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Amur Maple
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- 4 inch:
- Plugs:
- 1 gallon:
- 2 gallon: 100
- 5 gallon: 50
- 10 gallon: 5
Description
Shrub or Tree 15-20' tall.
Zone 3
Good for specimen or screen requiring little care. Very hardy and tough. Dense foliage, bright red summer fruit, fragrant flowers and vivid scarlet autumn colour make this an excellent ornamental.
Black Cottonwood
Stock Availability
- 4 inch:
- Plugs: 500
- 1 gallon: 600
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Description
Large tree with open crown, fast growing to 100 feet or more. Large green leaves, silvery beneath, turn yellow in fall. Habitat is moist to wet soils, stream bank and flood plains. Bees collect the resin which is an anti-infectant for hives. Native American uses: sweet inner bark and cambium tissue eaten in late spring and early fall as soon as it was harvested. Buds were used for medicinal purposes. Used gum from spring buds as a glue to adhere arrowheads and feathers to shafts of arrows. Dugout canoes.
Black Hawthorn
Stock Availability
- 4 inch:
- Plugs: 500
- 1 gallon: 300
- 2 gallon: 200
- 5 gallon: 100
- 10 gallon:
Description
Mid size tree to 20ft tall. Branching nature creates a nice rounded look. Beautiful spring flowers lead to dark berries favoured by many birds. Great in smaller gardens or as part of larger landscapes.
Douglas Fir
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- 4 inch:
- Plugs:
- 1 gallon:
- 2 gallon: 500
- 5 gallon: 300
- 10 gallon:
Description
Long lived large tree to 200 feet. Requires more water than Ponderosa pine but often found in the same areas. Needles 1 inch, cones 2-4 inches with distinctive bracts. Thick bark makes them somewhat fire resistant when mature. Important timber and wildlife tree. Native American uses: spear handles, poles, fishing barbs, and caulking (pitch) for canoes and vessels.
Douglas Maple
Stock Availability
- 4 inch:
- Plugs:
- 1 gallon: 250
- 2 gallon: 100
- 5 gallon: 50
- 10 gallon:
Description
Tree or large shrub, to 30 feet. Ideal for partially shaded areas. Habitat is moist soils, along canyon and mountain slopes in coniferous forests. More open and drier sites than Vine Maple. Leaves are green in spring, turning bright yellow to crimson in fall. Red color of "winged seeds" and new twigs contrast beautifully with the green leaves. Native American uses: wood used for snowshoe frames.
Mountain Alder
Stock Availability
- 4 inch:
- Plugs: 2000
- 1 gallon: 50
- 2 gallon:
- 5 gallon: 3
- 10 gallon:
Description
Small tree to 20 ft. Habitat is banks of streams and swamps, mountain canyons in moist soils. Native American uses: Navajo Indians used powdered bark to make red dye.
Pacific Willow
Stock Availability
- 4 inch:
- Plugs: 500
- 1 gallon: 300
- 2 gallon: 100
- 5 gallon: 20
- 10 gallon:
Paper Birch
Stock Availability
- 4 inch:
- Plugs:
- 1 gallon: 200
- 2 gallon: 100
- 5 gallon:
- 10 gallon: 2 - 15 gal
Description
Large tree, up to 100 feet, with pendulous branches. Green leaves with yellow fall color. Habitat is moist soils, all across North America. Clump tree with white bark and small leaves attractive in landscapes with ample water. Bark is so durable, it will remain after fallen tree has rotten away. Native Americans used bark for canvas and to create decorative patterns in woven baskets.
Ponderosa Pine
Stock Availability
- 4 inch:
- Plugs:
- 1 gallon:
- 2 gallon: 1500
- 5 gallon: 1000
- 10 gallon:
Description
Our Inland's signature tree. Long-lived, grows to 100 feet or more. Needles 6 inches or longer, cones 3-4 inches. Distinctive thick, reddish, scaly bark. (Loggers call this tree "yellow pine" because in very old trees, 2 feet or more in diameter, the bark becomes gold in color.) Important timber and wildlife tree. Habitat is mostly mountains in pure stands, dry sites. Native Americans used bark scales for small, hot fires and the wood for canoes.
Rocky Mtn. Juniper
Stock Availability
- 4 inch:
- Plugs:
- 1 gallon: 150
- 2 gallon: 100
- 5 gallon: 100
- 10 gallon:
Description
Upright shrub or small tree to 20 feet. Grey-green, scale-like foliage, dark blue berries. Habitat is dry, rocky soils. Very drought tolerant, but will take irrigation if in well drained site. Use in landscape for screens, hedges, or as a background plant.
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Sitka Alder
Stock Availability
- 4 inch:
- Plugs:
- 1 gallon: 300
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Description
Small tree or large shrub, often multi-trunked, to 15 feet. Habitat is moist, open areas in the sub-alpine zone, avalanche tracks, and burned areas. Good for erosion control. Adds to soil fertility by adding organic matter and nitrogen from bacteria on root nodules.
Trembling Aspen
Stock Availability
- 4 inch:
- Plugs:
- 1 gallon: 300
- 2 gallon: 50
- 5 gallon: 30
- 10 gallon: 5 - 15 gallon
Description
Tree with straight trunks, grows to 20 feet, useful in partially shaded or full shade areas. Leaves 3", rounded or heart-shaped, quiver in the breeze. Golden yellow color in fall. Habitat is many soil types, sandy to gravely slopes, stream banks to mountain slopes. Short lived. Best used in grouping, naturalized gardens. Spreading roots send up new shoots that develop into trees. A "grove" of aspen is often biologically only one plant with all the trees sharing a root system. A "pioneer tree" after fires and in abandoned fields, it is short lived and often replaced by conifers.
Water Birch
Stock Availability
- 4 inch:
- Plugs: 3000
- 1 gallon: 400
- 2 gallon: 100
- 5 gallon: 20
- 10 gallon:
Description
Graceful tree to 30 feet, with pendulous branches. Clumpy in form. Green leaves turn yellow in fall. habitat is in moist soils, along streams and in mountain canyons. Landscape uses: wet sites and natural gardens. Coppery brown bark is attractive.
