Trees

Beautiful Trees in Lake Villa, IL

At Millburn Tree Farm, we have conifers and deciduous trees suitable for single or mass planting needs.  Our product can secure privacy from roads, utilities, neighbors, and buildings, and can provide borders to enhance your property, raise your property value and also to naturalize your landscape. Our trees are sheared each year to a consistent shape that enhances the look of your trees while providing a fuller, more beautiful tree.

House With Trees — Lake Villa, IL — Millburn Tree Farm

Our Trees

Our trees are not pre-dug and stored for future sale. We freshly dig for your specific project to minimize "transplant shock." We follow the balling and burlapping standards and specifications set by the American Nursery Association when digging our trees. Shortcuts or undersized root mass techniques are never used.

Trees We Offer

Conifers

  • Arbor Vitae

    We grow Techny and Emerald Green Arbor Vitae trees.  Techny Arbor Vitae are very bushy and will grow 12-15 feet. Emerald Green are more slender, formal trees with a deep green color.

  • Black Hill Spruce

    While similar in shape and color to Blue Spruce, this beautiful species has shorter, softer blue-green needles than blue spruce. Black Hills Spruce is a comparatively slower-growing spruce with a very consistent conical growth habit. Black Hills Spruce are very hardy.

  • Colorado Blue Spruce

    These are beautiful spruce trees with stiff blue-to-blue green needles. Spruces create a natural habitat for songbirds. Blue Spruce has a moderate growth rate.

  • Norway Spruce

    This is a hardy, deep green, fast-growing spruce. A six-foot tree can easily grow to a twelve-foot tree in proper growing conditions in just five years. They like full sun, but can grow in partial shade conditions.

  • Serbian Spruce

    Serbian Spruce have a full conical growth habit and produce a large number of cones. This tree in similar to Norway Spruce, in that it is a green shade of spruce tree.

  • Scotch Pine

    A short needle-growing pine with bluish needles, a straight trunk, and an almost orange-colored, somewhat exfoliating bark that does well in poor soil conditions as well as near areas prone to high winds and salt spray

  • White Pine

    A soft, long green five-needles in a cluster tree with smooth bark well into maturity. White pines are native to Illinois. White pines are very fast-growing.

Deciduous

  • Flowering Crab

    Starlight Flowering Crab have a white, spring bloom, with glossy leaves. 

  • Heritage Birch

    These are quick-growing, multiple stem birch trees with a tan-colored exfoliating bark.  They grow very well in wet soils.

  • Honey Locust

    These are quick growing hardwood trees with horizontal branches. They have a small leaf, which produces filtered shade.

  • Linden Trees

    Linden trees are well-branched and take a pear shape. This tree provides an ample amount of shade.

  • London Plane Trees

    This tree variety is quick growing with beautiful branching habits. They have large yellow leaves in the Fall, and they adapt well to wet soil. 

  • Maple Varieties

    We grow and sell the following Maple varieties: Autumn Blaze Maple, Legacy Maple, Norway Maple, Petticoat Maple, Red Sunset Maple, and Sugar Maple.

    • Autumn Blaze Maples have smooth bark, rapid growth rate, and a brilliant red Fall color leaf.
    • Legacy Maples are native, hardwood maples with a slower growth rate, but have large, orangish-gold leaves in the Fall.
    • Norway Maples are hardwood maples with a deep, purple colored leaf all season.  This tree produces full shade.
    • Petticoat Maples are hardwood maples with medium size, multicolored leaves—glossy green on top with burgundy underneath. 
    • Red Sunset Maples have smooth bark, rapid growth rate, and a red Fall colored leaf, which is smaller than the Autumn Blaze Maple leaf.
    • Sugar Maples, similar to Legacy Maples, are a hardwood variety with a brighter orange Fall colored leaf.
  • Oak Varieties

    We grow and sell the following Oak varieties: Pin Oak, Red Oak, and Swamp Oak

    • Pin Oaks are a very hardy, native oak tree with pointed leaves that usually remain on the tree until mid-winter. 
    • Red Oaks are a high quality hardwood tree with pointy leaves.
    • Swamp Oaks are a faster growing oak that are well suited for wet soil conditions.  They usually hold their leaves, which have rounded tips, until late into the winter
  • Tulip Trees

    These trees are a quick growing variety that have a unique, blunt shaped leaf, and produce tulip like buds in the Spring.

Call the Experts at Millburn Tree Farm

Call us today at 847-910-7252 for a personal landscaping consultation. We can help you plan your small or large landscaping project, from mulching to mature tree planting. 

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