Tree Sale Spring 2015 Eaton Conservation District Serving People, Caring for soil and water resources in Eaton County Upcoming Events

Tree Sale Spring 2015 Eaton Conservation District Serving People, Caring for soil and water resources in Eaton County Upcoming Events Youth Go Green Challenge: January 13 th - March 31 st, writing contest entries due March 3 Quiet Water Symposium: March 7 East Lansing, MI MSU Ag & Natural Resources Week March 1-9 th East Lansing, MI Honeybee 101 - Wildlife Workshop: March 18 th Basement Conference Room Annual Tree Sale Pick-up: April 17 th at Kardel Hall, Eaton County Fairgrounds Statewide Arbor Day Celebration: April 24 th, Potter Park, Lansing For more information about any of these or to sign up, please call our office at (517) 543-5848 X 5 Planting Trees and Shrubs for Wildlife Trees and shrubs can help provide a wide variety of backyard landscape designs while creating valuable wildlife habitat. Planting trees and shrubs offers a variety of benefits to your home. They add color to landscapes, provide shade in summer, protection from wind in winter, and offer texture to the area around your home. These plantings reduce the size of your lawn, which saves you time and money as you will not need as much mowing, fertilizers, or pesticides. They may also increase the value of your home. The wildlife habitat that trees and shrubs create includes sites for nesting and rearing young, secure winter cover, and summer, fall, and winter foods. For example, dense pines and spruces provide roosting sites and escape cover for mourning doves, chickadees, and other songbirds. Gray dogwood and American mountain-ash offer fall fruits to migrating birds, and oaks and hickories provide hard mast (nuts) to squirrels and blue jays in winter and cool shade on hot summer days. There are four factors to consider when choosing trees and shrubs for your backyard: (1) your landscaping goals, (2) wildlife values of the trees and shrubs, (3) their aesthetic characteristics (color, texture, height), and (4) your landscape s characteristics (soils, slope, location). Plants that serve multiple purposes, such as providing both food for wildlife and aesthetic beauty for your home, deserve the strongest consideration. Landscaping Goals: Before deciding what to plant, you must determine what goals you have for landscaping. Are you interested in creating a colorful backyard? Do you want to develop visual barriers from neighbors or sound barriers from a noisy street? Is providing shade important? Is your goal to protect your home from winter winds? Wildlife Values: You should also choose trees and shrubs based on their value to wildlife. Food production and cover are the two most important values that trees and shrubs have for wildlife. Both of these habitat components are critical during all months of the year. Aesthetic Characteristics: When choosing trees and shrubs for your property, considering their characteristics such as color, texture, and height, which will help you to provide a pleasing landscape. Landscape Characteristics: Another important factor to consider before selecting trees and shrubs is the characteristics of your property, which may include soil types and locations of your plantings. Before planting, it's a good idea to determine the ph and available nutrients in your soil. For example, you should not plant a shrub that is needs moist, acidic soils on a dry, sandy site. Even though the shrub may fit all of your landscape goals (color, texture, wildlife value), it may not fit in with your landscape characteristics.

Conifers Douglas fir Pseudotsuga menziesii: Medium sized tree 36-60ft at maturity. Moderately fast growing /long lived. Popular Christmas tree. Seeds are consumed and plant material browsed by: mice, voles, chipmunks, shrews, rabbits, beaver, gophers, deer, various birds Red Pine Pinus resinosa: Moderate to fast growing tree that is 50-80 feet tall at maturity. It grows best in well drained sandy soils and full sun. Dark green needles are 4-6 long in bundles in of two. It is used for windbreaks, landscaping and timber. White Pine Pinus strobus: Michigan s State tree! Moderate to fast growing tree that can reach 80-100 feet tall. It prefers rich, moist to well-drained soils & is shade tolerant. Needles bluish-green, soft, grow in bundles of 5. Used for timber, wildlife, cover & windbreaks. In general, pines make excellent winter cover and roosting trees for many species of birds. Seeds eaten by a wide variety of birds, squirrels and small mammals. Colorado Blue Spruce Picea pungens: This is the most adaptable of the spruces and does well on any upland soil. It prefers full sun and grows 30-60 feet tall. Needles are bluish-green to silvery. Used for landscaping, Christmas trees and windbreaks. Norway Spruce Picea abies: Moderately fast growing tree that reaches 60-90 feet in height. It prefers moist clay to loam soils and is shade tolerant. Needles are dark and short. Valued for landscaping, windbreaks and wildlife cover. White Spruce Picea glauca: Michigan s native spruce. Slow growing, shade tolerant and can be 60-90 feet tall. Prefers well drained clay to clay loam soils but tolerates heat, drought and high water. Used for landscaping, windbreaks and wildlife cover. Hardwoods/Deciduous Trees Catalpa (Northern) Catalpa speciosa -Shade intolerant, fast growing, moderately long lived. 30-50 ft tree. Medium sized tree with large, heart-shaped leaves and elongated seed pods. Historically planted for fence posts because of fast growth and durable wood Black Walnut Juglans nigra: Reaches 60-80 feet in height and a trunk diameter of 2-3 feet. This hardwood is shade tolerant. It grows best on moist sandy loams. The nuts produced are a good food source for wildlife. The timber is valued for furniture, veneer and gun stocks. This tree does put allopathic chemicals into the soil which may prohibit some plants from growing around it. Red Oak Quercus rubra: Relatively fast growing tree that reaches 60-90 feet tall. Grows well on well drained soils and requires full sun. This tree is great for timber, wildlife and landscaping. Acorns of oaks constitute perhaps the most important food source for a wide variety of wildlife including wild turkeys, woodpeckers, squirrels, and deer. Red Maple Acer rubrum: Fast growing tree that can reach 45-60 feet in height. It will grow in poorly drained and well drained soils and is shade tolerant. It is valued for its red buds, twigs and fall color. This is a good tree for landscaping and for wildlife. Samaras are widely consumed by birds and squirrels. New growth is browsed by deer. Sassafras Sassafras albidum Fast growing, short lived 30-60 ft tree. Oil of sassafras is used to flavor medicines, candy, rootbeer, tobacco and soap. Uses include furniture, lumber, fence posts, rails, and wooden pails. Shagbark Hickory Carya ovata slow growing, long lived, 60-82 ft tree. Hickories are members of the walnut family, and the fruit of the shagbark hickory is highly prized by both humans and wildlife! The fruit is a nut with a hard outer husk that splits open when ripe. Black bears, foxes, mice, chipmunks, squirrels, rabbits, turkeys, and a number of birds enjoy the delicious nuts every fall. Sugar Maple Acer saccharum: Slow to medium growing tree that reaches 80-100 feet tall. Grows well on moist soils and is moderately shade tolerant. This tree is used for timber, landscaping, and maple syrup production. It is sometimes used in shelterbelt plantings. White Birch Betula papyrifera: This is a fast growing tree that reaches 35-65 feet tall and has paper like bark. Prefers full sun and does not tolerate shade well. Most often found in sandy gravelly soils but can be fairly adaptive to other types. Paper birch is also an important source of food for birds. The redpoll, pine siskin, and chickadee feed on seeds; the ruffed grouse eats male catkins and buds Small Trees/Shrubs Common Lilac Syringa vulgaris: Large shrub that produces large aromatic flower clusters. Generally between 8-12 f t tall but can reach up to 20 ft at maturity. Flowers are purple and bloom from late spring to early summer. Does well in a wide range of soils but requires full sun for optimum flower production. This is a great plant for landscaping and privacy screens. Flowering dogwood Cornus florida Shade-tolerant, slow growing, long lived16-33 ft tree. Showy large white flowers, appearing in spring. Highbush Cranberry Viburnum trilobum: Grows 4-10 feet tall, prefers moist sites. Flowering shrub that produces small white clusters of flowers followed by red fruit. Excellent wildlife plant, fruit provides great winter food source for birds. Can tolerate some shade. Red-osier Dogwood Cornus stolonifera: Grows 3-9 feet tall. Older twigs have a red or purplish red color that lasts all year creating an attractive winter focal point. This is a great plant for stream bank restoration, landscaping, and providing wildlife food and cover. Speckled alder very shade intolerant, moderately fast growing, short lived. 6-25 ft tall shrub. Forms dense thickets along streams Spicebush Lindera benzoin:a large shrub with several stems, usually rounded in outline up to 15 feet tall. Leaf has strong, spicy odor when crushed

Soils Wet, Moist, Medium, Dry Eaton Conservation District SPRING 2015 TREE SALE Growth Rate F=Fast M=Medium S=Slow EVERGREENS Blue spruce Medium S M 5-10 X $14 $20 $30 $42 $150 Norway spruce Medium M-F 5-10 X $14 $20 $30 $42 $150 White spruce Medium-moist S 5-10 X $14 $20 $30 $42 $150 Red pine dry-medium F 4-7 X $14 $20 $30 $42 $150 White pine Medium moist F 4-7 X $14 $20 $30 $42 $150 Douglas fir Dry-medium M-F 5-10 X $14 $20 $38 $48 $140 EVERGREEN TRANSPLANTS Blue spruce age 2-2 Medium S - M 15-24 $20 $30 $54 $80 $140 X Norway spruce age 2-2 Medium M - F 15-24 $20 $30 $54 $80 $140 X TREES/SHRUBS Black walnut rich moist loams F 6-12 $12 $18 $29 $50 $90 X Catalpa (Northern) Medium - moist F 12-18 $14 $22 $38 $68 X X Common lilac Medium M 12-24 $12 $18 $29 $50 $90 X Highbush cranberry Medium-moist M 6-12 X X $25 $40 $ X Hybrid poplar moist & sandy loams F 12-24 X $14 $22 $40 $67 X Red oak Medium M 6-12 $12 $16 $27 $48 $85 X Red-osier dogwood Medium moist M 6-12 X X $22 $35 $67 X Red maple Medium F 12-24 $12 $18 $29 $50 $90 X Sassafras Medium-dry F 12-18 $14 $22 $38 $68 X X Shagbark hickory Dry-Medium-Wet (not S 6-12 $14 $22 $38 $68 X X flooded) Speckled alder Wet, open along streams M-F 6-12 $12 $18 $29 $50 $90 X Spicebush Dry-Med-Wet F 6-12 $12 $16 $27 $48 $85 X Sugar maple Medium S 6-12 $12 $16 $27 $48 $85 X White birch Medium moist F 12-24 $12 $18 $29 $50 $90 X White flowering Dry-Medium S 2-3 $15 $27 $48 X X X dogwood FRUIT TREES most fruit trees need 2 species to cross pollinate (except peaches and plum) Honeycrisp Apple - "explosively crisp" with an unbeatable sweet, juicy flavor. Large fruit. 4-5 ft $17 each or $30/pair Gale Gala Apple deep red striping, mild sweet flavor. Fresh eating, pies, sauce, baking, etc 4-5 ft $17 each or $30/pair Granny Smith Apple - brilliant green, very crisp, very tart apple. Used for many purposes. 4-5 ft $17 each or $30/pair Liberty Apple- similar to McIntosh, but its flavor is more tart and its flesh is crisper. Good 4-5 ft $17 each or $30/pair choice for backyard orchard because it is highly productive and resistant to major diseases. Spartan Apple - The fruit is medium to large, with a dark red mahogany color and a metallic 4-5 ft $17 each or $30/pair sheen like McIntosh. The flesh is pure white, firm, aromatic, and finely flavored. It is a good dessert and sauce apple. Regina Cherry - It is dark red with reddish flesh and sweet tart flavor. The large fruit is 4-5 ft $17 each or $30/pair exceptionally firm and more crack and split resistant than most sweet cherries Bing Cherry - deep mahogany colored fruit that is firm and juicy. Known as the standard for 4-5 ft $17 each or $30/pair flavor, it has meaty, purple flesh. Redhaven Peach - The flesh is yellow with a little red near the pit. It is juicy, sweet, and very 4-5 ft $17 each or $30/pair tasty. Hardy varieties, very productive, with resistance to bacteria spot. Empress Plum- The Empress plum ripens early September and produces a deep blue fruit. 4-5 ft $17 each or $30/pair Size 5 10 25 50 100 500 Number Ordered BERRIES, PACKETS, & BOOKS (Nurseries may make substitutions on trees included in packets as available) QTY COST Draper - Blueberry 12-18 Plants 5-6 ft at maturity. Medium firm bright blue berry. High quality fruits will store for long periods of time in storage $7 each, 5 for $33, 10 for $52 Elizabeth - Blueberry 12-18 Plants 6 ft at maturity. High yield with very large fruit -known for excellent flavor. $7 each, 5 for $33, 10 for $52 Jewel - June bearing Strawberry Bare root. Large firm, deliciously sweet, excellent for fresh eating or canning/preserving. The perfect Strawberry for home gardens! 12/ $3, 25 /$5, 50/ $10 Albion - Everbearing Strawberry Bare-root. High sugar content strawberry. Firm fruit resistant to many diseases. 12 /$3, 25/ $5, 50/ $10 Caroline - Red Raspberry The fine flavorful fruits are mostly sweet with a hint of acidity. Fruit size is large, up to 2.4 grams per berry with COST

Eaton Conservation District 551 Courthouse Drive, Suite 3 (517) 543-5848 X 5 www.eatoncounty.org/ Nonprofit Presorted U.S. Postage PAID mit 123 Conservation District Staff Board of Directors NRCS Staff Andrea Stay, Executive Director William Bradford, Chair Tim Redder, District Conservationist Jennifer Silveri, MAEAP Technician Tom Raymond, Vice Chair Jennifer Hunnell, Arbor Day Coordinator Jim Droscha, Treasurer Rachael Loucks, Watershed Coordinator David Brown, Secretary Sue Spagnuolo, Bookkeeper Keith Moss, Member excellent firmness - important for storage. The plants are highly vigorous producing a large amount of sucker stems. Plants are highly resistant to common fungal diseases. Caroline is a good choice for late summer through fall fruits $3.50 each, 5 for $16, 10 for $30 Midwest Native Wildflower Seed contains annuals and perennials that are native to the Midwestern US. Black-Eyed Susan, Butterfly Milkweed, Clasping Coneflower, Dwarf Evening Primrose, Grey-Headed Coneflower, Indian Blanket, Lance-Leaved Coreopsis, Lavender Hyssop, New England Aster, Ohio Spiderwort, Ox-Eye Sunflower, Pale Purple Coneflower, Plains Coreopsis, Prairie Aster, Prairie Coneflower, Prairie Ironweed, Purple Coneflower, Purple Prairie Clover, Sweet Black-Eyed Susan, Thickspike Gayfeather and White Upland Aster. Planting rate 6oz/1000 sq ft. 2 oz/$16 4 oz/$32 ½ lb/$64 1 lb/$128 Eastern US Pollinator Mix Wildflower Seed Contains a balanced blend of native annuals and perennials that provide nectar and pollen throughout the growing season. Black-Eyed Susan, Blue Wild Indigo, Brown-Eyed Susan, Butterfly Milkweed, Eastern Columbine, Gray Goldenrod, Indian Blanket, Lance-Leaved Coreopsis, Lavender Hyssop, Lemon Mint, New England Aster, Ohio Spiderwort, Partridge Pea, ennial Lupine, Plains Coreopsis, Purple Coneflower, Showy Tick Trefoil, Spotted Beebalm, White Upland Aster, and Wild Sunflower. recommended planting rate 9 oz/1000 sq ft 2 oz for $12 4 oz for $23 ½ lb for $46 1 lb for $92 Pond Habitat Tree/Shrub Packet (Native) Includes 2 each of Red-osier dogwood, Button Bush, Ninebark, Pussy Willow, and Sycamore. 18-24 $25/Packet Native Nut Tree/Shrub Pack: Includes 3 Hazelnut, 2 Northern Pecan, 3 Butternut, and 2 Black Walnut 6-12 $20/Packet Book: Backyard Orchardist: A Complete Guide to Growing Fruit Trees in the Home Garden by Stella Otto $16.50 SUPPLIES Marking Flags 4 x5 flag 30 tall $5 25 $9 50 $13 100 Tree Shelters w/ stake 4ft. $4 ea Tree Planter - $50 per day requires 3 point hitch (call to schedule) Slow Release Fertilizer Tablets (12-8-8) Increase soil fertility. Each packet includes 10 (7 gram) tablets $5.00/pkt Terra Sorb Planting gel prevents stress by increasing the water holding capacity of soil. 3 oz $6.00/pkt FULL PAYMENT MUST ACCOMPANY ORDER Cash Check CC Subtotal Last day to order March 20, 2015!! Pick up April 17 6 % Sales Tax Date Rec d Donation Name TOTAL AMOUNT Address Email address: City,State,ZIP Daytime phone: Accepting Credit Cards!! Visa Mastercard Credit Card # Exp. Date Security Code Please mail this order form with payment before March 20 th, 2015. Earlier orders will have a better chance of being filled. It is unlawful for these trees to be resold with roots attached. (PA of 1981 as amended). The Eaton Conservation District (ECD) does not guarantee any stock once it leaves the building. ECD is not responsible for orders not picked up during the scheduled distribution date. All remaining stock will be sold following the distribution date. Contact the ECD