Forrest Keeling Plants

Boxelder is a small tree that thrives on moist, full sun sites. Unlike other maples, needs both male and female trees are needed to reproduce.

Native Red Maple is one of the first trees to color in fall in shades of bright yellow, flaming orange or red. Crown is narrow to broadly rounded with a straight trunk. Excellent urban shade tree.

Autumn Flame Red Maple has compact growth with smaller leaves and tight branching habit. Perfect for areas with limited space. Rich, burgundy red fall color arrives about two weeks earlier than most other varieties.

Brandywine Red Maple lives up to its name with persistent fall color that begins bright red and gradually turns brilliant purple red. Seedless male with proven performance.

Red Sunset Maple is one of the most popular Red Maple cultivars. Matures to attractive pyramidal to rounded outline. Fluorescent orange and red fall colors.

Commemoration Sugar Maple is a vigorous grower with broad crown. Heavy foliage resists leaf tatter and turns red in fall.

Green Mountain is a showy maple with upright, oval shape. Excellent urban tree with great fall color and inconspicuous seeds.

Celebration Maple is a vigorous growing seedless red maple hybrid with strong branch structure and long lasting fall color that is a brilliant red orange.

Autumn Blaze is a fast-growing red maple cultivar with long-lasting, red orange fall color. Drought-tolerant and grows in most soils.

Marmo Maple is a hybrid cross of Red Maple and Silver Maple. Grows to 70' with a spread of 35'. Excellent fall color with a blend of red and green, to burgundy, yellow and gold.

Ohio Buckeye is a medium-sized tree, which prefers moist sites. Large spikes of green-yellow flowers bloom in May. Fall color is often orange-red. Fall fruit is the familiar, shiny brown, round seed.

Horsechestnut has showy white flowers with red and yellow markings that bloom in May. Serves well as a street tree or shade tree.

Downy Serviceberry is an easy-to-grow small tree with white spring flowers, clean summer foliage, persistant leaves and brilliant red fall color.

A low, colony-forming evergreen plant, spreading by runners, with basal leaves and erect stems.  Each bearing a termianl cluster of fuzzy rayless flower heads. 

NC-1 Pawpaw has large and delicious, early-ripening fruit with few seeds and thin skin. NC-1 Pawpaw is a hybrid seedling of Davis x Overleese; selected by R. Douglas Campbell, Ontario, Canada, in 1976.

Selected from the wild in Rushville, Indiana, by W.B. Ward in 1950.  Ripens early September in Kentucky and first week in October in Michagan.  Fruit size large.

Pennsylvania Gold has medium to large, sweet, flavorful fruit with yellow flesh. It is one of the earliest varieties to ripen, and produces a good crop.

Potomac Pawpaw bears large, fleshy fruits with sweet and rich flavor. Fruit texture is firm, but smooth. Trees more upright and less spreading in habit than other varieties of pawpaw.

Pawpaw is a multi-stemmed shrub or small tree is a great plant for attracting all kinds of wildlife. Prolific Pawpaw is a heavy-bearing variety with large and delicious, early-ripening fruit.

Rappahannock is a superior tree. Ripe, yellow fruits show well among the foliage, because of the unique, horizontal habit of the leaves. Rappahannock fruit is large and symmetrical, with sweet, superior flavor.