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  • Plant Guide

    ‘Korean Gold’ plum yew

    Cephalotaxus harringtonia 'Korean Gold'

    This slow-growing dwarf conifer has a wide, rounded crown and narrowly furrowed, partially peeling bark.

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    Smoke tree

    Cotinus coggygria

    This bushy shrub or small tree has generated many notable cultivars, all of which add great textural qualities to the landscape.

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    Lawson false cypress

    Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ‘Ellwoodii’

    This plant has a cypress-like, densely conical form with erect feathery branches of ovate blue-gray juvenile leaves.

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    ‘Butterflies’ magnolia

    Magnolia ‘Butterflies’

    This cross of Magnolia acuminata and M. denudata usually forms a small tree with an upright central leader or sometimes a multistemmed shrub.

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    French lavender

    Lavandula stoechas

    This early-blooming compact shrub bears intriguing pine-cone-shaped flowers that have dark-purple bracts, or “rabbit ears.

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    Lagerstroemia fauriei

    Lagerstroemia fauriei

    This is a fast-growing, upright deciduous tree with delicate white flowers in early summer.

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    Pincushion hakea

    Hakea laurina

    Through the fall and into winter, pincushion hakea provides beautiful cut flowers for the holidays; the foliage and seedpods are also great for arrangements.

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    St. John’s wort

    Hypericum frondosum ‘Sunburst’

    This is a small, upright, mounded, deciduous shrub with attractive, flaking reddish-brown bark on mature stems and striking, linear to oblong blue green leaves.

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    Tutsan

    Hypericum androsaemum 'Albury Purple'

    This is a bushy, deciduous shrub with upright branches.

  • Rose of Sharon
    Plant Guide

    Rose of Sharon

    Hibiscus syriacus and cvs.

    This hardy, deciduous, vase-shaped, woody shrub blooms for several weeks beginning in midsummer.