Yellow Delicious Apple is a small tree that is typically grown for its edible qualities. It produces large chartreuse round apples (which are botanically known as 'pomes') with yellow overtones and white flesh which are usually ready for picking from early to mid fall. The apples have a sweet taste and a crisp texture.

The apples are most often used in the following ways:

Tawara Asian Pear has an upright oval shape with glossy green foliage that looks great all season long. White flowers in spring develop into unusual dark tan to light brown crisp fruit that tastes like a cross between apple and pear. The fruit is excellent for eating or canning. Asian pear cultivars are partially self-fruitful, but better crops are set where two or more cultivars are planted together. European pears or Asian pears, such as ‘Seckel,’ ‘Bosc,’ or ‘Bartlett’ can be used for pollination.

Black Satin Thornless Blackberry is a small shrub that is typically grown for its edible qualities. It produces large clusters of black oval berries which are usually ready for picking in mid summer. The berries have a sweet taste and a juicy texture.

The berries are most often used in the following ways:

Pink Lemonade Blueberry is a medium-sized shrub that is typically grown for its edible qualities. It produces clusters of rose round berries which are usually ready for picking from early to mid summer. The berries have a sweet taste and a firm texture.

The berries are most often used in the following ways:

Contender Peach is a small tree that is typically grown for its edible qualities. It produces gold round fruit (technically 'drupes') with a scarlet blush and yellow flesh which are usually ready for picking in mid summer. Note that the fruits have hard inedible pits inside which must be removed before eating or processing. The fruits have a sweet taste and a juicy texture.

The fruit are most often used in the following ways:

Boyne Raspberry is a medium-sized shrub that is commonly grown for its edible qualities. It produces red heart-shaped berries which are usually ready for picking from early to mid summer from early to mid summer. The berries have a sweet taste and a juicy texture.

The berries are most often used in the following ways:

The Coho Red Raspberry (rubus idaeus 'Coho') is an deciduous upright is a primocane red raspberry shrub named after the Coho salmon that are renowned for their brilliant red body coloration and late spawning runs. ‘Coho’ has high yields of late-ripening large, bright red, very firm berries that are easy to pick. Extra firmness makes Coho a great choice for freezing.

Encore Raspberry is a medium-sized shrub that is commonly grown for its edible qualities. It produces clusters of red heart-shaped berries which are usually ready for picking from mid to late summer. The berries have a sweet taste and a juicy texture.

The berries are most often used in the following ways:

A hardy disease-resistant variety producing red fruit with great aroma and flavor for freezing, canning and pies; while technically a primocane variety, it is virtually everbearing, producing a moderate crop in early summer and a heavier crop in fall.

Heritage Raspberry is a small shrub that is typically grown for its edible qualities. It produces clusters of red heart-shaped berries which are usually ready for picking from early summer to early fall. The berries have a sweet taste and a juicy texture.

The berries are most often used in the following ways:

A mounding plant producing large, bright white blooms, contrasting fine textured, purple foliage that darkens to near-black; deadhead spent flowers for reblooming later in the season; attractive even when not in bloom

Mariken Dwarf Ginkgo is primarily valued in the garden for its ornamental globe-shaped form. It has bluish-green deciduous foliage which emerges chartreuse in spring. The fan-shaped leaves turn an outstanding buttery yellow in the fall.

Morning Light Maiden Grass features bold plumes of coppery-bronze flowers rising above the foliage in late summer. Its attractive grassy leaves are green in color with distinctive white edges. The foliage often turns tan in fall. The creamy white seed heads are carried on showy plumes displayed in abundance from early fall to late winter.

This compact selection forms a small, upright clump of striking blue-green leaves; airy heads of dark red flowers appear on plumes in late summer; perfect as an accent or massed in borders

This bold garden perennial features very showy deep red flowers; attractive, glossy, deep violet-purple leaves that mature to green; ideal for the mixed garden border or in mass; do not allow to dry to wilting point

Summerific® Spinderella Hibiscus features bold white round flowers with shell pink overtones, dark red eyes and shell pink edges at the ends of the stems from mid summer to early fall. Its large glossy oval leaves remain green in color throughout the season.

Illinois' woodlands are home to the American hornbeam, a striking native tree that grows to heights of 25 to 40 feet. Its beautiful bark adds a lovely touch to any naturalistic garden, and in the fall, its leaves change to vibrant shades of yellow, scarlet, and reddish-purple. This tree truly shines in the winter, when its unique blue-gray branches are on full display. Often referred to as musclewood for its muscular-looking bark, and ironwood for its heavy and durable wood, the American hornbeam is a standout native plant that consistently showcases its stunning characteristics.

Palisade® American Hornbeam has forest green deciduous foliage on a tree with an oval habit of growth. The serrated pointy leaves turn outstanding shades of yellow and in the fall. It produces small clusters of brick red hop-like fruit from early fall to late winter, which fade to brown over time. The furrowed gray bark adds an interesting dimension to the landscape.

A cultivar of a charming small deciduous tree, native to the eastern US, that works well under power lines and along the street. This tree produces an attractive dark green, wide-spreading canopy that turns red and orange in the fall. The smooth gray trunk has distinctive muscle like fluting evoking its other common name, musclewood.

Elegant tree with a tight oval habit and clean dark green foliage makes an amazing tall hedge or vertical accent. The winter character is exquisite with the slender branches smartly arranged around the main trunk. Needs no pruning to maintain its shape, but takes shearing well. Tolerant of a wide range of soil conditions and moderate shade.

A dense dwarf variety with excellent form and few troubles; columnar habit makes it great for smaller landscapes; takes pruning very well and can make a fantastic hedge.

Frans Fontaine Hornbeam is primarily valued in the landscape for its rigidly columnar form. It has forest green deciduous foliage. The glossy pointy leaves turn an outstanding gold in the fall. The smooth gray bark adds an interesting dimension to the landscape.

This Hosta is grown locally at our Chalet Farm in Wisconsin. It is a large leaved ornamental blue-green leaves are cupped, nearly round and have a dull glaucous bloom; provides beautiful texture and contrast to other plants; near-white spikes of flowers in mid-summer.

Ann Kulpa Hosta features dainty spikes of lavender tubular flowers rising above the foliage in mid summer. Its attractive large textured heart-shaped leaves remain dark green in color with prominent white stripes and tinges of yellow throughout the season.

August Moon Hosta is grown locally at the Chalet Farm in WI and features dainty spikes of white bell-shaped flowers rising above the foliage in midsummer. Its attractive textured heart-shaped leaves remain yellow in color throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Enormous bold, puckered blue-green leaves and spikes of pale lavender-white flowers; great impact plant for the garden when set against finer textured plants

Blue Angel Hosta features dainty spikes of white bell-shaped flowers rising above the foliage in mid summer. Its attractive enormous textured heart-shaped leaves emerge blue in spring, turning bluish-green in color throughout the season.