Yearly Archives: 2014

[gallery ids="3126,3582,3124"] A spreading, rounded small tree with deep rose flowers. The leaves are a brilliant red-purple when they emerge in the spring, changing to bronze-green as the summer progresses. The fall color is bronze-purple. It needs full sun to part shade, and an average, well-drained soil. It will perform best with constant summer moisture. In...

[gallery ids="3581,10551"] A small, graceful tree with a profusion of spring flowers that are purple-red in bud, opening to intense fuchsia pink to red. Fall color is yellow. The flowers appear before the new foliage. It will adapt to many soils, except very wet ones.  It grows best in full sun to part shade. The original...

[gallery ids="3125,3122,6199"] A gracefully arching small tree, that has a profusion of reddish-purple blooms in mid-spring. The flowers are borne on the branches and trunk, appearing before the leaves. The fall color is yellow. It will adapt to many soil types except very wet ones. It prefers a site in full sun to part shade. It...

[gallery ids="4427,8021"] A slow growing, finely textured tree. The distinctive, blue-green, heart-shaped leaves turn a yellow to apricot fall color. They autumn leaves give off a spicy, brown sugar odor. It is a pyramidal tree when young, becoming open and rounded with age. It needs a rich, moist, well-drained soil and full sun, and does better...