Canopy Trees
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![Asimina triloba (pawpaw), a native tree offered by Woodlanders, photographed at OSU.]()
![Crataegus opaca mayhaw with clusters of coral-red fruit used for jelly]()
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![Machilus thunbergii, a broadleaf evergreen tree offered by Woodlanders.]()
![Black gum (Nyssa sylvatica) glossy green summer foliage.]()
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![Pistacia chinensis, Chinese pistache, clusters of red-to-blue fruit.]()
Bare Root1 Gallon![Quercus alba white oak foliage with rounded lobes turning red in fall]()
![Quercus coccinea scarlet oak foliage, deeply lobed leaves with C-curved sinuses]()
![Quercus michauxii swamp chestnut oak, silver-backed leaves and reddish-orange fall color]()
Bare Root1 Gallon![Quercus phellos willow oak foliage, slender smooth-edged green leaves]()
Bare Root1 Gallon![Quercus shumardii Shumard oak, broad rounded canopy of a mature shade tree]()
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![Styrax japonicus, Japanese snowbell, small flowering tree hung with white spring bells.]()
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![Acer griseum, paperbark maple, trifoliate leaves turning scarlet and orange in autumn]()
1 Gallon1 Quart![Acer rubrum 'Candy Ice', variegated red maple, pink and cream variegated foliage]()
![Carpinus caroliniana, American hornbeam, smooth muscled gray bark and fine green foliage of a native tree.]()
About the Canopy Trees Collection
Canopy trees are the tall, spreading trees that form the highest layer of a planting, the oaks, maples, and their many companions that rise above the shrubs and reach for open sky. Given room and time, they become the defining features of a landscape: the shade over a summer lawn, the structure against a winter sky, the framework the rest of the garden is arranged around.
In the landscape nothing else does their work. A single well-placed canopy tree cools a house through summer, shelters the ground below for shade plantings, and gives a garden the vertical scale and permanence that no shrub or perennial can. Sited with their mature spread in mind, they frame views, line drives, and turn an open lot into a place with depth and shelter.
We grow canopy trees because they are the single most valuable thing most people can plant. A mature native tree supports more wildlife than any other plant in the garden, hosting hundreds of species of caterpillars and the birds that eat them, sheltering nests, and offering mast and cover for decades. Add the shade, the stored carbon, and the sheer beauty, and no other planting gives back so much for so long.
Plant for the long game: give each tree the room a mature canopy demands, get the roots off to a strong first few years, and choose for the site rather than forcing the site to fit. Many are also Southeastern Natives; for the evergreen framework alongside them see our Conifers, and for the layer beneath, our Large Shrubs.
