Woody Ornamentals
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Holodiscus discolor Creambush, Ocean spray Z 5-10
Multistemmed shrub with dense, elegant pyramidal clusters of arching cream-colored flowers in early to mid summer. Leaves tint red in fall.
Multi-stemmed shrub with dense, elegant pyramidal clusters of arching cream-colored flowers in early to mid summer. Leaves tint red in fall.
Size: 4-8’ x 8’
Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Montana to Colorado west to the Pacific.
Wildlife Value: nectar for hummingbirds, food for butterfly caterpillars, bird habitat.Hard and durable wood was used to make digging sticks, spears, harpoon shafts, bows, and arrows by nearly all coastal Native groups. A few used the wood to make sticks to barbeque salmon, fish hooks, needles for weaving and knitting, Pegs were made to use like nails. Others made wood intoarmor plating and canoe paddles.
A few Natives made an infusion of boiled fruit to cure diarrhea, measles, chickenpox and as a blood tonic. Collected by Meriwether Lewis in today’s Idaho on the Clearwater River, May 29, 1806 en route back east on the Lewis and Clark Expedition.**LISTED AS OUT OF STOCK BECAUSE WE DO NOT SHIP THIS ITEM. IT IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT OUR RETAIL LOCATION.
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Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’ Z 4-9
Late June to October, circular ivory heads fade to pale green
Flowering from late June to October, circular ivory heads fade to pale green. Toughest, easiest hydrangea to grow.
Size: 3-5’ x 3-5’
Care: Shade to sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil. Prune back in early spring to 12-16” above the soil level.
Native: species in Southeastern U.S. This variety found in southern IL
Awards: Received England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit & Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Gold Medal Plant Award.Hydrangea is Greek from hydor meaning “water” and aggeion meaning “vessel” referring to the cup shaped fruit. ‘Annabelle,’ the showy form, first collected around 1900 near Anna Illinois. The dried root was used as medicine – as a cathartic and diuretic.
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Hydrangea arborescens Z 4-9
Tiny white fertile flowers bloom in May-July in flattened hairy clusters.
Gray-brown stems are clad with opposite, broad egg-shaped to rounded, sharply toothed, dark green leaves with pale green undersides. Leaves turn yellow in fall. Tiny white fertile flowers bloom in May-July in flattened hairy clusters.
Size: 3-5’ x 3-5’
Care: Shade to sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil. Prune back in early spring to 12-16” above the soil level.
Native: Southeastern U.S.
Awards: Missouri Botanic Garden Plant of Merit.H. arborescens was initially found in the 1730’s by Virginian John Clayton. Hydrangea is Greek from hydor meaning water and aggeion meaning vessel referring to the cup shaped fruit. This flowered in England for Peter Collinson in 1746.
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Hydrangea quercifolia Oakleaf hydrangea Z 5-9
Large blossoms, white turning pink and dark rose as the season advances. In fall the oak-shaped leaves become burgundy.
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Large blossoms, white turning pink and dark rose as the season advances. In fall the oak-shaped leaves become burgundy.
Size: 4-5’ x 10’ slowly spreading by suckers.
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: SE USCollected in central Georgia by William Bartram c. 1775. Bartram, “most significant American nature writer before Thoreau,” traveled the wilderness of the SE, then colonies, now US, mostly alone, sometimes with his famous father, John Bartram. William wrote about and painted the flora, native Americans, animals and insects.
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Hypericum kalmianum Kalm’s St. Johns wort SHRUB Z 4-7
Yellow saucers with a puff of showy stamens in mid to late summer
Yellow saucers with a puff of showy stamens in mid to late summer, compliment the glaucous blue leaves on this small mounding, evergreen shrub.
Size: 3-4’ x 3-4’
Care: sun to shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil. Blooms on new growth so prune in late winter to early spring as far back as you wish.
Native: Quebec to WI, S. to IL
Wildlife Value: attracts bees and butterflies
Awards: Great Plants for Great PlainsThe name Hypericum comes from Greek hyper meaning “above”, and eikon, meaning “icon or image”. The yellow flowers of some species were placed above images to ward off evil spirits, and according to legend, Satan pierced the leaves in revenge. This species collected by & named for Peter Kalm, Swedish plant hunter, on his expedition in North America before 1753. Offered for sale in Bartram Garden’s 1783 Broadside, America’s 1st plant catalog.
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Ilex verticillata Winterberry holly Z 3-9 FEMALE
White flowers in May turning to dense clusters of lurid red berries lasting from fall into winter.
White flowers in May turning to dense clusters of lurid red berries lasting from fall into winter.
Size: 6-16’ x 6-10’
Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained, acidic soil
Native: Canada to FL, West to Wisconsin and MO.
Wildlife Value: important food for winter birds incl. Robins & ChickadeesCollected before 1753 by John Bartram who called it “Prinos.” Jefferson described the Winterberry on March 1 in Virginia, “the swamps in this neighborhood are now red with this berry…(it is) peculiar to America and is a real treasure.” L H Bailey (1933) called it,”one of the best hardy shrubs with ornamental fruits.” Dave’s Garden: The origin of common name holly dates back to the 11th century, where the German word hulis and Old English term holegn both refer to holly. Then as now, the Gaelic term for holly is cuileann.
Require a male and female plant for cross pollination. This is the female plant that will produce the berries. Generally only 1 male shrub should be needed to pollinate 6-10 female shrubs.
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Ilex verticillata Winterberry holly Z 3-9 MALE
White flowers in May.
White flowers in May. Male plants will not produce berries, but a Male shrub is needed to pollinate the female shrubs.
Size: 6-16’ x 6-10’
Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained, acidic soil
Native: Canada to FL, West to Wisconsin and MO.Collected before 1753 by John Bartram who called it “Prinos.” Jefferson described the Winterberry on March 1 in Virginia, “the swamps in this neighborhood are now red with this berry…(it is) peculiar to America and is a real treasure.” L H Bailey (1933) called it,”one of the best hardy shrubs with ornamental fruits.” Dave’s Garden: The origin of common name holly dates back to the 11th century, where the German word hulis and Old English term holegn both refer to holly. Then as now, the Gaelic term for holly is cuileann.
Require a male and female plant for cross pollination. This is the male plant needed to pollinate the females. Generally only 1 male shrub should be needed to pollinate 6-10 female shrubs.
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Kolkwitzia amabilis Beautybush Z. 5-9 SHRUB
Profuse pale to dark pink bell flowers with yellow throats grace this arching shrub in early summer
Profuse pale to dark pink bell flowers with yellow throats grace this arching shrub in early summer
Size: 10’ x 12’
Care: Full sun in well-drained soil. Flowers on last season’s wood so prune just after blooms fade.
Native: ChinaNamed for Richard Kolkwitz, botany professor in Berlin. First introduced to the West by Ernest Henry “Chinese” Wilson who found it in the mountains near Ichang and sent its seeds to the Veitch Nursery in England in 1901. Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum received the shrub in 1907. It was one of Wilson’s favorite plants out of his hundreds of finds. Wilson wrote, “(a)mong the deciduous-leaved shrubs that central and western China has given to American gardens Kolkwitzia stands in the front rank.” Arnoldia 68/2.
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