Trees & Shrubs

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Trees & Shrubs

Our nursery covers 4.5 acres, with more than 500 varieties of trees, shrubs, vines and ground covers. Our knowledgeable staff will help you select the perfect trees and shrubs to complement your garden setting.

Challenges? Nope, opportunity. snowbell

After scouring catalogs and gardening magazines for the latest annuals, perennials, and vegetables, take a deep breath and look at your landscape. What do you see? Challenges? Nope, opportunity. Why not plant some trees? This is the perfect time to

Flowering trees make a wonderful backdrop or focal point. Size and shape varies from the early-booming Redbud (cercis Canadensis), with a spreading upright habit; Japanese Snowbell (Styrax japonica) pictured right, which is adorned with beautiful and fragrant bell-shaped flowers in June; or the fast-growing Flowering Cherry (Prunus), which is available in weeping, as well as upright, varieties ranging from 10’ and taller. There are several varieties of Dogwood (Cornus florida) to consider, as well as Flowering Pear (Pyrus calleryana), Flowering Plum (Prunus cerasifera) and Magnolia (Magnolia).

If you are a fruit lover, we have a wide selection of fruit tree varieties from which to choose, such as a mini-dwarf peach, which can grow in a container on your deck or patio, or an apple tree, which can reach a height of 30 to 40’.

Shade trees, such as Maple (Acer) and Oak (Quercus), provide shade for your home, deck, or garden. Planting a shade tree on the southern exposure of your house will cool your home during the hot summer sun and, because it is deciduous, it permits the warmth of the sun during the winter months. Shade trees provide privacy, a habitat for nature, and glorious color in the fall.

Plant and Be Counted!

Forests are our most strategically important natural resource. Trees protect water quality, clean our air and provide wildlife habitat. One large tree can eliminate 5,000 gallons of stormwater runoff each year, and well placed trees can help reduce energy costs by 15 to 35 percent.

Trees & Shrubs Trees also enhance our quality of life, beautifying neighborhoods and highways, providing sound barriers and shade, and helping increase property values.

Today the State of Maryland is partnering with businesses, communities and citizens like you to help fund and plant new tree cover. Our State agencies are working to plant 1 million new trees by 2011.

Explore the Marylanders Plant Trees website for advice on where, how and what type of trees to plant, and discount coupons – made possible through environmental mitigation fines and participating vendors -- for your tree purchases. Then, come back and register the trees you’ve planted, site them on our interactive map and calculate their benefits to you and our planet!

Working together as One Maryland, we can not only preserve our remaining tree cover but grow new trees to create a smarter, greener State for our planet and for future generations.

Win Great Prizes!
Register the trees you plant for a chance to win gift cards, rain barrels, a yacht tour and more!
→ Click here for details.

Click here to download a coupon from their website. Coupon is valid only for trees listed on the Marylanders Plant Trees Recommended Tree List, found at www.trees.maryland.gov/pickatree.asp

Learn more about what your State government is doing to create a more sustainable future and how your participation can make a difference at www.green.maryland.gov

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