March 8, 2012 at 1:33 pm (Plants to remember to try)
Tags: native, Opposite, perennial, serrate, Shrub, simple leaf, variegated
Enough already, Better Homes & Gardens, I’ve coveted 80% of your New Trees and Shrubs for 2012, and it’s time for me to get to work. Thanks to the plant breeders of the world this seems to be a banner year for introductions and even with my garden limitations, there are plenty to drool over. This Callicarpa is particularly appealing because it’s foliage will make it earn its space even if it doesn’t get enough sun to produce berries, like my poor Early Amethyst which has never repeated its initial nursery-bred crop, and just sits there in my bed looking like any other homely green-leaved micro-shrub.
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July 19, 2009 at 5:11 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: Acuminate tip, alternate, deciduous, Distinctive fruit, serrate, simple leaf, tree
Identifying characteristics:
1. Long narrow pointed leaf
2.Smooth (not exfoliating) chalky white trunk with black trianguar patches at branch base
3. Fruit is small nutlets in cylindrical catkins ~ 1″ long
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July 13, 2009 at 1:08 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: alternate, broad leaf evergreen, lustrous leaves, Obovate leaf, serrate, Shrub, simple leaf
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Shrub
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Branch
Identifying characteristics:
1. Vase-shaped evergreen shrub/small tree with alternate lustrous leaves
2. Larger, more rounded leaves than Skip laurel with fully serrated leaf margins
3. White flowers in racemes, black drupe fruit matures in August
4. 1 to 2 pairs of glands on leaf base
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July 13, 2009 at 12:32 am (A Plant-a-Day(ish), Invasives)
Tags: deciduous, Invasives, multi-stemmed, Opposite, serrate, Shrub, simple leaf
Identifying characteristics:
1. Opposite lanceolate, silvery-gray leaves with short petioles
2. Terminal purplish flower panicles, pleasant fragrance
3. Large arching habit
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July 13, 2009 at 12:23 am (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: Acuminate tip, alternate, deciduous, Distinctive fruit, oblique base, serrate, simple leaf, tree
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Tree
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Branch
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Fruit
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Leaf back
Identifying characteristics:
1. Cordate leaf w/oblique base and acuminate tip
2. Alternate branching
3. Winged fruit…cluster of small nutlets suspended from single wing
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July 12, 2009 at 5:41 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: alternate, broad leaf evergreen, lustrous leaves, serrate, Shrub
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Shrub
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Fruit
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Branch
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Leaf front
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Leaf back
Identifying characteristics:
1. Vase-shaped evergreen shrub/small tree with alternate lustrous leaves
2. Skip laurel is more “refined” habit than species, with narrower, more lanceolate/elliptical leaves; serration typically only near apex
3. White flowers in racemes, black drupe fruit matures in August
4. 1 to 2 pairs of glands on leaf base
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July 12, 2009 at 4:38 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish), Invasives)
Tags: alternate, deciduous, elliptical, Invasives, serrate, Shrub, simple leaf
Identifying characteristics:
1. Simple alternate leaves with sharply serrate margins
2. Showy terminal pinkish flower clusters
3. Dry brown follicle fruits persist
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July 12, 2009 at 3:45 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: deciduous, Opposite, palmate lobed, perennial, pinnately compound, serrate
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Shrub
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Leaf front
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Leaf back
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Flower bud
Identifying characteristics:
1. Large bi- or tri-pinnately compound leaves with finely cut palmately lobed leaflets
2. Fragrant pinkish-white bottle-brush panicle blooms in late summer/early fall
3. Dark purple-black foliage (cultivar ID)
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July 12, 2009 at 2:28 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: alternate, broad leaf evergreen, lustrous leaves, serrate, Shrub, simple leaf
IDentifying features:
- Simple alternate evergreen leaves with shallow toothed margins held in whorls at shoot tip
- Pendulous clusters of small white urn-shaped flowers, followed by persistent dehiscent 1/4″ long brown capsules
- Reddish-bronze new growth
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July 12, 2009 at 1:34 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: alternate, juglone (walnut) tolerant, lustrous leaves, serrate, simple leaf, tree
Identifying characteristics:
- Alternate lustrous deep purple leaves w/serrated edges
- pinkish white flowers appear before foliage
- small tree w/upright spreading habit
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