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Scientific Name |
Common Name |
Comments |
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Taxus sp.
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Yew |
- Needle evergreen
- Culture: partial shade to shade; rich, moist soil best: Best suited to Northwest Arkansas (cooler)
- Cultivars: many for plant habit
- Trademark of landscapes in north
- Tolerates shearing
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Ternstroemia gymnanthera (f. Cleyera gymna.)
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Japanese Ternstroemia |
- Size: large (9' tall by 9' wide) broadleaf evergreen
- Flowers: interesting but typically not dramatic
- Fruit: not showy
- Fall/winter color: broadleaf evergreen, foliage turns deep purple in winter
- Culture: full sun to partial shade; adaptable to soils; best suited to cold hardiness zones 7 & 8
- Disease/insect: none serious
- Uses: wide hedge/screen plant
- Incorrectly sold in most garden centers as Cleyera gymnanthera
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Thuja x 'Green Giant'
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Green Giant
Arborvitae |
- Size: 45’ tall x 12’ wide
- Culture: full sun
- Use: hedge/screen
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Thuja occidentalis
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Eastern Arborvitae |
- Size: large (12' tall by 5' wide) needle evergreen
- Culture: partial shade to shade; best suited in moist soils; Best suited for Northwest Arkansas (cooler)
- Disease/insect: bagworm
- Use: hedge/screen plant
- Many cultivars including globe-shaped 'Globosa' and columnar 'Emerald'
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Viburnum x burkwoodii
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Burkwood Viburnum |
- Size: medium (7' tall by 7' wide) deciduous shrub (almost semi-evergreen in south Arkansas)
- Flowers: white flowers just before or as leaves emerge in April; One of several very fragrant Viburnums
- Fruit: red/black berry (drupe) often little landscape value
- Fall color: sporadic, often none in Arkansas
- Culture: sun to partial shade; rich, moist soil best
- Disease/insect: none serious
- Use: specimen, medium hedge, mixed shrub bed
- Cultivars: similar to V. carlesii, V.xjuddii
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Viburnum opulus
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European Cranberrybush Vib. |
- Size: medium (8' tall by 8' wide) deciduous shrub
- Flowers: showy, white flowers; outer ring sterile, inner fertile, May
- Fruits: beautiful red clusters of fruit, fall
- Fall color: can be maroon especially in cooler climates
- Culture: sun to partial shade; rich, moist soil best
- Disease/insect: none serious
- Uses: shrub bed
- Cultivars: 'Compactum' (smaller), 'Nanum' (dwarf, no flws or fruits), 'Roseum' (one of the 'snowball' viburnums)
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Viburnum plicatum
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Japanese Snowball Viburnum |
- Sized: large (10' tall by 10' wide) deciduous shrub
- Flowers: snow white 'snowballs' of sterile flowers; mid-April
- Fruits: none (sterile)
- Fall color: maroon
- Culture: sun to partial shade; fairly adaptable once established
- Disease/insect: none serious
- Use: large shrub beds
- This is an anomaly since a botanical species should be able to reproduce by seed and this does not. It is the
var. tomentosum
(Doublefile Virburnum) that produces seed!!! Kind of backwards
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Viburnum plicatum var. tomentosum
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Doublefile Viburnum |
- Size: large (10' tall by 10' wide) deciduous shrub
- Flowers: very showy. Outer ring of sterile flowers with inner fertile flowers
- Fruit: significant. Red fruit (drupe) turns black late summer
- Fall color: maroon
- Culture: sun to partial shade; rich, moist soil best
- Use: massed, back of shrub bed
- Cultivars: 'Lanarth', 'Mariesii', 'Shasta', 'Summer Snowflake'
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Viburnum x rhytodophylloides
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Lantanaphyllum Viburnum |
- Size: large (10' tall by 10' wide) semi-evergreen to broadleaf evergreen. Very coarse texture
- Flowers: creamy white flowers, mid-April
- Fruits: significant, red turns black
- Fall color: none
- Culture: sun to partial shade; adaptable to most soils
- Disease/insect: none serious
- Use: back of mixed shrub border
- V. rhytodphyllum (evergreen) x V. lantana (deciduous)
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Viburnum trilobum
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Cranberrybush viburnum |
- Size: 9’ tall by 9’ wide
- Flowers: White in late April/early May
- Fruit: ¼”-diameter, lipstick red
- Fall color: in northern climates is a deep maroon
- Culture: fairly adaptable, moist soil best, partial sun
- Use: massed, specimen, filler, low hedge
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Vitex agnus-castus
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Chastetree, Vitex |
- Size: large (12' tall by 12' wide) deciduous shrub or small tree
- Flowers: showy, summer, white, purple, pink
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: none
- Culture: sun; Very heat and drought tolerant
- Use: large shrub or small tree
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Weigela florida
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Weigela |
- Size: medium (6' tall by 8' wide) deciduous shrub
- Flowers: showy, funnel flowers in May; pink, white, yellow, red
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: none
- Culture: sun; very adaptable once established
- Disease/insect: none serious
- Use: mass, shrub bed
- Cultivars: many; 'Eva Rathki', 'Minuet', 'Red Prince',
'Variegata'
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Yucca filamentosa
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Yucca |
- Size: small (foliage 18" tall) shrub
- Flowers: dramatic, white flower panicle May through June
- Culture: full sun; great for hot, dry locations
- Disease/insect: none serious
- Use: Southwestern appearance, rock gardens
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