| Aronia arbutifolia
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Aronia arbutifolia or Red Chokeberry is a multi-stemmed shrub with year-round interest. It has spring flowers, nice summer foliage, brilliant autumn color, and berries that persist into winter. It can also be pruned into a hedge.
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PRICE: $14.00
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| Aronia melanocarpa
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Aronia melanocarpa - Black Chokeberry is a multi-stemmed shrub with year-round interest. It has spring flowers, nice summer foliage, brilliant autumn color, and berries that persist into winter. It can also be pruned into a hedge and is therefore a good native substitute for invasive Privet hedge. The fruit are of little importance to wildlife though they are occasionally eaten by game birds, song birds, and bear, particularly if little food is available.
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PRICE: $11.00
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| Asimina triloba
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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.
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PRICE: $19.00
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| Calycanthus floridus
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Calycanthus floridus - Eastern Sweetshrub, also called Carolina Allspice is a deciduous shrub with aromatic, dark green foliage. Blooms in the late spring/early summer are dark red and strap-like and usually very fragrant. 'Athens' variety also available with yellow-green flowers.
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PRICE: $15.00
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| Cephalanthus occidentalis
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Cephalanthus occidentalis or Buttonbush is a lovely native shrub, good for wet and sunny to part shady areas. It tolerates drought and flooding after it is established.
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PRICE: $14.00
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| Chionanthus virginicus
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White Fringetree or "Old-man's-beard" (Chionanthus virginicus) is a small, understory tree with showy masses of fragrant, lacy, white flowers that appear in drooping clusters in late spring.
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PRICE: $15.00
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| Cornus amomum
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Cornus amomum or Silky Dogwood is a deciduous, multi-stemmed shrub with 2" diameter, white, flat-topped flowers appearing in May-June. A good shrub for moist to wet sites.
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PRICE: $13.00
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| Cornus sericea
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Red Osier Dogwood or Red Twig Dogwood (Cornus sericea) is a shrub with red branches that spreads by underground stems and will produce large clumps. It has flat-topped clusters of white flowers in spring and gorgeous red fall color, in addition to the red stems which provide winter interest to the garden.
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PRICE: $13.00
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| Corylus americana
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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.
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PRICE: $15.00
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| Hamamelis virginiana
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Hamamelis virginiana or Witch Hazel is a deciduous, understory large shrub or small tree of woodlands of eastern North America. The latest blooming of woody plants, the yellow spidery flowers appear in October-December. The twigs were used in colonial times as divining rods (water-witching), thus giving the common name to the plant.
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PRICE: $15.00
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| Hydrangea arborescens
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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.
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PRICE: $18.00
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| Lindera benzoin
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Lindera benzoin - Spicebush
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PRICE: $13.00
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| Morella pensylvanica
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Morella pensylvanica or Northern Bayberry is a semi-evergreen to deciduous shrub. The leaves are highly aromatic when crushed. The female of the species produces waxy berries eaten by birds and used to make bayberry candles. Tolerant of salt and grows well along seashore and roadsides. Does well in dry, infertile conditions.
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PRICE: $13.00
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| Physocarpus opulifolius
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Physocarpus opulifolius - Common Ninebark is a deciduous shrub with exfoliating bark. Easy to grow and tolerates drought and harsh conditions. Makes a nice shrub border, screen, or erosion control and bark provides winter interest. White flowers in late spring are showy.
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PRICE: $14.00
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| Rhododendron periclymenoides
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Pinxterbloom Azalea or Pink Azalea is a 6-12 foot, deciduous shrub with pink to white flowers that bloom prior to or with the leaves. A good shrub for dry, open woodland sites.
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PRICE: $18.00
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| Rhododendron viscosum
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Swamp Azalea or Clammy Azalea is a deciduous shrub with hairy twigs and clusters of fragrant, white, vase-shaped flowers. A good shrub for shady, wet places.
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PRICE: $18.00
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| Rosa carolina
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Rosa carolina - Pasture Rose or Carolina Rose is a suckering, low growing rose, 1-3 feet high. Pink flowers top thorny stems in May.
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PRICE: $11.00
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| Rosa virginiana
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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.
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PRICE: $12.00
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| Rubus occidentalis
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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.
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PRICE: $13.00
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| Vaccinium angustifolium
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Vaccinium angustifolium or Lowbush Blueberry makes a nice groundcover for sunny, dry areas. Has edible berries. Also good for slope stabilization.
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PRICE: $18.00
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| Vaccinium corymbosum
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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.
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PRICE: $15.00
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| Viburnum dentatum
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Viburnum dentatum - Arrowwood Viburnum is a deciduous shrub with a loose, multi-stemmed habit. Non-fragrant white flat-topped flowers appear in spring. The berries are quite attractive to wildlife. A nice shrub for native plantings and as a tall hedge or back border to a garden.
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PRICE: $14.00
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| Viburnum nudum
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Viburnum nudum - Possumhaw Viburnum is a dense shrub with upright stems becoming arching with age. White flat-topped flower clusters are followed by red to blue-black fruits in late summer. Most viburnums are dioecious, meaning that each plant is either male or female. Only the female plants produce fruit, but a male is necessary for pollination.
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PRICE: $15.00
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| Acer rubrum
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Acer rubrum or Red Maple is a fast growing, medium to large, deciduous tree which has lovely fall foliage and red spring flowers. It prefers moist, acidic soils and full sun to part shade.
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PRICE: $16.00
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| Amelanchier canadensis
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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.
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PRICE: $13.00
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