We Grow From SeedGolden Bough Tree Farm

RARAFLORA 2010

Our nursery is a research station disguised as a business. For decades now we have been browsing the north temperate world for plant material strong enough for our climate and fine enough for our customers.

Is a plant rare because it's hard to find in Nature or because it's seldom offered? We have both.

NUT TREES

The Buddah taught that everyone should plant and tend one tree at least every five years. As long as this was observed, the whole large area of India was covered with trees, free of dust, with plenty of water, shade and food.
E.F. Schumacher
'Small is beautiful'

Juglans sieboldiana
JAPANESE WALNUT Z4/14m
This gorgeous import combines the wood & dye qualities of Butternut. Immense, frond-like, elliptic leaves seem almost tropical. Will hybridize with native walnuts. Vigorous grower, immune to canker. High landscape value.

Pterocarya stenoptera
CHINESE WINGNUT Z4b/28m
Massive Asian ornamental related to walnuts and hickories and named for its curious winged nutlets. Drought tolerant. Leaves dark and lustrous. Fine examples within the Niagara park system.

Corylus colurna
TURKISH TREE HAZEL Z5b/6m
Outstanding ornamental food tree from Asia Minor. (Turkish's steep Black Sea coast is the world's HDQ for Corylus species.) N. America candy makers import tons of its crisp round kernels. The only tree-hazel (along with a Chinese cousin), its strict pyramidal form, curious corky bark and drought tolerance make it a landscaper's dream.

EXOTIC ASIANS

One of the great wonders of nature is why similar trees grow in eastern North America and North Central China, and nowhere else. The answer involves continental drift, the Pleistocene Ice Age and Miocene Weltwald or World Forest.

Catalpa erubescens X japonica
HYBRID CATALPA Z5/7m
This cross between Asian and American species of Catalpa produces a large 'tropical' leaf and hanging clusters of purplish foxglove-like flowers. Formerly called Indian Bean for its long dangling seed pods. Exotic.

Caragana turkestanica
TURKISH PEA SHRUB Z3/3m
Drought tolerant toughie from Central Asia. Suitable for xeriscaping and reconditioning poor soils, but like all transplants, it must be watered for two summers to get established. Yellow flowers.

EVERGREENS

Pruning evergreens

Abies lasiocarpa
ALPINE FIR Z3/15m
Grows in impenetrable monocultures around alpine lakes in the Rockies. Prefers damp, mineral soils. Its narrow spine-like form of considerable interest to landscapers. A cluster of Alpine Fir around a wetland always attracts attention.

Picea koriensis
KOREAN SPRUCE Z4/15m
Narrowly pyramidal in habit with horizontal branches uplifted at tips. Exfoliating bark. Rarely offered. Korea's flora resembles that of S.E. Canada.

Pinus monticola
WESTERN WHITE PINE Z4/16m
More drought tolerant and less spreading in form than eastern White Pine. Needles long, slender and flexible, bluish-green in tight bunches. Disease resistant. Excellent Christmas tree or lawn specimen.

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