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Welcome to Cincinnati Evergreen

Our goal is to introduce you to our landscape design and installation service along with our retail and wholesale nursery. We hope this website serves as a resource to enhance your interest in our products and services, as well as a link to plant knowledge.

Welcome to Cincinnati Evergreen

About Us

Cincinnati Evergreen’s mission is to provide the highest level of professionalism, superior customer service and workmanship within the community. This is the company’s guiding philosophy.

Cincinnati Evergreen has grown into one of the tri-state areas largest supplier of evergreen trees for Landscaping Contractors, Builders, and Developers. Additionally, we now offer our own full-service landscaping services. 30 years of satisfied customers coupled with our attention to detail ensure you complete satisfaction in both our products and services.

Our Mission

Cincinnati Evergreen has established a reputation as a leader in landscape design, quality, service, experience and value. Our landscape design division has a proven track record of creative, quality landscape design. If you strive to achieve a balance of the finest product and best value for your property, look no further than Cincinnati Evergreen Landscape & Nursery.

Services

Landscape Design

Cincinnati Evergreen is here to assist our clients in developing a creative, complete landscape design. Whether you want a simple planting of evergreen trees or a master plan involving several outdoor living spaces, we’ve got you covered. Let us help you take your yard to the next level with water features, privacy screens, landscape lighting along with pavers, natural stone patios, walkways and retaining walls. Cincinnati Evergreen is committed to quality, service, and value and will provide the expertise to ensure your total satisfaction from design, to management, to installation of the entire project.

Would you like to enjoy the outdoor living areas of your home more? Call us and set up a no cost consultation.
Landscape Maintenance

Cincinnati Evergreen also provides landscape maintenance services for your spring, mid-summer and fall clean ups.

Spring clean up: Consists of an insect and disease evaluation, pruning ornamental plants as needed (shrubs & trees up to 14’); removing leaves, debris, and old mulch from your landscape beds. We define the landscape bed edges, apply fertilize and granular weed control which aides in the control of unwanted weeds and grass. Then we install a layer of new mulch as selected. We can also provide and plant your annual flowers for seasonal color.

Mid-Summer clean up: Consists of light pruning as needed, turning the existing mulch and replying granular weed control.

Fall clean up: Includes pruning, remove dead foliage from perennials, define the landscape bed edges, and remove leaves and debris. Install deer guards if needed. We can also provide and plant fall mums or other cool weather seasonal color.
Water Features

Few things in a landscape can be more visually impacting or beautiful than a water feature. The most challenging aspect of a successful water feature is to design and install it so it looks natural. Using our design skills, experience, selected natural stone and materials, we can design and construct the waterfalls, pond, lake or natural stream for your property that provides all you can imagine, or hope for.

Would you like to enjoy the outdoor living areas of your home more? We can help. Call us and set up a no cost consultation
Evergreen Screens

Almost everyone appreciates privacy. With smaller building lots, neighboring houses, buildings and unattractive views nearly everywhere, it�s important to understand you have options. What better way to create privacy than a grouping of evergreen trees to shield or separate. We have strived to perfect this service with naturalized mass planting, small groupings, and specimen quality trees. We can help with the design, and recommend the plants best suited for your particular property. We will consider the drainage, soil conditions, exposure and what you are trying to accomplish concerning privacy. Let the evergreen tree experts here at Cincinnati Evergreen help you create that private space just for you.

Would you like to enjoy the outdoor living areas of your home more? We can help you improve the views from inside and outside. Call us to set up a free consultation.
Landscape Lighting

Why only enjoy beautiful landscaping during the day? Let Cincinnati Evergreen bring your landscape to life at night.

We design to accentuate the landscape and architectural style of your home and property and we can bring out the special beauty of the night garden. We illuminate the best features, leaving dark those you wish to conceal. Think of how stunning those Japanese maples would look, up-lighted, or the subtle look of a softly lit stone walkway or stairway. Imagine grasses flooded from behind with light.

Garden lighting also has a practical and safety benefit. It helps you see where you’re walking at night. It also discourages intruders by lighting the ground level clearly and eliminating shadows. Our lighting department can tailor a 12-volt outdoor lighting system to your specific needs.

Would you like to enjoy the outdoor living areas of your home more at night? We can help.
Pavers, Patios & Retaining Walls

Pavers are a great choice for a hardscape material in landscapes for a number of reasons. Landscape pavers are extremely durable and able to disperse weight better than concrete or mortared stone. If a paver does crack or is damaged, only the single paver must be replaced as opposed to the entire surface. We can assist you with a patio, sidewalk or driveway design including pattern and color combinations of pavers that creates the space or access needed for your property. .

Patios need to be functional and entertaining spaces that are an extension of your home. We will design a patio that incorporates your outdoor needs, whether it’s a formal entertaining space or simply a quiet place to relax.

Retaining walls provide a means to create terraced areas or stabilize grades. We can design and install both natural stone walls and segmented concrete retaining systems.

Call us to set up a free consultation!
Commercial

On your next job or project, let Cincinnati Evergreen & Nursery help!

Cincinnati Evergreen is experienced with the creative use of evergreen trees in the landscape including privacy screens, naturalized mass planting as well as specimen trees. Along with evergreen trees we offer additional landscape plants, products, and services. From shade and ornamental trees, to specialized equipment, trucks and skilled personnel, are all available for your next project. Call or stop by our sales center and let us help make your next job easier and more profitable. We want to work with the best architects and contractors in the area and have a proven track record of delivering top quality materials and service at reasonable prices. Our commitment to you…

Quality: In order to meet our high standards, we hand pick our trees conscious of quality and health.
Experience: We strive to be the tri-state’s largest supplier of evergreen trees.
We look forward to the opportunity to serve you in the future. If you have any questions please feel free to ask one of our qualified staff members.
Nursery

Come visit our Nursery and Sales Center!

At our Nursery and Sales Center located just minutes from I-275, we have 5-acres with over 500 premium quality trees and hundreds of the best shrubs, perennials, and landscape supplies in the area
From a single plant purchase to large landscape installations, Cincinnati Evergreen will make sure the plants you purchase at our Nursery are the right ones for local soils and growing conditions. We have everything you need for a beautiful successful landscape. You will go home confident in your choices and knowing how to care for your new plants.

Trees

We sell only top quality evergreen trees!

For over 20 years Cincinnati Evergreen has offered the creative use of evergreen trees in hundreds of landscapes, including privacy screens, naturalized mass plantings, and specimen trees. We have worked with many of the best landscape architects and contractors in the area and have a proven track record of delivering top quality materials and services at reasonable prices.

On this page we have listed the 5 most commonly used evergreen trees for the tri-state area and information about each one. We hope that this information will be useful in your selection process.

White Pine

White Pine (Pinus Strobus)

If you had to choose one pine for general landscape use, White Pine (Pinus strobus) would be it. The soft, plumy texture of the needles, the wide spreading, horizontally disposed branches, and hauntingly beautiful asymmetry of ancient trees will make believers out of doubters.

Young trees, particularly when pruned, are often full and dense, but they never appear stiff and rigid like Scotch Pine (Pinus sylvestris) or Austrian Pine (Pinus nigra). Needles range in color from light green to medium green to blue-green and average 3″ to 5″ in length. The needles which occur in fascicles of five persist for a year and a half before falling off in late summer and fall. White Pine is easily transplanted and fast growing. They seem to withstand pruning better than most pines. A great plant as a specimen in groupings, screens, and possibly hedges. In the mid-west, in high ph soils, iron chlorosis can be a problem. At times, trees die for no explainable reason.

Habit: In youth a symmetrical pyramid of soft, pleasant appearance. In middle-age and on old trees the crown is composed of horizontal and ascending branches.

Growth rate: Fast, 2′ to 3′ per year in average landscapes.

Mature Size: In an average mid-west landscape after 20 years 40′ to 50′.

Needles: Light to bluish green, 3″ to 5″ in length, soft needles fall from tree second year in late summer-early fall.

Texture: Medium-fine, soft.

Cones: 6″ to 8″ long by 1 1/2″ broad, cylindrical, often curved, light brown, mature in autumn of second year.

Culture: Easily transplanted, with wide spreading shallow root system, plant in very well drained soil, elevate root ball, and avoid heavy compacted clay in combination with poor drainage. Prefers full sun exposure; will grow in light shade, but will develop a leggy, light branched, less dense and irregular habit.

Diseases and Insects: White Pine Wilt, White Pine Weevil, Bagworm, Pine Bark Aphid.

Cultivars and Varieties:

Fastigiated; narrowly upright and columnar when young developing a wider character with age as the branches ascend at a 45 degree angle from the trunk; ultimately about three times as tall as wide.

Nana; catchall term and several different types listed, usually compact, mounded or rounded.

Pendula; very interesting weeping type with long branches that sweep the ground; must be trained in youth to develop a leader.

Zone: 2 to 8

Native Habitat: Newfoundland to Manitoba, South to Georgia, West to Illinois and Iowa.
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Norway Spruce

Norway Spruce (Picea Abies)

The most common spruce for general landscape use, Norway Spruce (Picea abies) has a pyramidal outline, with a strong central leader, horizontal secondary branches, and pendulous tertiary branches. It is an extremely dominant focal point in the average landscape. It requires ample space to spread its limbs.

The lustrous dark green needles average 1/2″ to 1″ long and maintain their color throughout the winter as well as any evergreen. The 4″ to 6″ long cones are purple violet to greenish purple in youth, finally light brown. This species is tremendously adaptable, except to high heat.

Habit: Pyramidal with pendulous branches; stiff when young, graceful at maturity, good density.

Growth Rate: Medium to fast especially in youth; 1 1/2′ to 2 1/2′ per year in average landscape.

Mature Sizes: In an average mid-west landscape after 20 years 30′ to 40′.

Needle: Medium to dark green, 1/2″ to 1″ long, stiff.

Texture: Medium.

Cones: 4″ to 6″ long, Pendulous, cylindrical, brown when mature, persist through winter.

Culture: Easily transplanted, with shallow spreading root system; can be planted in most average soils in the mid-west. Avoid wet, poorly drained sites, elevate root ball. Prefers full sun, but will grow in light to moderate shade (no less than 4 hours direct sun light per day) and expect trees to be more openly branched and less dense. They will perform better than any of the pine family in partial shade.

Disease and Insects: Susceptible to spider mites.

Cultivars and Varieties:

Nidiformis; is appropriately named Bird’s Nest Spruce because of the depression in the middle of its tight, compact, mounded habit. Makes a good rock garden of foundation plant. Grows 2′ high and 6′ wide.

Pendula; may be the generic name for a number of weeping types. No two are exactly alike, but all tend to splay their limbs in a wild, weeping configuration. Certainly a great novelty plant and a conversation piece at parties.

Zone: 2 to 7

Native Habitat: Northern and Central Europe
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Colorado Spruce

Colorado Spruce (Picea Pungens)

A highly popular specimen tree, Colorado Spruce (picea pungens) is used throughout the northern states.

It is stiffly conical-pyramidal in habit, with densely set, horizontal branches that skirt the ground. The four-sided needles, 3/4″ to 1 1/4″ long, range in color from green to gray-green, blue-green, or silver-blue. The best blue-colored seedlings (picea pungens var. glauca) have resulted in the common name ‘Blue Spruce’. Withstands virtually any soil, except moist. Often used as a specimen plant, although it can detract from the total landscape, when using the very bluest trees.

Habit: Stiffly conical-pyramidal, sticky needles, with dense to very dense habit.

Growth Rate: Slow 10″ to 12″ per year in average landscape. Mature Sizes: In an average mid-west landscape after 20 years 20′ to 25′, and 10′ to 12′ wide.

Needle: Green to silver-blue, very stiff, 3/4″ to 1″ long, very sharp point on the end, 4 sided.

Texture: Stiff, semi-formal.

Cones: 2 1/2″ to 4″ long, cylindrical, tan in color.

Culture: Transplants well, shallow spreading root system on heavy soils, plant in very well drained soil. Prefers full sun, but will grow in light to moderate shade (not less than 4 hours direct sunlight) and expect trees to be lighter branched less dense, and sometimes slower growing. Colorado Spruce will perform better than any of the pine family in partial shade. It is perhaps the most drought tolerant of all spruces.

Disease and Insects: Cyctospora (cankers), Mites.

Cultivars and Varieties:

Fat Albert; is a cutting-produced clone with a wide, pyramidal habit and excellent, rich blue needle color.

Hoopsii; is a standard. It has a dense, pyramidal form and extremely glaucous blue needles.

Moerheimii; is another old cultivar. It too, has rich blue foliage, but it tends to be more open in habit than some of the others.

Montgomery; is a dwarf, wide spreading pyramidal, 6″ per year.

Globosa; very slow growing, 3″ per year, wider than tall, rounded and compact with bluish needles.

Zone: 2 to 7

Native Habitat: Western United States introduced about 1862.

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Serbian Spruce

Serbian Spruce (Picea Omorika)

Mature plants are elegant, and even small plants have character.

Serbian Spruce (Picea omorika) has a slender trunk and short, ascending or drooping branches on a narrow-pyramidal framework. The 1/2″ to 1″ long needles are flattish, lustrous dark green, with two silver bands underneath. The 1 1/4″ to 2″ long pendulous cones turn shinny cinnamon-brown at maturity. It is a semi formal evergreen for specimen use, but also quite good in grouping of threes or fives.

Habit: Serbian spruce forms a narrow, pyramidal silhouette with graceful arching branches, moderate density, and slender truck.

Growth Rate: Medium 12″ to 18″ per year in average mid-west landscape.

Mature Sizes: In an average mid west landscape after 20 years 25′ to 30′ and 10′ to 12′ wide.

Needle: Dark green on top, with bands of silver on the underside, 1/2″ to 1′ long, flat.

Texture: Delicate, semi-soft, semi-formal.

Cones: 1 1/4″ to 2″ long, pendulous, cinnamon brown.

Culture: Doesn’t like heavy clay, must plant in good topsoil bed areas, and must not be allowed to go long periods without water. More demanding than other spruce used locally. Will grow in full sun, but likes some protection from harsh exposure. It will grow in light to moderate shade (not less than 4 hour’s direct sunlight) and good drainage is a must.

Disease and Insects: Aphids, Borers

Cultivars and Varieties: Nana; A dense, globe-shaped dwarf. Grows 2″ to 3” per year.

Zone: 4 to 6

Native Habitat: Southeastern Europe, Introduced about 1880.
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Canadian Hemlock

Canadian Hemlock (Tsuga Canadensis)

The Canadian Hemlock (Tsuga Canadensis) is a elegant and grand conifer native to the eastern part of North America.

The Hemlock is both light shade and full sun tolerant but would prefer some protection from the late afternoon sun. Hemlocks prefer well-drained moist soil, and only minimal exposure to drought. Canadian Hemlocks can grow to 40′ tall with a 20′ spread in a new landscape. Living as long as 300 years in native habitat and getting up to 150′. The needles are short ½” long and flat varying from dark green to light green during the growing season. The cones on a Hemlock are small rounded ¾” and light brown.

Habit: Straight, dense foliage, conical.

Growth Rate: Moderate 4-10” average per year.

Mature Sizes: In an average mid-west landscape after 20 years 20-30’ and 10-15’ wide.

Needle: Light green that darkens during maturity.

Texture: Light, very fine textured, thick density.

Cones: Small ½ to 1 inch light brown conical in shape.

Culture: Will handle some sun to light shade, cylindrical in shape preferring damp well-draining soil but grows in a variety of soils. Can be used as a specimen and performs poorly in drought conditions and with exposure to salt spray.

Disease and Insects: Wooly adelgid.

Cultivars and Varieties: Tsuga canadensis ‘Pendula’ – an upright weeping form, often staked during nursery production to maintain a central leader to the desired height, often anywhere from 2′ to 5′ tall, by about 5′ wide.

Zone: 3 to 7

Native Habitat: Northeastern parts of North America.
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Thank you for the opportunity to serve you. The following trees are available at our Batavia location.

Delivery is available, and fees are based on distance from the Batavia location. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask one of our qualified staff members.

Per Tree Prices

• Economy grade trees available 20% off price list, not as nice as premium, but work in certain applications.
• Prices listed are F.O.B. at our Batavia sales center.
• We also sell mulch, topsoil, boulders and fertilizer along with other landscape supplies.
• There is no guarantee unless trees are planted by Cincinnati Evergreen.

Quantity Discount
• If the purchase totals 10+ trees you will receive a 5% discount.
• If the purchase totals 20+ trees you will receive a 10% discount.

Trees with Installation

Office Hours 2025 Season

(Mar. 1st – Dec. 1st)
Monday – Friday:
8:00am – 3:00pm
Saturday, Sunday: Closed

Order Pick-Up Hours
Monday – Saturday:
By Appointment Only

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Extended Hours Upon Request

Office Hours 2025 Season
(Mar. 1st – Dec. 1st)
Monday – Friday: 8:00am – 3:00pm
Saturday, Sunday: Closed

Order Pick-Up Hours
Monday – Saturday: By Appointment Only

Give us a call to discuss ordering and pick-up!
Extended Hours Upon Request