Plant Selection

Get expert help selecting the right tree or plant for your planting site or garden.

• Plants tolerant of black walnut toxicity
• Plants not favored by deer
• Plants that attract butterflies
• Trees and shrubs for the four seasons landscape
• Trees and shrubs that attract birds
• Invasive trees and plants
• Planting under power lines
• Selecting the perfect Christmas tree
• Selecting and planting trees

Search Trees and Plants

Search tree and plant profiles for descriptions and details that can help you make knowledgeable choices to plan and maintain your home, garden, or community landscape. Enter the particular characteristics you want in a tree, shrub, or other plants to search this list of hundreds of trees, shrubs, and other plants compiled by Arboretum experts.

Selecting and Planting Trees Guide

This publication highlights key factors to consider when planting a tree, including planting site characteristics, purchasing a quality tree, planting a tree, and maintaining the newly planted tree. The guide covers everything from evaluating your soil to when to plant, to what to look for when choosing a quality tree, and how to maintain your tree. A helpful checklist ensures trees will have all they need to thrive once they’re in the ground.

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Six Tips for Selecting a Healthy Tree

Having a hard time with selecting the right tree for your home or outdoor space? Watch Six Tips for Selecting a Healthy Tree and benefit from the advice and wisdom of the Arboretum’s Plant Clinic experts.

Tree and Plant Diseases

Gain insight into common tree and plant diseases that ravage home and community gardens alike.

• Anthracnose of shade trees
• Apple scab
• Black knot of ornamental cherry and plum
• Bur oak blight
• Canker diseases
• Cedar-apple rust
• Diplodia tip blight
• Dutch elm disease
• Fire blight
• Ground cover diseases
• Juniper tip blight
• Oak wilt
• Peach Leaf Curl
• Pine diseases
• Powdery mildews
• Spruce diseases
• Sudden Oak Death, Ramorum Blight, and Phytophthora ramorum
• Tar spot of maple (Rhytisma spp.)
• Verticillium wilt
• Wetwood

Horticulture and Plant Care Topics

• Animal damage
• Chlorosis
• Decline in trees and shrubs
• Drought stress
• Leaf scorch
• Minor plant problems
• Poison ivy control
• Seasonal needle drop
• Tree root problems
• Trunk wounds and decay
• Winter injury

Pest Information

• Aphids
• Ash flower galls
• Asian Longhorned Beetle
• Bagworms
• Black vine weevil
• Borers
• Boxelder bugs
• Bronze birch borer
• Brown marmorated stink bug
• Cankerworms
• Carpenter ants
• Cicadas
• Cottony maple scale
• Elm leaf beetle
• Emerald ash borer
• Elm flea weevil
• Spongy moth
• Honey locust plant bug
• Honeysuckle aphid
• Japanese Beetles
• Magnolia scale (Neolecanium cornuparvum)
• Mites
• Pine moths
• Pine sawflies
• Plant galls
• Scale insects
• Slugs
• Spotted lanternfly
• Spruce gall adelgids
• Tent or web-making caterpillars
• Viburnum crown borers
• Viburnum leaf beetle