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Buy Morning Starburst™ Vine Maple online. Morning Starburst™ Vine Maple is a hybrid vine maple introduced by the famous Morton Arboretum. It produces large fan-shaped leaves that are golden-green with hints of burgundy in them. Fading to green in the summer time, they proceed to turn a stunning and eye-catching bright red in the fall. Excellent for use as a specimen and accent plant in the shady landscape!

Buy Autumn Blaze® Maple online. Autumn Blaze® Maple is a very drought tolerant and rapid growing tree. The new growth in spring emerges with a reddish tint, turning to a rich green that lasts throughout summer. In fall, its brilliant red color illuminates the landscape and persists later than many other red maple cultivars.

Buy Autumn Fantasy® Maple online. Autumn Fantasy® Maple is a red maple and silver maple hybrid that provides the best qualities of both trees. It has excellent fall color and is faster growing than other non-hybridized red maples. The young leaves emerge with a reddish tint that turn to rich green. The fall color is an exceptionally beautiful ruby red that persists until the first hard frost. Very drought tolerant and a very fast grower. Makes an excellent fast growing street or lawn tree. A seedless variety.

Buy Korean Maple online. The Korean maple is the perfect choice for climates too cold to grow Japanese maples, as it is similar to both Japanese maples and full moon maples. This tree has lobed palmate leaves that are dark green during spring and summer. In fall they transform into a whirlwind of gold, orange and scarlet. The Korean maple features small purple flowers as the plant begins to leaf out that turn into samaras later in the season. A wonderful hardy addition to the garden.

Buy Autumn Radiance® Red Maple online. Autumn Radiance® Red Maple is highly prized for its consistent showing of breathtaking fall color. The hues of orange and red will highlight your landscape for a dramatic show in fall! It has strong branching and forms a globe-shaped habit. Provides plentiful shade during the summer making it a great choice for shade lovers!

Buy Brandywine Maple online. Brandywine Maple is a release from the U.S. National Arboretum's tree genetics program. 'Brandywine' has emerald green leaves in summer and bright enduring fall color that begins red and gradually turns brilliant purple red that persists longer than many rubrums. This is a seedless male with proven performance. Mature tree develops into a oval rounded form. Makes a great lawn or street tree.
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Buy Redpointe® Red Maple online. Redpointe® Red Maple has brilliant red fall color plus upright, broadly pyramidal form make this J.Frank Schmidt & Son introduction a standout. The refined form and foliage of the best Acer rubrum cultivars combine with the faster growth rate normally found in Acer x freemanii. A straight and dominant central leader results in strong branch angles that make it easier to grow.

Buy October Glory® Red Maple online. October Glory® Red Maple is a very nice oval-rounded form and has lustrous dark green leaves in summer. Foliage changes to brilliant orange to red in fall. It has been known to keep its brilliant fall color well into November. Great tree for lawn planting and street. October Glory® Red Maple has good heat tolerance and is perfectly adapted to the warmer climates.

Buy Sun Valley Maple online. Sun Valley Red Maple is cross between 'Red Sunset' and 'Autumn Flame' maples and produces a moderate ovate crown. Brilliant green summer colored leaves, change to beautiful fluorescent orange-red in the fall. A great new tree for lawn or street planting. Thick leaves maintain a clean appearance with minimal tatter. A real winner in the line of red maples

Buy Apollo® Sugar Maple online. Apollo® Sugar Maple is quite a unique tree in the world of A. saccharum cultivars, as it provides a narrow and dense branching habit that make this short growing, columnar shade tree ideal for limited spaces. In spring and summer, dark green foliage is produced and is known to be resistant to summer heat damage. In fall, it produces a dazzling display of golden-yellow to orange colors. Excellent when used as a specimen, or planted in rows that require limited space.

Buy Flashfire® Caddo Sugar Maple online. Flashfire® Caddo Sugar Maple was selected from Caddo Sugar Maple seedings, as this tree showed the brightest red fall color we have seen in a cultivar adapted for the Southern climate. It features dark green summer foliage, better mildew resistance than other A. saccharum selections, strong growth, and brilliant red, early fall color.

Buy Sugar Cone Sugar Maple online. J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co. states that Sugar Cone Sugar Maple "is the most dwarf of the Sugar Maple" selections they offer. It is an extremely dense and compact growing tree, with a pyramidal symmetrical shape. Green leaves cover the tree from spring through summer, and then show a great palette of colors in the fall, from bright yellows to dark reds.

Buy Fire Dragon® Shantung Maple online. 'Fire Dragon' is full of color! Discovered as a sport of A. truncatum, it is distinguished cultivar due its amazing fall color. Clusters of yellow flowers appear before the foliage in spring. New leaf growth is a burnt orange, changing to a dark glossy green. In autumn, the foliage turns to a brilliant scarlet color.

Buy Urban Sunset® Maple online. Urban Sunset® Maple is a compact, upright and narrow grower. Extremely fast growing, this tree calipers well and develops a naturally uniform canopy with minimal pruning. Easy to grow and relatively problem free, it produces few seeds and develops an ideal, upright street tree form.

Buy Norwegian Sunset® Maple online. Norwegian Sunset® Maple is a great hybrid maple that features an upright oval habit with yellow-orange to red fall color. It has a particularly nice branch structure and uniform canopy. Its A. truncatum parentage gives glossy foliage and heat resistance.

Buy Matador™ Maple online. Matador™ Maple was selected because of its superior growth habit and beautiful fall color. It is deeper red in fall color than Autumn Blaze® Maple and fall colors are produced more consistently than other A. x freemanii cultivars. It is an adaptable tree with an upright, symmetrical form. The fall color is exhibited later than other cultivars and holds its leaves longer.

Buy Crimson Sentry Norway Maple online. This bud sport of 'Crimson King' shares the same deep purple leaf color of its parent, but matures to a much smaller ultimate size. A very compact, heavily branched upright tree.

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Buy Eskimo Sunset Sycamore Maple online. A truly stunning cultivar of sycamore maple! This highly variegated specimen is a kaleidoscope of colors, as it features purple undersides of the leaves, and shades of green and white across the tops. Unlike other variegated trees, this tree is known to perform well in full sun locations with little to no scorching. It's perfect when used as a stand alone specimen or accent plant, or enjoy them from a distance in a group! This is definitely a tree that you do not want to miss out on!

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Buy Lavaburst® Ohio Buckeye online. Lavaburst® Ohio Buckeye is a perfect tree for limited spaces in shady and protected locations in your garden. In spring, greenish-white flowers are held in panicles that will highlight any shady space, followed by green leaves. The leaves transition into fall by turning shades of orange and red, further giving this tree focus. The seed is smaller than regular Ohio Buckeye and produced in lesser amounts.

Buy Briotii Red Horse Chestnut online. Briotii Red Horse Chestnut is a hybrid of A. hippocastanum and A. pavia with intermediate characteristics of each species. It is best used in a broad, open landscape so it doesn't become crowded, which in turn makes it a fantastic specimen tree. Flowers are an attractive pink, splashed with yellow inside.

Buy Sunrise Painted Buckeye online. Sunrise Painted Buckeye, also known as Caroline Horse Chestnut, is a great medium to large growing ornamental tree. The name comes from its early spring production of leaves that emerge showing shades of orange, red, and deep pink. As they mature, they will darken to dark green in the summer. Fall brings on more colors of orange and red. Yellow flowers appear in spring and seldom produce seed. Does best in a semi-shade to dappled shade environment.

Buy Summer Chocolate Mimosa online. 'Summer Chocolate' has ferny leaves that emerge bonze to green in spring and then turn dark burgundy to chocolate in summer. Its flowers are pink and are produced in clusters. Is considered to be a sterile tree.

Buy Marina Strawberry Tree online. A delightful small garden tree with a low canopy of deep green leaves that are larger than other species. Rosy-pink flowers appear concurrently with the red and yellow strawberry-like fruit in fall and winter. A good fire-wise landscaping plant. Evergreen.

Buy Heritage® River Birch online. Heritage® is tree is pyramidal to oval headed in youth, often rounded in outline at maturity. The trunk is usually divided into several large arching branches close to the ground. It has spectacular glossy dark green foliage in summer changing to yellow in fall.

Buy City Slicker River Birch online. A beautifully selected cultivar with good vigor,drought tolerance,and exceptionally white bark. Leaves are dark green in summer and turn yellow-gold in fall. A Carl Whitcomb selection, who is also the breeder of the Whitcomb Crapemyrtles.

Buy Parkland Pillar® Birch online. Parkland Pillar® Birch is much more narrow, upright, and dense in habit than its parentage, Dakota Pinnacle® Birch. Formal Style is Sooner's description of a tree that has had the lower branches removed to display more of the amazing bark and give it more of a tree appearance. Known to be a fast growing variety that is perfectly suited as a garden specimen, for screening, or boulevards. Tolerant of heat, drought, and alkaline soils, this Birch's adaptability and conical shape makes it an excellent choice for the urban landscape.

Buy Emerald Flare® Tianshan Birch online. The Emerald Flare® Tianshan Birch is a captivating tree that offers year-round beauty. Its lush, emerald-green foliage remains vibrant throughout the summer, transitioning to a stunning golden-yellow hue in autumn. As winter approaches, its exfoliating white bark with gray and orange undertones creates a captivating winter display.

This hardy and adaptable tree thrives in various growing conditions, tolerating higher pH soils and drought. Its narrow, pyramidal form makes it perfect for limited spaces, adding vertical interest to your landscape.

With minimal care required, the Emerald Flare® Tianshan Birch is an ideal choice for busy gardeners. Whether you're looking for an accent tree, a focal point, or a tree for urban landscapes, this elegant variety is sure to impress.

Buy Pyramidal European Hornbeam online. Is a medium-sized columnar tree. Spreads to a more rounded form at maturity. Dark green foliage becomes golden yellow in fall. Great for use as a screen.

Buy Pinocchio Pyramidal European Hornbeam online. 'Pinocchio' features a more open growth habit that its cousins, but is more narrow than 'Pyramidal' and shorter than 'Frans Fontaine'. It makes a great tree for locations that experience harsh winter conditions as it is amazingly tough and cold hardy. This tree is great when used as a screen, street tree, or as a wind break.

Buy Fire Belle American Hornbeam online. This American native is a slow growing small hardwood tree, with the brightest and most consistent red fall color ever seen in an American Hornbeam. Hornbeams have smooth, gray bark and red to yellow fall color. 'Fire Belle' will develop a rounded canopy with age. Tolerant of part shade, but has best fall color in full sun. Drought sensitive and performs well in heavy, clay soils. Seeds are a great food source for wildlife in autumn.

Buy Barton Pecan online. Is a fast-growing, mid to late-season pecan that produces a medium-sized kernel. Recommended for home plantings. 'Barton' is late to break bud in the spring, resistant to scab and produces a bountiful harvest at maturity.