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Amelanchier canadensis

	Amelanchier canadensis or Shadblow Serviceberry, Canadian Serviceberry, or Shadbush is an understory tree with long petaled white flowers which appear before the leaves emerge. Fruit is highly attractive to birds and is edible.	PRICE: $13.00

Asimina triloba

	Asimina triloba - Paw Paw is a small tree or largish shrub which can spread by root suckering to form large colonies. It is naturally found in bottomlands and floodplains and is easily recognized by its large leaves, which can be up to 12 inches long and are odorous when bruised. Easily grown in average, medium to wet, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Paw Paw prefers moist, acidic, fertile soils. The fruits are sweet-flavored and have the flavor and fleshy consistency resembling bananas.	PRICE: $19.00

Corylus americana

	American Hazelnut or Filbert (Corylus americana) is a large shrub with edible nuts that will tolerate part to deep shade. It is easy to grow and will form thickets, so it is best for naturalized plantings and where there is plenty of room to spread. Removing suckers will prevent formation of thickets. Nuts attracts songbirds as well as larger birds like bobwhite and ruffed grouse and small mammals. The leaves, twigs, and catkins are browsed by deer.	PRICE: $15.00

Diospyros virginiana

	Diospyros virginiana - Persimmon is a medium-sized tree which grows in deciduous woods and has tasty edible fruit. This tree has high wildlife value, providing food for fruit-eating birds, foxes, opossums, raccoons, skunks, and coyote. Twigs are food source for deer in winter.	PRICE: $15.00

Hydrangea arborescens

	Wild Hydrangea or Smooth Hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens) is a nice 3-6 foot shrub for part shade. Currently we have a cultivar of this native shrub called "Annabelle". It produces large round clusters of white, sterile flowers. The photo is of this cultivar in summer 2006.	PRICE: $18.00

Polystichum acrostichoides

	Polystichum acrostichoides - Christmas Fern is a native fern which occurs in dry to moist, shady slopes and streambanks. Christmas Fern makes a good evergreen groundcover.	PRICE: $8.00

Quercus alba

	Quercus alba or White Oak is a large, spreading, deciduous tree. Slow-growing, and long-lived, it can eventually reach 5 feet in diameter and live 600 years. Its acorns are choice food for many wildlife species. White oak makes a good shade tree but needs plenty of room to grow.	PRICE: $13.00

Rosa virginiana

	Rosa virginiana - Virginia Rose is a bushy, deciduous, shrub with hairy stems that have scattered, stout, curved thorns, pink flowers and pinnately compound leaves. Makes a great hedge or addition to a rose garden. A good substitute for the invasive Multiflora Rose.	PRICE: $12.00

Rubus occidentalis

	Rubus occidentalis - Black Raspberry commonly forms broad colonies. It has long, slender, arching canes and purplish-red bark covered with prickles. Blue-green summer foliage is palmately or pinnately compound, becoming yellowish in fall. Flat-topped clusters of five-petaled flowers are followed by round, raspberry-like, red berries which mature to black. Canes will root at the tips when they touch the ground.	PRICE: $13.00

Vaccinium angustifolium

	Vaccinium angustifolium or Lowbush Blueberry makes a nice groundcover for sunny, dry areas. Has edible berries. Also good for slope stabilization.	PRICE: $18.00

Vaccinium corymbosum

	Vaccinium corymbosum - Highbush Blueberry is a deciduous, tall-growing shrub with reddish stems that are attractive in winter. Our cultivated blueberries have been derived from this species. It is often found in wet areas, where it grows in moist woods, bogs, swamps and low areas. It cannot tolerate full shade. These plants are very important to wildlife. Although blueberries are self-fertile, cross-pollination produces the best fruit crop (larger berries and larger yields). With its beautiful varied red fall color and edible berries, this shrub is wonderful in naturalized landscaping.	PRICE: $15.00