(European Beech)

Cherished for its smooth gray bark, elegant deciduous foliage, stately habit, and adaptability, European beech has long been a garden favorite on its native continent and elsewhere. Named for its small circular leaves, the cultivar 'Rotundifolia' is also notable for its dense compact rounded habit. Emerging before those of most other European beeches, the glossy, elliptic, wavy-edged leaves are luminescent light green when new, dark green in summer, and rich gold or bronze in autumn. Inconspicuous...

(European Beech)

Cherished for its smooth gray bark, elegant deciduous foliage, stately habit, and adaptability, European beech has long been a garden favorite on its native continent and elsewhere. The purple spring leaves of the cultivar 'Spaethiana' are smaller and darker than those of the famous 'Riversii', and remain purple longer. They also emerge and drop a week or two later. The leaves are deep glossy metallic purple in spring, mature to dark greenish purple in summer, and turn coppery gold in autumn. Inconspicuous...

(European Beech, Tricolor European Beech)

Cherished for its smooth gray bark, elegant deciduous foliage, stately habit, and adaptability, European beech has long been a garden favorite on its native continent and elsewhere. A weak-growing cultivar introduced before 1870 and rarely found today, 'Tricolor' has elliptic wavy-edged leaves that are green with pink margins in spring before fading to white in summer. The tree commonly known as tricolor beech is actually 'Purpurea Tricolor', also known as 'Roseomarginata'.

Tough and reliable,...

(European Beech)

Cherished for its smooth gray bark, elegant deciduous foliage, stately habit, and adaptability, European beech has long been a garden favorite on its native continent and elsewhere. Bearing soft yellow spring leaves that emerge weeks before those of most other European beeches, 'Zlatia' was discovered in Serbia about 1890. The relatively large, wave-edged, elliptic leaves become bright green in summer and yellow in autumn. Inconspicuous flowers in spring give rise to bristly capsules that ripen to...

(Copper Beech, European Beech, Purple Beech)

The copper beech is a stately slow-growing deciduous tree native to central Europe eastward into the Caucus Mountains. Bronze-purple leaves emerge in the spring and become a lustrous muted purple by summer and then a rich coppery-bronze in autumn.

This magnificent specimen tree with its smooth silver-gray bark is an excellent choice for use in large open areas. Adapted to a wide variety of soil types, copper beech performs best in acidic to neutral soils. This stately tree casts heavy shade and...

(European Beech)

Dwarf, naturally occurring forms of European Beech with twisted, gnarled, contorted branches, these trees are the stuff of haunted castles and griffins' lairs. Radiating from a stubby, crooked trunk, the zigzagging branches wander outward and downward, forming a domed crown. The glossy, elliptic, wavy-edged leaves are luminescent light green when new, dark green in summer, and rich gold or bronze in autumn. In winter, the gothic labyrinth of bare branches makes a striking sight. Inconspicuous flowers...

(European Beech)

Cherished for its smooth gray bark, elegant deciduous foliage, stately habit, and adaptability, European beech has long been a garden favorite on its native continent and elsewhere. Distinguished by its cut or lobed leaves, variety heterophylla has given rise to several well-known cultivars, including the lacy-leaved 'Asplenifolia'. Glistening golden-green in spring, the leaves mature to dark green in summer. In autumn they turn shades of yellow, orange and bronze. Inconspicuous flowers...

(European Beech)

Cherished for its smooth gray bark, elegant deciduous foliage, stately habit, and adaptability, European beech has long been a garden favorite on its native continent and elsewhere. Introduced around 1800, the cultivar 'Asplenifolia' has slender lacy leaves that are often deeply lobed. Shimmering golden-green in spring, the leaves mature to rich green in summer. In autumn they turn shades of yellow, orange and bronze. Inconspicuous flowers in spring give rise to bristly capsules that ripen to tan...

(European Beech)

Cherished for its smooth gray bark, elegant deciduous foliage, stately habit, and adaptability, European beech has long been a garden favorite on its native continent and elsewhere. Introduced in 1795, the cultivar 'Laciniata' has elliptic leaves with deeply toothed margins. Glistening golden-green in spring, the leaves mature to deep green in summer. In autumn they turn shades of yellow, orange and bronze. Inconspicuous flowers in spring give rise to bristly capsules that ripen to tan in late summer...

(Silver Lace Vine)

Russian vine is a rampant, deciduous, woody vine that produces a profusion of small white flowers in summer and fall. Hailing from Afghanistan, Pakistan and nearby surrounds in central Asia, it likes to spread via rhizomes, or its underground stems. This twiner has glossy, mid-green, heart-shaped leaves that have bronze tones when young. Showy masses of greenish-white flowers appear from late summer to fall, followed by pinkish-white fruit. It is deciduous in cooler regions, and can be evergreen...