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SHRUBS AND TREES

Legend:  S  = Sun      PS  = Part Shade     S  = Shade    N = Native plants    

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American Cranberrybush Viburnum (Viburnum trilobum) N/S/PS.

Large native shrub with 5” clusters of white flowers in spring, red berries in fall, red fall foliage. Average/boggy soil.  Host for Spring Azure butterfly.
 3” pot       $6

 

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American Hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana)

N/S/PS Small native tree grown for its sculptural ridged trunk and branches.  Slow growing to 25’ tall and wide, extremely dense hardwoodHost for Tiger Swallowtail.
4" tubeling $6

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Honeysuckle 'Blanche Sandman' (Lonicera sempervirens). N/S

Native honeysuckle (not the invasive kind!) Easy to grow vine 10’-15’, orange red flowers attract hummingbirds, butterflies and bees
3” pot       $5

 
 

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Hydrangea ‘Annabelle’ (H. arborescens). N/S/PS

Large 12” white flower heads on a shrub 4’ tall, 5’ wide – does not die back and blooms reliably unlike many in our climate.
3” pot       $5

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Climbing hydrangea (H. anomala petiolaris) PS  
 
Flowering vine with white blooms for part shade. Will
take several years to establish, but eventually can reach 30’
3” pot       $5

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Deutzia ‘Variegata’ (Deutzia gracilis)  S/PS

Compact shrub to 3’- 4’, white flowers in spring but grown primarily for the  variegated white/green foliage
3” pot       $6

 

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New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus americanus)         N/S/PS

Compact native shrub 2’-3’ with white flowers held
above the foliage.  Host plant for several native butterflies.
3” pot       $5
 

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Potentilla 'Abottswood' (Potentilla. fruticosa)N/S/PS  
             

One of the best white flowered varieties, dark blue green foliage on a 4’ shrub, very nice low flowering hedge.
6”-8” tall, 3” pot         $4

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Red Vein Enkianthus (Enkianthus 'Red Bells')      S/PS

Ornamental shrub 10’ tall x 6’ wide, delicate white bell shaped flowers with a red edge, fiery red/orange fall
foliage.  Needs a moist acidic soil.  
3” pot             $6


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Redbud (Cercis Canadensis) N/S/PS
                          

Very ornamental small native tree 20’-30’ with rosy pink flower clusters in early spring before leaves emerge. Nectar source for butterflies.
4” tubeling               $6



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Rosebay Rhodendron (Rhodendron maximum) N/S/PS/Sh

Mature height 6’-10’, spreading 5’-8’. Lustrous dark green leaves and pink flowers, sun to shade. Very hardy. Mulch lightly.
6”-12” rooted cutting       $6


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Rhododendron, white (Rhododendron catawbiense 'Album') N/S/PS.

Large trusses of flowers, buds flushed lilac but open to pure white. Leaves are dark lustrous green, 6-8’ tall and wide. Prune after flowering if necessary. Hardy and vigorous.
6”-12” rooted cutting       $6


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Sassafras (Sassafras albidum))     N/S/PS

Native tree to 40’, shrubby when young, grown for its showy bark and fall color, blue-black fruits consumed by native birds, host plant for the Spicebush Swallowtail butterfly.
4” tubeling      $6
  

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Shagbark hickory (Carya ovata)    N/S

Very large native tree (120’), upright growth. Mature trees are valued for their attractive peeling bark and sweet edible nuts.
3 year seedling,  6”-14”      $5
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Spicebush (Lindera benzoin)  N/S/PS

Broadly rounded shrub reaching 6’-12’, yellow flowers in spring, red berries in the fall.  Host plant for the Spicebush Swallowtail butterfly.  Yellow fall color.
4” tubeling                     $6


 
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Spiraea ‘Little Princess’ (S. japonica)    S/PS

Dense compact shrub 2’-3’ with profuse pink flowers in early spring.  Attracts butterflies, trouble free. Nectar source for butterflies.          
3”-6” tall, 3” pot             $4

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Summersweet (Clethra alnifolia)      N/S/PS

Trouble free shrub with spicy fragrant white flower spikes in late summer, slender upright growth to 5’-8’.  Prefers a moist, acidic woodland soil.  Nectar source for butterflies.
4” tubeling                 $6

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Swamp azalea (Rhododendron viscosum)            N/PS

Native azalea with strongly fragrant white flowers, 5’x5’, happy in poorly drained soil and wetlands. White flowers, sometimes tinged with pink, early summer.
3” pot                   $6

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Sweetfern (Comptonia peregrina)       N/S/PS

Not a fern but a low growing native shrub, grown for its aromatic ferny foliage.  Reaches 2’-4’ tall, twice as wide. Moist acidic soil; do not move once planted.
 3” pot                    $6

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Sweetbay magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)        N/S/PS

Small multistemmed tree 20’ high, 15’ wide, with fragrant creamy white flowers occurring over a long spring bloom period.  Host for Eastern Tiger Swallowtail.
4” tubeling                  $6

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