# Habitat bundles of native trees and shrubs

> Plants grouped for a purpose, chosen to go together: the same sun, soil and climate, and a job they do as a set.

Blue Whale Trees, a native tree nursery in the United States. Web version: https://bluewhaletrees.com/bundles/

7 bundles. A bundle is not sold as one item: each plant is priced and ordered on its own page, and none is priced online yet. Each plant links to its own Markdown page.

## [Honey Tree Trio](https://bluewhaletrees.com/bundles/honey-trio/index.html.md)

For bees: two months of nectar on a big lot.

Three of the finest nectar trees in eastern North America. Black locust and basswood give the lightest, most sought-after honeys, and black gum flowers between them and colors scarlet in fall. 3 plants.

- [Black Locust](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/black-locust/index.html.md) (*Robinia pseudoacacia*): Fragrant white flower clusters in May, the source of the lightest and most prized honey in the East.
- [American Basswood (Linden)](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-basswood/index.html.md) (*Tilia americana*): The bee tree: a broad shade tree whose fragrant June flowers hum with pollinators.
- [Black Gum (Tupelo)](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/black-gum/index.html.md) (*Nyssa sylvatica*): Blazing scarlet fall color, superb bee forage, and one of the longest-lived hardwoods in the East.

## [Shade Understory Pack](https://bluewhaletrees.com/bundles/shade-understory/index.html.md)

For the shade under tall trees.

Five plants that are happiest under a canopy of oaks: flowers from March to November, fruit for thrushes, and the host plants of two swallowtails. 5 kinds, 8 saplings.

- [Witch Hazel](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/witch-hazel/index.html.md) (*Hamamelis virginiana*): The last flower of the year: ribbon-like yellow blooms in November as the golden leaves fall.
- [Pawpaw](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pawpaw/index.html.md) (*Asimina triloba*): The largest native fruit in North America, custard-sweet and tropical, on an understory tree of rich bottomlands.
- [Spicebush](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/spicebush/index.html.md) (*Lindera benzoin*): Yellow flowers in March, spicy-scented leaves, red berries for thrushes and the host plant of the spicebush swallowtail.
- [Eastern Leatherwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/eastern-leatherwood/index.html.md) (*Dirca palustris*): Tiny yellow flowers in the first week of spring, on a rare, slow shade shrub with bark you can tie in knots.
- [American Hornbeam (Musclewood)](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-hornbeam/index.html.md) (*Carpinus caroliniana*): Smooth, sinewy gray trunks, orange-red fall color and complete comfort in shade and damp soil.

## [Wet Spot Pack](https://bluewhaletrees.com/bundles/wet-spot/index.html.md)

For the corner that floods each spring.

For the corner where the lawn drowns every spring. Every plant here tolerates standing water, and together they give fragrance, winter berries and year-round structure. 6 kinds, 10 saplings.

- [Sweetbay Magnolia](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sweetbay-magnolia/index.html.md) (*Magnolia virginiana*): Lemon-scented white flowers from May into summer, silver-backed leaves, and a love of wet ground.
- [Winterberry Holly](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/winterberry/index.html.md) (*Ilex verticillata*): Bare winter branches lined with scarlet berries, on a deciduous holly that loves wet ground.
- [Silky Dogwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/silky-dogwood/index.html.md) (*Cornus amomum*): Creamy flower clusters in June, porcelain-blue berries in September and purple-red winter stems for wet spots.
- [Bald Cypress](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/bald-cypress/index.html.md) (*Taxodium distichum*): The swamp conifer that also thrives on dry lawns, with feathery foliage that turns rust-orange in fall.
- [Smooth Alder (Swamp Alder)](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/smooth-alder/index.html.md) (*Alnus serrulata*): A nitrogen-fixing streambank shrub that holds soil, feeds woodcock and grouse, and thrives in standing water.
- [Swamp Doghobble](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/swamp-doghobble/index.html.md) (*Eubotrys racemosa*): Arching sprays of white bell flowers in May on a deciduous heath shrub for wet, acid ground in sun or part shade.

## [Dry Sandy Site Pack](https://bluewhaletrees.com/bundles/dry-sandy/index.html.md)

For a dry, sandy bank in full sun.

Pine-barrens and prairie toughness for sand, gravel and drought: two shrub oaks, two fruit plants, prairie leadplant and the best fall color on a dry bank. 6 kinds, 12 saplings.

- [Staghorn Sumac](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/staghorn-sumac/index.html.md) (*Rhus typhina*): Fuzzy antler-like branches, fiery orange-red fall color and red fruit cones that feed birds through the winter.
- [Beach Plum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/beach-plum/index.html.md) (*Prunus maritima*): The dune plum of the Atlantic coast: salt-proof, drought-proof and covered in white bloom each May.
- [Leadplant](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/leadplant/index.html.md) (*Amorpha canescens*): A prairie sub-shrub with silver leaves and purple summer spikes, rooted deep against drought.
- [Bear Oak (Scrub Oak)](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/bear-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus ilicifolia*): The scrub oak of pine barrens and ridgetops: tough, fire-adapted and a powerhouse host for moths and butterflies.
- [Dwarf Chinquapin Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/dwarf-chinquapin-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus prinoides*): A true shrub oak that starts dropping sweet, low-tannin acorns within a few years of planting.
- [Black Huckleberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/black-huckleberry/index.html.md) (*Gaylussacia baccata*): A low, colony-forming shrub of dry acid woods with sweet, seedy black berries and crimson fall leaves.

## [Native Edible Orchard](https://bluewhaletrees.com/bundles/edible-orchard/index.html.md)

For fruit and nuts without sprays.

A food forest from native species only: fruit from August into November and nuts in the fall, grown without sprays and shared with wildlife. 6 kinds, 14 saplings.

- [Pawpaw](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pawpaw/index.html.md) (*Asimina triloba*): The largest native fruit in North America, custard-sweet and tropical, on an understory tree of rich bottomlands.
- [American Persimmon](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-persimmon/index.html.md) (*Diospyros virginiana*): Sweet orange fruit after frost, blocky alligator bark and a tree that grows nearly anywhere.
- [American Plum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-plum/index.html.md) (*Prunus americana*): A thicket-forming wild plum for dry banks and wet ground alike, with fragrant white spring bloom and tart red-yellow fruit for jelly and wildlife.
- [American Hazelnut](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-hazelnut/index.html.md) (*Corylus americana*): Sweet native filberts in late summer on a dense, easy hedgerow shrub.
- [Northern Pecan](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pecan/index.html.md) (*Carya illinoinensis*): Northern-adapted pecan from the upper reaches of its range, ripening thin-shelled nuts in short seasons.
- [Black Chokeberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/black-chokeberry/index.html.md) (*Aronia melanocarpa*): White spring flowers, glossy black antioxidant-rich berries and some of the best red fall color of any shrub.

## [Bird & Berry Hedgerow](https://bluewhaletrees.com/bundles/bird-hedgerow/index.html.md)

For birds: fruit from June to March.

A mixed native hedge that fruits from June through the following March, with dense cover for nesting and thorns at the edges. 7 kinds, 11 saplings.

- [Washington Hawthorn](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/washington-hawthorn/index.html.md) (*Crataegus phaenopyrum*): White June flowers, glossy red fruit that hangs into winter, and a thorny crown that shelters nesting birds.
- [Winterberry Holly](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/winterberry/index.html.md) (*Ilex verticillata*): Bare winter branches lined with scarlet berries, on a deciduous holly that loves wet ground.
- [Black Chokeberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/black-chokeberry/index.html.md) (*Aronia melanocarpa*): White spring flowers, glossy black antioxidant-rich berries and some of the best red fall color of any shrub.
- [Nannyberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/nannyberry/index.html.md) (*Viburnum lentago*): A big, adaptable viburnum with creamy flowers, edible blue-black fruit and wine-red fall color.
- [American Crabapple](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-crabapple/index.html.md) (*Malus coronaria*): Fragrant pink-white blossoms in May and hard green fruit that makes exceptional jelly.
- [Downy Serviceberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/downy-serviceberry/index.html.md) (*Amelanchier arborea*): First to bloom in the woods, first fruit of summer, and orange-red fall color. A four-season small tree.
- [Black Elderberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/black-elderberry/index.html.md) (*Sambucus canadensis*): Broad white flower plates in June, purple-black berries in August, and a magnet for dozens of bird species.

## [Rare Oak Collection](https://bluewhaletrees.com/bundles/rare-oak-collection/index.html.md)

For collectors with room, zones 7 to 8.

Five oaks almost nobody grows, from six-foot shrub oaks to an eighty-foot bottomland giant. A living collection for a large property or a conservation planting. 5 kinds, 10 saplings.

- [Oglethorpe Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/oglethorpe-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus oglethorpensis*): One of the rarest oaks in North America, with willow-like unlobed leaves and white-oak toughness.
- [Dwarf Chinquapin Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/dwarf-chinquapin-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus prinoides*): A true shrub oak that starts dropping sweet, low-tannin acorns within a few years of planting.
- [Bear Oak (Scrub Oak)](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/bear-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus ilicifolia*): The scrub oak of pine barrens and ridgetops: tough, fire-adapted and a powerhouse host for moths and butterflies.
- [Sand Post Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sand-post-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus margaretta*): A compact post oak of deep coastal-plain sands, built for drought and heat.
- [Delta Post Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/delta-post-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus similis*): A post oak that tolerates wet feet, from the bottomlands of the lower Mississippi valley.