Reilly's Summer Seat Farm & Garden Center
1120 Roosevelt Road    Pittsburgh, PA 15237
412-364-8270     info@reillyssummerseatfarm.com

Reilly's Garden Center at Summer Seat Farm

Trees & Shrubs at
Reilly's Garden Center

To design the best garden, you need to look for the right blend of shade loving and sun loving bushes and trees for your environment.

Below, we have a list of some of our favorite trees and shrubs with both the botanical name and the common name.

Browse through this list and come to Reilly's Summer Seat Farm and Garden Center.  We'll help you to choose the right trees and shrubs for your garden and for our Pittsburgh weather.

 

 

Sun Loving Trees & Shrubs

Botanical Name:

Common Name:

Size:

Sun Loving Trees:

Deciduous:

Acer rubrum

Red Maple

40-60 feet

Betula nigra

River Birch

40-70 feet

Ginkgo biloba

Ginkgo

50-80 feet

Koelreuteria paniculata

 Panicled Goldenrain Tree

30-40 feet

Malus

Flowering Crabapple

5-25 feet

Prunus

Flowering Plums and Cherries

variable

Pyrus

Flowering Pears

15-35'

Quercus palustris

Pin Oak

60-70 feet

Quercus rubra

Red Oak

60-75 feet

Needled Evergreens:

Abies concolor

White Fir

30-50 feet

Picea abies

Norway Spruce

40-60 feet

Picea orientalis

Oriental Spruce

50-60 feet

Picea pungens glauca

Colorado Blue Spruce

30-60 feet

Pinus Strobus

White Pine

50-80 feet

Sun Loving Shrubs:

Berberis

Barberry

2-4 feet, by variety

Buddleia davidii

Butterfly Bush

3-10 feet

Cotinus coggygria

Smokebush

8-15 feet

Forsythia

Forsythia

2-10 feet

Hydrangea paniculata

Panicle Hydrangea

10-25 feet

Physocarpus opulifolius

Ninebark

5-8 feet

Prunus cistena

Purple Sand Cherry

7-10 feet

Sambucus nigra

Elderberry

4-10 feet

Spiraea japonica

Spirea

1-3 feet

Syringa vulgaris

Lilac

8-15 feet

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