|
Botanical Name |
Common Name |
Exposure |
Size |
Bloom Time |
Flower Color |
Comment |
|
Calamintha grandiflora 'Variegata' |
Variegated Calamint or Wild Basil |
Part Shade |
1 to 1.5’ by 1.5’ |
Summer to Fall |
Pink |
Pale-green, oval leaves with strong white
marbling - wonderful minty fragrance |
|
Calamintha nepeta ‘Blue Cloud’ |
Calamint |
Sun |
1 to 2 Ft by 1 Ft |
Summer to Fall |
Violet-Blue |
an upright, clump-forming perennial with dark
green leaves and a haze of tiny blue flowers with long purple bracts
from summer though to autumn. |
|
Calamintha nepeta ‘Montrose White’ |
Calamint |
Sun |
12 to 18 In by 12 to 18 In |
Summer to Fall |
White |
self cleaning - never needs dead heading -
mint scented foliage |
|
Calamintha nepeta subsp. nepeta |
Calamint |
Sun |
1 to 1.5 Ft by 1 to 2 Ft |
Summer to Fall |
lilac to white |
a more vigorous performer with slightly larger
flowers, larger inflorescences (to 20 flowers) and larger leaves (to
1.25” long) |
|
Callicarpa dichotoma 'Duet’ |
Variegated Beauty Berry |
Sun to Part Shade |
6 Ft by 6.5 Ft in 4 years |
Early Summer |
White |
Medium green leaves with distinct yellow
margins - white fruit |
|
Callicarpa japonica 'Snow Storm' |
Beauty Berry |
Sun to Part Shade |
3 to 4 Ft by 3 to 4 Ft |
Early Summer |
Pink |
New foliage emerges white, and becomes
specked and eventually green as it matures into the late part of
summer. |
|
Campanula ‘Birch Hybrid’ |
Bellflower |
Sun to Part Shade |
6 In. |
Summer to Fall |
Violet-Blue |
a profuse bloomer with nodding, cup-shaped
flowers - great spilling over walls |
|
Campanula carpatica ‘Blue Clips’ |
Carpathian Bellflower |
Sun to Part Shade |
6 to 8 In. x 12 In. |
Summer |
Violet-Blue |
forms a compact clump with flat, bell-shaped
flowers |
|
Campanula garganica 'Dickson's Gold' |
Bellflower |
Sun to Part Shade |
4 to 6 In. |
Spring to Summer |
Blue |
neat, golden, heart-shaped foliage ~ fairly
evergreen ~ great for rock gardens or walls |
|
Campanula lactiflora Avalanche (C. ‘Camblo’) |
Milky Bellflower |
Sun to Part Shade |
4 Ft. by 2 Ft. |
Summer |
White |
Shapely branched stems with masses of large,
pure white flowers give the effect of an avalanche of snow. |
|
Campanula portenschlagiana 'Birch Hybrid' |
Dalmatian bellflower |
Part Shade |
4 to 6 In by 12 In |
Summer through Fall |
Blue-Violet |
bright purple-blue bellflowers ~ excellent
groundcover |
|
Carex platyphylla |
Broadleaf Sedge or Silver Sedge
|
Part Shade to Shade |
8 In. by 12 In |
Early Summer |
Tan |
the most ornamental native sedge - evergreen
blue-green foliage - a vigorous clumper |
|
Carex siderosticha ‘Banana Boat’ |
Broadleaf Sedge
|
Part Shade to Shade |
6 to 12 In. by 6 to 12 In. |
Spring |
Tan |
creeping, broad-leaved sedge - broad, grassy
leaves (to 1.25” wide) that are banana yellow with green margins and
green striping. |
|
Ceanothus x pallidus ‘Marie Simon’ |
California Lilac |
Sun to Part Shade |
6 to 8 Ft. by 6 to 8 Ft. |
Summer to Fall |
Pink |
showy red stems |
|
Cephalotaxus harringtonii ‘Fastigiata’ |
Upright Japanese Plum Yew |
Full Sun to Full Shade |
8 Ft. by 3 to 5 Ft. |
|
|
a columnar or vase-shaped shrub with
black-green leaves |
|
Cercidiphyllum japonicum |
Katsuratree |
Sun |
40 Ft. |
Spring |
Insignificant |
pyramid shaped ~ new leaves are purple and
turn blue-green ~ fallen leaves are fragrant |
Cercis canadensis
|
Eastern Redbud
|
Sun to Part Shade |
25 Ft. |
Spring |
Pink |
flowers are very showy before the leaves are
out |
|
Chaenomeles
speciosa 'Chojuraku' |
Dwarf Flowering Quince |
Sun to Part Shade |
4 - 5 Ft. by 4 - 5 Ft. |
Spring |
Orange |
striking, large double orange flowers |
|
Chaenomeles
speciosa 'Iwai Nishiki' |
Dwarf Flowering Quince |
Sun to Part Shade |
3 - 4 Ft. by 3 - 4 Ft. |
Spring |
Red |
deep red double camellia-like flowers |
|
Chaenomeles
speciosa 'Kingishi' |
Dwarf Flowering Quince |
Sun to Part Shade |
4 - 5 Ft. |
Spring |
Orange |
large single orange flowers |
|
Chaenomeles x superba ‘Cameo’ |
Dwarf Flowering Quince |
Sun to Part Shade |
4 Ft. by 4 Ft. |
Spring |
Peach |
full, double flowers bloom before leaves
emerge ~ a compact shape with glossy dark green foliage |
|
Chaenomeles x superba 'Jet Trail' |
Dwarf Flowering Quince |
Sun to Part Shade |
2 - 4 Ft. by 3 - 4 Ft. |
Spring |
White |
pure white, early spring flowers and its
compact, broad-spreading habit |
|
Chaenomeles x superba ‘Texas Scarlet’ |
Dwarf Flowering Quince |
Sun to Part Shade |
3 to 6 Ft by 3 to 6 Ft |
Spring |
Red |
very compact and spreading |
|
Chamaecyparis nootkatensis ‘Pendula’ |
Weeping Alaskan Cedar |
Sun to Part Shade |
25 to 30 Ft. by 20 Ft. |
|
|
graceful, weeping, pyramidal evergreen |
|
Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Compacta' |
Compact False Cypress |
Sun to part Shade |
20 Ft by 15 Ft |
|
|
dark green foliage in a pyramidal form |
|
Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Crippsii' |
Golden Hinoki False Cypress |
Sun to Part Shade |
15 Ft. |
|
|
a small, loosely conical tree with golden
fern-like foliage |
|
Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Gracilis' |
Slender False Cypress |
Sun to Part Shade |
15 Ft by 6 Ft in 10 years |
|
|
compact foliage in shell-like sprays - a dwarf
pyramidal form with horizontal branches and bunchy fan-like foliage |
|
Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Graciosa' |
Compact False Cypress |
Sun to Part Shade |
4 to 8 Ft by 4 to 6 Ft. |
|
|
lighter green, lacy looking foliage -
ascending branches that display silvery under-foliage, it will
develop into a compact, conical-shaped, small tree. |
|
Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Lynns Golden' |
Golden Hinoki False Cypress |
Sun to Part Shade |
6 to 10 Ft by 4 to 6 Ft |
|
|
dwarf, upright, golden hinoki cypress |
|
Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Nana Gracilis' |
Dwarf Slender False Cypress |
Sun to Part Shade |
4 to 6 Ft by 4 Ft. |
|
|
compact foliage in shell-like sprays - a dwarf
pyramidal form with horizontal branches and bunchy fan-like foliage |
|
Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Split Rock' |
Hinoki Cypress |
Sun to Part Shade |
5 to 6 Ft in 10 yrs |
|
|
compact pyramidal plant has both green adult
foliage and blue juvenile foliage, giving the plant a wonderful,
textural interest - an upright, narrow coniferous tree |
|
Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Gold Mop' |
Dwarf Yellowthread or Sawara Falsecypress |
Sun |
3 Ft. |
|
|
A beautiful, graceful shrub |
|
Chelone lyonii 'Hot Lips' |
Pink Turtlehead |
Sun to Part Shade |
2.5 Feet |
Summer to Fall |
Pink |
long bloomer |
|
Chionanthus virginicus |
Fringetree |
Sun |
10 Ft. x 10 Ft. |
Spring |
White |
a spreading , open form with multiple trunks |
|
Clethra alnifolia 'Hummingbird’ |
Dwarf Summersweet |
Full Sun to Full Shade |
3 Ft. |
Summer |
White |
dense mounded habit ~ late to leaf out in
spring |
|
Clethra alnifolia 'Ruby Spice' |
Pink Summersweet |
Full Sun to Full Shade |
4 Ft. |
Summer |
Pink |
long flowering ~ late to leaf out in spring |
|
Clethra alnifolia 'Sixteen Candles' |
Dwarf Summersweet |
Full Sun to Full Shade |
28 In. x 36 In. |
Summer |
White |
dense mounded habit ~ late to leaf out in
spring |
Coreopsis verticillata 'Zagreb'
|
Tickseed |
Sun |
2 Ft. |
Summer |
Yellow |
compact, mound shaped plant with beautiful
finely cut foliage and loads of flowers |
|
Cornus kousa var. chinensis |
Chinese Dogwood
|
Sun to Part Shade |
30 Ft. |
Spring to Summer |
White |
more cold hardy and more disease resistant
than C. florida |
|
Corylus avellana 'Contorta' |
Henry Lauder’s Walking Stick’ |
Sun to Part Shade |
8 to 10 Ft by 8 to 10 Ft |
Spring |
Yellow |
Twisted and spiraling branches, twigs and
leaves |
|
Cotinus
coggygria Purpureus Group |
Purple Smokebush |
Sun |
12' (unless used as a cut-back shrub) |
Summer |
Pinkish |
leaves have a purple cast ~ fluffy, smoke-like
flowers |
|
Cotoneaster 'Lowfast' |
Bearberry Cotoneaster |
Sun to Part Shade |
1 Ft by 8 - 12 Ft. |
Spring |
White |
fast growing creeping groundcover - bright red
berries - great for slopes and walls |
|
Crocosmia 'Lucifer' |
Crocosmia |
Sun |
3.5 Ft. |
Summer |
Red |
spectacular cut flower or border plant ;
handsome clumps of sword-like foliage |
Cryptomeria japonica 'Globosa Nana’
|
Dwarf Japanese Cedar |
Sun |
3 Ft. x 3 Ft in 10-15 yrs. |
|
|
neat, dense, domed-shape form ~ an excellent
accent plant |
Cryptomeria japonica 'Gyokuryu’
|
Japanese Cedar |
Sun to Part Shade |
8 to 10 Ft by 5 to 6 Ft. |
|
|
forms a dense irregular pyramid - very dark
green does not bronze in winter |
Cryptomeria japonica 'Radicans’
|
Japanese Cedar |
Sun to Part Shade |
Up to 50 Ft by 8 to 12 Ft. |
|
|
a blue-green form that does not bronze as much
in the winter - very fast growing |
|
Cryptomeria japonica 'Yoshino' |
Japanese Cedar |
Sun |
35 Ft. |
|
|
rich, bright blue-green foliage ~ bronze-green
in cold weather |
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