Each year seedlings are evaluated in nationwide trial grounds for a 2-year period. Official All-American Rose Selections test gardens are located throughout the US, each with its own judge. The best performers are designated as AARS Award Winners. Here are some of those roses - they are outstanding!

Julia Child: A Floribunda with a butter gold color, a strong spice and licorice candy fragrance. Old-fashioned blooms with a perfectly rounded habit, super glossy leaves and great disease resistance.

Rainbow Sorbet: Another wonderful Floribunda! Rainbow Sorbet is the first to serve up brightly colored blossoms, combining deep, yellow, mixed orange and red. The sunny flowers continue to sparkle into fall, with a fresh-cut apple fragrance.

Wild Blue Yonder: This Grandiflora rose is a wild new style of rose! You'll be excited over its saturated scent of citrus blooms and rose, its clusters of ruffled ruby-red-purple blossoms that give a great show of distinct lavender 'eyes'.

Tahitian Sunset: A new-fashioned rose with old-fashioned appeal. It's a shimmery, silvery, pink rose that will surrender your senses to the lavish old-rose perfume. One of the new Hybrid Teas, large, long-stemmed flowers are born in great abundance.

North Dakota's state tree is the American Elm. It is our most beautiful shade tree and grows native primarily along rivers and lakes.

The following deciduous trees and shrubs are all popular natives to North Dakota.

Trees

• Quaking Aspen
• Paper Birch
• Cottonwood
• Crabapple
• Common Hackberry
• Siberian Larch
• American Linden
• Boxelder Maple
• Silver Maple
• European Mountain Ash
• Bur Oak
• Ohio Buckeye
• Balsam Poplar
• Black Walnut
• Willow

Shrubs

• Common Buckthorn
• Silver Buffaloberry
• Pin Cherry
• Chokecherry
• Cotoneaster
• American Cranberrybush
• Redosier Dogwood
• Hawthorn
• American Hazelnut
• Honeysuckle
• Juneberry
• Common Lilac
• Spirea
• Smooth Sumac
• Staghorn Sumac

All Seasons carries these trees and shrubs and more in our nursery as well as on our tree farms. Stop by today to pick out yours!

Insects can cause unwanted defoliation of your trees or shrubs, and if they are not controlled, an infestation may result in the death of the plant. Common bugs include aphids, scale insects, spider mites, gall forming insects, leaf feeding beetles, caterpillars and sawflies, and wood boring insects.

How you control the pests depends on how severe the infestation is. For example, a light infestation of aphids can be eliminated by a high pressure water spray. Anything more severe, however, will need to be removed by the use of pesticides.

How to spot a bug problem, look for any of the following:

• Cluster of bug colonies on the undersides of leaves
• An excess of 'sap' or 'honeydew' raining down on any cars parked beneath trees
• Folded and dwarfed leaves
• Yellow spotting on leaves, death or loss of buds
• Growth-like developments on stems, twigs or branches which look like warts or bumps or balls
• Webbing or a dusty film
• Holes in leaves, skeletonized leaves
• Caterpillar nests
• Bore holes into the tree bark

If you notice any of these things, stop in today and get advice from our experts. It is also helpful if you can bring in a sample of the leaves, or a sample from the area that is infested, as this will aid us in diagnosing the problem.