Buy Quercus garryana

Quercus garryana is our native Garry oak most commonly seen in the rainshadow areas of Vancouver Island including Victoria. It is a beautiful, heavy-limbed, medium-sized tree that often grows more short and contorted in dry rocky outcrops at low elevations. The leaves are deeply lobed and light green, prized for the dapple shade it provides. Foliage takes on fall colours of light brown to full red. Catkins appear with new leaves followed by acorns in the fall. The bark is light gray with thick furrows and ridges. The form is beautiful in both summer and winter. At maturity in the right conditions, the tree can reach a majestic size of 75 feet tall and wide with contorted limbs. First Nations planted various edibles bulbs in the Garry oak meadow. Makes for a fantastic overstory tree. Photo credit Wikipedia

Oregon white oak exists in a landscape mixture of grassland, savanna and woodland in the northwest United States, this drought-tolerant tree is found growing from southern California to British Columbia. Its growth pattern is quite variable from smaller and quite shrubby at 15' to a larger single trunked tree of 80'; much appreciated for its pale-grey fissured bark, the shade of its spreading gnarled branches, edible acorns, and striking yellow-to-orange fall color. Conservation efforts are underway as this important tree has lost much of its habitat. S/M-D/GDr

An attractive tree with thick, grooved, scaly, greyish-black bark and a round spreading crown. Leaves are dark green and the autumn color is light brown. The Oregon White Oak is the most abundant and widely distributed oak in Oregon, and it is the only native oak found in eastern Oregon. Needs little water and good drainage, flood resistant.

Named to honor Nicholas Garry of the Hudson Bay Company, this is a climax species of the pre-1850s Willamette Valley oak savannah. We occasionally see remnants of these original trees, some of which measure more than 5 ft. in diameter and exceed 300 years old. These are truly heritage trees, having sheltered and fed the Calapooya Indians, who gathered acorns by the ton and processed them to make thick soup and flat bread.

Broad spreading rounded crown, crooked branches, deep tap root, tolerates dry summers. Zones 7-9.

This is one of Washington's most special native trees, and the only oak species native to Washington and British Columbia. Although its distribution is now reduced mostly to drier areas west of the Cascades, it is thought to have been more widespread in the past when our climate was warmer and drier. It's deciduous, with dark green leaves, and has a lot of character: its habit is certainly very rugged and may even be described as “creepy” if you're easily spooked! In gardens it is not difficult to grow, but it is very slow and needs good drainage and sun. Although completely drought tolerant once established, plenty of summer water will dramatically improve its growth rate. After a great many years it may reach 60' with greater spread. I offer trees grown from local Sequim seeds, where what used to be an oak prairie is now mostly lost to development and agriculture. Hardy to -20 °F or below.

Our native oak that can develop into a majestic specimen if you have a 100 years to spare. Tolerates winter wet and needs summer dry. 50' or more with age.