Shrub of the Month - May 2009
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Hess cotoneaster
(Cotoneaster 'Hessei')
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This fifty-two-year-old shrub in the Family Family Collection.
This ground-hugging deciduous shrub's mounded, arching form and spreading habit make it excellent at the front of a shrub border. Consider it for adding variety along foundations, spilling over rocks in rock gardens, or along stone walls. If planting it in groups, provide a good-sized planting area to accommodate its spreading shape.
No one has conclusively determined this plant's parentage, although we know the Hesse Nursery of Weener Germany developed it in the early 1930s. Many believe it to be a hybrid cross between C. horizontalis and C. adpressus var. praecox. Whatever its origin, The Morton Arboretum brought it to the Midwest around 1950 and chose it for the Chicagoland Grows program, which named it a recommended plant in 1989.
Mature height: Up to 18 inches tall and 5 feet wide
Rate of growth: Slow to moderate
Visit this shrub in all seasons to see its changing features!
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