Wind/Dust Break Plants

Buy Persian Ironwood online. Persian Ironwood is a broad, wide-spreading, vase-shaped tree with oval, glossy, medium green leaves. The bark is has a mottled appearance, and exfoliates in winter. Late winter red flowers and multi colored fall foliage.

Buy Ruby Vase® Persian Ironwood online. 'Ruby Vase' is an introduction into the Parrotia genus that showcases a growth habit that is much more upright and narrower than P. persica. Its leaves emerge in the spring with red tips that surround a green center, then darkens to solid green throughout summer. In fall, it is covered in bright reds and oranges. Because of its growth habit, this is an excellent tree used in urban settings, or areas where large trees are not suitable.

Buy Vanessa Persian Ironwood online. Vanessa Persian Ironwood was selected as a variety that has a more upright and columnar growth habit than that of the P. persica. Ironwood is a true standout in any season, and 'Vanessa' is no exception. In spring, the leaves emerge similarly to other Parrotia, edged in shades of dark red to maroon. This gives way to green in the summer, and then followed by a spectacular show in fall from shades of yellow, orange, red, and gold. During the winter months, it features and exfoliating bark that adds to the year-round interest.

Buy Pink Marble™ Photinia online. Pink Marble™ Photinia has beautiful red and pink new growth that turns green with pink edges and splashes, eventually becoming green with white edges and splashes. Its summer new growth is bronze-colored with pink edges that mature into a medium green with bright white markings. The extraordinary foliage adds lots of evergreen color to landscapes.

Buy Silver Whispers™ Swiss Stone Pine online. Silver Whispers™ Swiss Stone Pine is a near-perfect, compact, very hardy evergreen for spatially challenged landscapes. Exceptional form is densely packed with white-striped dark green needles that produce a silvery plant. Accented with long decorative violet-blue cones.

Buy Indigo Eyes Bosnian Pine online. 'Indigo Eyes' demands attention and deserves greater use in gardens. From an early age, cones appear up and down every branch, bright blue at first, then gradually softening to brown during summer. Attractive, broadly upright trees develop an open, slightly asymmetrical shape, which affords each tree a unique character that will intrigue gardeners in their outdoor living spaces. The healthy, easy-to-grow trees retain their ornamental cones and their stiff, dark green needles, giving trees a beautiful, tidy, clean appearance throughout the year.

Buy Blue Short-Needled Japanese White Pine online. Blue Short-Needled Japanese White Pine is a very showy pine with an open habit, having blue-green needles in tight bundles, that are shorter than other Japanese white pines and have more of an upward curve to them. Many persistent cones decorate the tall, moderately narrow tree.

Buy White Mountain Eastern White Pine online. A beautiful, native pine with long soft silvery white-blue needles. Often produces cones at a young age. Largest of the midwestern and northeastern pines. This fast-growing variety has a loose upright habit that can be pruned to be a tighter tree if desired.

Buy Thunderhead Japanese Black Pine online. A shrubby, compact form of the Japanese Black Pine. Irregular growth habit adds character to the landscape. Silvery white candles in spring and rich, dark green densely packed needles provide year round beauty. An ideal focal point for the Asian garden, whether sculpted into an artistic shape or left in its natural form.

Buy Bloodgood London Planetree online. Bloodgood London Planetree is a rapid growing shade tree. It has a colorful pattern of defoliating bark that can be olive, yellow, and ivory in color. Bloodgood London Planetree is a classic shade tree that is resistant to anthracnose, tolerant to urban pollutants, and can grow in a wide range of soil types. It has a pyramidal shape at an early age and becomes more oval as it matures. The long lifespan can be enjoyed for generations to come. *Fun Fact* A London Planetree in the woodland at Barn Elms is thought to be the capital's oldest specimen of the species, it dates back approximately to 1685.

Buy Silverwood™ Sycamore online. Silverwood™ Sycamore is an introduction from Greenleaf Nursery in their Garden Debut® collection. It features beautiful white bark and excellent branching. The thick, stiff leaves are bright green in summer and turn a bright golden-yellow in autumn.

Buy Exclamation™ London Planetree online. Exclamation™ London Planetree is an upright, pyramidal tree with a uniform and densely branched habit. It features extraordinary exfoliating bark that starts at a young age and adds beauty to this variety as it matures.

Buy Dwarf Greenstripe Running Bamboo online. This bamboo is a beautiful bamboo that features golden yellow and green variegated foliage. It is a running variety, and can be used as a groundcover.

Buy Quaking Aspen online. The small leaves of this native tree tremble in the slightest breeze for a beautiful effect. It is indifferent to soil conditions, and can be found in moist, shallow, rocky, or clay soils. The bark is an attractive greenish white. This is an excellent tree for naturalizing.

Buy Majestic Skies™ Northern Pin Oak online. Majestic Skies™ Northern Pin Oak is a tremendous improvement of the Q. ellipsoidalis species. It has straighter branching that are more evenly sized. The foliage is darker green and it has excellent red fall color. Northern Pin Oaks prefer to grow in full sun with deep, well-drained soil. Discovered at Bailey Nurseries.

Buy Water Oak online. A deciduous tree with a semi-conical to round top. Glossy dark green foliage lasts well into winter. Makes an excellent specimen or background tree. Acorns are quite small and a good food source for wildlife.

Buy Pin Oak online. Is strongly pyramidal with conspicuous horizontal branching. Leaves are glossy dark green in summer changing to a brilliant red fall color. A very uniform tree in its youth, as it matures a more natural habit is revealed.

Buy Crimson Spire™Oak online. Columnar form is a perfect fit for narrow or confined spaces. Planted alone, in groves, or in rows, it's the perfect vertical design element is great fit for streetscapes and landscape settings. A fast growth rate makes this rugged oak a good choice for anchoring newer landscapes. Proven adaptable to a wide range of climates and growing conditions, Crimson Spire™ Oak is appreciated by growers for its ease of care, and by landscape designers for its columnar form and stately appearance. Dense foliage creates living screens for blocking unsightly views and muffling traffic sounds. Rich, dark green leaves stay fresh and bright through the heat of summer, turning rusty red to bright red in mid to late autumn

Buy Live Oak online. A massively wide spreading tree with magnificent horizontal and arching branches that form a rounded canopy. New spring growth is bright olive green that matures to a beautiful dark green, old leaves drop in the spring.

Buy Skinny Genes® Oak online. Skinny Genes® Oak was selected by J. Frank Schmidt & Son, Co. out of seedlings from Crimson Spire™ Oak. Its claim to fame is that it's the most narrow and columnar growing of their hybrid oak selections. The leaves are a dark glossy green, and turn golden yellow in fall. The leaves remain all winter until they're pushed off by new growth in the spring. An excellent tree for privacy, shade, specimen plantings, and wind breaks.

Buy Regal Prince Oak online. A vigorous growing, upright and columnar form oak. The glossy, bright green foliage has silver undersides. Yellow autumn color.

Buy Sawtooth Oak online. Is dense and pyramidal in youth, but becoming oval-rounded to broad-rounded at maturity. Leaves are a brilliant yellow to golden yellow when opening in spring then turning dark lustrous green in summer changing back to yellow in fall. The acorns are beautifully colored and come covered in one of the fanciest hulls of all the oaks.

Buy Giant Pussy Willow online. A large shrub with foliage that starts out red and later turning to green. It sends out long branches and will grow as wide as it is tall. In early spring Giant Pussy Willow will produce large pink catkins. When the catkins are on the branches they make lovely pieces for flower arrangements.

Buy Black Cat® Pussy Willow online. Black Cat® Pussy Willow features extra-large black blooms that are very showy, which makes this a wonderful plant for any specimen garden.

Buy Black Pussy Willow online. Rich purple-black catkins and dark stems adorn this plant in early spring. Perfect as a cut flower and conversation piece.

Buy Common Sassafras online. Native to eastern North America, from southern Maine and southern Ontario west to Iowa, and south to central Florida and eastern Texas. Its leaves are ovate or obovate and are green to yellow green.

Buy Weeping Giant Redwood online. A weeping cultivar of the giants in northern California! Many people describe this as the ultimate "Dr. Seuss" tree, as no two of these are exactly the same. They grow extremely irregular, often leaning, and have strangely unique branching habits. Due to its evergreen foliage, it can oftentimes appear as a "spooky" silhouette against the setting sun. Highly rare and hard-to-find!

Buy Japanese Stewartia online. Japanese Stewartia blooms in mid-summer, and has showy white camellia-like flowers that mature into brown seed pods. Dark green leaves will turn brilliant hues of yellow, red to dark purple in autumn. The bark is beautiful, with exfoliating strips in varied hues.

Buy Snowdance™ Japanese Tree Lilac online. Snowdance͊ Tree Lilac has an extremely heavy bloom, which is why it was selected by Bailey Nurseries to be a part of the First Editions® brand. Snowdance™ Tree Lilac flowers well annually and begins at an earlier age than other cultivars of the species. Large, fragrant panicles of creamy white bloom in June. This sterile variety produces no untidy, brown seedheads. Lustrous, dark green foliage is slightly larger and darker than the species.