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Juniper - Hughes
Hughes Juniper, Juniperus horizontalis 'Hughes', is a silvery-blue, low growing, spreading Juniper that is very popular because it adds color to the landscape planting year-round. Hughes Juniper has silvery blue foliage; distinct radial branching; holds blue-green color in winter with a tinge of purple. It is excellent for front borders or mass plantings. It prefers sun to light shade; range of soil types; heat and drought tolerant. This plant is a slow grower, and at maturity it will only stand 3 feet tall. Because it tends to stay small and densely foliated, it is often grafted to standard stems to create a topiary-like ornamental plant. Junipers are important evergreens for landscape use due to their tolerance of unfavorable soil conditions, their hardiness and great variation in size, habit, color and growth rate. Junipers are used as ground covers, in foundation plantings, or as hedges, screens or windbreaks. These plants may also be utilized for background plantings in shrub beds or flower gardens, as specimen plants, in rock gardens or for topiary or espalier purposes. ... more information
Dogwood - Greytwig The Gray Dogwood is a deciduous shrub which typically occurs in moist or rocky ground along streams, ponds, wet meadows, glade and prairie margins, thickets and rocky bluffs. It grows 10-15' tall and features white flowers borne in terminal racemes (hence the species name of racemosa) in late spring and grayish-green, elliptic to lance-shaped leaves (2-4" long). Foliage turns an interesting dusky purplish red in fall. Terminal stems holding the flowers are distinctively red and provide interesting contrast to the clusters of small white berries which form after the flowers have dropped. Red stem color is more easily seen after the fruits are gone, and red color often persists into early winter. Excellent when planted in groups and left alone to spread in naturalized areas or native plant gardens. Can be particularly useful because of its ability to grow in poor soils. Easily grown in average, medium wet, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Tolerant of city air pollution. |
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