Quercus rubra (Northern Red Oak)

Fraxinus spp.

Ash

White ash (F. americana) and green ash (F. pennsylvanica) can be found across most of the Eastern USA, from Southern Canada, Nova Scotia down to Northern Florida, and to the...more

Ginkgo biloba ‘Princeton Sentry’

Ginkgo biloba ‘Princeton Sentry’ (gingko)

‘Princeton Sentry’ is an all-male cultivar with an upright, narrowly conical habit. Leaves turn a uniform golden yellow in autumn and persist for several weeks. When the leaves do drop,...more

Prunus ‘Okame’

Prunus ‘Okame’ (okame cherry)

The okame cherry is a small, deciduous tree featuring mildly fragrant, rosy-pink flowers in early spring. The flowers completely cover bare branches, appearing earlier than most cherries.   A hybrid of Prunus campanulata and Prunus incisa, okame cherry requires full sun to...more

Quercus shumardii

Shumard oak

Shumard oak is a medium sized, deciduous tree in the red oak group. It performs well in full sun, average soil and tolerates a variety of moisture conditions.  Pyramidal in youth but spreads to a...more

Acer x freemanii ‘Celebration’

Freeman’s Maple

The selection has a contoured, upright, uniform branching structure with a good central leader and rarely requires pruning to maintain its naturally symmetrical form. It’s known for being disease resistant, tolerant of urban pollution...more

Ulmus americana

American elm

American elm is native from Saskatchewan to Nova Scotia south to Texas and Florida. It was the first tree planted at the Holden Arboretum in 1931. That tree, a scion...more

Liquidambar styraciflua

Sweetgum

Liquidambar styraciflua, meaning “liquid amber” and “flowing with gum,” refers to the sweet “gum” that exudes from wounds on the trunk of this member of the witch-hazel (Hamamelidaceae) family. Sweetgum...more

Quercus Macrocarpa

Bur Oak

“Monarch of the woodland is the Oak, of all trees most dear to us who live in northern lands.” Ernest Henry Wilson, Aristocrats of the Trees Native primarily to the central...more