Trees & Shrubs at Reilly's Garden Center
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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 |