Ornamental Trees for Charleston Gardens

Beautify Your Landscape with Colorful Flowers and Leaves

Searching for the perfect ornamental tree for your landscape? We've got a great selection for you! From the earliest spring bloomers to spring and fall foliage interest, these selections are a feast for the eyes. Pollinators will appreciate their beautiful flowers as well!

Redbud Trees
​One of the earliest spring bloomers
Redbuds are a crowd pleaser with vibrant, pinky-purple blooms along bare branches followed by the lovely, heart-shaped leaves. Leaf color and mature size depends on variety, but these are generally considered small to medium-sized ornamental trees. A showpiece for your landscape, these trees prefer a spot where they'll get a break from harsh, direct afternoon sunlight.​

Fringe Trees
​Beautiful puffs of white
Both our native and Chinese (shown) Fringe Trees offer showy white blooms in early spring. The native Fringe Tree has multiple trunks while the Chinese Fringe Tree is typically grown with a single trunk. Either choice is perfect for smaller spaces in the landscape as they mature to 15-20 feet tall and wide (maintainable at a smaller size with pruning).​

Chaste Trees
​Pollinators flock to the purple blooms
The Brownswood Grown Shoal Creek Chaste Tree (Vitex) is a flowering favorite that adds a bold splash of color to the landscape late spring into summer. Useful as a large shrub or small, ornamental tree, the sun-loving Chaste Tree grows quickly to 10-15 feet tall and wide and is easily maintainable with pruning.

Magnolia Trees
​A classic choice
From the traditional, grand Southern Magnolia with large, fragrant blooms to the space-saving Tulip Magnolia (shown) with colorful flowers in early spring, these trees make quite the statement in the landscape. Southern Magnolias provide privacy year-round while the Tulip Magnolias shed their leaves for the winter months.

Japanese Maple Trees
​Colorful foliage and unique form
One of the most colorful foliage choices, Japanese Maples boast bright new foliage in spring, stunning color changes in fall, and unique forms and/or bark color during the winter when branches are bare. Japanese Maple sizes vary depending on variety - upright varieties may be maintained anywhere between 15-20 feet tall x 5-10 feet wide whereas weeping varieties may only reach 6-10 feet tall and spread 6-8 feet wide. All are maintainable at smaller sizes with pruning. 

Crape Myrtle Trees
​Vibrant flowers that last for weeks
These gorgeous trees grace Charleston gardens with a breathtaking display of vibrant and abundant blooms year after year. Whether you prefer hues of pink, red, lavender, or white, there's a Crape Myrtle to suit your landscape. Mature size depends on variety, so be sure to speak with a nursery professional at our Garden Center about your space to find the selection that will best fit your needs.

It's easy to see why these selections are some of our guests' favorites. Visit our Garden Center soon for these and other new arrivals to add beauty to your landscape!

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