LHAP 304 Shrubs

Slide 1 LHAP 304 SHP: Introduced Shrubs Elder, Wayfaring Tree, Nannyberry, Caragana, Forsythia, Lilac, Cotoneaster, Ninebark, Double Flowering Plum, Barberry, Weigela, Burning Bush, Honeysuckles Slide 2 OLEACEAE The Olive Family Slide 3 Family Characteristics Stems Woody Leaves opposite (mostly) Flowers perfect 4 Sepals, 4 petals (united) 2 Stamens Fruit is capsule, seeds or drupe Slide 4 Syringa species - Lilacs Origin: largely China / or cultivated Hardiness Zone: Z2 - Z4 Exposure: Full sun Soil Conditions: Drought tolerant once established Significant Features... Slide 5 Syringa species - Lilacs Slide 6 Syringa species - Lilacs FOLIAGE/FORM: Height and Spread - typically 3 - 4m tall Shape - Oval Form - many sucker Foliage - simple, entire margins, Usually cordate with acute tip and a bit leathery Slide 7 Large shrub, relatively coarse textured wood, dried inflorescence persists through winter. Ok Potential for nesting - may not provide sufficient protection from attacking birds. Make sure it’s too dense for cats to climb. Slide 8 Syringa species - Lilacs BUD/BARK: Bark - Smooth, Grey with contrasting lenticels. New wood is grey/brown. Hard/Smooth Buds - Typically large, rounded and opposite. Newer cultivars may be more pointed. Slide 9 On the left and in the back, you can see the lilac wood. This bush is growing at my house, it was once a Mock Orange and (I believe) a Villosa lilac but they have grown in together. You can see the Mock Orange branch to the right (wood has vertical lines on it and is exfoliating more) The twigs are also easy to see. The Mock Orange has square/vertical exfoliation whereas the lilac is smooth with white lenticel spots. Slide 10 Syringa species - Lilacs Flower & Fruit: Type - Panicle Colour - White, pink, purple (some are doubles) Season - Early - Mid summer Fruit - capsule with many seeds persists over winter. Other - some have contrasting buds ‘Miss Canada’ Slide 11 Note Lilac Bloom Time: Daylily is vegetative only Ash, dogwood, blue oat, ninebark in full leaf Rose, no blooms. Slide 12 Syringa species - Lilacs Landscape Use: Large sites Hedge or Tree Form Cut flower Sensory Garden Problem soils Winter Interest Maintenance: Prune as soon as flowers are finished. Some do not like the dry flowers. Slide 13 Syringa vulgaris - The French Lilac cultivars of note Large blooms - mid June (week 2 usually, lasting 2-3 weeks) Large plants Very striking MIGHT sucker! Slide 14 Syringa Hybrids: S x hyacinthiflora cultivars Large shrubs Purple-red Fall colour Includes “Bloomerang” and Mount Baker (early bloomer). Earlier than S. vulgaris Slide 15 Syringa Hybrids: Syringa x prestoniae - Preston Lilacs Still large shrubs Non suckering Yellow Fall colour Later blooming than S. vulgaris Slide 16 Syringa meyeri ‘Palibin’ - Dwarf Korean Lilac VERY fine textured. Smaller. Leaves Orange-Red in Fall. Slide 17 Syringa pubescens ssp. patula ‘Miss Kim’ - Miss Kim Lilac SUPPOSED to be smaller Wavy leaf Red Fall colour Blooms early Slide 18 Syringa villosa - Villosa Late Lilac Slide 19 Another OLEACEAE Slide 20 Forsythia ovata - Forsythia Origin: Korea Hardiness Zone: 2 Exposure: Full Sun to part shade Soil Conditions: Moist, well drained. Drought tolerant once established. Tolerates pollution & Clayey soils. May not bloom above snow line in exposed areas Slide 21 Forsythia ovata - Forsythia FOLIAGE: Texture - Ovate, leathery, lightly serrate Colour - Light green, Red fall colour FORM: Height and Spread - 2m x 2m Shape - Oval, arching canes, medium sized shrub Bark - Bright grey/yellow, “peeling skin”, prominent lenticels. Pointy buds. Slide 22 Forsythia ovata - Forsythia Flower: Type - Single, small connate flowers, blooming on Old Wood Colour - Bright Yellow Season of Bloom - Spring Other - Blooms before leaves Slide 23 Forsythia in Red Deer, Spring 2021, just prior to bloom. Note the dense growth in the lower segments, and most of the flowers on the old wood in the lower section. Slide 24 Forsythia ovata - Forsythia Landscape Use: Mass Plant (if hardy) Accent/Specimen Spring Feature Fall Colour Cut Flower Slide 25 Forsythia ovata - Forsythia Maintenance Considerations: May not bloom if flower buds freeze (chinooks) Prune in early summer (blooms on old wood) Thin periodically to keep it flowering. Slide 26 ROSACEAE Rose Family Slide 27 Family Characteristics Alternate attachment Leaves usually oval shaped & serrate Typically 5 sepals & petals Many stamens Many are edible Slide 28 Physocarpus opulifolius - Ninebark Origin: Native to Eastern N. America Hardiness Zone: 2/3 Exposure: Full sun/Part Shade Soil Conditions: Moist, well-drained soil Significant Features... Slide 29 Physocarpus opulifolius - Ninebark BPasula ‘Dart’s Gold’ Slide 30 Physocarpus opulifolius - Ninebark FOLIAGE/FORM: Height and Spread - Varies by cultivar (medium to small) Shape - Round to oval, but potentially a bit messy. Leaf - Simple, Trilobe, Elongated central lobe, Serrate Margin, COLOURFUL, LATE to break bud! ‘Luteus’ Slide 31 Copyright - Olds College ‘Diabolo’ red fruit in fall Slide 32 Physocarpus opulifolius - Ninebark BUD/BARK: Buds - small, tight. Texture - Peeling, exfoliating look. Colour - Varying browns and grey. ‘Luteus’ Slide 33 Slide 34 Physocarpus opulifolius - Ninebark Flower & Fruit: Type - Corymb Colour - White/Pink Season - Summer (late June) Slide 35 Slide 36 Physocarpus opulifolius - Ninebark Landscape Use: Colour Contrast (foliage), Winter interest?, Flowers (bees) and Twiggy form (birds), hedge Maintenance: Revisit throughout year to prune side shoots ‘Dart’s Gold’ Slide 37 Slide 38 Slide 39 Slide 40 Dormant Clues? Slide 41 ROSACEAE continued Slide 42 Cotoneaster acutifolius - Cotoneaster Origin: Northern Asia, Altai Mountains Hardiness Zone: 2 Exposure: Full Sun Soil Conditions: Widely adapted - tolerates PH variances, drought, and moisture. May not survive in waterlogged soils (Montane plant) Slide 43 Cotoneaster acutifolius - Cotoneaster FOLIAGE: Texture - Fine textured shrub. Leaves simple, elliptic to ovate, leathery Colour - dark green on top, silvery below, Red Fall Colour! Slide 44 Cotoneaster acutifolius - Cotoneaster FORM: Height and Spread - Large shrub 2m x 2m Shape - Vase Shaped Other - Takes shearing readily, but suffers from continual abuse. -Sparse root system -Young branches and buds pubescent Slide 45 Cotoneaster acutifolius - Cotoneaster Flower: Type - Terminal or axillary cymose cluster - Very small in size Colour - Pink and White Season of Bloom - Early Summer Other - Fruit is Dark Purple Pome in late Summer, persists through winter. Slide 46 A fairly good hedge - no pests (no nectria), good air flow, although really cut too short. Note the persistent purple fruit, grey smooth mature bark with reddish hue to new twigs. Alternate attachment, tomentose hairs present on buds. Slide 47 Cotoneaster acutifolius - Cotoneaster Landscape Use: Hedges Specimen/Small groups Wildlife attractant Fall Feature Slide 48 Cotoneaster acutifolius - Cotoneaster Maintenance Considerations: Self seeds easily in the woods and yards. Pear slug host (Pear Sawfly larva) Nectria (from too many years hedging) Thin out old hedges Remove plants that are too close together Set hedging height at closer to mature size Oystershell scale, silverleaf, fire blight Slide 49 ROSACEAE continued Slide 50 Prunus triloba ‘Multiplex’ - Double Flowering Plum Origin: China Hardiness Zone: 2 Exposure: Full Sun Soil Conditions: Requires good drainage, widely adapted to textures Flower buds above snow line may freeze and die in chinook zones Slide 51 Prunus triloba ‘Multiplex’ - Double Flowering Plum FOLIAGE: Texture - Simple, elliptic to ovate, sometimes 3 lobed. Tip acuminate Serrate margin, downy hairs Colour - Green Slide 52 Prunus triloba ‘Multiplex’ - Double Flowering Plum FORM: Height and Spread - Medium shrub 2m x 1.5m (can get large when in ideal growing conditions) form. Shape - Rounded form with arching stems Other - Can be pruned into a small tree Slide 53 Buds - large clusters along the stem Bark - mature bark purple with grey, waxy coating that flakes off. Purple bark has contrasting tan lenticels. New stems also purple with waxy exfoliation. *note the absence of hairs, distinguishing it from Nanking Cherry* Prunus triloba ‘Multiplex’ - Double Flowering Plum Slide 54 Prunus triloba ‘Multiplex’ - Double Flowering Plum Flower: Type - Solitary or in pairs Colour - Buds dark pink, flowers open lighter pink Season of Bloom - Before leaves in spring, outstanding impact. Other - Blooms along entire stem on old wood. Typically sterile Slide 55 Prunus triloba ‘Multiplex’ - Double Flowering Plum Landscape Use: Specimen/accent plant Spring feature Oriental gardens Slide 56 Prunus triloba ‘Multiplex’ - Double Flowering Plum Maintenance Considerations: Potential Vole Damage under snow (may be true of any woody) Prune in full leaf (True of any spring flowering woody) Suffers crown rot in wet soils Slide 57 ADOXACEAE FAMILY Moschatel Family – Highbush Cranberry Includes: Adoxa, Sambucus, Viburnum Leaves - Opposite attachment, otherwise variable (simple & compound, serrate and entire) Flowers - Cymes (disc shaped to round) or panicles Petals - 5, fused together at the base white, creamy white Sepals – 5 fused together at the base Fruit – drupe, fleshy, red to purple/black https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/shrub/american-highbush-cranberry http://science.halleyhosting.com/nature/basin/5petal/honey/sam/red.htm https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/shrub/american-highbush-cranberry Slide 58 Viburnum trilobum ‘Alfredo’(new – V. opulus var. americanum) Viburnum opulus ‘Nanum’,’Roseum’,’Sterile’ Viburnum lentago Viburnum lantana ‘Mohican’ Viburnum dentatum ‘Christom’, ‘Ralph Senior’ (Blue Muffin) (Autumn Jazz Arrowwood) Viburnum edule Viburnum nudum var cassinoides Blue Muffin Bailey Compact Wayfaring Tree Nannyberry Snowball Viburnum American Highbush Cranberry Viburnums Slide 59 Viburnum trilobum - American Highbush Cranberry Zone 2: Native to Alberta Full sun to part shade Moist well drained soil Large Shrub Medium to coarse textured Red Fall Colour (Leaves) Outer flowers sterile, inner fertile. Colour white. Fruit is edible drupe. Red. Flowers a bit later than many other shrubs (after S. vulgaris) Slide 60 Viburnum opulus - European H.C., Snowball, Cranberrybush Large Shrub Full sun to part shade Large, round Flowers BAILEY COMPACT Viburnum trilobum - Cultivars ALFREDO V. trilobum ‘Alfredo’ Alfredo Highbush Cranberry 4ft x 4ftgood foundation plant V. trilobum ‘Bailey Compact’Bailey Compact Highbush Cranberry5 ft X 5 ftnew stems golden Slide 61 Viburnum edule Low Bush Cranberry, Mooseberry Low branching shrub 1-2m high Native throughout Alberta moist well drained soil, mostly in boreal habitats https://michiganflora.net/species.aspx?id=16 FYI Slide 62 Onto the New Ones! Slide 63 Viburnum lantana - Wayfaring Tree Origin: Native to Europe, NW Africa and SW Asia Hardiness: Zone 3A - Hardy. Some tipkill in Edmonton. Exposure: Full sun to part shade Soil: Well drained soil, drought tolerant Slide 64 Viburnum lantana - Wayfaring Tree FOLIAGE Texture: Coarse texture, rugose leaves, ovate to oblong, acute apex, dentate margins Colour: Upper surface dark green, lower surface pale green covered in fine hairs. Purple Fall colour shown here Slide 65 Viburnum lantana - Wayfaring Tree FORM: Large Shrub rounded form, dense, stout branches Height 3m x Spread 2m Rate of Growth : slow to moderate Stems: young bark very tomentose, scurfy Buds - winter buds naked, white, tomentose Slide 66 Poking up over the fence, the structure of the shrub is distinctly opposite and coarse, with white accents and dried leaves persisting on the shrub… closer inspection shows the buds, and leaning over the fence, you can see the dense, oval form… Slide 67 Viburnum lantana - Wayfaring Tree Flowers: Cymose clusters at stem ends Colour: Small white flowers Flower Time: Early Summer (Early June) NO fragrance Fruit: one seeded drupe, start off green then orange-red then black. All colours at the same time. Slide 68 Viburnum lantana - Wayfaring Tree Landscape Use : accent plant or specimen hedges, screens, mass planting fall colour attracts birds and butterflies tolerant of urban pollution. stays green until late fall Problems/Maintenance: Suckers Slide 69 Same Family…. Same Genus! Slide 70 Viburnum lentago - Nannyberry Origin: Native to Manitoba and eastern Canada Hardiness: Z2 hardy, chinook tolerant Exposure: full sun to shade Soil: wide soil adaptation but needs moisture, does poorly on dry sites. Slide 71 Viburnum lentago - Nannyberry FOLIAGE: ovate elliptic, 5-10 cm margins finely denticulate Lustrous dark green in colour Red fall colour Slide 72 Viburnum lentago - Nannyberry FORM: Bark: twig - thin Buds: leaf buds, grey, long slender, flattenedwith scales Flower buds elongated but with swollen, bulbous base. Shrub or small tree - Height 5m Spread 3m Upright , with arching, slender branches - Open at maturity V. LENTAGO V. LANTANA Slide 73 Viburnum lentago - Nannyberry Flowers: creamy white, sessile cymes late May-June (spring) Showy, no fragrance Fruit: blue black, drupe Has a sweet date like taste after frost. Sometimes called sheepberry because of the smell of the fruit. Slide 74 Viburnum lentago - Nannyberry Landscape Use: Fall colour, Food for wildlife, Background (small tree?) Specimen Maintenance: suckers if roots are disturbed, no serious pests Slide 75 Viburnum dentatum Blue Muffin & Autumn Jazz Viburnums Same Viburnum flower, leaves simple and dentate. Viburnum nudum var cassinoides Slide 76 ADOXACEAE Family as well Slide 77 Sambucus species - Elder Origin: Naturalized in Alberta, one native, many introduced Hardiness Zone: 2 - 4 Exposure: Full Sun - Part Shade Soil Conditions: Moist soils with organic matter. Note, they may be unreliable as a landscape shrub. Ensure moisture at establishment and protect from NW winds Slide 78 Sambucus species Elder FOLIAGE: Texture - Pinnately Compound leaves with serrate margins Colour - S. racemosa is usually Green. S. nigra is usually black/purple. Gold and variegated cultivars exist Other - Very tropical looking Slide 79 Sambucus species Elder FORM: Height and Spread - Large shrub Shape - Oval (can look messy if not sheared). Wood - Soft and distinctly fragrant when cut Slide 80 This is a green species and quite hardy (note the cat scratching from all the neighbours). Relative coarse texture (compared to something like Mock Orange which is also Opposite attachment). Note the remains of the cymes and the big, round, opposite buds, look far right and see the vertical lines on the wood.). Slide 81 Elder growing in a front yard in Olds - you can see evidence of dieback (and poor pruning). Really, planted too close to the house, but a nice breakup of the wall… Slide 82 Sambucus Elder Flower: Type - Compound Cyme Colour - White or Pink Season of Bloom - Early Summer - Summer (species dependent) Other - Red or Black Berries Slide 83 Slide 84 Sambucus Elder Landscape Use: Shady sites Large Sites / ones with pruning (tree form) Tropical or Oriental Gardens (sub for Japanese maple) Fruit Toxic or Edible? The PLANT is poisonous Attracts wildlife Slide 85 Slide 86 Sambucus Elder Maintenance Considerations: Can be difficult to establish Established shrubs may die back Plants may spread Slide 87 BERBERIDACEAE Barberry Family Order Ranunculales… Slide 88 North American Genera Characteristics Spiny shrubs Spines = modified leaves @ nodes with leaves above. VS thorns (branches with leaves below), & prickles (modified hairs found anywhere on the plant). Flowers small and yellow Flower parts in 3s Fruit - sour, purplish berries Slide 89 Berberis thunbergii - Barberry Origin: Japan Hardiness Zone: 3 Exposure: Full Sun Soil Conditions: Moist, well drained Slide 90 Berberis thunbergii - Barberry FOLIAGE: Texture - Very Fine, simple leaves Colour - Multi coloured - reds, white and pink, golden, burgundy Slide 91 Berberis thunbergii - Barberry FORM: Height and Spread - Small Shrub 0.5 - 1m x 0.5 - 1m Shape - Arching - usually sheared round multistem, dense shrubbery Very spiny! Wood also very fine textured Slide 92 Berberis thunbergii - Barberry Flower: Type - Clusters of tiny flowered cymes Colour - yellow Season of Bloom - Early summer Other - Fruit red and inedible. Some cultivars are sterile Slide 93 Berberis thunbergii - Barberry Landscape Use: Mass planting or individual specimen Formal garden - boxwood substitute Attracts birds, some cultivars may attract hummingbirds Small sites/foliage accent Slide 94 Berberis thunbergii - Barberry Maintenance Considerations: VERY spiny! Dead tips may need to be sheared Shear to maintain round form Slide 95 FABACEAE Pea Family Slide 96 Characteristics Irregular flowers 5 petals = banner, wings and keel Fruit in pods Nitrogen fixing Some are toxic Compound leaves (often) Slide 97 Caragana arborescens - Caragana Origin: Siberia/Manchuria Hardiness Zone: 2 - bomb proof! Exposure: Full Sun Soil Conditions: Widely adapted Tolerates drought, infertile soils, high pH and salt Slide 98 Caragana arborescens - Caragana FOLIAGE: Texture - Pinnately compound, leaflets have mucronate spine Colour - light green Other - yellow, if any. FORM: Height and Spread - 4m x 3m Shape - Oval. shaggy if not sheared. Other - Suckers. Other forms & sizes available. Bark olive green Slide 99 Caragana arborescens - Caragana Flower: Type - Solitary or clustered Colour - Yellow Season of Bloom - Summer Other - Large buds Brown legumes, twist and explode in the heat of the summer Aggressive grower Slide 100 Caragana arborescens - Caragana Landscape Use: Shelterbelts / hedging Spines can be unpleasant Summer feature Possible winter feature - bark Dry/Low maintenance sites Compound leaves = textural contrast Slide 101 Caragana arborescens - Caragana Maintenance Considerations: Cultivated species may still sucker from roots May become weedy Spider Mites & Aphids Tends to get powdery mildew in Fall Slide 102 Cultivars to note ‘Lobergii’ Fern leaf ‘Pendula’ & ‘Walker’ Weeping ‘Sutherland’ Columnar Slide 103 Alternate Species to note C. frutex ‘Globosa’ Smaller - but will need to be sheared to stay super small and globe Still gets powdery mildew Note the leaf arrangement is more palmate. Slide 104 Alternate Species to note C. pygmaea / Pygmy Caragana Smaller (more like 1 m), accepts shearing well Finer texture SPINY Slide 105 Urban blvd planting in Calgary Parking Lot Mid June Slide 106 CAPRIFOLIACEAE Honeysuckle Family Slide 107 Family Characteristics Various species of flowering shrubs or vines Most native to North America Leaves - Opposite Bark – Thin and flaky Flowers – Regular (bilateral symmetry) 4-5 sepals fused 4 -5 petals fused to form a funnel Ovary inferior Flower colours - yellow, orange, red, pink and white Lonicera species – fragrant Fruit – Berry or dry capsule https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=LOSE Slide 108 Lonicera species (FYI) Lonicera tatarica - Tatarian Honeysuckle Lonicera x xylosteoides Dwarf Honeysuckle Lonicera dioica – Wild Honeysuckle Lonicera x brownii ‘Dropmore Scarlet’ Lonicera caerulea – Fly Honeysuckle (Haskaps) L. maximowiczii sachalinenesis - Sakhalin HS Lonicera involucrata – Bracted Honeysuckle (native) Lonicera utahensis – Red Twin-berry L. tatarica https://www.hobbyseeds.com/lonicera-tatarica-tatarian-honeysuckle-20.html L xylosteoides https://www.mesarbustes.fr/lonicera-xylosteoides-clavey-s-dwarf-chevrefeuille-arbustif-compact.html L. dioica http://wisflora.herbarium.wisc.edu/taxa/index.php?taxon=4112 https://www.gardenia.net/plant/Lonicera-brownii-Dropmore-Scarlet L. X brownii L. caerulea https://www.gardenia.net/plant/Lonicera-caerulea-Blue-Velvet L. involucrata https://www.gardensonline.com.au/GardenShed/PlantFinder/Show_3942.aspx L. utahensis http://web.ewu.edu/ewflora/Caprifoliaceae/Lonicera%20utahensis.html Slide 109 Lonicera x xylosteoides Dwarf Honeysuckle (Miniglobe and Clavey’s Dwarf) Origin: garden Hardiness: extremely hardy Exposure: full sun part shade Soil: moist or dry once established tolerant of urban pollution Slide 110 Form: medium sized round multi- stemmed shrubshape consistent Size: Height: 1.2m Width: 1.2 m Lonicera x xylosteoides Clavey’s Dwarf Honeysuckle Lonicera x xylosteoides Dwarf Honeysuckle Slide 111 Lonicera x xylosteoides Dwarf Honeysuckle Foliage: simple,oval to ovate, margins entire or undulate, thick gray green , underside lighter and pubescent. Arrangement - opposite Other: no fall colour Slide 112 Lonicera x xylosteoides Dwarf Honeysuckle Flowers: creamy white, produced along the branches in mid spring Fruit: red berries, mid summer *poisonous Slide 113 Lonicera x xylosteoides Dwarf Honeysuckle Landscape Use : Hedging - maintains its shape group/mass planting good butterfly attractant Maintenance: may get some spider mite Slide 114 The same hedge in the winter time: coarse textured bark at the base, very pointy, outward oriented leaf buds that appear almost bracted at the axil, opposite attachment. Slide 115 Photo taken first spring after planting - comparatively early to leaf out next to some other species planted at the same time. Slide 116 Lonicera species - Honeysuckle Lonicera tatarica - Tatarian Honeysuckle Lonicera maximowiczii var sachalinensis - Sakhalin Honeysuckle Lonicera cvs - Honeyrose Honeysuckle Origin: Introduced in Alberta Zone: 3 Exposure: Full sun to part shade average to moist conditions Anita Schill Slide 117 https://landscapeplants.oregonstate.edu/plants/lonicera-tatarica-arnold-red Lonicera species - Honeysuckle Slide 118 Form: Rounded, sometimes wide spreading habit, very twiggy and fine textured, mature samples appear crooked or bent. Size: 2.5m x 2m Large Shrub http://search.eaglelakenurseries.com/11050003/Plant/933/Honeyrose_Honeysuckle Lonicera species - Honeysuckle Slide 119 Fairly insignificant Fall colour, disproportionately extremely fine textured terminal growth with arching, “crooked” base stems that appear shredded. New growth light brown. Slide 120 Attachment: opposite Foliage: short petioleovate, 1-2” long, tip acute, base truncate to cordate, margins entirehairless or with very few hairs Stemsmany stems from the basenew stems green to brown,hairlessolder stems turning gray and shredding http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=993 Lonicera species - Honeysuckle Slide 121 “Cat shredded bark” Hair-like twigs Slide 122 Flowers: irregular, in pairs in leaf axils slender tube with unfused section of petals forming 2 lips, lip section of petal longer than the tube, ovary with small bracts at base Colour: red, light pink, white Season: early summer blooming Fruit: bright red shiny berry, .5 cm diameter *poisonous https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/shrub/tatarian-honeysuckle Lonicera species - Honeysuckle Slide 123 Landscape Use: Mass planting Specimen Hedge/ windbreak Good bird and butterfly attractant Cats like it http://www.landscape.ru/plant/lonicera/tatarica/ Lonicera species - Honeysuckle Slide 124 Lonicera species - Honeysuckle Maintenance Periodic shearing or pruning to maintain form Honeysuckle Aphid (use Honeyrose cultivar) Slide 125 Note: White Lilacs (Mt. Baker?) in mid ground, Honeysuckle flowering uphill of those, Flowering Ohio Buckeye behind them. Slide 126 DIERVILLACEAE Family Slide 127 Family Characteristics In the same order as the Honeysuckles - closely related to CAPRIFOLIACEAE Contains only 2 Genera: Weigela (10 species) and Diervilla (2 species) Slide 128 Weigela florida - Weigela Origin: East Asia - China, Japan, Korea Hardiness Zone: 3-4 Exposure: Full sun Soil Conditions: moist, well drained soil Slide 129 Weigela florida - Weigela FOLIAGE: Texture - Mid texture, simple leaves, elongated with acute tip, margin entire to very slightly serrated Colour - Green. Purple and variegated cultivars available (watch zones though). Foliage may be wavy FORM: Height and Spread - Small shrub 1m x 1m Shape - Round Slide 130 Slide 131 Weigela florida - Weigela Flower: Type - cymes of trumpet shaped flowers, sessile attachment Colour - Red & Pink Season of Bloom - Summer 6-8 weeks Other - very stunning show. Red Prince may rebloom Slide 132 Weigela florida - Weigela Landscape Use: Small sites Summer interest (after most things have bloomed) Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds Mass plant (best) or as accent Slide 133 Weigela florida - Weigela Maintenance Considerations: May need to have dead growth cut out of it Very slow growth rate Deadhead to extend season of bloom? Slide 134 Photo taken June 27, 2025 Note application of shrub, what it is planted adjacent to…. Slide 135 CELASTRACEAE Staff Tree Family Slide 136 Family Characteristics Contains Paxistima and American Bittersweet (very poisonous) Flowers small Woody species - some evergreen Opposite attachment Slide 137 Euonymus alatus- Winged Burning Bush Origin: China, Japan Hardiness Zone: 3 Exposure: Full sun to part shade Soil Conditions: Prefers moist, well drained loam Slide 138 Euonymus alatus- Winged Burning Bush FOLIAGE: Texture - Oval to elliptic, acute at ends, waxy. Colour - Green. Maroon red in fall Other - BARK has corky ridges, stems appear square FORM: Height and Spread - 1.5 m x 1.5 m generally small or small/medium. Shape - Rounded Slide 139 Euonymus alatus- Winged Burning Bush Flower: Type - Small cymes Colour - yellow-green Season of Bloom - early summer Other - May not see flowers here Fruit is an Aril (4 lobed capsule) Slide 140 Euonymus alatus- Winged Burning Bush Landscape Use: Fall Feature Unique Bark Maintenance Considerations: Deer will eat it Slide 141 Euonymus nanus- Turkestan Burning Bush Semi-evergreen shrub Medium sized (1.2m - 1.8m) Narrow green leaves (almost needle like) THICKET FORMING Red fall colour (not as bright as the winged burning bush) Slide 142 Will sucker out / spread stoloniferously - VERY aggressive growth. Slide 143 Euonymus nanus- Turkestan Burning Bush Cream/White blooms, pink/red arils Can be sheared VERY fine textured