Woody Ornamentals

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• Lavandula angustifolia var. rosea syn. L. spica var. rosea Lavender Z 4

  Pink colored lavender flowers, and still fragrant.

  

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  Pink colored lavender flowers, and still fragrant.  We especially like this for its compact habit.

  Size: 12” x 12”
  Care: sun in moist well-drained soil

  Pink variety in gardens by 1800.

• Leptodermis oblonga Dwarf lilac Z 5-8

  fragrant lavender, lilac-like trumpets blooming in June – October.

  

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  Low mounding shrub with fragrant lavender, lilac-like trumpets blooming in June – October.  Leaves slow to leaf-out in spring but then blooms its heart out.

  Size: 12-18” x 18-24” spreads by suckers
  Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
  Native: No. & W. China & Himalayas.
  Wildlife Value: Attracts hummingbirds

  Leptodermis means “thin skin” and oblonga refers to the oblong leaves.
  Introduced by E.H. Wilson in 1905.

• Liquidambar styrociflua Sweet gum Z 5-9

  Star-shaped leaves turn parti-color in fall – red, purple, orange.  Gum ball fruit matures in winter.

  

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  Star-shaped leaves turn parti-color in fall – red, purple, orange.  Gum ball fruit matures in winter.

  Size: 60-80‘ x 40-60’
  Care: sun in moist to moist well-drained acidic soil
  Native: Eastern US north to southern IL & west to Mississippi River.
  Wildlife Value: Deer resistant & black walnut tolerant. Seeds food for numerous birds.
  Size: Cherokee made a salve for wounds & sores from the tree & mixed it with sheep or cow tallow for itches.

  Collected before 1753. Grown at America’s 1^st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811.

  **LISTED AS OUT OF STOCK BECAUSE WE DO NOT SHIP THIS ITEM.  IT IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT OUR RETAIL LOCATION.

• Magnolia virginiana Sweetbay magnolia 5-10

  Large, ivory cups, lemon scented

  

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  Large, ivory cups, lemon scented, in May & June & sporadically all summer & fall.  6” long leaves, waxy green on top and silvery-frosted beneath.  In fall fruits open to reveal bright red seeds.

  Size: 20’ x 15’
  Care: Sun to part shade in acidic, moist to moist well-drained soil
  Native: Atlantic coast from NY to FL, west along Gulf coast to TX
  Wildlife Value: nectar source for Spicebush swallowtail butterfly

  Magnolia named for Pierre Magnol, Montpellier professor of medicine and director of the botanic garden. (1638-1715)  This species collected by Rev. John Banister in Virginia c. 1690. One of the mainstays of John Bartram’s seed business, Peter Collinson, Bartram’s agent in England, said, “the name Magnolia will sell a box of seeds.” Offered for sale in Bartram Garden’s 1783 Broadside, America’s 1^st plant catalog.  Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.

  **LISTED AS OUT OF STOCK BECAUSE WE DO NOT SHIP THIS ITEM.  IT IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT OUR RETAIL LOCATION.