Plants

---

Tree

Populus tremuloides 'NE Arb' [sold as Prairie Gold®]

[Prairie Gold Quaking Aspen]

Prairie Gold® Quaking Aspen is more tolerant to urban conditions including heat, drought, and humidity. The Aspen's name is derived from its golden yellow fall color. Native from Labrador to Alaska, south to Pennsylvania, Missouri, northern Mexico and lower California.

Tree

Prunus × incam 'Okame'

[Okame Cherry]

'Okame' is a small cherry tree that performs well in the landscape and provides multi-season interest with beautiful, pink flowers very early in the spring, handsome dark green summer foliage, excellent orange, red, and bronze fall color, and shining, reddish bark in the winter.

Tree

Indiana Native

Prunus pensylvanica

[Pin Cherry]

Pin or Wild Red Cherry is a slender, small shrub-like tree that is native to Indiana. Often seen as a pioneer species, Pin Cherry can be seen to develop in vacant areas. Its bark is shiny, red in color, and often aromatic when brusied or cut. P. pensylavnica produces a large amount of fruit when fully mature, which could promote weediness.

Tree

Prunus sargentii

[Sargent Cherry]

One of the better performing and useful cherries available. Beautiful, polished reddish to chestnut brown bark on older trunks. Subject to several minor pests, none usually serious.

Tree

Prunus sargentii 'Columnaris'

[Columnar Sargent Cherry]

One of the better performing and useful cherries available. This cultivar is known for its very upright, vase-shaped, and somewhat columnar form. Beautiful, polished reddish to chestnut brown bark on older trunks. Subject to several minor pests, none usually serious.

Tree

Prunus sargentii 'JFS-KW58' [sold as Pink Flair®]

[Pink Flair Sargent Cherry]

One of the better performing and useful cherries available. Compared to the straight species, Pink Flair is more strongly upright and vase-shaped and the pink flowers are larger and brighter. Beautiful, polished reddish to chestnut brown bark on older trunks. Subject to several minor pests, none usually serious.

Tree

Prunus serrulata 'Amanogawa'

[Amanogawa Japanese Flowering Cherry]

An overall columnar form, but not super tidy with uneven branch distribution. Susceptible to several pests and diseases.

Tree

Prunus serrulata 'Sekiyama'

[Sekiyama Japanese Flowering Cherry]

The Japanese Flowering Cherry prefers rich, moist, well-drained loams and full sun. It can tolerate part shade (at the expense of blooms), as well as heat, humidity, and even some drier soils (once it is established). This tree is susceptible to many pests, including leaf spot, powdery mildew, fireblight, Japanese beetles, aphids, scale, borers, leafhoppers, and caterpillars. 'Kwanzan', which is also known as 'Kanzan' or 'Sekiyama,' grows 30 to 40 feet high. This variant, sometimes…

Tree

Prunus × 'Snofozam' [sold as Snow Fountains®]

[Snow Fountains Cherry]

This cherry variant can be purchased naturally weeping or as a top graft. Both forms have long, pendulous branches that are covered in white flowers in the spring, giving the effect of a "snow fountain". The red, orange, gold, and purple fall color can be quite spectacular. Susceptible to borers.

Tree

 InvasiveThis plant is considered invasive

Pyrus calleryana

[Callery Pear]

Overused, weak wooded, short-lived. Flowers are malodorous and often killed by late spring freezes. Some fireblight susceptiblity. Forms narrow crotch angles that can result in a larger tree literally splitting in two. Very small fruits are a litter problem when abundant. Considered invasive in many areas.