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Scientific Name |
Common Name |
Comments |
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Deutzia gracilis
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Slender Deutzia |
- Size: small (3' tall by 4' wide) deciduous shrub; mounded habit
- Fruit: noted for early spring, white flowers, not fragrant
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: none
- Culture: full sun; adaptable to soils
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: massed, middle of mixed shrub bed
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Edgeworthia chrysantha
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Paperbush |
- Size: medium shrub; 6’ tall x 6’ wide
- Culture: partial shade to shade
- Use: component of woodland garden, mixed shrub border
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Elaeagnus pungens
(E.x ebbingei)
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Thorny Elaeagnus |
- Size: fast growing, large 12' tall by 12' wide) broadleaf evergreen; very wild habit unless pruned
- Flowers: extremely fragrant flowers in the fall, but not showy
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: none/broadleaf evergreen
- Culture: sun; very adaptable to soil type
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: must be sheared; good for screen/hedge
- Similar to E. x ebbingei
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Euonymus alatus
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Winged Euonymus |
- Size: medium (7' tall by 7' wide) deciduous shrub
- Flowers: yellow/green, not showy
- Fruit: brilliant orange, can be significant after foliage drops and if in sufficient numbers
- Fall color: exceptional, pink
- Twigs: distinctive 'wings'
- Culture: best in rich, moist soil; best in partial sun to shade. Very shade tolerant
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: individual plant, naturalizing, deciduous hedge
- Cultivars: 'Compactus' (red fall color; similar size) more common in trade
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Euonymus japonicus 'Aureus'
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Variegated Euonymus |
- Size: this cultivar is low (2’ tall x 4’). Broadleaf evergreen
- Culture: sun; adaptable to soil type
- Disease/insect: Euonymus scale a problem
- Use: low, evergreen groundcover
- Cultivars: many cultivars and forms available besides this one
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Euonymus kiautschovicus 'Manhattan'
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Manhattan Euonymus |
- Size: large (10' tall by 10' wide) broadleaf evergreen
- Culture: sun; adaptable to many soils
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: evergreen screen or wide hedge
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X Fatshedera lizei
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Fatshedera |
- Size: medium (5' tall by 4' wide) broadleaf evergreen
- Flowers: creamy panicles in winter
- Fruits: not significant
- Fall color: none/broadleaf evergreen
- Culture: best in rich, moist soil, partial sun; Zone 8 (protected in zone 7)
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: tropical looking
- Intergeneric hybrid: Hedera helix X Fatsia japonica
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Forsythia x intermedia
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Border Forsythia |
- Size: medium/large (7' tall by 9' wide) deciduous shrub
- Flowers: known for exceptional, yellow flowers, early spring
- Fruit: not significant (woody capsule)
- Fall color: depends on weather, can be deep maroon purple
- Culture: full sun; tolerant of most soils
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: massed; mixed shrub bed
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Fothergilla gardenii
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Dwarf Fothergilla |
- Size: small (4' tall by 4' wide) deciduous shrub
- Flowers: showy, early spring, white, 'thimble-like' flowers; often re-blooms in fall
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: nice flame fall color
- Culture: best in rich, moist soil; best in partial sun. Provide adequate moisture if located in full sun
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: massed, mixed shrub border
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Gardenia jasminoides
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Gardenia |
- Size: medium (5' tall by 5' wide) broadleaf evergreen
- Flowers: fragrant flowers; pure white flowers in summer, fade yellow
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: none/broadleaf evergreen
- Culture: best in rich, moist soil, acid soil; partial sun or shade; Best in zones 7 and 8
- Disease/insect: scale, whitefly
- Use: specimen near entry-ways
- Cultivars: few for increased cold hardiness (‘Kleim’s Hardy’)
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