Download Spring 2014 Trees

Egli Landscapes, Inc
We request that all orders be confirmed
no later than 2/20/15 for spring
installation. All trees are subject to
supplier availability…
• Egli Landscapes, Inc receives our B&B trees from an Oklahoma or
other midwestern nurseries, but we ensure that they are zone hardy
varieties.
• Our supplier lifts each root ball out of the ground with a tree spade,
carefully sets the root ball into a burlap-lined wire basket and then
tightly wraps the burlap with twine to create a nice package called a
balled and burlapped or B&B tree.
• Our B&B trees weigh between 250+ lbs (1.5” caliper) to 500+ lbs
(2.5” caliper) and have a height range of 8-10 ft for ornamental to 1217 ft for shade trees.
• All shade trees will be quoted at 2” size, unless there are availability
issues from our supplier and then other sizes may be quoted.
• Ornamental trees will be quoted at either 1.25”, 1.5”, 1.75”, or 2” –
dependent on availability.
• We request that all orders be confirmed no later than 2/20/15 for
spring installation.
• Evergreens
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Arborvitae, Techny
Pine, White
Spruce, Norway
Spruce, Black Hills
• Ornamentals
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Lilac, Japanese Tree Multi-Stem
Lilac, Ivory Silk Japanese Tree
Serviceberry, Autumn Brilliance
Crabapple, Indian Magic
Crabapple, Royal Raindrops
Crabapple, Red Jewel
Redbud, Eastern
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Cypress, Shawnee Brave
Elm, Princeton American
Gingko
Honeylocust, Skyline
Maple, Autumn Blaze
Maple, Red Sunset
Maple, Sugar
Oak, Swamp White
Oak, Northern Red
Oak, Crimson Spire
Oak, Chinkapin
Planetree, London Bloodgood
Riverbirch, Heritage
Birch, Crimson Frost
Sweetgum, American Worplesdon
Tulip Tree
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It is a medium growing (1-2ft per year)
evergreen that has a dark green soft
foliage. In September of each year it
“sheds “ all the growth that grew out the
previous year and it drops to the ground
creating a very nice mulch around the
tree.
They can grow 30+ ft tall and 15+ft wide
and the spreading root system is very
wind firm but the wood is not quite so
strong and can be damaged by high
winds, snow and ice. This tree can live100
years or longer. Deer will eat this foliage
in the winter and severe damage and
death can result with smaller plants, with
larger plants all the foliage can be eaten
off within 6 ft of the ground.
Broad-based, pyramidal form. Excellent
dark green foliage year-round. Use as
hedge plant, windbreak or snowbreak.
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Is the largest conifer of the eastern and
upper Midwest forests, reaching 150 feet
in height and up to 40 inches in diameter.
In dense stands, trees produce tall,
cylindrical stems with pyramidal shaped
crowns, characterized by distinctive, plate
like branching, especially noticeable as
the trees become older. On young growth,
the bark remains rather thin, smooth, and
greenish-brown in color. On older trees
the bark becomes deeply fissured and
dark grayish-brown in color. Its evergreen
needles are in clusters of 5, soft, flexible,
2 1/2 to 5 inches long, and bluish-green in
appearance. Its cones are about 4 to 8
inches long and 1 inch thick. These
remain attached for 1 to several months
after ripening in the autumn of the second
season.
Likes moist, well-drained soils. Grows 50'80' with a 20-40' spread in the landscape.
(zones 3-8)
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The Norway Spruce is a fast growing (2-3’
per year) evergreen that has dark green
needles that are 1 inch long, and can
grow up to 5 ft a year in a good weather
year. It never drops its needles but keeps
them on for up to 10 years.
It will grow to 100+ ft tall and 25+ ft wide,
it is very wind firm due to its large
spreading root system, and tough flexible
wood. It can live a very long life in
windbreaks of over 100 years old in most
soils, and is the most common old
windbreak tree in the midwest. Due to its
shape, heavy snow and ice storms cause
little damage. Deer will not normally eat
this species unless there is nothing else
available.
Pyramidal and stiff when young, but
graceful at maturity. Excellent for screen
or windbreak. Bright green when young,
changing to lustrous dark green at
maturity.
• It is a slow (6”-12” per
year) growing very
compact evergreen.
• It will grow up to 40+ft
tall and 20+ ft wide and
is very wind firm and is
not damaged by heavy
snow or ice storms. This
tree can live 80 or more
years. Deer will not
normally eat this
species unless nothing
else is available.
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Typically grows to as much as 30’ tall and
20’ wide with an oval-rounded crown. Its
best ornamental feature is its showy,
fragrant, creamy white flowers that bloom
in upright panicles to 12” long in late
spring to early summer (later than most
other lilac species). Some gardeners
dislike the privet-like smell of the flowers.
Flowers give way to loose clusters of
brown capsules that persist into winter.
Reddish-brown peeling bark is attractive
on younger branches, gradually turning
gray with age. Sharply tipped, lanceolate
to ovate, dark green leaves (to 6” long).
No fall color.
Height: 20-30 ft
Spread: 15-20 ft
Zone: 3-7
Flower: White, Showy, Fragrant
• This Japanese tree lilac cultivar
is a small tree or large shrub
which typically grows 20-25' tall
with a rounded crown. Creamy
white, fragrant, single flowers
are arranged in dense, terminal
clusters (panicles to 12" long).
Blooms later than most other
species of lilac (late May to
early June in St. Louis). Elliptic
to ovate, dark green leaves (to
5" long). Attractive reddishbrown bark.
• Height: 20-25 ft
• Spread: 15-20 ft
• Zone: 3-7
• Flower: White, Showy, Fragrant
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This hybrid apple serviceberry cultivar is a
deciduous, early-flowering large shrub or small
tree which typically grows 15-25' tall. Features 5petaled, showy, slightly fragrant, white flowers in
drooping clusters (racemes) which appear
before the leaves emerge in early spring. Finely
toothed, obovate, bluish green leaves (2-5" long)
change to brilliant orange-red in autumn (hence
the cultivar name). Flowers give way to small,
round green berries which turn red and finally
mature to a dark purplish black in early summer.
Edible berries are sweet, resembling blueberries
in size and color, and are often used in jams,
jellies and pies. Amelanchiers are also often
commonly called Juneberries.
Height: 15-25 ft
Spread: 15-25 ft
Zone: 4-9
Leaf: Good Fall
Flower: White, Showy
Fruit: Showy, Edible
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tree.Red buds open into
single, deep pink flowers.
Small glossy, red fruit
changes to rosy-orange
and remains on tree all
winter providing food for
wildlife. A real show
stopper in the spring.
• Height: 15-20 ft
• Spread: 15-20 ft
• Zone: 4-7
• Flower: Pink, Showy
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Upright-spreading , disease-resistant,
easy-to-grow, crabapple tree that features
(1) deeply lobed purple foliage (early
leaves may be entire) which retains
excellent color throughout summer, (2)
magenta-pink single flowers in spring
(April in St. Louis), (3) tiny maroon-red
crabapples (1/4" diameter) that mature in
late summer and (4) excellent orange-red
fall color. This small tree typically matures
to 15-20’ tall and to 12-16' wide with a
dense rounded canopy and excellent
foliage density. Crabapples persist on the
tree into early winter and are an attractive
food source for birds.
Height: 15-20 ft
Spread: 12-16 ft
Zone: 4-8
Flower: Pink, Showy
• This crabapple is a denselybranched, spreading, deciduous,
dwarf tree or shrub which typically
grows 6-8' tall and 12' wide. Often
grown as a shrub. Deep pink buds
open to single, white flowers (1"
diameter) in spring. Flowers may
have a pinkish tinge in cool spring
weather. Flowers are followed by
masses of small, glossy, red
crabapples (1/2" diameter) which
mature in the fall and persist into
late fall. The fruits are attractive to
birds. Ovate, sometimes deeply
lobed, dark green leaves.
• Height: 15 ft
• Spread: 12 ft
• Zone: 4-7
• Flower: White, Showy
• Fruit: Showy
• Redbuds are best known for
their pink pea-like flowers
which bloom profusely on bare
branches and even mature
trunks. Its heart shaped leaves
are 3-5" across and may turn
an attractive yellow in fall. Its
fruits are brown flat pods about
2-3" long. The trunk of this
small tree usually has branches
close to the ground resulting in
a spreading, flat-topped to
rounded crown.
• Height: 20-30 ft
• Spread: 25-35 ft
• Flower: Pink, Showy
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SHAWNEE BRAVE, is a narrow pyramidal
cultivar that typically grows with a strong central
leader to 50-75' tall and to 15-20' wide. It has a
narrower shape and denser foliage than species
trees. It is a long-lived, pyramidal conifer. It is
native to saturated soils, seasonally flooded
areas, swamps and stream banks on the coastal
plain from Virginia to Texas and up the
Mississippi River valley to the Missouri bootheel
and the southern tips of Illinois and southeastern
Indiana. Although it looks like a needled
evergreen, it is in fact deciduous (“bald” as the
common name suggests). Flat, linear needles in
two ranks along the twigs (distichum means in
two vertical ranks) are yellow-green in spring,
medium to dark green in summer and reddishbrown in fall. Needles drop in late fall. Round
cones (to 1" across) are green in summer before
turning brown with maturity. Reddish-brown bark
exfoliates in strips. Root system "knees" only
appear on plants growing in water.
Height: 50-75 ft
Spread: 15-20 ft
Zone: 4-9
Leaf: Fall - Yellowish Brown
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Vase-shaped, medium to large, deciduous tree with a
broad-rounded crown. It is native to eastern and central
North America. Although once widely planted in the
United States as street and lawn trees, American elms
have now been so decimated by Dutch elm disease that
species trees are no longer considered to be viable
selections for landscapes. 'Princeton' reportedly has
excellent resistance to Dutch elm disease and is currently
being planted. It was developed by Princeton Nurseries in
1922, which was about 10 years prior to the time when
the Dutch elm fungal infection first came to the U. S.
'Princeton' typically grows to 50-70' tall. Non-showy, small
green flowers appear in spring before the foliage
emerges. Flowers give way to single-seeded, wafer-like
samaras (each tiny seed is surrounded by a flattened
oval-rounded papery wing). Seeds mature in April-May as
the leaves reach full size. Rough-textured, ovate-elliptic,
dark green leaves (to 6” long) have toothed margins and
asymetrical bases. Leaves typically turn yellow in fall.
Height: 50-70 ft
Spread: 30-50 ft
Zone: 3-9
Leaf: Fall - Yellow
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Ginkgo features distinctive, two-lobed,
somewhat leathery, fan-shaped leaves with
diverging (almost parallel) veins. Ginkgo is the
only surviving member of a group of ancient
plants believed to have inhabited the earth up to
150 million years ago. 'Autumn Gold' is an allmale cultivar typically growing at maturity to 4050' with a symmetrical, broadly spreading habit.
Leaves turn a uniform golden yellow in autumn
(spectacular when backlit by early morning or
late afternoon sun) and persist for several
weeks. When the leaves do drop, they drop
rapidly, forming a golden carpet around the tree.
Ginkgo is also commonly called maidenhair tree,
which refers to the resemblance of the fanshaped leaves to maidenhair fern leaflets
(pinnae).
Height: 50-80 ft
Spread: 30-40 ft
Zone: 3-8
Tolerate: Deer, Clay Soil, Air Pollution
Leaf: Fall - Gold or Yellow
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variety with distinctive
pyramidal form, this tree
develops a strong, sturdy
trunk and shapely crown.
Thornless, and essentially
fruitless, it is a valuable
tree for light, filtered
shade.
• Height: 50 ft
• Spread: 30-35 ft
• Zone: 4-7
• Leaf: Fall - Yellow
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Acer x freemanii, commonly called Freeman
maple, is a hybrid of red maple (A. rubrum) and
silver maple (A. saccharinum). The Freeman
maple cultivars commonly sold in commerce
today reportedly combine some of the best
features of both parents, namely, solid structure,
attractive form and showy fall color (from red
maple) and adaptability and rapid growth (from
silver maple). Oliver M. Freeman of the National
Arboretum made the first controlled crosses
between red maple and silver maple in 1933.
Edward Murray named this hybrid cross in 1969
in honor of Oliver M. Freeman. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, crosses between red and silver
maples occur not only by controlled propagation
but also naturally in the wild. It is sometimes
difficult to identify a Freeman hybrid because of
the complexity of crosses and backcrosses that
may occur.
Height: 40-55 ft
Spread: 30-40 ft
Zone: 3-8
Leaf: Red
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Acer rubrum, commonly called red maple, is a medium-sized,
deciduous tree that is native to Eastern North America from Quebec to
Minnesota south to Florida and eastern Texas. It typically grows with a
rounded to oval crown. It grows faster than Norway and sugar maples,
but slower than silver maple. In northern states, red maple usually
occurs in wet bottomland, river flood plains and wet woods, but in
Missouri it typically frequents drier, rocky upland areas. Emerging new
growth leaves, leafstalks, twigs, flowers, fruit and fall color are red or
tinged with red. Quality of red fall color on species plants is variable.
Leaves (to 2-5" long) have 3 principal triangular lobes (sometimes 5
lobes with the two lower lobes being largely suppressed). Lobes have
toothed margins and pointed tips. Leaves are medium to dark green
above and gray green below. Flowers on a given tree are primarily
male or female or monoecious and appear in late winter to early spring
(March-April) before the leaves. Fruit is a two-winged samara.
Species name of rubrum (meaning red) is everywhere in evidence: red
flowers in dense clusters in late March to early April (before the leaves
appear), red fruit (initially reddish, two-winged samara), reddish stems
and twigs, red buds, and, in the fall, excellent orange-red foliage color.
RED SUNSET is one of the best red maple cultivars available in
commerce, with outstanding orange to red fall color (quality more
reliable than species).
Height: 40-50 ft
Spread: 30-40 ft
Zone: 3-9
Leaf: Fall - Red
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This tree is a main component of the
Eastern U.S. hardwood forest and is one
of the trees which is most responsible for
giving New England its reputation for
spectacular fall color. Medium green
leaves (3-6" wide with 3-5 lobes) turn
yellow-orange in autumn, sometimes with
considerable color variations. Fruit is the
familiar two-winged samara. Sugar
maples are long-lived trees which grow
relatively slowly (somewhat faster in the
first 35 years). Native Americans taught
the early colonists how to tap these trees
to make maple syrup which has now
become a multi-billion dollar industry in
the U.S. and Canada. Excellent shade
tree. The sugar maple leaf is the national
symbol of Canada.
Height: 40-80 ft
Spread: 30-60 ft
Zone: 3-8
Leaf: Fall - Bright Orange
• Excellent in both wet and
upland soils, this tree has
a coarser, less deeply
incised leaf than Q. alba,
and acorns borne on 2- 4"
stalks. It shows good
transplant success.
• Height: 50-60 ft
• Spread: 40-50 ft
• Zone: 4-8
• Leaf: Fall - Yellow-Brown
to Red
• The fastest growing oak
and one of the easiest to
transplant, this tree is
great for street use or as a
landscape tree. The
foliage is dense and
lustrous and leaves hang
on the tree into winter.
• Height: 60-80 ft
• Spread: 50 ft
• Zone: 4-8
• Leaf: Fall - Red
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Crimson Spire™ Oak melds the best
characteristics of its White and English Oak
heritage to produce a fast-growing, hardy,
columnar tree that’s a great fit for streetscapes
and landscape settings. Fastigiate habit and
adaptability are inherited from English Oak
(Quercus robur), while its dark green, mildewresistant foliage and red fall color are inherited
from the White Oak (Quercus alba) parent. A fast
growth rate makes this rugged oak a good
choice for anchoring newer landscapes. It
reaches about 45 feet in height with a 15-foot
spread in 20 years in a typical urban landscape
setting. Dense foliage creates living screens for
blocking unsightly views and muffling traffic
sounds.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.
Height: 45 ft
Spread: 15 ft
Zone: 4-8
Leaf: Rusty Red in Fall
• Chinkapin oak (Quercus
muehlenbergii), sometimes called
yellow chestnut oak, rock oak, or
yellow oak, grows in alkaline soils
on limestone outcrops and welldrained slopes of the uplands,
usually with other hardwoods. It
seldom grows in size or
abundance to be commercially
important, but the heavy wood
makes excellent fuel. The acorns
are sweet and are eaten by several
kinds of animals and birds.
• Height: 40-60 ft
• Spread: 50-70 ft
• Zone: 5-7
• Leaf: Fall - Yellow Brown
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Bloodgood planetree, a selection of the
tough London planetree that is widely
planted in urban areas, is a large shade
tree with a broad open crown and bark
that exfoliates to reveal patches that may
be creamy white, yellow, or olivecolored. The signature ornamental feature
of this huge tree is its brown bark, which
exfoliates in irregular pieces to reveal
creamy white inner bark. 'Bloodgood' has
dark green foliage and is reported to have
some resistance to the problematic
anthracnose disease of sycamores.
Height: 40+ ft
Spread: 20-30 ft
Zone: 3-10
Leaf: Yellow to Brown in Fall
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This river birch cultivar is a vigorous, fastgrowing, medium-sized tree which can be grown
as either a single trunk or multi-stemmed tree.
As a single trunk tree, it develops a pyramidal
habit when young, but gradually matures into a
more rounded habit, typically growing 40-70' tall.
Multi-stemmed trees form a more irregular
shaped crown, and are often considered the
superior growth habit for this tree. This cultivar
features salmon-cream to brownish bark which
exfoliates to reveal a creamy white inner bark
that can be nearly as white as the white-barked
birches. Leathery, diamond-shaped, dark green
leaves (1.5-3.5" long) with doubly toothed
margins are larger and glossier than the species
and turn a respectable yellow in fall. Flowers are
contained in drooping, brownish male catkins (23" long) and insignificant, smaller, upright,
greenish female catkins, both of which appear in
spring on the same tree.
Height: 40-70 ft
Spread: 40-60 ft
Zone: 3-6
Leaf: Fall - Yellow
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Crimson Frost birch is a hybrid between the older Purple
Rain birch (Betula pendula "Purple Rain") and the
Japanese white birch of "Whitespire" fame (Betula
platyphylla var. japonica). It's rich foliage color is actually
a slight improvement over the Purple Rain birch and it
has a much more refined, narrowly upright shape, but it's
real improvement is its dramatically increased resistance
to the dreaded bronze birch borer, which is a real problem
with varieties of Betula pendula, and especially Purple
Rain.
This tree is a true accent tree, and should only be used as
such; in other words, as a solitary either standing alone or
in a garden setting surrounded by complementary-colored
plants (yellows look particularly stunning below!). Be
mindful of its pronounced attributes - its purple leaves, its
very upright spire-like shape and its highly ornamental
bark - and use it where these can be highlighted to their
fullest effect. Like all birches, it enjoys moist to wet soils,
preferably looser and slightly acidic if possible, but it is
quite tolerant of various growing conditions. It does need
full sun for best growth and to hold its color.
Height: 25-40 ft
Spread: 15-25 ft
Zone: 4-7
Leaf: Burgundy
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A beautifully pyramidal shade tree with
interestingly shaped leaves that turn red,
purple and yellow in fall; somewhat
particular about growing conditions; fruit is
spiny and can be somewhat messy, use
where this will not be a problem.
Worplesdon Sweet Gum is a deciduous
tree with a strong central leader and a
distinctive and refined pyramidal form. Its
average texture blends into the
landscape, but can be balanced by one or
two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an
effective composition. This is a high
maintenance tree that will require regular
care and upkeep, and is best pruned in
late winter once the threat of extreme cold
has passed. Deer don't particularly care
for this plant and will usually leave it alone
in favor of tastier treats.
Height: 40 ft
Spread: 25 ft
Zone: 5-9
Leaf: Fall - Red
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Tulip tree or yellow poplar is a large, stately, deciduous
tree of eastern North America that typically grows 60-90'
(less frequently to 150’) tall with a pyramidal to broad
conical habit. Although widely planted throughout the
state of Missouri, it is indigenous to rich woods in only a
few counties in the far southeastern corner of the state.
Trunks of mature trees may reach 4-6’ in diameter,
usually rising column-like with an absence of lower
branching. It is named and noted for its cup-shaped, tuliplike flowers that bloom in spring. Flowers are yellow with
an orange band at the base of each petal. Although the
flowers are 2” in length, they can go unnoticed on large
trees because the flowers appear after the leaves are fully
developed. Sometimes the flowers are first noticed when
the attractive petals begin to fall below the tree. Flowers
are followed by dry, scaly, oblong, cone-shaped brown
fruits, each bearing numerous winged seeds. Four-lobed
bright green leaves (to 8” across) turn golden yellow in
fall. Wood is used inter alia for furniture, plywood,
boatbuilding, paper pulp and general lumber. Native
Americans made dugout canoes from tuliptree trunks.
This is the state tree of Kentucky, Tennessee and
Indiana. Genus name comes from Greek leirion (lily) and
dendron (tree). Tulipifera means tulip bearing.
Height: 60-90 ft
Spread: 30-50 ft
Zone: 4-9
Leaf: Yellow to Gold
Flower: After leaf development