Trees & Shrubs

Trees & Shrubs

Excitement and anticipation are the air of a new season.  The birds chirping, the sounds of outdoor activity everywhere!  At Van Wilgen’s we have that feeling every day and want to share it with you.  Our team in the nursery yard is here to make it happen. Whether you are looking to freshen up the front of your house, attract birds and butterflies, or just to get outside and dig in the dirt, we are here to help.

Please note, below is a sample of some of our favorite plants that we carry throughout the year, and not a representation of current inventory. To find out what’s in stock, pay us a visit or give us a call. We’re here to help.

Crimson King Norway Maple

Crimson King Norway Maple

Not only does this well formed, symmetrical tree provide cooling summer shade, it also produces stunning crimson foliage. Growing 12 to 18 inches per year, it forms a thick, rounded […]

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Goosfoot Maple

Goosfoot Maple

Striped Maple is an important wildlife food, a favorite for many woodland critters and its nectar is important to honeybees. Typically grown as a small tree it can also grow […]

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Waterfall Threadleaf Weeping Japanese Maple

Waterfall Threadleaf Weeping Japanese Maple

Destined to be a landscape classic, this bright green leaved selection of weeping Maple creates a flowing landscape form with layers of pendulous branches covered with deeply lobed, threadlike leaves […]

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Green Threadleaf Weeping Japanese Maple

Green Threadleaf Weeping Japanese Maple

There are plenty of red dissected leaved Maples out there but ‘Viridis’ with its bright, light to medium green foliage may be the showiest of all the dissected leaved Maples. […]

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Tamukeyama Threadleaf Weeping Japanese Maple

Tamukeyama Threadleaf Weeping Japanese Maple

Great texture and great leaf color combine to make this one of the most desired threadleaf Japanese Maples. With low, spreading form, ‘Tamukeyama’s’ highly cut foliage holds its deep purple […]

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Red Select Japanese Maple

Lacy, deeply cut foliage can be up to 6 inches long and wide with striking red color providing great landscape texture. Red color is retained in summer and turns orange-red […]

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Red Dragon Weeping Japanese Maple

Red Dragon Weeping Japanese Maple

Beautiful and compact, cascading branching make this Maple a perfect choice for the landscape, along with stunning, fine textured deep, dark red foliage that holds its stunning color all summer […]

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Garnet Threadleaf Japanese Maple

With a dense, spreading, cascading form, this plant will weave its way through your landscape with a highly textured brush featuring its large, broadly dissected threadlike foliage that begs to […]

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Inaba Shidare Weeping Japanese Maple

Inaba Shidare Weeping Japanese Maple

This selection is one of the more aggressively growing dissected leaf types and one of the most hardy. Lacy, deeply cut foliage can be up to 6″ long and wide […]

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Crimson Queen Weeping Japanese Maple

Crimson Queen Weeping Japanese Maple

This strong growing beauty combines cascading, flowing branch habit and the finest, filigree-textured leaves to create a specimen that elicits more than its share of oohs and aahs! The foliage […]

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Ukigumo Japanese Maple

Ukigumo Japanese Maple

Try this Japanese Maple for some landscape wow power in the form of great variegated foliage and outstanding, unique form. Ukigumo is Japanese for ‘Floating Cloud Tree’ which seems fitting […]

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Shaina Japanese Maple

Shaina Japanese Maple

Outstanding foliage color and dense, incredible thick form will make this sport of ‘Bloodgood’ your new favorite Japanese Maple. ‘Shaina’ is smaller and slower growing with a tight, rounded, irregular […]

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