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Trees

Trees are a valuable part of the landscape. They provide food and shelter for birds and pollinators, and are a great source of shade. They can be used as focal points, privacy hedges, wind breaks or to naturalize an area.

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Birch, Paper

Birch, Paper

Features chalk white peeling bark and golden fall colour; a great accent tree, and one of the best for winter value. On young trees, bark is reddish brown but turns to its characteristic white colour as the tree gets older. 

Cedar - Cheer Drops

Cedar - Cheer Drops

Bright green fragrant foliage in a unique tear drop habit. Perfect for creating shorter, wider hedges and wind breaks, or as a specimen plant.

Cedar - Jantar

Cedar - Jantar

Invigorating, cheerful yellow foliage on this narrow upright pyramidal grower. More branches leading to a denser appearance than most yellow cedars. As the cooler weather approaches the golden leaves take on a mellow orange to amber hue.

Dogwood, Kousa

Dogwood, Kousa

Beautiful small tree covered with showy white pointed flower bracts in the spring. Exfoliating tan, grey and brown bark turns reddish-purple in the fall.  Red fruits are edible and they look like a big round raspberry. 

Ginkgo Biloba

Ginkgo Biloba

Distinctive two-lobed, somewhat leathery, fan-shaped, rich green leaves with diverging veins. Leaves turn bright yellow in fall.

Pawpaw Tree

Pawpaw Tree

Dark green summer foliage tends to droop and gives the tree a sleepy appearance. Unmistakable purplish flowers in mid April are followed by delicious edible fruit in fall that’s high in vitamins A and C.

Serviceberry

Serviceberry

Lovely white flowers cover this small tree or shrub in spring followed by edible red berries that are high in vitamins and are loved by birds. Leaves turn brilliant shades of oranges and reds in fall. Native to Ontario.

Spruce, Colorado Blue

Spruce, Colorado Blue

Beautiful blue pyramidal tree with rigid tiered branches that are densely covered with stiff blue needles.

Blue Ash

Blue Ash

Unique for its 4 sided twigs and loose, scaly maturing bark. Rare species of ash tree. 

Cedar - Degroots Spire

Cedar - Degroots Spire

Striking accent plant with a narrow, columnar form and rich green twisted foliage. It retains its attractiveness with age.

Cedar - White

Cedar - White

Native white cedar often called hedging or swamp cedar, although prefers dry sites! Makes an excellent hedging plant that holds its colour well through winter and tolerates shearing well.

Fir - Canaan

Fir - Canaan

Stately fir that boasts dense, dark green to bluish fragrant foliage. With excellent needle retention, it is a sought after choice for Christmas trees

Hemlock, Eastern

Hemlock, Eastern

Dense, pyramidal evergreen noted for having the small needles and cones. Flat sprays of lacy evergreen foliage give this tree a graceful form. Lower branches often dip toward the ground. Thick and ridged bark on mature trees is red-brown to gray-brown.

Pine, Eastern White

Pine, Eastern White

Noted for its beauty, height, and historical significance. This soft, five needled pine is extremely hardy, and will tolerate fully exposed conditions.

Seven-Son Flower - Temple of Bloom

Seven-Son Flower - Temple of Bloom

Smothered in large clusters of fragrant white flowers that draw pollinators in late Summer. After the blooms disappear the fan-like red bracts are revealed.

Cedar - Black

Cedar - Black

Similar to white cedar but with darker green foliage. Makes an excellent hedging plant that holds its colour well through winter and tolerates shearing well

Cedar - Emerald

Cedar - Emerald

Perfectly pyramidical bright green cedar that does not have to be sheared to hold its shape. Makes an excellent hedging plant that holds its colour well through winter.

Dogwood, Flowering

Dogwood, Flowering

Beautiful small native tree covered with showy white flower bracts in May. Develops full broadly rounded crowns and likes fertile moderately dry soils. Usually found growing naturally along the edges of forests where it receives full sun to light shade.

Fir - Fraser

Fir - Fraser

Dark green flat needles have rounded tips and a silvery underside, cones stand upright and turn pink as they ripen.

Katsura Tree

Katsura Tree

Understory tree with a dense, rounded grown for its beautiful shape and its attractive foliage. Round-oval leaves emerge reddish purple in spring, mature to medium green with a slight bluish tinge in summer & turn shades of gold, orange and red in fall.

Redbud, Eastern

Redbud, Eastern

Vase shaped small tree or large shrub, very open and often multistemmed. The rosy-red blooms pop out of the branches before the leaves appear. Leaves are heart-shaped and turn golden yellow in the fall. Native to southern Ontario.

Spruce - Serbian

Spruce - Serbian

Glossy, dark green needles with slender streaks of white and distinctive purple cones. Graceful upswept branches on a tall, slender form.

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