(Picea pungens 'Baby Blue Eyes')

Zones: 3-7

Grow Rate: Slow

This new hybrid keeps its blue color. It’s eye catching, silvery blue foliage makes a striking accent to the landscape. It has a broad, pyramidal habit and requires no pruning. This tree is excellent for smaller-spaced areas.

(Picea glauca densata)

Zones: 2-6

Grow Rate: Slow

Ornamental evergreen, with short, bright green to bluish needles. Dense, conical in shape, ideal in windbreaks or screens.

(Picea pungens)

Zones: 2-7

Grow Rate: Slow-Medium

A broad, dense, conical evergreen with gray-green to blue-green foliage. It does well in dry situations.

(Picea pungens 'Fat Albert')

Zones: 3-7

Grow Rate: Slow

A stout, pyramidal grower with steel-blue foliage.

(Picea abies)

Zones: 3-7

Grow Rate: Moderate-Fast

Fastest growing of the spruces. Develops strong graceful branches that are covered with dark green needles. Ideal windbreaker.

(Tsuga canadensis)

Zones: 3-7

Grow Rate: Slow-Moderate

A feathery, pyramidal evergreen that is suitable as a specimen or screen, branches often droop. Can be easily sheared into a hedge.

(Abies Concolor)

Zones: 4-7

Grow Rate: Slow

Conical in form, having distinct, horizontally layered branching. Foliage is grey to blue-grey in color.

(Pinus nigra)

Zones: 4-7

Grow Rate: Moderate

Darkest green of all the pines. Heavy, long needle with strong "Northwoods" fragrance. Vigorous, dense grower. Tolerates heat, cold, and adverse conditions.

(Pinus strobus)

Zones: 3-8

Grow Rate: Rapid

A five needled pine, with soft, light green-blue needles, 2 to 4 inches long. It is an easily transplanted and fast growing tree.

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(Betula nigra)

Zones: 4-9

Grow Rate: Moderate-Fast

The cinnamon-colored, exfoliating bark of the River Birch is spectacular in the winter. Lustrous, medium-green leaves that turn a golden yellow in fall. Resistant to birch borer. Tolerant of wet soils and very heat resistant. Avoid very alkaline soils.

(Thuja occidentalis 'American Pillar')

Zones: 3-8

Grow Rate: Fast

A narrow and fast growing columnar evergreen tree with dark green foliage that holds its color in winter; makes an excellent articulation tree or tall hedge, hardy and heat tolerant, takes pruning well; best with some sun, protect from drying winds.

(Thuja occidentalis 'degroot spire')

Zones: 5-7

Grow Rate: Slow

The Degroot's Spire Arborvitae is a striking accent plant with a narrow, columnar form and rich green, twisted foliage. DeGroot's Spire creates an attractive and functional screen, or becomes a handsome green wall for that special outdoor area.

(Thuja occidentalis 'smaragd')

Zones: 2-7

Grow Rate: Slow

A very narrow and upright shrub in habit. Bright green foliage year round.

(Thuja standishii x plicata)

Zones: 5-7

Grow Rate: Rapid

A vigorously growing, pyramidal evergreen with rich green color that remains outstanding throughout hardiness range.

(Thuja occidentalis 'holmstrup')

Zones: 3-7

Grow Rate: Slow

Compact and pyramidal with bright green, tightly clumped foliage.

(Thuja occidentalis 'Nigra')

Zones: 4-7

Grow Rate: Fast

Dark green foliage persisting through the winter. Insect and disease resistant. This low maintenance arborvitae needs full sun to partial shade. Useful as a specimen, accent, windscreen, or commonly used in foundation plantings. It makes one of the finest year-round hedges that form a natural fence around your home. Very hardy, very green, and very dense!

(Thuja plicata 'grovepli')

Zones: 5-7

Grow Rate: Rapid

Dark, glossy green foliage that maintains excellent winter color and a tight pyramidal habit. Cold hardy, excellent resistance to deer browsing.

(Thuja occidentalis 'techny')

Zones: 3-8

Grow Rate: Rapid

Pyramidal form with dark green foliage. One of the hardiest of the arborvitae.

(Acer x freemanii 'Jeffersred')

Zones: 3-8

Grow Rate: Rapid

The Autumn Blaze Maple is a hybrid of two famous trees, the red and silver maples, and it soon surpassed them in looks and popularity. It captured the two trees' quality characteristics, such as brilliant red color, dense branching, and rapid growth rate.

(Acer rubrum 'October Glory')

Zones: 4-9

Grow Rate: Moderate

The October Glory 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. A great tree for lawn planting or as a street tree. Although, October Glory is less cold hardy than other red maple varieties it has better heat tolerance and is better adapted to the warmer climates.

(Acer rubrum 'Franksred')

Zones: 4-8

Grow Rate: Moderate-Fast

The Red Sunset Maple tree is considered one of the best trees for early fall color. This is a large deciduous tree that has pyramidal form when young becoming rounded with age. Glossy green leaves turn brilliant orange-scarlet, extremely showy. The leaves are shiny green above and pale green beneath, with outstanding orange to red fall color. An excellent choice for lawn or street planting.