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ABELIAS
Dwarf Edward Goucher (Pink)
Kaleidoscope (White)
Size: medium shrub 5′ tall by 5′ wide; often wild sprays of stemsFlowers: May to fall, white/pink tubular flowersFruit: not significantFall color: broadleaf evergreen. Sometimes winter foliage is a deep maroonCulture: full sun. Adaptable to most soils. ToughDisease/insect: none significantUse: foundations, massesCultivars: many including ‘Sherwood’, Confetti™, Sunrise™. (‘Edward Goucher’ is a hybrid)
ALTHEA
Rose of Sharon
- Size: large (9′ tall by 9′ wide) deciduous shrub
- Flowers: known for significant summer flowers (white, pink, purple)
- Fruit: not significant, woody capsule
- Fall color: none
- Culture: full sun; tolerates most soils. Drought tolerant once established
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: specimen, back of mixed shrub border
- Cultivars: many. Mostly for flower color or type (single/double)
BOXWOODS
Wintergreen
- Size: large (12′ tall by 12′ wide) broadleaf evergreen
- Flowers/fruit: not significant
- Fall color: none/broadleaf evergreen
- Culture: best in rich, moist soil, partial sun, but more tolerant of sun and heat than Littleleaf Boxwood (B. microphylla). Better suited to south/central Arkansas than Littleleaf Boxwood (B. microphylla)
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: screen/hedge
Winter Gem
BURNING BUSH
Burning Bush
- Size: medium (7′ tall by 7′ wide) deciduous shrub
- Flowers: yellow/green, not showy
- Fruit: brilliant orange, can be significant after foliage drops and if in sufficient numbers
- Fall color: exceptional, pink
- Twigs: distinctive ‘wings’
- Culture: best in rich, moist soil; best in partial sun to shade. Very shade tolerant
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: individual plant, naturalizing, deciduous hedge
- Cultivars: ‘Compactus’ (red fall color; similar size) more common in trade
BUTTERFLY BUSH
Butterfly Bush
Buddleia (Buddleja) davidii
- Size: medium to large deciduous shrub (10′ tall by 10′ wide)
- Flowers: spectacular. Significant summer flower display. Flower colors white, pink, purple, yellow. Attracts butterflies
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: none
- Culture: full sun. Soil adaptable. Drought tolerant. Tough
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: fast growing and large to requires space. Back of mixed shrub border. Low maintenance areas
- Cultivars: many depending mostly on flower color
CAMELLIA JAPONICA
Pink Perfection
· Size: medium (8′ tall by 8′ wide)
· Flowers: very showy. Flowers variable (single/double; white,
pink, red); flowers typically January thru March. More likely to
see flower bud damage on this than Sasanqua Camellia (C.
sasanqua)
· Fruit: not significant
· Fall color: none/ broadleaf evergreen; Coarser leaves
thanSasanqua Camellia (C. sasanqua)
· Culture: best in rich, moist soil; partial sun; Best in cold
hardiness zones 7 & 8
· Disease/insect: none significant
· Use: screen, back of mixed shrub border
· Cultivars: many for variation in flowers (color, single/double)
Kramer Supreme (Red)
· Size: medium (8′ tall by 8′ wide)
· Flowers: very showy. Flowers variable (single/double; white,
pink, red); flowers typically January thru March. More likely to
see flower bud damage on this than Sasanqua Camellia (C.
sasanqua)
· Fruit: not significant
· Fall color: none/ broadleaf evergreen; Coarser leaves
thanSasanqua Camellia (C. sasanqua)
· Culture: best in rich, moist soil; partial sun; Best in cold
hardiness zones 7 & 8
· Disease/insect: none significant
· Use: screen, back of mixed shrub border
· Cultivars: many for variation in flowers (color, single/double)
CAMELLIA SASANQUA
Yuletide (Red)
- Size: medium (8′ tall by 8′ wide) broadleaf evergreen
- Flowers: very showy. Flowers late fall (Oct. thru Dec.). Typically flowers before Japanese Camellia (C. japonica)
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: none/broadleaf evergreen. Leaves more refined than Japanese Camellia (C. japonica)
- Culture: same as above. Best in rich, moist soil, partial sun
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: screen, back of mixed shrub border
- Cultivars: many. Similar flower choices as Japanese Camellia (C. japonica)
GARDENIAS
August Beauty
- Size: medium (5′ tall by 5′ wide) broadleaf evergreen
- Flowers: fragrant flowers; pure white flowers in summer, fade yellow
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: none/broadleaf evergreen
- Culture: best in rich, moist soil, acid soil; partial sun or shade; Best in zones 7 and 8
- Disease/insect: scale, whitefly
- Use: specimen near entry-ways
- Cultivars: few for increased cold hardiness (‘Kleim’s Hardy’
Frost Proof (Dwarf)
HOSTAS
Green
- Shade perennial; requires constant moisture
- Grown mostly for foliage
- Hundreds of cultivars
- Flower spikes white or blue-purple
- Loved by slugs
Varigated
HYDRANGEAS
Oak Leaf
Hydrangea quercifolia
- Size: medium (5′ tall by 7′ wide) deciduous shrub
- Flowers: known for significant white panicles in early summer
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: dramatic, maroon; ‘oak-like’ leaves
- Culture: best in rich, moist soil; shade or sun
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: foundation, specimen
- Cultivars: ‘Alice’, ‘Sikes Dwarf’, ‘Harmony’, ‘Snow Queen’ and more
Limelight
Hydrangea paniculata
- Size: large (9′ tall by 9′ wide) deciduous shrub
- Flowers: known for dramatic, white, terminal panicles in summer, fade to pink
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: none
- Culture: moist soil; tolerates full sun
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: specimen, back of mixed shrub bed. Has lost favor with introduction of white crapemyrtles
- Cultivars like ‘Grandiflora’, ‘Floribunda’, ‘Unique’, and ‘Tardiva’ have showier flowers with more sterile flowers
Macrophyllia
- Size: medium (4.5′ tall by 5′ wide) deciduous shrub
- Flowers: known for spectacular flowers in early/mid summer (pink or blue; mopheads or lacecaps); most flower on old wood so don’t prune severely in early spring
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: none
- Culture: best in rich, moist soil; partial sun or shade
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: specimen, foundation, mixed shrub beds
- Cultivars: hundreds for flower type and flower color
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