Fast Growing Shade Tree with Incredible Wildlife Appeal The Sawtooth Oak, Quercus acutissima, is a deciduous shade tree with outstanding wildlife interest. Plant one where you’d like to enjoy some sumptuous shade, or where your yard’s critters are likely to benefit from both food and shelter. Your Sawtooth Oak Tree is a fast growing, spreading shade tree that’s sure to impress you with its stately appearance, colorful fall display and generous acorn production. Sawtooth Oak Trees are renowned for their 6-inch, glossy leaves. The foliage has highly-serrated edges that emerge a delightful shade of yellow in the spring and provide excellent shade in summer. The lovely vibrant green of summer transitions to hues of yellow/orange for autumn, providing a beautiful late season display for your yard. The leaves tend to brown and persist in winter, an added treat amid your other bare-branched, landscape trees. Perhaps the best aspect of your Sawtooth Oak Tree is its benefit for your wildlife. It is a highly prized oak for wildlife enthusiasts because of the short time it takes for the tree to produce its adorable acorns…and it produces a more prolific harvest than most other Oak trees! Sawtooth Oak is also a valuable source of shelter for wildlife, so it’s a great way to bring your home closer in concert with nature. Sawtooth Oak Trees will grow up to 60 feet tall with a 60 foot spread. It has a somewhat pyramidal form and spreading nature. It’s very fast growing, especially in its early years and highly productive of acorns. Sawtooth Oak Trees are a widely adaptive tree, able to thrive in a variety of conditions and is even cold hardy. You’re sure to love your Sawtooth Oak Tree. It’s a tree you can plant and already enjoy in its first year. In fact, the Sawtooth Oak Tree is known to grow as much as six feet in one year! With its dense foliage, wildlife appeal and hardy nature, this is a tree you don’t want to miss out on. * Shade tree * Fast growing * Spring and fall color * Wildlife interest * Prolific harvest * Cold hardy * Moderate salt tolerance * Adaptive to a variety of conditions.
Category: Oak Trees
Bur Oak Tree
Grow Your Own Mighty Oak!The Bur Oak (Quercus macrocarpa) makes an outstanding ornamental tree and is one of the most tolerant white oaks. It is sometimes spelled Burr Oak and is also called Mossycup Oak.A long lived tree the Bur Oak typically lives between 200-300 years and its mature height is up to 100 feet.A beautiful, stately tree that is tolerant of a variety of soil and water conditions. It also adapts well to urban settings. It can be grown from Alaska to Texas, further proof of its mighty strength.From spring to summer the Bur Oak flaunts its distinctive, lobed, shiny, deep green leaves. Shortly after the arrival of the leaves your oak will flower. No traditional flower would do for the oak though. Instead it will be dripping with yellow-green catkins. The elegant, almost whimsical flowers are where the acorns will originate. The acorns of the Bur Oak are the largest of all North American oaks. They are very important to wildlife as a food source. Squirrels, some birds and even some ducks rely on the acorns for food.A beautiful, rugged tree that will bring wildlife to your yard and last for many generations, the Bur Oak is a great choice.* Long Lived* Drought tolerant* Very adaptable .
Chinkapin Oak Tree
The Chinkapin Oak tree, Quercus muehlenbergii, is the limestone equivalent of the chestnut oak, occurring as a dominant species on rocky alkaline uplands. This is not a fussy tree and it will adapt too many soil types!This oak is also known as bray oak, chestnut oak, rock chestnut oak, yellow oak and rock oak.This oak tree is also sometimes commonly called yellow chestnut oak. Chinkapin oak is a medium sized deciduous oak of the white oak group that typically grows 40-60’ tall with an open globular crown.The fruits are small oval acorns with scaly cups that extend to approximately 1/2 the acorn length. Acorns are valued food for a variety of wildlife.Chinkapin oak trees have narrow, shiny green leaves that have coarse marginal teeth. Leaves somewhat resemble the leaves of chestnut (Castanea) whose nut is sometimes called a chinquapin, hence the common name of this oak.Its acorn is sweet and edible. The thin leaves provide light shade. Fall color is variable, but it usually displays shades of yellow and brown.Chinkapin is not used extensively as an ornamental tree, although it is quite tolerant of tougher sites. It grows best on medium acid to moderately alkaline (4.5 to 7.2 pH), well drained-soils.* Heat tolerant* Drought tolerant* Widely adaptable.
Swamp White Oak
Widely Adaptable Flowering OakThe Swamp White Oak tree, Quercus bicolor, is a beautiful native tree with lustrous, heavy textured leaves with wavy margins.This rugged oak grows well in either upland or swampy areas. It is tolerant of poorly drained sites and frequently is found in heavy mucky soils. For a tree named Swamp White Oak, it has surprisingly good drought tolerance!The Swamp White Oak is a rapidly growing tree that flowers in spring. The acorns mature and are shed in September or October of the same year.The Swamp White Oak is a long-lived tree that may reach 300 to 350 years old. The name bicolor refers to the two-colored leaf, shining dark green above and velvety white pubescence below, turning golden in the fall.This deciduous tree has a rounded open habit. Swamp Oak trees transplant easily and it casts dense shade.The sweet acorns are eaten by whitetail deer, mallards, wood ducks, wild turkeys, squirrels, woodpeckers, and smaller rodents.* Shade tree* Wildlife tree* Widely adaptable.
Northern Red Oak
Fast-Growing Shade TreeThe Northern Red Oak, Quercus ruba, is a long-lived tree and one of the fastest-growing Oaks. It would be a perfect shade tree for your yard. There’s nothing quite as peaceful as whiling away a few hot summer hours under the cool shade of an Oak tree, and the Northern Red Oak would be a perfect choice for doing just that. Imagine sitting under your Red Oak. Tilt your head back to view the straight and true trunk that grows to a height of up to 75 or moret. See how the branches reach toward the sky in a spreading form that creates a pleasing rounded crown. Notice the dark green leaves as they gently rustle in the breeze, their 8 inch, wide-lobed surface filtering the sunlight above you. In the autumn you’ll still enjoy sitting under your Red Oak amid the deep reds and yellows of its fall foliage. If you sit very still, you’ll even share in the excitement of neighborhood squirrels and other wildlife that come to collect the 1-inch acorns your Red Oak generously produces for them. In the spring 2-4 inch green catkins will appear on your Red Oak as flowers to announce the coming of another growing season to enjoy…and all the charming features of your Red Oak will begin again. The Northern Red Oak is an important source of food for wildlife. A variety of birds depend upon Red Oak acorns, the wild turkey in particular. Several mammals also value the Red Oak acorn, including the Black Bear. You will likewise value the Northern Red Oak for all it has to offer. * Fast-growing* Long-lived* Fall color* Food for wildlife.
White Oak
Majestic Shade TreeThe White Oak is an extraordinary deciduous tree known for its size and strength. It would be outstanding as the preeminent shade tree in your yard. The White Oak is a magnificent native American tree that will provide a statuesque presence in your yard, as well as shade for your home and habitat for wildlife. It’s a long-lived tree with some being documented at over 500 years old. The White Oak reaches only around 85 feet in height, but standing in its presence one has the impression of being cared for and sheltered under its massive limbs that extend far out from its trunk. In fact, it’s not uncommon for the White Oak to be wider than it is tall. The branches grow in wide angles, forming an incredibly broad rounded crown. The crown is rugged in appearance, again giving the impression of strength and stability. The only softness in this tree comes in the spring when the leaves begin for form with a soft pink tint and fuzzy down that is soft to the touch. You’ll note a unique silvery hue that gives the tree a unique silvery appearance. To see one in the spring morning dew is to feel one has stepped into a fairy tale. The White Oak’s 5 inch leaves turn red to purple in autumn, and 1 inch acorns tumble to the ground in October. The acorns are a bit smaller than those of some other oaks, but are less bitter. Native Americans used them as a food source and wildlife love them. This majestic tree is one of the best known hardwoods in N. America. Its wood is very dense and strong so used extensively for various things including furniture and even some weapons. In fact, the USS Constitution is made of white oak. For a long-lived, strong and durable tree, the White Oak is the perfect choice. * Long-lived* Autumn color.
Nuttall Oak
A great shade tree for your front or back yard!When you’re thinking of a great shade tree for your home garden the conversation has to start with oak trees. These garden classics are tough, heat-tolerant, cold-tolerant, drought resistant, adaptable, strong-wooded and long-lived. They are also beautiful. Some oaks have great reputations and some have…not so great reputations.Nuttall Oak (Quercus nutallii) has a great reputation, but is still a relatively unknown gem in the home landscaping world. We want to change that.This oak is beautiful and easy to grow. It is native to the American Midwest and Southeast and is rapidly overtaking other oaks – red oak, pin oak, Shumard red oak – as the tree of choice in those areas. Nuttall Oak quickly grows into a large (40’-60’) pyramidal tree. It adapts to just about any soil, even wet and alkaline soils. It has great branch structure that includes plenty of head room under the lowest branches so that you can put a table under it on a patio or park a car under it if you want to use it as a street tree.Instead of hanging on to its shaggy leaves most of the winter like other oaks, it cleanly drops them all in late fall. Before they drop they turn pretty shades of red, usually after the maples have finished their shows for the season.As a bonus they don’t develop surface roots and won’t play ‘Battleship’ with your water lines.Nuttall Oak should be at the top of your list if you’re looking for a shade tree for your yard, so don’t hesitate to order yours today!* Hardy native tree* Fits smaller urban gardens* Tolerates of a wide range of soils* Adaptable all over the US* Great shade tree* Fall color.
Texana Nuttall Oak
One of the Fastest Growing Oak Trees!The Texana Nuttall Oak tree, Quercus texana, also known as Spanish Oak, Nuttall’s Oak, Texas red Oak, Spotted Oak, Rock Oak, and Red River Oak, is a large deciduous native tree of the red oak group.The Texana Nuttail tree has a wide-spreading, rounded crown. Fruits are oval acorns (to 1 1/2″ long) with scaly cups. Dark green leaves (4-8″ long) are deeply divided into 5-7 spiny, pointed lobes. Leaf shape is reminiscent of the closely related pin oaks and schumard oaks.Fall color comes late, but often includes quality shades of red. Species name is in reference to the state of Texas where this oak was apparently first identified.Texana has gray-brown bark, initially thin and smooth, and later develops narrow scaly ridges. The acorn matures in two seasons. The acorns are eaten by water fowl, turkey, squirrel, deer, and many small mammals. The wood is used as red oak lumber.The popularity and demand for this oak species is driven by its fast growth rate, ease of care and planting, fall color, and its ability to thrive in wet soils.* Wildlife tree* Fast growing* Accepts wet soils* Red fall color .
Shumard Oak Tree
Fast-Growing Shade Tree Shumard Oak, Quercus shumardii, is one of the fastest growing Red Oaks. It’s a deciduous shade tree loved by wildlife and would look great in a front or side yard to shield your home from the summer sun. Shumard Oak Trees can reach 90 feet at maturity with a 60 foot spread, providing you with an outstanding shade tree in a fraction of the time that most Red Oaks would require. The 4-8 inches pointed, deep-lobed leaves are shiny and dark green, filling out the coarse, rounded crown. Planting a Shumard Oak Tree provides you with an impressive shade tree, but the Shumard Oak has even more to offer you. As your tree ages, 1-inch acorns will be an added benefit of your tree. You can sit back and watch the show as these acorns, particularly loved by wildlife, provide a meal for your nature neighbors. If you prefer to not share the harvest from your Shumard Oak Tree, simply remove the tannins from your acorns and they can be eaten raw or ground for use as a flour or coffee. As autumn approaches, your Shumard Oak Tree will put on a brilliant show of reds and oranges to finish out the season. Long-lived and hardy, the Shumard Oak Tree is an excellent choice for your landscape. It will provide you with years of shade, color and an edible harvest for your entire family to enjoy. * Fast-growing * Shade * Seasonal color * Edible fruit.
Pin Oak Tree
Fast-Growing Shade TreeThe Pin Oak, Quercus palustris, is a fast-growing shade tree. It would look great as a central focal point in your yard or near your home to provide relief from the summer sun. The Pin Oak tree is prized for the beauty of its symmetrical pyramid shape. Choose a sunny spot for your Pin Oak tree and you’ll be amazed how quickly it graces your home with shade and beauty. Even if you have poor soil, the Pin Oak will thrive, and it’s tolerant of transplanting should you choose to move it. The Pin Oak tree grows up to 70 feet tall with a 40 foot spread. You’ll love how the Pin Oak’s leaves have a larger U-shaped opening between the lobes. This distinguishes it from other Oak trees, and gives your tree a unique appearance. It has a dense growth habit, with a thick branches coming off its trunk. As beautiful as the Pin Oak tree is all summer long, autumn brings even more appeal. The Pin Oak tree is highly prized for its brilliant fall display of red and deep-bronze color. It’s at this time that another of the classic and valued features of the Pin Oak tree appears. Reddish/brown acorns begin to drop, creating an abundant fall harvest for a variety of wildlife. Watch as Mallard and Wood ducks take a break from their fall migration to visit your home. Deer, wild turkeys and squirrels may also stop in to provide a show for your enjoyment. Pin Oaks were named by farmers who used the branches to “pin together” the beams of their barns years ago. Pin Oak trees remain one of the most popular Oak trees in America today. * Fast-growing* Hardy* Appeal to wildlife.