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Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Littleleaf Mock-Orange (Philadelphus microphyllus)

Karen January 22, 2025 0 Comments

Littleleaf mock-orange is a bushy multibranched deciduous shrub native to the Southwest US from Wyoming to northern Mexico west to California where it grows in the scrub and brush habitats…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Red Alder (Rubrus rubra)

Karen September 18, 2024 0 Comments

Red alder is a deciduous tree native to North America from southeast Alaska south to central coastal California with an extension inland across Washington and Oregon into northermost Montana. It…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Indian Hawthorn (Raphiolepis indica)

Karen September 11, 2024 0 Comments

Also known as Hong Kong hawthorn, this dense evergreen shrub is native to south China to Indo-China and temperate eastern Asia including Japan, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. It is…

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Plant Profile: Winterberry (Ilex verticillata)

Karen August 21, 2024 0 Comments

This deciduous holly is native to eastern North America from Newfoundland west to Ontario and Minnesota, south to Alabama where it grows in wetlands such as bogs, swamps, and along…

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Plant Profile: Blue Haw (Viburnum cassinoides)

Karen August 14, 2024 0 Comments

Also known as Appalachian tea, wild raisin, swamp haw, withe-rod and witherrod viburnum, this deciduous shrub is native to eastern North America from Newfoundland to Manitoba and Minnesota, south to…

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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: Common Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis aka Sambucus nigra subsp. canadensis)

Karen July 31, 2024 0 Comments

Also called American elder, this deciduous shrub or small tree is native to North America east of the Rocky Mountains, south to Bolivia, where it usually grows in moist areas…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)

Karen July 3, 2024 0 Comments

Also known as Canadian hemlock, this coniferous tree is native to eastern North America and is a member of the pine family, Pinaceae, that also includes cedar and spruce. The…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Chinese Winter Hazel (Corylopsis platypetala)

Karen May 22, 2024 0 Comments

Native to South-Central and Southeast China, this deciduous shrub is a member of the witch hazel family, Hamamelidaceae, that also includes fothergill and loropetalum. Although it grows 8-10 feet in…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Chinese Alder (Clethra fargesii)

Karen May 20, 2024 0 Comments

Also known as bush pepper, common white alder, nana, and pink spire, this deciduous shrub or small tree is native to woodlands and mountains of Central China and is a…

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