Tree: evergreen

This little beauty is a great evergreen for small gardens or for grouping in larger landscapes. 'Top Point' White Cedar is a truly dwarf evergreen, growing only 3" per year and reaching only four feet at maturity. Its blue foliage is soft in appearance and makes a tidy foundation planting that can also serve as the backdrop for herbaceous perennials. 'Top Point' grows slowly, so it is ideal for container combinations. Its tolerance for wet soils makes White Cedar a great choice for rain gardens or detention ponds.

This evergreen conifer is the best bird attracting tree in Eastern North America. Its 25' pyramidal form provides dense cover year round, and its shredding bark is used by many birds for nest construction. Female trees produce round, gray or bluish berry-like cones which 80 species of birds adore. Cedar waxwings earned their common name because of their reliance on the fruit.

Benefits:

Dense evergreen provides year round cover and nesting sites for many birds

80 species of birds feed on the fruit

Host plant for olive hairstreak butterfly

Fragrant foliage and wood

Adapts to almost any growing condition and makes a good windbreak

'Moon Glow' is a vigorous grower with a distinctly upright growth habit and lemon-scented, creamy white flowers bloom well after the last frost. Plants flower heavily in mid-spring then continue sporadically through summer. The foliage is shiny green on top with silver on the lower side. Foliage is evergreen to semi-evergreen, depending on where you live. The cone-like fruits contain bright red seeds and are an important source of food for birds in the fall. Benefits:

Waxy, white fragrant flowers for many weeks

Evergreen to semi-evergreen foliage

Seeds are good source of food for birds in fall

Vigorous grower

Grows in wet soil

Eastern white pine is a rapid-growing, long-lived, needled evergreen that is pyramidal in its early years but matures to a broad oval habit with an irregular crown. Blue-green needles are soft to the touch and make a soothing sound when wind passes through the branches. The evergreen needles provide good year round cover for all types of birds, including hawks and owls (raptors). Brown, 4-8" long cones are produced when trees reach (about) 10' tall. The seeds, bark and foliage are eaten by wildlife. Benefits:

Fast growing tree with evergreen needles

Good year round cover for birds

Provides nesting sites for owls, hawks, bald eagles and other raptors

Seeds in cones provide food for birds and other wildlife

Larval food for eastern pine elfins

This large pyramidal tree sports dense, bright green, aromatic, scale-like foliage that forms thick horizontal sprays on its branches that create essential bird cover. Winter color ranges from bronze to a crimson-purple. Inconspicuous flowers bloom in April and attract butterflies to its tiny bloom.