Little Richard Abelia
A new introduction with great landscape use. It is fast growing, yet compact, branching at every node. Grows 3.5' tall and 4.5' wide. White flowers through the summer.
Little Gem Vine Maple
An excellent dwarf form, typically growing between 1-3" per year. Light green leaves turn orange and crimson in the fall.
Paperbark Maple
The swan amongst the maples! With age the bark peels enticingly to expose new hues of cinnamon-brown. The delicate bluish-green 3-part leaves catch the slightest breeze, turning flame-tinged in autumn.
Fernleaf Fullmoon Maple
One of the most beautiful of fall-coloring ornamentals, magnificent crimson, orange and red dancing upon the sculpted grey branches.
Green Cascade Fullmoon Maple
Red Skin or Red River Maple
Yellow-green leaves with a hint of rose give way to bright green leaves in summer and gold in the fall. Vase shaped to 20' with a 15' canopy. Bright red bark in winter. Strong rival to Sangokaku.
Bloodgood Japanese Maple
Lovely reddish-purple leafed tree to 20'x20' that holds its color very well. Round headed with elegant branching, the fall color is an intense red.
Butterfly Japanese Maple
Vase shaped form to 12'x6' with beautifully variegated leaves. Emerging foliage is green with pink-tinged margins, maturing to gray-green with cream . A winner.
Inaba Shidare Japanese Maple
A nice red cutleaf with a good purple-red leaf color that holds fairly well. Fall brings a good crimson-red tint. Matures at 10'x10'.
Purple Ghost Japanese Maple
Tamukeyama Japanese Maple
A strong-growing form to 12'x12'. Leaves emerge a bright crimson red and mature to a deep purple-red that holds particularly well in our summer heat.
Viridis Japanese Maple
A delicate cascading mound form of cutleaf, its bright green leaves turn a beautiful golden-yellow and red in the fall.
Waterfall Japanese Maple
The finest green cutleaf, robust to 10'x12', with large, rich green leaves that develop a delicious red-suffused golden color in the fall.
Hubb's Red Willow Japanese Maple
A beautiful, deeply dissected, maroon leafed tree to 20-30' that holds its color very well, found by the late Dick Wolf of Red Maple Nurseries in Media.
Katsura Japanese Maple
A delightful dwarf form with striking new growth and bright yellow and orange fall color. With repeated pruning it will stay compact, probably staying under 6'.
Mikawa Yatsubusa Dwarf Maple
A dwarf maple growing to about 3' with light green leaves that are very close and overlap providing dense covering of the twigs.
Bottlebrush Buckeye
One of our most valuable native shrubs for woodland sites. The 8"-12" white flower spikes in summer show to spectacular effect against the dark 5-fingered leaves.
Ft McNair Red Horsechestnut
A splendid rounded tree to 30-40' tall with good foliage and red flowers with a yellow throat in late spring.
Monkey Puzzle Tree
Hardy to zone 7, plant in a protected location! A large tree growing to 50-80' in its native habitat of Chile and Argentina. It has a unique, stiff horizontal habit, best used as a specimen.
Massachusetts Bearberry
One of the most refined groundcovers, this creeping glossy-leafed evergreen requires perfect drainage. Sandy soils are preferred, it does very well at the shore.
Paw Paw
An interesting native tree growing to about 20' (possibly bigger in perfect conditions), great for naturalizing. The fruits have a sweet banana like flavor, eaten by animals and man.
Royal Azalea
Magnificent 2"-3" pink, fragrant flowers grace this 6'x6' garden gem in May. Best sited in the shade, the yellow to crimson fall color is gorgeous.
Franklin's Gem Korean Boxwood
Our own selection, this 2'x4' variety with narrow light green leaves is particularly well suited for Delaware Valley gardens.
Grace Hendrick Phillips Korean Boxwood
A good choice for low hedging or foundation planting, this 1.5'x3.5' variety boasts attractive horizontal branching and good leaf color, maintained best in shade not full sun. Seldom troubled by deer.
Wintergreen Little leaf Boxwood
Very hardy variety, forms nice low hedge or shrub, fragrant flowers.
English Boxwood
The boxwood of Williamsburg and Mt. Vernon. Slow-growing to 6', it assumes a magnificent cloud-like habit on its own, but is amenable to the most formal shearing.
Justin Brouwer Boxwood
Grows slowly to form a squat mound 2' x 3' after 12-15 years. Maintains good green color in winter.
Green Mountain Boxwood
A hardy Canadian introduction with small dark green leaves. A broadly upright form to 5'x3', this a great choice for hedging or foundation planting.
Green Velvet Boxwood
An excellent selection from Canada, very cold hardy, Green Velvet grows to 3' with a 3-4' spread. Tolerant of a broad range of soil types, grow in sun or light shade. Deer resistant and disease free.
Fastigiate Plum Yew
A rotund columnar form growing 10' x 6-8'. A wonderful shade tolerant evergreen for foundations, groupings, or accents. Slow growing.
Prostrate Cephalotaxus
A wonderful shade tolerant evergreen for foundations, groupings, or accents. Slow growing to 3-5' tall and equally wide.
Forest Pansy Eastern Redbud
Flowers are a darker rose-purple than the species, but the vibrant red-purple new leaves, maturing to midnight green, are its claim to fame. Spectacular!
Appalachian Red Eastern Redbud
One of our most beloved native flowering trees, it greets the spring with a red shimmer of blossoms along the handsomely muscled branches. Reaches 25'x25'.
Avondale Redbud
Small upright shrub not growing more than 10' with ABUNDANT, deep rose-purple flowers blooming in early spring.
Blue Feathers Hinoki Falsecypress
A miniature form with fine-textured, silver-blue foliage on a compact shrub with an irregular, upright habit. Grows best in full sun, 2'x 3', hardy to zone 4.
Golden Fernspray Cypress
A graceful pyramidal-upright form to 12'x8' with beautiful golden-green foliage. A refined presence in the garden.
Compact Gracilis Hinoki Falsecypress
A dark green broadly upright form, valued as a specimen or for foundation plantings.
Koster's Hinoki Falsecypress
The dark green color and sculptural texture of the triangular shaped foliage sprays contribute to the popularity of this 5'x5' pyramidal dwarf conifer.
Kousa Dogwood
With the beautiful flowers in June, the strawberry-like fruit and red-purple leaves in fall and the handsomely flaking bark in winter, this 25'x25' tree always delights.
Weeping Kousa Dogwood
Handsome weeping tree with an enchanting weeping habit and all the attributes of kousa dogwood; showy flowers in June, red berries in late summer, red-purple fall color!
Wolf Eyes Kousa Dogwood
With the beautiful variegated foliage, flowers in June, the strawberry-like fruit and red-purple leaves in fall and the handsomely flaking bark in winter, this 25'x25' tree always delights.
Bloodgood Red Twig Dogwood
A nice red-twig dogwood variety, to 8'x8', with rich green leaves that turn a reddish purple in the fall. White disk flowers in May give rise to bluish berries coveted by birds.
Cardinal Red Twig Dogwood
Very handsome coral-red stems are eye-catching in the winter landscape. Fast growing to 8'x8', the white flowers in June and white berries in August are a bonus.
Winterthur Buttercup Winterhazel
Dainty 4'x6' shrub with fragrant primrose-yellow flowers in early spring. Handsome heart-shaped leaves and artfully contorted branches contribute to its charm.
Black Dragon Cryptomeria
Interesting sculptural-pyramidal habit, dark green foliage and compact growth make this an ideal specimen or rock garden plant. Slow growing to 10'x6'.
Yoshino Cryptomeria
Fairly fast growing upright evergreen to 40'x15', valued for its unique texture. Rich green foliage shows less winter bronzing than other varieties. Seldom troubled by deer.
Golden Pyramid Cypress
A golden variety of Arizona Cypress with gold on horizontal branches. Can grow to about 25' or sheared and maintained at any size.
Dove Tree
With maturity the most breathtaking of flowering trees, with large snow white bracts that flutter in the breeze like doves alighting in the branches. Good orange-brown bark, too.
Franklin Tree
A great little tree, to 20'x15', offering lovely white flowers in September, incendiary fall color of reds, oranges and purples. A choice plant with a rich local history.
Pink Silverbell
Gold Cone Juniper
A compact upright, columnar grower to 5-10' tall with extremely bright yellow-tipped foliage.
Pencil Point Juniper
A dense, narrow spire with a silvery cast provided by the striped needles. A striking specimen, extremely formal in habit but with a jaunty air.
Leatherleaf Mahonia
Bold textured evergreen shrub to 6'x6'. The handsome bluish-green leaves set off the very fragrant lemon yellow flowers in March and April, the blue berries in May. Best in shade.
Siberian Cypress/Russian Arborvitae
A graceful evergreen groundcover typically growing 12" high and spreading indefinitely. Plant in moist, well-drained soil, will tolerate some shade.
Heavenly Bamboo
Graceful upright evergreen with lacy green foliage that turns red for winter. Showy white flower clusters in May-June give rise to glossy red berries in fall. To 6'x6'.
Weeping Blue Spruce
Artistic form with good blue color and a mounding-trailing habit, with occasional forays into verticality. A lovely plant that combines well with rock and water.
Mountain Fire Japanese Andromeda
The fiery red of the new growth is handsomely set off against the rich green of the foliage. Abundant white flower in spring. Slow to 6'x4'. Very deer resistant.
Lacebark Pine
Exquisite exfoliating bark with cream, olive and tan patches. Handsome green needles and pyramidal habit make it a great specimen tree, maturing at 40'x20'.
Japanese White Pine
Beautiful picturesque pine with soft bluish-green needles and attractive cones upon the open spreading branches. Slow growing to 45'x40'.
Blue Shag Dwarf White Pine
An introduction from Sidney Waxman of the University of Connecticut. An outstanding, compact, reliably rounded form of the dwarf eastern White Pine. Hardy to zone 3.
Weeping Eastern White Pine
This specimen can vary from tall and slender to low and broad.
Thunderhead Japanese Black Pine
Long dark green needles and mounding, spreading form highlight the striking white buds of this spectacular small specimen.
Otto Luken Cherry Laurel
Compact cherrylaurel, to 4'x8', with shiny dark green evergreen leaves. Very free-flowering, with fragrant white spike flowers in the spring.
Cherry Laurel
The hardiest of the cherrylaurels, a spreading form to 5'x8'. The glossy dark green leaves showcase the white spike flowers in spring.
Himalayan Sweetbox
A tidy little evergreen groundcover shrub, 18" high and spreading gradually by suckers. The small white flowers in March-April are sweetly fragrant, though hidden.
Chinese Sweetshrub
Female Japanese Skimmia
Handsome dark green mounded evergreen to 3'x3'. Upright 2" clusters of creamy white flowers in April, if pollinated by male, set bright red berries effective fall to spring.
Male Japanese Skimmia
Handsome dark green mounded evergreen to 3'x3'. The 2" upright clusters of creamy flowers in April are more fragrant and abundant than on the females, but don't become berries.
Magic Carpet Spiraea
Bursts into growth in the spring with a blaze of orange-red shaded new leaves that mature through yellow to green. Reaches 2'x3', with pink flowers in summer.
Japanese Stewartia
Amoungst the most beautiful of trees, its flaking bark revealing a stunning collage of greys and tans, 3" white flowers in June and yellow to purple fall color! To 30'x20'.
Weeping Baldcypress
Hetz Midget Dwarf Arborvitae
A truly dwarf globe arborvitae, very slow growing with dark green foliage. Grows to about 2' x 2'.
Green Giant Arborvitae
A new vigorous hybrid Arborvitae with a conical habit to 40'x15' and an impressive growth rate of 2' or more. A promising new screening choice.
