Plants

Acer buergerianum

[Trident Maple]

Needs training to develop single central leader (if that is desired). Popular street tree in Japan. Cold hardiness varies in seed produced stock. In some cases, fruit set is so high as to deplete foliage. Flaking bicolor bark in gray-brown and orange.

Acer × freemanii 'Bailston' [Sold as Matador™ First Editions® Maple]

[Matador Maple]

Acer saccharinum

[Silver Maple]

Grows largest along stream banks. One of the best trees for poor soils, and in places where a functional shade tree is quickly needed. Roots invade and clog drainage tiles, and break sidewalks. Very weak wooded. Many disease and insect problems.

Acer × freemanii 'Jeffersred' [sold as Autumn Blaze®]

[Autumn Blaze Maple]

This cultivar is among the best for fall foliage of both Red and hybrid Red Maples. It is an extremely fast grower and appears to be more drought tolerant than most Acer rubrum cultivars. 'Jeffersred', is often sold under the tradmark name, Autumn Blaze.

Rhodotypos scandens

[Black Jetbead]

Relatively trouble-free. Tolerant of a variety of soils and environments, particularly dryness and shade. Commonly becomes straggly if growing in a site that is too dry or too wet.

Rhus typhina 'Bailtiger' [sold as Tiger Eyes®]

[Cutleaf Tiger Eyes Staghorn Sumac]

The Tiger Eyes cultivar makes a great landscape plant as it suckers less than the species, and for it's nice foliage.

Syringa sp.

[Lilac]

The Lilac genus, Syringa, is composed of over 20 species and numerous cultivars and variants of shrubs to small trees. The most well-known feature of lilacs is their showy, many times fragrant, flower panicles. Lilacs prefer cooler climates. Leggy plants can be rejuvenated by a hard pruning in the winter, with less intensive maintenance pruning after flowering. Can be affected by powdery mildew, leaf spot, borers, and blight.

Ulmus × hollandica 'Pioneer'

[Pioneer Dutch Elm]

Resistant to Dutch elm disease and phloem necrosis, but susceptible to the elm leaf beetle.

Ulmus × 'Homestead'

[Homestead Elm]

Dutch elm and phloem necrosis resistant, but susceptible to the elm leaf beetle. 'Homestead' was formed from a cross between Ulmus minor, U. x hollandica, and U. pumila.

Ulmus × 'Morton Glossy' [sold as Triumph™]

[Triumph Elm]

Upright oval to vase-shaped habit with arching branches, glossy dark green summer foliage, changing to yellow in fall; hybrid between Accolade® and Vanguard™. Dutch elm disease resistant, the best habit in early age of the Morton Arboretum elms.