Parks and Recreation

Skyview Arboretum

Skyview Park is the home to the state accredited Skyview Arboretum, a project first started in the fall of 1993. It has grown from a few trees to a collection of over 166 plantings representing over 127 different cultivars of trees and shrubs. The following is a partial list of the plantings with their common and (botanical) names. Memorial trees may be purchased for planting into the arboretum. Please click here for donation information. Contact the Parks & Recreation Director for more details.

Adams Crabapple ( Malus 'Adams' ) 
American Yellowwood ( Cladrastis kentukea )
Amur Chokecherry ( Prunus maackii ) 
Amur Corktree ( Phellodendron amurense ) 
Amur Maackii ( Maackii amurensis ) 
Amur Maple ( Acer ginnala ) 
Austrian Pine ( Pinus nigra ) 
Autumn Blaze Maple ( Acer x freemanii 'Autumn Blaze' ) 
Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry ( Amelanchier x grandiflora 'Autumn Brilliance' ) 
Autumn Purple Ash ( Fraxinus americana 'Autumn Purple' ) 
Bald Cypress ( Taxodium distichum ) 
Big Cis Plum ( Prunus x cistina 'Big Cis' ) 
Black Hills Spruce ( Picea glauca var. densata ) 
Black Walnut ( Juglans nigra ) 
Blue Ash ( Fraxinus quadrangulata ) 
Bonfire Sugar Maple ( Acer saccharum 'Bonfire' ) 
Brandywine Crabapple ( Malus 'Brandywine' ) 
Bur Oak ( Quercus macrocarpa ) 
Burning Bush Tree ( Euonymus alatus ) 
Campestre Maple ( Acer platanoides 'Campestre' ) 
Canada Red Cherry ( Prunus virginiana 'Shubert' ) 
Celebration maple ( Acer x freemanii 'Celebration' ) 
Chanticleer Pear ( Pyrus calleryana 'Chanticleer' ) 
Colorado Blue Spruce ( Picea pungens 'Glauca' ) 
Columnar Douglas Fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Columnar' ) 
Commemoration Sugar maple ( Acer saccharum 'Commemoration' ) 
Common Hackberry ( Celtis occidentalis ) 
Common Honeylocust ( Gleditsia triacanthos ) 
Concolor Fir ( Abies concolor )
Crimson Frost Birch ( Betula platyphylla var. szechuanica x Betula pendula 'Purpurea' )
David Crabapple ( Malus 'David' ) 
Deborah Maple ( Acer platanoides 'Deborah' ) 
Donald Wyman Crabapple ( Malus 'Donald Wyman' ) 
Double Flowering Plum ( Prunus triloba var. multiplex) 
Douglas Fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii ) 
Downy Hawthorn ( Crataegus mollis ) 
Dwarf Korean Lilac ( Syringa meyeri 'Palibin' ) 
Eastern Redbud ( Cercis canadensis ) 
English Oak ( Quercus robur ) 
European Bird Cherry ( Prunus padus ) 
European Mountainash ( Sorbus aucuparia ) 
Fairview Sugar Maple ( Acer saccharum 'Fairview' ) 
Flame Amur Maple ( Acer ginnala 'Flame' ) 
Fruitless Weeping Mulberry ( Morus alba 'Chaparral' ) 
Ginkgo ( Ginkgo biloba ) 
Glenleven Linden ( Tilia cordata 'Glenleven' ) 
Globe Norway Maple ( Acer platanoides 'Globosum' ) 
Gray Dogwood ( Cornus racemosa ) 
Green Ash ( Fraxinus pennsylvanica ) 
Green Mountain Maple ( Acer saccharum 'Green Mountain' ) 
Greencolumn Maple ( Acer nigrum 'Greencolumn' ) 
Greenspire Linden ( Tilia cordata 'Greenspire' ) 
Halka Honeylocust ( Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis 'Halka' ) 
Harvest Gold Crabapple ( Malus 'Harvest Gold' ) 
Hoopsii Colorado Blue Spruce ( Picea pungens 'Hoopsii' ) 
Ironwood ( Ostrya virginiana ) 
Imperial Honeylocust ( Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis 'Imperial' ) 
Indian Summer Crabapple ( Malus 'Indian Summer' ) 
Japanese Crabapple ( Malus floribunda ) 
Japanese Pagodatree ( Sophora japonica ) 
Japanese Tree Lilac ( Syringa reticulata ) 
Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass ( Calamagrostis arundinacea 'Karl Foerster' ) 
Kentucky Coffee Tree ( Gymnocladus dioicus ) 
Lacebark Pine ( Pinus bungeana ) 
Legacy Sugar Maple ( Acer saccharum 'Legacy' ) 
Legend Linden ( Tilia americana 'Legend' )
Leprechaun Ash ( Fraxinus pennsylvanica 'Johnson' ) 
Limber Pine ( Pinus flexilis ) 
Limemound Spirea ( Spirea x bumalda 'Limemound' )
London Planetree ( Platanus x acerifolia ) 
Mt. St. Helens Plum ( Prunus x cerasifera 'Mt. St. Helens' ) 
Nanking Cherry ( Prunus tomentosa ) 
Nannyberry Viburnum ( Viburnam lentago ) 
Noreaster Cottonwood ( Populus deltoides 'Noreaster' ) 
Northern Catalpa ( Catalpa speciosa ) 
Northern Red Oak ( Quercus rubra ) 
Northwood Red Maple ( Acer rubrum 'Northwood' ) 
Ohio Buckeye ( Aesculus glabra ) 
Osage-Orange ( Maclura pomifera ) 
Patmore Ash ( Fraxinus pennsylvanica 'Patmore' ) 
PeeGee Hydrangea ( Hydrangea paniculata 'Grandiflora' ) 
Pink Spires Crabapple ( Malus 'Pink Spires' ) 
Ponderosa Pine ( Pinus ponderosa ) 
Prairifire Crabapple ( Malus 'Prairifire' ) 
Princess Kay Plum ( Prunus nigra 'Princis Kay' ) 
Professor Sprenger Crabapple ( Malus 'Professor Sprenger' ) 
Quaking Aspen ( Populus tremuloides ) 
Red Jade Crabapple ( Malus 'Red Jade' ) 
Red Sunset Red Maple ( Acer rubrum 'Franksred' ) 
Redbud Crabapple ( Malus sieboldii var. zumi 'Calocarpa' ) 
Redmond Linden ( Tilia americana 'Redmond' ) 
River Birch ( Betula nigra ) 
Riversii Beech ( Fagus sylvatica 'Riversii' ) 
Robin Hill Serviceberry ( Amelanchier x grandiflora 'Robin Hill' ) 
Royalty Crabapple ( Malus 'Royalty' ) 
Russian Olive ( Elaeagnus angustifolia ) 
Scotch Pine ( Pinus sylvestris ) 
Shademaster Honeylocust ( Gleditsia triacanthos var.inermis 'Shademaster' ) 
Shingle Oak (Quercus imbricaria ) 
Showy Mountainash ( Sorbus decora ) 
Silver Maple ( Acer Saccharinum ) 
Smoketree ( Cotinus coggygria ) 
Snowdrift Crabapple ( Malus 'Snowdrift' ) 
Spring Snow Crabapple ( Malus 'Spring Snow' ) 
Staghorn Sumac ( Rhus typhina ) 
Star Magnolia ( Magnolia stellata ) 
Sugar Tyme Crabapple ( Malus 'Sugar Tyme' ) 
Swamp White Oak ( Quercus bicolor ) 
Tatarian Maple ( Acer tataricum ) 
Thornless Cockspur Hawthorn ( Crataegus crusgalli var. inermis ) 
Thornless Honeylocust ( Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis ) 
Thundercloud Cherry Plum ( Prunus cerasifera 'Thundercloud' ) 
Turkish Filbert ( Corylus colurna )
Twisted Needle White Pine ( Pinus strobus 'Contorta' ) 
Urbanite Ash ( Fraxinus pennsylvanica 'Urbanite' ) 
Weeping Caragana ( Caragana arborescens 'Pendula' ) 
Weeping European Larch ( Larix decidua 'Pendula' ) 
Weeping Higan Cherry ( Prunus subhirtella 'Pendula' ) 
Weeping Pussy Willow ( Salix caprea 'Pendula' ) 
White Mulberry ( Morus alba ) 
White Oak ( Quercus alba ) 
Whitebud ( Cercis canadensis alba ) 
Whitespire Birch ( Betula platyphylla 'Whitespire' ) 
Winter King Hawthorn ( Crataegus viridis 'Winter King' ) 
Yellow Buckeye ( Aesculus flava ) 
Zumi Crabapple ( Malus sieboldii var. zumi )