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Turkey oak is a handsome mid-sized tree with lovely foliage. The leaves are fresh green until early summer, changing to mid green in summer and pale yellow in autumn. They are typically about 12 cm long, deeply lobed with rounded lobes, and glossy
It grows slowly or medium fast into a tree with rou ...
8 - 13m
5 - 13m
full to partial sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Leaves of this rare daimyo oak are extra large and can reach up to 30 cm in length on adult trees. They are glossy, have rounded lobes, and are almost leathery, just like leaves on evergreen plants. This one, however, is deciduous but still it keeps its old foliage late into winter. The leaves are a ...
6 - 12m
2 - 6m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Holm oak or holly oak (holm is an old word for holly) is native to the Mediterranean and is spread from southern parts of Italy, France, Spain and Portugal, to west Balkan and milder parts of North Africa. It used to form vast areas of evergreen forests most of which are chopped down today. It was f ...
8 - 15m
6 - 8m
full sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Holm oak is a natural species, not a hybrid in spite of two specific names in its Latin title. Around 2000 Tranquillo Matteini discovered a single seedling of different characteristics in his nursery in Pistoia, Italy. After a few years of growing and testing it turned into a beautiful tree with lar ...
4 - 12m
4 - 8m
full sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Bur oak is renowned mainly for its furrowed bark of the trunk and ridged twigs with winged look and corky feeling when touched. Both bark and twigs are pale brown to grey. Deciduous leaves are rather large, up to 25 cm long, light to mid green, firm to almost leathery, deeply lobed towards the petio ...
6 - 15m
4 - 10m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Bamboo-leaf oak, or sometimes also called Chinese evergreen oak is a rare evergreen tree that is not widely used in cultivation in Europe which is a great pity. It has evergreen, bamboo-like, lance-shaped, narrow leaves that emerge bronze-purple and mature to a dark green. Compared to cherry laurels ...
5 - 12m
4 - 6m
full sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Pin oak is a beautiful large tree you can see growing in moist or boggy places. It has beautiful leaves, deeply lobed. They are deciduous, glossy green in summer and orange, red and burgundy purple in autumn. Pin oak is one of the most attractively coloured trees in autumn in the wild.
It grows qui ...
15 - 20m
8 - 12m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
We are always utterly happy when we can introduce a plant which in its original form was too tall or wide for a usual-size garden. But thanks to special breeding we can then enjoy dwarf varieties with slower growth which still keep their main features. This pin oak is a perfect example. The thick co ...
1,5 - 3m
0,5 - 1m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
It is always so nice to learn about a new plant that represents a smaller version of a large species just because many of us want to enjoy its features without having to fear that it will take up the whole of our garden. GREEN PILLAR® is one of them. It is a narrowly columnar variety of pin oak ...
7 - 15m
1 - 3m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Mexican oak is not a widespread tree. It is not listed in many encyclopedias in America and is almost non existent in Europe as it is too tender to grow in most parts of the old continent. Still, there is a mention in 1979 of a special sport selected from this species. At that time Internet was yet ...
2 - 5m
2 - 4m
full to partial sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Common oak is a majestic tree, native to Europe. This variety, however, has strictly upright growth and reduced size so it is suitable for medium-sized gardens, too. The leaves are obovate, with rounded lobes, mid green. Old leaves remain on the tree until the spring when new ones are born. It toler ...
8 - 15m
2 - 4m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Pseudoturneri is a later variety of Turners oak. Its leaves are very similar to common oak, mid green, shallowly lobed and partly glossy. Compared to its hybrid parent it is a little smaller, hardier, and holds its leaves more reliably over the winter. Still, some leaves may fall down at the end of ...
3 - 6m
2 - 4m
full sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Columnar hybrid oak REGAL PRINCE® is a result of crossing seeds of English oak (quercus robur Fastigiata) and swamp white oak (quercus bicolor). The aim was to achieve a hardier form of columnar oak since the English oak proved too sensitive in harsh arctic winds in Illinois. This experiment wa ...
7 - 15m
3 - 6m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
