Visiting Select Horticulture Inc. in Pound Ridge, New York
I'm always looking for interesting and healthy plants and trees. I love visiting different nurseries to see what specimens they have for my ever-evolving Bedford, New York farm.
Not long ago, I visited Select Horticulture Inc. in Pound Ridge, New York to purchase a selection of European hornbeams and yews for my living maze. Select Horticulture offers an extensive inventory of premium quality trees and shrubs including large sizes, unusual and rare specimens, with both stand-alone and mature espaliered options.
Here are some photos, enjoy.
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- Select Horticulture Inc. has locations in Lancaster, Massachusetts and here in Westchester, New York right off route 137.
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- The nursery is filled with beautiful and well maintained specimens. Every row of trees and shrubs is neat, tidy, and every item properly identified.
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- There are lots of evergreen shrubs and mature trees.
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- I always notice the boxwood – these boxwood shrubs come in a variety of sizes from small to these medium-sized specimens to mature giants.
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- These are apple trees, Malus domestica ‘Red Delicious,’ the most widely planted apple tree in North America. It grows at a fast speed of more than 24-inches per year. Its mature height and width vary from 10 feet for the dwarf, 12 to 15 feet for the semi-dwarf, or 20 to 25 feet for a standard.
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- Every tree is connected to an extensive water irrigation system. There are multiple stakes in each root ball that connect to the water source.
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- Acer griseum is the paperbark maple or blood-bark maple – a species of flowering plant in the family Sapindaceae, native to central China. It is a small, deciduous, oval to oval-rounded tree with slender upright branching.
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- Most interesting is this tree’s bark – copper orange to cinnamon reddish-brown bark which exfoliates.
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- These are Bloodgood Japanese maple trees – several being trained on this trellis. In its maturity, the Bloodgood Japanese maple will reach between 15 to 20 feet tall, with a small narrow trunk. One of the most attractive features is its ability to retain its color throughout the seasons – a deep burgundy in spring that lasts throughout summer and then changes to a bright red in fall.
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- This is Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca Pendula’ – a weeping blue atlas cedar. This is a beautiful, pendulous evergreen tree. And because it is a free-form weeping plant, it can be trained, trellised, espaliered, and even grown as a bonsai to fit various garden spaces.
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- This is Sciadopitys verticillata, commonly called a Japanese umbrella tree. It has a dense, narrow, conical to pyramidal habit when young, but tends to open up with age. It gets its common name from the umbrella-like whorls of needles that grow at the ends of the branchlets and branches. In its native habitat in Japan, this evergreen conifer may grow to 90-feet tall. In cultivation in the U.S., however, it typically matures to about 30-feet tall over many years.
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- Each whorl on the Sciadopitys verticillata contains 20 to 30 soft, flattened, dark green needles that radiate outward – almost like the ribs of an opened umbrella.
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- Six Cercis canadensis ‘Forest Pansy’ trees were pulled out and prepared for pick up. This tree is commonly called an eastern redbud – a deciduous, often multi-trunked understory tree with a rounded crown that typically matures to 20 to 30 feet. It features purple-leaves and has an attractive red-orange fall color. Its common name, Judas tree, comes from legend. Biblical literature records that after betraying Christ, Judas Iscariot hanged himself from this kind of tree.
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- Eastern redbud leaves are alternate, simple, broadly heart-shaped and three to five inches high and wide.
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- Cercis canadensis ‘Vanilla Twist’ is a small tree with beautifully cascading branches.
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- And it has the same charming heart-shaped leaves.
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- There are many hornbeams, Carpinus betulus, of all sizes including this giant specimen.
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- And these giant columnar Carpinus betulus Frans Fontaine – a dense hornbeam with a narrowly upright and columnar growth habit.
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- Here are our European hornbeams – all stacked in our dump truck and ready to go back to the farm to get planted in the maze.
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- If you’ve ever looking for a selection of quality trees or shrubs, and live in or around Pound Ridge, New York, or Lancaster, Massachusetts, be sure to visit Select Horticulture Inc. There’s something for everyone.
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