Landscape Trees near Highland Park, IL, 60035

Looking for trees delivered to Highland Park, IL 60035? Arbor Buddy ships large, nursery-grown landscape trees straight to your door by freight. We match every tree to your local hardiness zone (6a) so it thrives in your yard. Whether you need shade, privacy, flowering color, or fruit, we have options for homeowners and contractors alike.

Shop Trees by Category in Highland Park

• Shade Trees: Beat the summer heat with fast-growing oaks, maples, and river birches that thrive in zone 6.
• Flowering & Ornamental: Add spring color with redbuds, plums, and crape myrtles that handle cold winters.
• Evergreen & Privacy: Screen your property year-round with narrow arborvitae and junipers that stand up to Lake County winters.
• Japanese Maples: Bring delicate texture to patios and entryways with laceleaf varieties that are hardy to zone 5b.
• Fruit Trees: Harvest your own peaches, apples, and figs from self-fertile or paired varieties that fruit reliably in zone 6.
• Shrubs & Hedges: Fill in foundation beds with holly, hydrangea, and willow that add seasonal interest without taking over.

Trees for Zone 6 in Highland Park

Highland Park sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a, where typical winter lows run about -10 to -5 degrees F. That means your trees need to handle cold snaps as well as humid summers. The zone 6 climate here allows a broad mix of deciduous shade trees, evergreens for screening, and flowering ornamentals that bloom reliably each spring.

Winters can bring sharp cold, but most of our featured trees are bred or selected to handle those lows. Summers bring heat and humidity, which suits oaks, maples, and redbuds well. Trees for zone 6 in Highland Park include Chinese Pistachio for fall color, American Pillar Arborvitae for fast privacy, and native Mexican Plum for early flowers.

Buyers in Fox Lake, Wauconda, and Waukegan face similar growing conditions, so the same categories work across Lake County. Focus on trees that are hardy down to zone 5 or below to handle occasional polar vortex dips.

See What Grows in Your Zone

For zone 6a in Highland Park, Arbor Buddy offers a focused selection of shade, privacy, flowering, and fruit trees that are zone-matched before shipment. Every tree ships by freight with a 1-Year Thrive Guarantee. Browse the trees that fit your yard and order online.

How Highland Park Compares to Other Areas

To understand what thrives in Highland Park, it helps to compare it to places with different climates. Each region shifts the tree choices in distinct ways.

Consider ZIP 98505 in Olympia, Washington (WA). Olympia is zone 8b with winter lows of 15 to 20 F. That warmer climate opens up many broadleaf evergreens and camellias that would not survive a Highland Park winter. The mild, wet winters allow a wider range of privacy and screening plants than we can use here. That gap changes the local shortlist to hardier evergreens like Arborvitae and juniper.

Next, look at ZIP 75880 in Tennessee Colony, Texas (TX). Also zone 8b, with lows of 15 to 20 F. Texas buyers can grow crape myrtles and citrus nearly year-round, while Highland Park's colder winters rule out most tender flowering trees. For your cart, that means you can still enjoy redbuds and plums, but not the tropical blooms common in the South. In practice, buyers here lean toward native flowering trees that handle frost.

Finally, consider ZIP 57402 in Aberdeen, South Dakota (SD). That area is zone 4a with lows of -30 to -25 F. The brutal cold there kills many zone 6 staples like Japanese maples and certain fruit trees. South Dakota buyers focus on Siberian elms and extremely hardy fruit varieties. For Highland Park, the contrast is clear: your zone 6 gives you a much wider fruit and ornamental palette than many colder regions. In practice, buyers here lean toward peaches, plums, and Japanese maples that would not survive in South Dakota.

Overall, Highland Park's zone 6a sits in a sweet spot: cold enough to limit tender species, but warm enough to grow a rich mix of shade, flowering, and fruit trees that would struggle in colder zones.