Colorado Blue Spruce

The Colorado Blue Spruce Tree, ‘Picea pungens,’ will reach a height of six feet in about eight years on a good site, when starting with a two-year-old seedling. This evergreen conifer exhibits a pyramidal shape with striking, steel blue foliage. This handsome ornamental is probably the most drought tolerant of all the spruce trees. It will grow best in heavier soils, with full sun and clean cultivation. If planted six feet apart in rows, they can be grown as a dense, colorful screen or windbreak.

Comice Pear Tree

The Comice Pear produces a large pear with a very juicy, melting flesh. It has an outstanding flavor. The Comice is not self-pollinating and requires a pollinator. Grow these and put them in your own gift boxes.The giant, juicy, rich-flavored pears are golden with a trace of red. It’s also blight-resistant. It is sometimes referred to as the "connoisseur’s" pear.

Concolor Fir

The Concolor Fir Tree, ‘Abies concolor,’ is a large, densely growing, narrow tree that exhibits a dome-shaped crown, and will reach a height of fifty or more feet. It is an evergreen conifer that is native to the mountainous regions of the Western United States. This is a rapidly growing tree once established, and will make a handsome ornamental or decorative Christmas tree. The Concolor fir is also known as the White fir, Silver fir, Rocky Mountain White fir, Colorado fir, Lows fir, and Pacific White fir.

Cortland Apple Tree

The Cortland Apple tree is considered an excellent apple for both dessert and processing. It is very sweet with just the subtlest hint of tartness. The tender flesh is snow white in color. Cortland apples are great for kabobs, fruit plates and garnishes, because they do not oxidize quickly at all. This attractive large red striped apple is best described as juicy. This tree is an annual heavy producer.

D Anjou Pear Tree

The D’Anjou Pear is very large when compared to most other varieties. This flesh of an Anjou is white and very juicy with a sweet brisk flavor. This naturally sweet pear is light green in color, and becomes tinged with yellow when ripe. These fruits have a great keeping quality, and are actually the best tasting when stored for one or two months. The large trees are very hardy and highly productive. This is one of the few varieties of pear that do not change color as they ripen. This pear requires a pollinator, and Bartlett is often the best choice, although any pear tree with the same blooming time will work as well.

Damson Plum Tree

The Damson plum produces a small, oval shaped fruit that is good for canning. The flesh is golden yellow in color, and covered by a dark purple skin. The spicy, tart flavor means these plums are great for cooking or in making jam or wine. These hardy trees are generally untroubled by pests and diseases. Able to grow where most other plums would not, a Damson tree is semi shade tolerant and will make a great windbreak. Damson plum tree are mostly self-fertile, but can be used to pollinate other varieties of plum.

Day Breaker Rose

The Day Breaker Rose was an AARS Winner in 2004. This floribunda rose features large buds offset by dark green glossy foliage. The flowers are good for cutting, and have blended colors of white, apricot and peach. This wonderful flower will remind one of a summer dawn sky. The flowers are nestled between the foliage on this medium sized plant. This rose is a total awakening of the senses with its fantastic appearance and moderate tea fragrance.

Coral Red Dogwood

The Coral Red Dogwood, ‘Cornus alba Sibirica,’ was given an Award of Garden Merit, which is given to plants of outstanding excellence. This gorgeous shrub has stunningly bright red bark, which will add color and interest to any winter garden. It is able to grow in a wide range of soils, and will produce the brightest red bark when it is planted in full sunlight. In order encourage more color and keep the size in check, prune one third of the stems back to ground level each spring.

Greytwig Dogwood

The Gray Dogwood, ‘Cornus racemosa,’ will grow to ten or fifteen feet tall and features white flowers that are borne in terminal racemes in late spring. The grayish green, elliptic to lance shaped leaves range from two to four inches long. This deciduous shrub typically occurs naturally in moist or rocky ground along streams, ponds, and wet meadows, or in glades and prairie margins. They can be particularly useful because of their ability to grow in poor soils. They are also easily grown in average, medium-wet, well draining soils in full sunlight to partial shade. The Gray Dogwood is also tolerant of city air pollution.

Redosier Dogwood

The Redosier Dogwood, ‘Cornus sericea,’ will brighten up any winter landscape. This freely spreading shrub produces many stems, eight to twelve feet tall. Its branching is opposite, and the young stems are often a bright, smooth shiny red color. Leaves are opposite and deciduous, in five to ten inch oval shapes. The leaves also feature white veins that run towards the tips of the leaves. The seven to nine millimeter berry-like drupes of white fruits are present in late summer and early fall. This Dogwood is shade tolerant, and will provide both cover and food for wildlife and birds. It is also adapted to wet and dry locations and a variety of soils.

Silky Dogwood

The Silky Dogwood, ‘Cornus amomum,’ is a medium sized shrub that will grow to twelve feet in height. It produces attractive white, greenish-white or yellow flower clusters during the spring. In the fall, they have blue and white fruits that are commonly eaten by game birds, and are an important source of food for migrating songbirds. This Dogwood can tolerate poorly drained soils, and is most often used for hedgerows, windbreaks and for stream bank erosion control. The twigs are also a very important source of winter browse for deer and rabbits.

Double Delight Rose

The Double Delight Rose is a very popular variety. Its big, creamy white flowers are brushed with hot red and produce a spicy perfume. This is an easy to grow, bi-colored hybrid tea rose that should be included in any garden. This rose was inducted into the World Federation of Rose Societies Hall of Fame in 1985, as well as being an AARS winner in 1977.

Early Italian Prune Tree

The Early Italian prune tree produces fruits with dark purple skin and yellow green flesh that turns dark wine in color when cooked. The flesh will separate freely from the pit. The Early Italian prune has good commercial quality and will ripen ten days to two weeks before the regular Italian prune. The fruits are large and have a rich flavor that becomes very sweet when fully ripe. The trees are very cold hardy and vigorous.

Eastern Red Cedar

The Eastern Red Cedar, ‘Juniperus virginiana,’ features a typically straight trunk and a pointed, dense, conical crown that may become varied or irregular. This will depend greatly on the ecotype or other competing vegetation. This is a small to medium sized aromatic evergreen tree. Its fruit, or cone, is berrylike and a dark blue color. It features a deep root system and small leaf surfaces, which make it a very drought tolerant tree. Its foliage is bright to dark green, and its wood is very fragrant and often used to create furniture.

Eastern Redbud

The Red Bud Tree, ‘Cercis canadensis,’ is a small, deciduous tree that will display an abundance of purple blossoms in the spring. It has three-season interest, with its blossoms in the spring, large, heart-shaped leaves in the summer and long ornamental seedpods that attract wildlife in the fall. With low water requirements and tolerance to salt and alkali soils, it is no wonder that this tree is very popular throughout its hardiness range. The Red Bud tree is also known as the Eastern Red Bud or Judas tree.