Plant Profile: Common Juniper (Juniperus communis)
Karen Common juniper is native to more places than any other woody plant and has a variable form to match the diverse areas it calls home. Depending on the geographic origin…
Plant Profile: Harlequin Glorybower (Clerodendrum trichotomum)
This large coarse shrub, native to China and Japan, is deciduous or semi-evergreen, and is cultivated for its scented flowers and unusual berries. It is a member of the deadnettle…
Plant Profile: Alpine Currant (Ribes alpinum)
This deciduous, twiggy shrub with medium texture is a good choice for areas that can be challenging for less adaptable plants. It is easily transplanted and grown, tolerates a wide…
Plant Profile: Seven-Son Flower (Heptacodium miconiodes)
This large, upright, multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub from western China is a unique looking plant and provides year round interest. In late summer the bush is covered for a month with…
Plant Profile: Creeping Mahonia (Mahonia reptans)
This low growing suckering evergreen shrub is native to northwest America from British Columbia and Alberta to Arizona and New Mexico and west to California. The shiny blue-green leaves are…
Plant Profile: Escallonia (Escallonia rubra)
This native of Chile is a tough evergreen shrub with medium texture growing up to thirteen feet high. It has glossy dark green aromatic leaves and produces loose panicles of…
Plant Profile: Inkberry (Ilex glabra)
Native from Nova Scotia to Florida and west to Mississippi where it grows in swamps, inkberry is a medium sized broad leaved evergreen shrub. It has a spreading habit and…
Plant Profile: Southern Live Oak (Quercus virginiana)
One of the icons of the deep South, the live oak is often shown draped with Spanish moss. Its huge massive size, wide-spreading horizontal branches, and stiff, glossy, leathery leaves…
Plant Profile: Shrubby St. Johnswort (Hypericum prolificum)
This native of eastern and central United States is a small compact deciduous shrub with medium texture and rounded form. It produces yellow flowers about one inch across with five…
Plant Profile: Bottlebrush Buckeye (Aesculus parviflora)
A native of woodlands in southeastern United States, bottlebrush buckeye is a wide, suckering deciduous shrub that needs plenty of room to grow. In summer, its palmately compound leaves are…