Container Gardening Complete

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Job:06-700309 Title: CPS - Container Gardening Complete

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Recommended Small Trees and Shrubs

COMMON NAME BOTANICAL NAME USE HEIGHT GROWING

CONDITIONS

TREE OR

SHRUB?

COMMENTS

Kousa dogwood Cornus kousa Flowers 15 to 20 ft. Full sun to part

shade

Tree White flowers followed by red

fruits.

Japanese

maple

Acer palmatum Foliage 10 to 20 ft. Full sun to part

shade

Tree Seek out varieties with

cut-leaf foliage or unique

coloration for added interest.

Stewartia Stewartia

pseudocamellia

Flowers

and fall

foliage

12 to 35 ft. Full sun Tree White, camellia-like flowers;

striking fall foliage; peeling

bark.

Japanese

snowbell

Styrax

japonicus

Flowers 20 to 30 ft. Full sun to part

shade

Tree White pendulous, bell-shaped

flowers; great structure.

Red twig

dogwood

Cornus sericea Foliage

and showy

stems

6 to 9 ft. Full sun Shrub Red stems in winter; clusters

of small white flowers

followed by white berries.

Blue mist

shrub

Caryopteris x

clandonensis

Flowers 2 to 3 ft. Full sun Shrub Clusters of medium blue

flowers in midsummer; great

for pollinators.

Red-veined

enkianthus

Enkianthus

campanulatus

Flowers

and

foliage

6 to 10 ft. Full sun to part

shade

Shrub Tiny, bell-shaped flowers in

early summer; nice fall color.

Boxwood Buxus spp. Foliage 2 to 8 ft. Full sun Shrub Broad-leaved evergreen; deer

resistant.

Virginia

sweetspire

Itea virginica Flowers

and fall

foliage

3 to 6 ft. Full sun to part

shade

Shrub Long panicles of creamy white

flowers; bright red fall foliage.

Daphne Daphne spp. Flowers 2 to 5 ft. Part shade Shrub Very sweet fragrance; clusters

of small flowers.

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Popcorn viburnum (Viburnum

plicatum f. pilcatum ‘Popcorn’)

Fringe tree (Chionanthus

virginicus)

Hydrangea species (Hydrangea

macrophylla ‘Paraplu’)

Virginia magnolia (Magnolia

virginiana) Dwarf Hinoki cypress topiary

(Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Nana

Gracilis’)

Deciduous azalea/Exbury azalea

(Rhododendron hybrids)

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