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Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Black Chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa)

Karen September 4, 2024 0 Comments

Native to swamps, woodland clearings, wetland forests, and outcroppings in eastern North America from Newfoundland west to Ontario and Minnesota, south to northern Florida, Alabama and Arkansas, this deciduous shrub…

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Plant Profile: Smooth Alder (Alnus serrulata)

Karen August 26, 2024 0 Comments

Also known as tag alder, brookside alder, and hazel alder, this deciduous shrub or small tree is native to eastern North America from Nova Scotia and southern New Brunswick south…

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Plant Profile: Silky Dogwood (Cornus amomum aka Swida amomum)

Karen August 19, 2024 0 Comments

Also known as pale dogwood, swamp dogwood, red willow, silky cornel, kinnikinnick, and squawbush this deciduous shrub is native to parts of Canada and eastern and central US, from Vermont…

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Plant Profile: Ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius)

Karen August 5, 2024 0 Comments

This mounding to rounded deciduous shrub is native to open woods, lakeshores, streambanks, rock outcroppings, and prairies in central and eastern US from New Brunswick to Ontario, south to Georgia…

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Plant Profile: Australian Blackwood ( Acacia melanoxylon)

Karen April 10, 2024 0 Comments

Also known as hickory, mudgerabah, and Tasmanian blackwood, this evergreen tree is native to southeastern Australia including Tasmania, and is a member of the legume family, Fabaceae, that also includes…

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Plant Profile: Golden Wattle (Acacia longifolia)

Karen April 3, 2024 0 Comments

Also known as long-leaved wattle, acacia trinervis, aroma doble, coast wattle, sallow wattle, and Sydney golden wattle, this flowering broadleaf evergreen shrub or small tree is endemic to coastal areas…

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Plant Profile: False Indigo (Amorpha fruticosa)

Karen January 10, 2024 0 Comments

This deciduous shrub is native to North America from eastern Canada throughout much of the US and into northern Mexico, where it grows along stream and pond edges, moist open…

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Plant Profile: Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus aka S. rivularis)

Karen October 16, 2023 0 Comments

Also known as waxberry, this deciduous flowering shrub is a member of the honeysuckle family, Caprifoliaceae, that also includes weigelia, scabiosa, and abelia. It is native to North America where…

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Plant Profile: Western White Clematis (Clematis ligusticifolia)

Karen September 4, 2023 0 Comments

Also known by many other names including peppervine, old man’s beard, and creek clematis, this climbing woody or semi-woody vine is native to western US where it grows in streamside…

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Plant Profile: Russian Pea Shrub (Caragana frutex)

Karen August 23, 2023 0 Comments

Native to Turkestan and Siberia, this deciduous suckering shrub is a member of the pea family, Fabaceae, that also includes beans, lupines and mimosa. It grows 6-10′ tall and forms…

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