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SHRUBS fit for YOUR ENVIRONMENT
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AZALEAS
Encore
Delaware Valley (White)
Formosa (Lavender)
Formosa (Pink)
Formosa (Red)
George Tabor (Pink/Lavender)
DAYLILIES
Daylilies
Hemerocallis sp.
- Full sun, clump, perennial
- Thousands of cultivars: some rebloom, some fragrant
- Heat and drought tolerant
Eleagnus
Elaeagnus pungens (E.x ebbingei)
- Size: fast growing, large 12′ tall by 12′ wide) broadleaf evergreen; very wild habit unless pruned
- Flowers: extremely fragrant flowers in the fall, but not showy
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: none/broadleaf evergreen
- Culture: sun; very adaptable to soil type
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: must be sheared; good for screen/hedge
- Similar to E. x ebbingei
GRASS
Dwarf Hamelin
Acer Rubrum
Dwarf Maiden
Miscanthus sinensis
- Medium sized (4 to 5′), clump forming grass
- Cultivars: ‘Gracillimus’, ‘Zebrinus’, ‘Strictus’
Pampas
Cortaderia selloana
- Large (10′), clump forming grass
- Full sun
- Dramatic plumes
- Invasive in western U.S.
Pink Muhly
Purple Fountain
HAWTHORNS
Clara Dwarf (White)
Elizabeth (Light Pink)
HOLLIES
Needlepoint
- Size: large (18′ tall by 8′ wide) broadleaf evergreen
- Flowers: not significant
- Fruit: showy, red berry; Unique in that fruit-set does not require pollination (parthenocarpic)
- Fall color: none/broadleaf evergreen
- Culture: sun or shade; moist soil best. Avoid poorly drained soils
- Disease/insect: none serious
- Use: hedge or screen
Dwarf Yaupon
Ilex vomitoria ‘Nana’
- Size: small (3′ tall by 5′ wide) broadleaf evergreen
- Flowers: insignificant
- Fruit: not overwhelming on this form, red
- Fall color: none/broadleaf evergreen
- Culture: sun or shade; rich, moist soil best
- Disease/insect: none serious
- Use: common in foundation plantings
- Many similar cultivars (‘Schillings’/’Stokes Dwarf’; Bordeaux™; ‘Straughan’s Dwarf’)
JAPANESE YEW
Japanese Yew
Taxus sp.
- Needle evergreen
- Culture: partial shade to shade; rich, moist soil best: Best suited to Northwest Arkansas (cooler)
- Cultivars: many for plant habit
- Trademark of landscapes in north
- Tolerates shearing
JUNIPER
Creeping Groundcover
Juniperus procumbens
- Size: low (1′ tall by 7′ wide) needle evergreen
- Needles: all juvenile (awl-shaped)
- Culture: full sun
- Use: Ideal for cascading over walls; Japanese gardens. Another good choice for Arkansas
NANDINAS
Firepower
Nandina domestica ‘Atropurpurea Nana’
- Size: Small (18″ tall by 18″ wide) broadleaf evergreen
- Group of dwarf forms; most have intense reddish foliage in winter; most lack significant flowers/fruits
- Includes selections such as Gulf Stream™, ‘Harbour Dwarf’, ‘Moon Bay’
Domestica
- Size: medium (5′ tall by 4′ wide) broadleaf evergreen
- Flowers: showy, white terminal panicles May
- Fruit: spectacular clusters of red fruit
- Fall/winter color: broadleaf evergreen, however, can take-on reddish/purple coloration in winter
- Culture: sun to shade; very drought tolerant once established
- Disease/insect: none
- Use: tropical look; short hedge, foundation; Almost a weed in some wooded areas in Arkansas
- Cultivars: many (most for smaller size: ‘Firepower’, Gulf Stream™ , ‘Moon Bay’, ‘Harbour Dwarf’
- ‘Bamboo-like’ stems
POMEGRANATE
Fruiting
QUINCE
Red/White
- Size: medium (5′ tall by 7′ wide) deciduous shrub; Thorns on stem
- Flowers: very showy. Very early spring flowering; pink/white/coral/orange
- Fruit: rare. Looks like a ‘Yellow Delicious’ apple
- Fall color: none
- Culture: full sun. Best in rich, moist soil. But generally tough
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: beds, low ground cover, foundations
- Cultivars: many, mostly based on flower color or plant size
ROSES
Knockout (White, Red, Pink)
Drift
SPIRAEA
Double White (Bridal Wealth)
- Size: medium (6′ tall by 7′ wide) deciduous shrub
- Flowers: dramatic white flowers in early spring (March)
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: none
- Culture: full sun; adaptable to most soils
- Disease/insect: none
- Use: deciduous hedge, massed, mixed shrub border
- Prune after spring flower display
Gold Mound
Little Princess
Anthony Waterer
- Size: low (3′ tall by 3′ wide) deciduous shrub
- Flowers: showy, pink/purple flowers several months during summer
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: none
- Culture: full sun; drought tolerant
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Cultivars: ‘Anthony Waterer’, ‘Froebelii’, and yellow/green foliage forms ‘Goldflame’ and ‘Limemound’
SWEETSPIRE
Henry's Garnet
Itea virginica
- Size: medium (4′ tall by 9′ wide) deciduous shrub
- Flowers: significant, white, terminal racemes, May/June
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: reliable, spectacular maroon fall color
- Culture: sun to partial sun; moist soil
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: mass, spreads by rhizomes
- Cultivars; ‘Henry’s Garnet’; ‘Saturnalia’; ‘Merlot’
VIBURNUM
Snowball Macrophyllum
Viburnum plicatum
- Sized: large (10′ tall by 10′ wide) deciduous shrub
- Flowers: snow white ‘snowballs’ of sterile flowers; mid-April
- Fruits: none (sterile)
- Fall color: maroon
- Culture: sun to partial shade; fairly adaptable once established
- Disease/insect: none serious
- Use: large shrub beds
- This is an anomaly since a botanical species should be able to reproduce by seed and this does not. It is the Doublefile Virburnum (var. tomentosum) that produces seed!!!
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CAMELIA
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DAYLILY
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ENCORE AZALEAS
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HOSTA
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HYDRANGEA
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ROSES
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