Find the perfect trees and plants for Iowa

We've collected the best plants for Iowa below. From evergreens to fruit trees and more, these plants and trees are designed to thrive in your landscape.

Shrubs & Hedges for Iowa

Evergreen Trees for Iowa

Fruit Trees & Bushes for Iowa

Flowering Trees for Iowa

Shade Trees for Iowa

Perennials for Iowa

Iowa Trees

Iowans, who live in the Hawkeye State, are usually looking for fast-growing shade trees to cast some cooling shade on their residential landscapes. Planting trees in Iowa will definitely depend on where you live – the Young Drift Plains, the Driftless Area or The Dissected Till Plains – and the benefits you expect from the tree.

Other outstanding Iowa tree choices will always include specimens that are highly adaptable to the unique climate of the varied Hawkeye State regions, demonstration adaptability to the state’s hot summers, cold winters, and wet springs. Temperatures and rainfall vary widely and the average snowfall is 30 inches.

We know you want fast-growing trees that hardy even in the colder regions, such as robust Hybrid Poplar, the graceful Weeping Willow of the golden Quaking Aspen. Other favorites include the easy to maintain Norway Spruce and the Gingko.

You may want to enhance your residential landscape with colorful flowering trees like the fragrant Royal Empress, which grows well in Iowa and gives you the benefits of a spring flowering tree that is large enough to also be a shade tree. Some of the best trees for Iowa landscapes can be found right here at Fast Growing Trees Nursery.

Fruit tree lovers will enjoy our Key Lime trees, Bartlett Pear, Santa Rosa Plum, and Navel Oranges. The juicy North Star Cherries are also perfect for colder climates.

The Iowa state tree is the Northern Red Oak. Tama was designated the state soil of Iowa in 1917. It is considered to be one of the Hawkeye State’s most rich and productive soils. It consists of a dark brown, silty clay loam and is found hovering around 825,000 acres in 26 counties of east-central and eastern Iowa.

Gorgeous Iowa landscapes are usually a mixture of different types of hardy shade trees and flowering trees that grow well in the Hawkeye State, as well as evergreen and fruit trees.