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Canyon live oak makes a spectacular bonsai as well as a good garden specimen in many parts of the countryreaching 100’ after 300years or so. Canyon live oak is found in the Coast Ranges and Cascade Range of Oregon and in the Sierra Nevada in California. Realistically it is zone 6-7 but gary has a plant in the arboretum at Gee’s.

Northern Pin Oak occurs on dry, sandy, usually acidic soils, A midwestern native it can rival scarlet oak for fall color.

Also known as rocky moutain white oak small tree to 6 m (20 ft) tall, or a thicket-forming shrub. bark light gray, furrowed into scaly ridges. leaves alternate, elliptical or oblong, deeply 7-11 rounded-lobed about halfway to midvein, tapering to base, 5-15 cm (2-6 in) long and 3-8 cm (1.2-3.1 in) wide, shiny dark green above, pale green and hairy below. fruits are acorns maturing in the first year, egg-shaped, about 15 mm (0.6 in) long, with cup covering about 1/3.

Don’t bother checking Dirr for this one, it’s a big tree reaching 35m in height, just the thing for your Berkut to perch in when hunting wolves from horseback (those suckers get heavy to carry on your fist).

Want truffles but don’t have space for a wide spreading crown, we have you covered (pigs and fungus not included). I think the fastigiate form of robur is one of the best columnar trees. Picture a pair at your castle gates, or maybe just at the end of the driveway or entrance to your garden.