Landscaping: Fast & Slow Growers

Fast & Slow Growers

FAST GROWING
Type	Botanical Name	Common Name
TREE	Acer 'Autumn Blaze'	Autumn Blaze Maple
TREE	Betula ‘Heritage'	Heritage Birch
TREE	Gleditsia	Honeylocust
TREE	Liquidambar sty. ‘Rotundiloba'	Sweet Gum
TREE	Liriodendron	Tulip Tree
TREE	Metasequoia glypostroboides	Dawn Redwood
TREE	Picea abies	Norway Spruce
TREE	Pinus strobus	Eastern White Pine
TREE	Pyrus	Flowering Pear
TREE	Quercus rubra	Red Oak
TREE	Salix discolor	Pussy Willow
TREE	Salix niobe	Golden Weeping Willow
TREE	Tilia cordata	Little-leaf Linden
TREE	Tilia tomentosum	Silver Linden
TREE	Thuja plicata	Western Red Cedar
TREE	Ulmus americana	American Elm
SHRUB	Aronia	Chokeberry
SHRUB	Forsythia	Forsythia
SHRUB	Hamamelis	Witch Hazel
SHRUB	Juniperus chinensis	Juniper (all varieties)
SHRUB	Juniperus horizonalis ‘Wiltoni’	Blue Rug Juniper
SHRUB	Physocarpus	Ninebark
SHRUB	Prunus x cistena	Sand Cherry
SHRUB	Viburnum dentatum	Arrowhead Viburnum
SHRUB	Viburnum plicatum tomentosum	Doublefile Viburnum (all varieties)
SHRUB	Weigela	Weigela

SLOW GROWING
TREE	Abies concolor	Concolor Fir
TREE	Acer palmatum dissectum	Laceleaf Maple
TREE	Acer palmatum 'Madame Butterfly'	Japanese Maple
TREE	Acer pl. 'Crimson Sentry'	Norway Maple
TREE	Acer saccharum	Sugar Maple
TREE	Acer sh. 'Aureum'	Golden Fullmoon Maple
TREE	Fagus grandiflora	American Beech
TREE		Tricolor Beech
TREE	Franklinia alatamaha	Ben Franklin Tree
TREE	Nyssa sylvatica	Black/Sour Gum
TREE	Picea pungens	Colorado Spruce
TREE	Rhamnus frangula	Fernleaf Buckthorn
TREE	Sciadopitys verticillata	Umbrella Pine
TREE	Tsuga canadensis 'Pendula'	Weeping Hemlock
SHRUB	Buxus m 'Green Gem' Buxus x 'Green Mountain' Buxus x 'Wee Willie'	Boxwood
SHRUB	Chamaecyparis obtusa	Hinoki Cypress
SHRUB	Picea glauca 'Jeans Dilly'	Alberta Spruce
SHRUB	Pinus cembra 'Glauca'	Blue Swiss Stone Pine
SHRUB	Pinus strobus 'Nana'	Dwarf White Pine
SHRUB	Pinus sylvestris 'Waterri'	Scotch Pine
SHRUB	Rhododendron yakushimanum	Yaku Rhododendron