Red buckeye is a feast for the eyes when in flower and the parent tree of these seedlings has flowers that are a TRUE deep red (we mention this because we read that sometimes the tree flowers greenish, though we've never seen that). Can you name many another native southeastern...

Yellow buckeye, a giant flowering tree of the Appalachians, comes down the mountain and does just fine away from the other mountain folk (mountain trees, in this case). Stately, showy, native, and shady. If you have space to let it dominate and you want something a little different than typical...

This Chinese relative to Persian ironwood (Parrotia persica) is aptly called Chinese Ironwood and is also related to those Distylium shrubs over there in the shrub department. Hamamelidacea is one of our favorite families due to the winter-flowers and three seasons of high leaf quality. Regarding Parrotia subaequalis, let's start talking about this...

This hybrid magnolia is a big surprise in spring when the flowers show up with the leaves on the tree, when we all think the phase of voluptuous, rich pink, saucer-like magnolia blossoms is a sweet memory. The leaves being on the tree in no way take away from the gorgeous display....

You collect native trees, you say? Well, I bet you don't have this one! This elm-like native is a smallish, yet fast-growing tree for wet soils and the average to poor soils of a typical neighborhood. It grows 20 to 30' tall and wide in swamps of the Coastal Plain of...

The snowdrop-like flowers and smaller-statured head are what bring Jack tree into the limelight. Jack tree is certainly an uncommon small tree. Have you ever seen it before? We'd like to see more of it in gardens and landscapes because it is a tough and beautiful addition to the vast line-up of trees that thrive...