Woody Ornamentals
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Rosa rubrifolia syn. Rosa glauca Z 3-9
Medium pink single blooms in spring. Purplish foliage bearing red-purple hips in autumn.
Medium pink single blooms in spring. Purplish foliage bearing red-purple hips in autumn.
Size: 7’ x 4’
Care: Full sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil. Disease resistant.
Native: Central Europe
Awards: Plant Select; Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Pick & Great Plants for Great Plains; Royal Botanical Society Award of Garden MeritIn garden cultivation since 1830
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Rubus odoratus Flowering raspberry Z 2-8
Purple-pink saucer shaped flowers all summer
Purple-pink saucer shaped flowers from June to October. Rarely seen shrub.
Size: 7-8' x 8'
Care: full sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil. Drought tolerant. Immune to Walnut toxins.
Native: Eastern North AmericaFor sale in an English catalog in 1730. William Robinson praised the flowering raspberry as bearing “large clusters of rich purple flowers. Bearing scented leaves, the leaves and not the flowers being fragrant.”
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Salix discolor Pussy willow Z 4-8
Grown for its fuzzy catkins appearing in late winter before the leaves emerge
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Grown for its fuzzy catkins appearing in late winter before the leaves emerge
Size: 15-20’ x 12-15’
Care: full sun, prefers moist soil but tolerates well-drained soil
Native: E. No. America incl. WI
Wildlife Value: Important food source for many pollinator bees incl. honey bees. Pussy willows attract queens looking for a location for a new colony. Host to caterpillars of cecropia moth and red-spotted purple, tiger swallowtail & viceroy butterflies.The name Salix is from “salio” meaning “to leap or dance, because of its quick growth.” Gardeners Dictionary, 1768. This species introduced to cultivation by German plant hunter Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg in late 1700’s-early 1800’s. Willows contain salicin, the pain-killer in aspirin, and used since ancient Greece to relieve pain.
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Syringa vulgaris Lilac, French lilac Z. 4-8 SHRUB/SMALL TREE
Single or double, very fragrant lilac panicles in late spring
Single or double, very fragrant lilac panicles in late spring
Can not ship to: Maryland
Size: 20’ x 15’
Care: full sun in well-drained soil
Native: SE Europe, Caucasus to AfghanistanIntroduced to European from its native Turkey by Viennese ambassador De Busbecq (1522-1592). Grown in Jefferson’s garden at Monticello and Washington’s Mount Vernon. By 1850 “found in almost every (American) garden.” Breck (1851) ‘Alba’ listed in Tradescant the Elder’s 1634 list as “Lilac Matthioli.” Elias Ashmole’s manuscript, “trees found in Mrs. Tradescants ground when it came into my possession (1662) as ‘Syringa alba.’ ” Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.
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