Add elegant vertical interest and brilliant fall color to your landscape with Elmwood Columnar Ginkgo, a narrow-growing male ginkgo prized for its upright form and distinctive fan-shaped foliage. This exceptional selection maintains a slender profile when young, making it ideal for tight spaces, urban landscapes, property borders, foundation plantings, and narrow garden areas where traditional shade trees may be too large.

Rich dark green leaves provide unique texture throughout the growing season before transforming into a spectacular display of glowing golden-yellow foliage in autumn. As a male selection, Elmwood produces no messy fruit, making it an excellent low-maintenance choice for residential and commercial landscapes. Hardy, adaptable, and exceptionally long-lived, this beautiful tree offers timeless appeal and reliable performance for generations.

These healthy plants are shipped on their own roots, approximately 12 inches tall, and are ready to establish in the landscape.

You will receive:
✔️ 1 live Elmwood Columnar Ginkgo
✔️ Approximately 12 inches tall
✔️ Own-root plant
✔️ Male fruitless selection
✔️ Healthy, rooted landscape tree
✔️ Secure packaging for safe arrival

Growing Information

• Common Name: Elmwood Columnar Ginkgo
• Botanical Name: Ginkgo biloba ‘Elmwood’
• Plant Type: Deciduous ornamental tree
• Growth Stage: Established potted plant
• Sun Requirements: Full sun to partial shade
• Soil: Well-drained soil; highly adaptable to various soil types
• Watering: Moderate; drought tolerant once established
• Mature Height: Approximately 25–35 feet
• Mature Width: Approximately 8–12 feet
• Growth Rate: Moderate
• USDA Zones: 3–8
• Container Friendly: Yes, when young and properly maintained

Care Tip

Plant in full sun for the strongest growth and brightest golden fall foliage. Ginkgo trees are highly tolerant of urban conditions, pollution, and difficult growing environments once established.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.