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Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Water Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis scorpioides)

Karen Meyers March 10, 2025 0 Comments

Also known as scorpion grass, this rhizomatous herbaceous perennial is in the borage family, Boraginaceae, that also includes lungwort, heliotrope, and Siberian bugloss. It is native to Europe and Asia…

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Plant Profile: Golden Weeping Willow (Salix x sepulcralis) ‘Chrysocoma’

Karen February 26, 2025 0 Comments

This weeping deciduous tree is a cross between Salix babylonica that proived the weeping habit and Salix alba ‘Vitellina’ that provided frost hardiness and golden shoots. Salix is a member…

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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: 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: Smooth Witherod (Viburnum nudum)

Karen August 12, 2024 0 Comments

Also known as withe-rod, possumhaw, and wild raisin, this deciduous shrub is native to eastern North America where it lives in swamps, bogs, and low woods. It is a member…

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Plant Profile: Japanese Clethra (Clethra barbinervis)

Karen May 13, 2024 0 Comments

This deciduous shrub or small tree is native to the open mountain forests of southern China, Japan and Korea and is a member of the small plant family, Clethraceae, and…

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Plant Profile: Purple Anise (Illicium floridanum aka I. mexicanum)

Karen March 4, 2024 0 Comments

Also known as Florida anise tree and poison bay, this broadleaf evergreen shrub is a member of the starvine family, Schisandraceae, consisting of 3 genera and 92 species. It is…

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Plant Profile: Japanese Star Anise (Illicium anisatum)

Karen February 28, 2024 0 Comments

Native to Japan and Korea, this broadleaf evergreen shrub or small tree is a member of the starvine family, Schisandraceae, consisting of 3 genera and 92 species. The plant grows…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Swamp Azalea (Rhododendron viscosum)

Karen January 15, 2024 0 Comments

Also known as clammy azalea, and swamp honeysuckle, this flowering deciduous shrub is native to the wetlands of eastern and southern US and a member of the heath family, Ericaceae,…

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