Buy Iowa Fruit Trees, Flowering Trees, Shade Tree, Bamboo Plants, Berry Plants, Grapevines and Nut Tree

Discover how Nut trees such as the American black walnut tree, Juglans nigra, and the hickory tree, Shagbark tree, Carya ovata are productive in Iowa backyard nut tree gardens. The Chinese chestnut tree, Castanea mollissima, will grow and produce high quality chestnuts with a rich flavor with a crunchy kernel. The American chestnut tree is a blight resistant plant that is productive for humans and wildlife animals. Almond trees are not recommended for Iowa gardens, not even the Hall's Hardy almond tree, because of the extremely frigid winter temperatures, selection that is normally very cold hardy. The almond tree will live but will not produce almonds, because late numerous spring freezing ruins the flowering period.

Seedless grape vines are very popular grapes to grow in Iowa, and the white Thompson seedless grape, the Red Flame Seedless grapevine and the Blue Concord grape vines are the most popular choices to plant.

There is not accurate account of whether or not the Chicago hardy fig trees get sufficient testing from gardeners who know how to mulch and properly protect the Chicago fig, to recommend this excellent flavored black fig to grow in the State of Iowa.

The State of Iowa is located in the USDA, 4-5 zone map with a similar climate to the the State of Nebraska. Because of the very cold temperatures in Iowa, it is crucial that a gardener should order and purchase a bush or tree that will survive the winter ice and snow undamaged. Many gardeners want to harvest a large crop of fruit or nuts as soon as possible, or he wants to shade his office or home as fast as possible, so that logically a gardener thinks that he should plant a large tree or a fast growing tree to reach that goal. Unfortunately, Indiana fast growing trees will have very elongated cell wall structures that do not have adequate deposits of cellulose or lignin deposited and therefore, the bush or tree will be susceptible to winter damage or death. Slow growing trees are usually the best choice for surviving cold winter.

In Indiana the Ginkgo tree, Sourwood Tree and the Sweet Gum trees are brightly colored fall shade trees. Oak trees, Red Maple trees and Elm trees have smaller leaves, but are excellent shade trees. For the fisherman the Catalpa tree produces leaves that are feasted upon by large worms that are collected to fish with, and the tree grows very large leaves that grow into a dense shade. Fast growing shade trees for Indiana are Tulip poplar tree, Weeping Willow trees and Sycamore trees. Pond Cypress tree produce yellow leaves in the fall, and the tree prefers to adapt in wet soils, whereas, the Bald Cypress tree can be grown in wet or dry soil, and the leave turn yellow, then orange in the fall. The Sassafras tree is a very good, tall growing shade tree that produces fragrant roots, leaves, twigs on every part. The Lombardy poplar tree is one of the fastest growing shade trees that can grow over 8 feet the first year after it has been transplanted, and the Lombardy poplar tree is especially useful to use and plant as an effective privacy screen or as a wind blocker, when the trees are planted in dense rows.

Find the best Iowa Fruit trees that are important backyard trees for planting in Ames, Iowa. The Red Delicious apple tree and Golden Delicious apples bear abundant crops of fruit, so discover how to get the best information and tips on high quality review that are posted on the Ty Ty Nursery website, tytyga.com. The Granny Smith apple tree or the Dolgo crabapple fruiting trees are commonly used for cross pollination, a requirement for the production of apples. Apricot trees are not a really good fruit tree choice for most IA gardens, nor are peach trees, because extreme cold temperatures most often in late spring will freeze the apricot or peach flowers, so that neither peaches nor apricots can grow. Find and get the top Flowering Pear trees, Japanese pink Japanese, flowering cherry trees and the red Thundercloud flowering plum tree. You can plant the dramatic dogwood tree with blooms of white, pink or grafted red dogwood that will flourish in Iowa, along with the native flowering tree, the Redbud trees. The Japanese flowering Magnolia tree is a cold hardy pink blooming tree that begins its beautiful blooming period in early spring.

The cold hardy, improved Kieffer pear tree grows well in IA landscape orchards, and the Kieffer pear tree is loaded with fruit that is tasty, crunchy and ripens in late fall. The Blue Stanley plum tree fruit will survive the extreme frigid winters in IA, when snow and ice cover most of the ground during much of the winter season and spring. The red mulberry tree, (Morus rubra) is a wild plant that was introduced mulberry from Europe. Many new delicious, improved mulberry hybrids, as grafted cultivars are available to buy online. The pie cherry, sour cherry tree, will grow well in Iowa and the red North Star cherry trees and the red Montmorency cherry trees will produce bushels of juicy, delicious cherries. The Medlar fruit tree and the Russian persimmon introduction, 'Nikita's gift', trees are soft and delicious to eat, and the Medlar tree and the persimmon tree that came from the Black Sea area of Russia are both cold hardy. For USDA climate zone 5 in Iowa, Chicago Hardy fig trees have been recommended to grow here, even after the terrible winter of 2014.

For wildlife animal food plots, the Wildlife pear tree and the American wild crabapple trees are good producers of fruit for all areas of Iowa. The red, black and white mulberry trees are producers of berries, along with the elderberry bushes and the strawberry bush. The American persimmon trees and the native Chickasaw plum tree will produce a lot of aromatic fruit at ripening time in zone 5. The American chestnut tree and the Chinese chestnut trees are cold hardy wildlife nut trees in all IA climate zones. The wildlife sawtooth oak trees, the Gobbler oak tree and the white oak trees all produce lots of acorns in climate zone 5 of Iowa, along with the autumn olive tree.

The cold temperatures of Iowa winter are too frigid for growing black raspberry plants and, also, too cold for most sweet cherries. Black Tartarian and the Bing cherry tree. The temperatures are also too cold to grow blackberry plants in Iowa, whether thorny blackberries or thornless blackberry bushes. Blueberry plants do not like most of the alkaline soil profiles that are found in Iowa. If blueberry bushes are planted they should be containerized, and the acidity of the soil can be adjusted to pH of 4.5 to 5.5 by planting the blueberry plants with Canadian peat moss or by adjusting the soil pH by adding elemental Sulfur to the growing medium. Red raspberry plants grow and produce abundant crops of delicious raspberries. The Fall Gold raspberry plant, the Heritage red raspberry bush and the Boyne, red raspberry bushes are recommended for Iowa berry farms.

Iowa bamboo plantings provide a useful privacy screen whether planted in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids or Waterloo IA and are vigorous specimens in the plains states. Bamboo plants are simple and fast growing in an organic soil that is kept damp and grown in full sun or partial shade. The canes (culms, stems, poles) are dense in fibers and protected as a very cold hardy survivor of minus 20 degrees below zero F. temperatures. The outer covering of the bamboo poles is very colorful and beautiful in colors of waxy black-green, golden or shiny blue. The thick clumps of IA bamboo plants rapidly develop to block out street noise, toxic automobile exhaust fumes and unwanted “would be” privacy watchers, and the ground covering of the thick rhizomes will reduce soil erosion and the bamboo canes will offer a substantial windbreak. You can order boxed, bamboo clumps from Ty Ty Bamboo Nursery, tytyga.com, for immediate shipment that will be delivered fast and directly to your house during any time of the year.


For plant collectors and tree lovers in Iowa, Agave plants, Yucca Trees and Aloe plants are generally grown in containers inside the office or home, except that the cold hardy yucca trees can be grown in zone 5 out of doors as an evergreen tree. These desert plants require little or no maintenance, watering or fertilizer, and there are no known insect or disease problems with growing these xeriscape plants in dish gardens. The first aid plant, Aloe vera is particularly famous as a container plant that has leaf juices that will heal burns of the flesh and skin wounds, and the stings of fire ants or bees.