Bradford Flowering Pear

$44.95

It is one of the most fireblight-resistant cultivar of the flowering pears. The Bradford Flowernig Pear, Pyrus calleryana, 'Bradford', is an extremely popular, vigorous growing, medium size, shade tree with outstanding clusters of white blooms in spring and very attractive terrific yellow to red to purple foliage color in fall. They are pest- and pollution-resistant, and tolerate drought well. A great benefit of the Bradford is that it is a rapid grower, achieving a 12 to 15 feet increase in height over an 8- to 10-year period. Bradford Pear trees are shallow-rooted and will tolerate most soil types. The Bradford pear is a beautiful garden addition that produces no edible fruit. This flowering tree grows best in full sun. ... more information

Swamp Chestnut Oak Swamp Chestnut Oak strongly prefers soils that are moist, permanently moist, or permanently wet, and tolerates standing water (as in periodically inundated floodplains) for several weeks at a time. The acorns are sweet and serve as food to wildlife. One of the important timber trees of the South, it grows on moist and wet loamy soils of bottom lands, along streams and borders of swamps. The Swamp Chestnut Oak tree, Quercus michauxii, is known also as a basket oak for the baskets made from its wood, and cow oak because cows eat the acorns. Swamp chestnut oak trees are deciduous and have leaves that vary from four to eight inches in length, are downy beneath and turn a rich crimson in the fall. Swamp chestnut oak trees are well-formed and become quite large (80 feet tall) with a narrow crown. A good shade tree. Good seed crops occur at intervals of 3-5 years with poor to fair production in between. The high quality wood is used in all kinds of construction and for implements.

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