color * Great for containers * Wildlife interest.
Amethyst Falls Wisteria Tree
Waterfall of purple flowers, now in a tree form! Very few plants have a more romantic aura than wisteria. This vine covers itself in long panicles of violet purple every year that make you think of Southern Belles strolling in misty, moss-draped gardens or smiling school-children peeking around wisteria-festooned pergolas. Amethyst Falls is a native to North America and has the classic look that you love in stunning Chinese wisteria, but is non-invasive so it won’t take over your house or trees and won’t uncontrollably spread to the neighbor’s yard. Nature Hills is happy to sell a gorgeous tree form of this vine! It makes a striking weeping centerpiece in your garden bed or border. It appears to pour out of the central trunk like a shimmering fountain every year. This vine is an easy treat to grow. Adapting to a wide range of soils, the hardest thing about planting Amethyst Falls Wisteria Tree will be figuring out where to place it in your garden so that everyone can see it! Nature Hills only ships out strong, thick young trees with a healthy, deep root system to give you a head start on getting established. If you order now, you are one step closer to having a front row seat for the grand wisteria show! * Beautiful color * Non-invasive * Easy to grow* Topiary formAmethyst Falls Wisteria Tree Pruning & CareTrimming your Amethyst Falls Wisteria tree is simple. Later in the summer in July or August, you should trim back the wild growing branches to bring it back into shape. Trim those branches leaving the stems with five leaves on the branch. Then in late winter or early spring, trim those same branches reducing the branches leaving only two buds where the leaves were attached now. Those two buds on each branch will produce the best flower displays. An easy way to see the pruning methods is on this video from the Royal Horticultural Society. Check it out: https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=242.
Marley’s Pink Japanese Snowbell
You have never seen a flower display like this!Here you go… an interesting, unusual, rare, weeping form of a small ornamental tree for your landscape. Once you see Markey’s Pink Parasol® Japanese Snowbell plant, you two will join us in celebrating its beauty. The obvious attraction is the flower display. Clean, crisp and waxy looking flowers hang like bells in profusion from the stems. The display is unbeatable. Even the flower buds are amazing. You have never seen a flower display like this! Incredible flowers blushed with pink and the fragrance is cotton candy. The flowers for Marley’s Pink Parasol open late May into mid-June. There are a lot of beautiful flowering smaller ornamental trees available, but few that can hold a candle to this one.Marley’s Pink Parasol Japanese Snowbell’s beautiful weeping form ends up becoming a piece of sculpture for your yard or garden. It is the best way to present the flowers on the weeping form which hang from the branches beautifully. This is the perfect plant to be used as a specimen in a place of distinction in your yard. A perfect specimen to highlight a berm. An excellent plant to include near your patio planting to enjoy the great form and amazing flower display. They can also be planted in patio pots because of their compact size and amazing flower and form for the perfect specimen to highlight and area that you use a lot.The leaves are more elongated and wider than other Japanese Snowbells. They are dark green and shiny really the perfect background for the flowers to show up best. The leaves and plant is relatively pest free and is a long-lived tree. Marley’s Pink Parasol likes a somewhat protected site with a nice moist soil that has good organic matter and will appreciate mulch on the root zone. Full sun and even part shade. *Incredible hanging bell-like pink blushed flowers*Beautiful weeping form*Shiny green leaves attractive all season long*Long lived and relatively pest free.
Sunny Knock Out Rose Tree
It’s like a “tree of sunshine” for your yard all summer long!If you love roses, have a flair for the unique and don’t like to spend a lot of time on maintenance then the Sunny Knock Out® Rose Tree is for you. Plant a few of these by an outdoor seating area, either in containers, or as garden bed plantings to enjoy their long season of prolific bloom and spectacular beauty. Developed to be carefree and extremely cold hardy, this is a rose tree that requires little from you but gives a lot in return. Breathtaking, vibrant blooms of striking yellow will grace your rose tree from spring until fall. Its self-cleaning nature ensures that you won’t even need to bother with deadheading to enjoy continual blooms throughout the season. Sunny Knock Out® Rose Tree is both disease and pest-resistant. It’s incredibly hardy and adaptable to soil and conditions. It would love a sunny location in your yard, but would be equally at home in a container on your patio. Sunny Knock Out® Rose Tree is quite simply a splendid variety of rose tree and would make a spectacular addition to your yard this summer. * Prolific blooms* Great in containers * Carefree.
White Fringe Tree
Nature Hills Online Exclusive!Stunning Native Tree Grows From Canada to Deep South Many times a gorgeous native plant gets overlooked for a non-native that gets more press. White Fringe Tree (Chionanthus virginicus, var. maritimus) is one of those plants. Native to America these beauties are perfect for spots where you might want to plant a Japanese maple (or where your current Japanese maple is suffering).The Fringe Tree grows to 20 feet high in full sun or part shade. It can be trained as single trunked or multi-stemmed, too. This is often the last tree to leaf out in the spring, but when it does it simultaneously covers itself in white spring blooms, and these abundant blooms are impressive! They give the whole tree an appearance of being laced with elaborate white fringe, which is where it gets its name. The pleasantly-fragrant flowers give over to clusters of olive-like fruits which ripen to a dark navy blue in late summer, an event eagerly anticipated by local birds and wildlife.The White Fringe Tree is a deciduous tree, so it drops its leaves in late autumn, but not until they’ve turned a golden-yellow.This is a great non-fussy tree. Plant it in small groups of three or four along a woodland border, a driveway or by a pond. They make great seasonal hedges and yard dividers and excel as specimen trees in your borders. Order your today!* Gorgeous native tree * Show-stopping spring flowers * Japanese Maple alternative.
Paw Paw
Ornamental Tree with Delicious FruitThe Paw Paw is an ornamental, fruit-bearing tree. It’s sure to turn heads if planted near your street or by the front entrance of your home. Planting a Paw Paw is a great way to bring a bit of tropical allure to your yard without concerns about harsh weather. The Paw Paw can tolerate cold temperatures, even as low as -25F. Of course it’s most popular feature is the fruit it produces in the fall. You’ll adore the short stubby-banana shape and creamy consistency of the custard-like fruit. The unique taste must be tried to be truly appreciated. People describe it as a banana-like flavor with melon, vanilla or even pineapple accents. As if the tropical look and delicious fruit isn’t enough, in the spring your Paw Paw will reward you with the most delightful 1-inch bell-shaped flowers. These deep-purple gems start to appear before your Paw Paw leafs out, so your view of their exquisite charm won’t be obscured. In the fall the leaves your Paw Paw will gift you with yet another thrill when its leaves brighten your autumn landscape with their yellow brilliance. The Paw Paw is a tropical-looking hardy tree with a lot to offer. You just can’t go wrong planting the incredible Paw Paw tree. * Spring and fall color * Edible fruit * Hardy and cold tolerant .
Rhapsody in Pink Crape Myrtle
The Rhapsody in Pink Crape Myrtle PP16616 (Lagerstroemia indica x ‘Whit VIII’) is a hardy crape myrtle that is resistant to powdery mildew, and drought tolerant!The new leaves emerge a deep burgundy color, then fade to green as summer arrives, providing a lovely contrast to the pale pink flowers. The blooms persist through the summer into the fall.The Rhapsody in Pink Crape Myrtle PP16616 is ideally suited for formal or informal design in the home landscape, street plantings and community plantings. It can be planted as a specimen or in groups, and looks attractive when underplanted with a ground cover.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 Myrtles are easy to grow, and if they are used for hedges, plant them 4 to 5 feet apart.* Hardy* Specimen* Excellent fall color.
Amur Chokecherry
A Tree for All Seasons!Amur Chokecherry is a large shrub or medium tree with ornamental qualities. Its smaller size makes it ideal for your patio or side yard. You could also use it as a specimen tree in a visible location where its 4-season interest can be enjoyed.The Amur Chokecherry has a lot to offer year-round. Beginning in spring, dense 3-inch racemes of pristine, white blossoms herald the new season with their fragrance and delicate beauty. The flowers soon transition to small drupes that ripen from red to black in July, and can be used in tasty jams and jellies. 3-inch, oblong leaves of delightful, light green hues fill out the tree in summer, turning to shades of yellow for fall. However, of all the benefits of this remarkable tree, the bark is perhaps the most beloved. Similar to a Birch tree, the Amur Chokecherry’s bark peels to reveal various shades of bronze and orange—a stunning display throughout the year, but especially during the winter months when it infuses color into the barren landscape.Amur Chokecherry will grow to about 25 feet in height with a variable width (depending upon if grown as a shrub or tree). It’s a hardy tree that tolerates some cold, drought and salt conditions. It’s also pest resistance, so you’re less likely to have to spray it. Small mammals and birds love to partake of its fruit, so Chokecherry is even beneficial for your yard’s wildlife.Truly a tree for all seasons, Amur Chokecherry will bring you interest and enjoyment for years to come.* Spring flowers* Fragrant* Decorative bark* Edible fruit* Moderate salt tolerance* Fall interest* Winter interest* Cold tolerant* Pest resistance* Some drought tolerance* Adaptive to a variety of soils* Wildlife interest.