Our Favorite Deciduous Trees

Below is a hardiness key by location:

Location

USDA Hardiness Zone

Bend

3 to 5 (Sometimes 6)

Crooked River Ranch

4 to 5 (Sometimes 6)

Culver

4 to 5 (Sometimes 6)

La Pine

3 to 4

Madras

4 to 5 (Sometimes 6)

Prineville

3 to 5 (Sometimes 6)

Redmond

3 to 5 (Sometimes 6)

Sisters

3 to 5 (Sometimes 6)

Growth Rates:
Typically our growing season is from spring to the end of summer. Growth rates vary depending on the species, climate, shade requirements, access to sunlight, root growth limitations, and many other variables. Not all growing seasons are the same. A saying goes first they sleep, then they creep, then they leap. In other words, expect the growth rates during the initial two to three seasons to be slow and low.
Generally sun loving and dwelling deciduous trees grow faster than shade loving and dwelling trees. Sun loving trees with a big spreading canopy can grow upwards of a foot of growth per growing season.   

We have multiple varieties of these deciduous trees with fall color.  

Scientific Name: Acer platanoides

Sun Exposure: Sun loving

Canopy Shape: Varying canopy shapes but often are spreading shade creating canopies.

Height: 25-35 ft tall and 15-25 ft wide

Screen: Summer screening

Deer Resistance: No deer resistance. Trunk protector reccomended.

Hardiness: 3 to 9

Flowers & Fruit: Flowers aren’t typically showy and fruit are paired samaras (helicopter seeds).

We have multiple varieties of these deciduous trees with fall color.  

Scientific Name: Acer rubrum 

Sun Exposure: Sun loving

Canopy Shape: Varying canopy shapes but often are spreading shade creating canopies. One variety that we carry is columnar (Armstrong red maple).

Height: 25-35 ft tall and 15-25 ft wide

Screen: Summer screening

Deer Resistance: No deer resistance. Trunk protector reccomended.

Hardiness: 3 to 9

Flowers & Fruit: Flowers aren’t typically showy and fruit are paired samaras (helicopter seeds).

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We have multiple varieties of these deciduous trees with fall color.  

Scientific Name: Quercus shumardii & Quercus palustris

Deciduous trees with fall color

Sun Exposure: Sun loving

Canopy Shape: Spreading round canopy

Height: 35-40 ft tall and 30 ft wide

Screen: Summer screening

Deer Resistance: No deer resistance. Trunk protector reccomended.

Hardiness: 4 to 9 (depending on variety)

Flowers & Fruit: Non-showy flowers and fruit are acorns.

Deciduous tree with fall color.  

Scientific Name: Alnus rubra

Deciduous tree with fall color

Sun Exposure: Partial sun 

Canopy Shape: Spreading round canopy.

Height: 20 ft tall and 15 ft wide

Screen: Summer screening.

Deer Resistance: No deer resistance. Trunk protector reccomended.

Hardiness: 4 to 6

Flowers & Fruit: Catkins, male pollen flowers and female cone-like fruit.

We have multiple varieties of these deciduous trees with fall color.  

Scientific Name: Prunus

Sun Exposure: Sun loving

Canopy Shape: Spreading shade creating canopies or columnar.

Height: 15-20 ft tall and varying width.

Screen: Summer screening

Deer Resistance: No deer resistance. Trunk protector recommended.

Hardiness: 4 to 9

Flowers & Fruit: Flowers are showy and fruit are unremarkable.

Krauters Flowering Plum

Scientific Name: Prunus cerasifera

Sun Exposure: Sun loving

Canopy Shape: Spreading and shade creating canopy.

Height: 15-20 ft tall and 10-15 ft wide

Screen: Summer screening

Deer Resistance: No deer resistance. Trunk protector recommended.

Hardiness: 4 to 9

Flowers & Fruit: Flowers are showy and fruit are unremarkable. 

Cleveland Flowering Pear  

Scientific Name: Pyrus calleryana ‘Cleveland select’

Sun Exposure: Partial Sun

Canopy Shape: Columnar

Height: 25 ft tall and 10 ft wide

Screen: Summer screening

Deer Resistance: No deer resistance. Trunk protector recommended.

Hardiness: 5 to 9

Flowers & Fruit: Flowers are showy and fruit are unremarkable.

Scientific Name: Prunus virginiana ‘Canada Red’

Sun Exposure: Sun loving

Canopy Shape: Spreading shade creating canopies or columnar.

Height: 15-20 ft tall and 10-15 ft wide.

Screen: Summer screening

Deer Resistance: No deer resistance. Trunk protector recommended.

Hardiness: 4 to 9

Flowers & Fruit: Flowers are showy and fruit are unremarkable.

Scientific Name: Betula nigra

Sun Exposure: Partial

Canopy Shape: Spreading and round

Height: 15 ft tall and 10-15 ft wide

Screen: Summer screening

Deer Resistance: No deer resistance. Trunk protector recommended.

Hardiness: 4 to 9

Flowers & Fruit: flower and fruit unremarkable.

Simon columnar poplar

Scientific Name: Poplus simonii ‘Fastigiata’

Sun Exposure: Sun loving

Canopy Shape: Columnar (however standard columnar poplar has a rounded spreading canopy)

Height: 30 ft tall and 6-8 ft wide

Screen: Summer screening

Deer Resistance: No deer resistance. Trunk protector recommended.

Hardiness: 2 to 5

Flowers & Fruit: flower and fruit unremarkable

We have multiple varieties of these deciduous trees with fall color.  

Scientific Name: Poplus

Sun Exposure: Sun loving

Canopy Shape: Rounded to columnar

Height: 25-35 ft tall and varying width.

Screen: Summer screening

Deer Resistance: No deer resistance. Trunk protector recommended.

Hardiness: 4 to 8

Flowers & Fruit: unremarkable flower and fruit

We have multiple varieties of these deciduous trees with fall color. Shade loving.

Scientific Name: Cornus

Sun Exposure: Needs shade

Canopy Shape: round 

Height: 15 ft tall and 10-15 ft wide

Screen: Summer screening

Deer Resistance: No deer resistance. Trunk protector recommended.

Hardiness: vary (all cover 5-7)

Flowers & Fruit: remarkable and vary

Kousa dogwood: red-purple fall color, 5-8 hardiness, yellow-green flowers and pink fruit.

Cornelian cherry: yellow-brown fall color, 4-8 hardiness, yellow flowers and red fruit (edible).

Chinese dogwood: 5-8 hardiness, white flowers and red fruit. 

Stellar pink: 5-8 hardiness, pink-white flowers and no fruit (sterile).

Wolf’s eye dogwood: red-pink fall color, 5-8 hardiness, white flowers and red fruit.

Eddie’s white wonder: bright red fall color, 5-7 hardiness, white flowers and green-red fruit. 

We have multiple varieties of these deciduous trees with fall color.  

Scientific Name: Malus

Sun Exposure: Part sun

Canopy Shape: rounded

Height: 15-20 ft tall and 10-15 ft wide

Screen: Summer screening

Deer Resistance: No deer resistance. Trunk protector recommended.

Hardiness: 4 to 8

Flowers & Fruit: Flowers vary and remarkable. Fruit unremarkable (except for brandywine crab which has a tasty and heftier crop).   

We have multiple varieties of these deciduous trees with fall color. Shade loving. 

Scientific Name: Acer palmatum 

Sun Exposure: Needs shade

Canopy Shape: Vary, weeping to upright rounded multistem habits.

Height: Vary, low end 3-4 ft, high end 10-15ft 

Screen: Vary (only with summer foliage)

Deer Resistance: No deer resistance. Trunk protector recommended.

Hardiness: 5-8

Flowers & Fruit: Flowers aren’t typically showy and fruit are paired samaras (helicopter seeds), unremarkable.

Scientific Name: Acer circinatum

Sun Exposure: Needs shade

Canopy Shape: Multistem spreading

Height: 15 ft tall and 10-15 ft wide

Screen: Summer screening

Deer Resistance: No deer resistance. Trunk protector recommended.

Hardiness: 5 to 9

Flowers & Fruit: Flowers aren’t typically showy and fruit are paired samaras (helicopter seeds).

Autumn gold

Scientific Name: Gingko biloba ‘Autumn gold’

Sun Exposure: Partial

Canopy Shape: Varying canopy shapes but often are spreading shade creating canopies.

Height: 25-35 ft tall and 15-25 ft wide

Screen: Summer screening

Deer Resistance: No deer resistance. Trunk protector recommended.

Hardiness: 4 to 9

Flowers & Fruit: Male flowers and no fruit.

Scientific Name: Larix occidentalis

Sun Exposure: Sun

Canopy Shape: Cone

Height: 80 ft tall and 30 ft wide 

Screen: Summer screen (needles turn golden in the fall and are detached)

Deer Resistant: Less deer resistant. Protection is encouraged.

Hardiness: 2-6

Scientific Name: Larix decidua ‘pendula’ 

or twisted variety

Larix kaempferi ‘twisted sister’

Sun Exposure: Shade

Canopy Shape: Weeping to twisted dwarf

Height: 10 ft tall and 8 ft wide 

Screen: Mild summer screen (needles turn golden in the fall and are detached)

Deer Resistant: Less deer resistant. Protection is encouraged.

Hardiness: 2-6 (weeping) and 4-6 (twisted)