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Articles tagged Four Season Landscape

• Cornelian-cherry Dogwood

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Plants for Shady Sites, Butterflies, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name: Cornus mas Common Name: Cornelian-cherry Dogwood Updated 3/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form flowers fruits Height: 20-25' Spread: 15-20' Habit/Form: Oval, multi-trunked tree Growth Rate: Slow...

• Arnold Promise Hybrid Witch-hazel

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Hamamelis x intermedia 'Arnold Promise'Common Name: Arnold Promise Hybrid Witch-hazel Updated 4/2012 Height: 12-15' Spread: 12-15' Habit/Form: Vase-shaped Growth Rate: Medium  Zone: 5-8Cultural Requirements: Full sun to part...

• American Hornbeam (Musclewood)

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Intermediate Sized Trees, Native Trees, Plants for Shady Sites, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical name: Carpinus carolinianaCommon name: American Hornbeam (Musclewood) Updated 2/2012 Click on an image to enlarge leaves and fruit fall color flowers bark Height: 25-35' (often smaller)...

• Peking Lilac

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name: Syringa pekinensis Common Name: Peking Lilac Updated 1/2013 Click on an image to enlarge form flower bark Height: 20-25' Spread: 20-25' Habit/Form: Upright to Rounded Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 4-7Cultural...

• Chaste Tree

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name:  Vitex agnus-castus Common Name:  Chaste Tree Updated 3/2013 Form Flower Leaf  Height: 5-6'  Spread: 3-5'  Habit/Form: Oval   Growth Rate: Fast Zone: 6-8 Cultural...

• Trees & Shrubs For The Four Season Landscape

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape
  Most gardens offer a bounty of color and beauty for short, intense flowering periods in spring and early summer, and again during fall color. A garden that commands attention and excites interest throughout the year doesn't just happen--it's...

• Bottlebrush Buckeye

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees & Shrubs with Fabulous Fall Color, Summer-Flowering Trees & Shrubs, Plants for Shady Sites, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name: Aesculus parviflora Common Name: Bottlebrush Buckeye Updated 2/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form flowers fall color Height: 8-12' Spread: 12-15' Habit/Form: Broad, spreading Growth Rate: Slow ...

• Seven-Son Flower

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Heptacodium miconioides Common Name: Seven-Son Flower Updated 4/2012 form bark flowers sepals Height: 15-20' Spread: 8-12' Habit/Form: Upright, irregular, loose  Growth Rate: Medium /Fast...

• Frau Dagmar Hastrup Rugosa Rose

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Low growing shrubs, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Rosa rugosa 'Frau Dagmar Hastrup' Common Name: Frau Dagmar Hastrup Rugosa Rose Updated 12/2012   Form Bud Flower Click image to enlarge. Height: 3-4' Spread: 3-4' Habit/Form: Low dense...

• River Birch

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Native Trees, Large Deciduous Trees, Butterflies, Black walnut toxicity tolerant, birds, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name: Betula nigraCommon Name: River Birch* Updated  2/2012 Click on an image to enlarge. Form Winter form     Leaf Bark Height: 40-70' Spread: 40-60' Habit/Form:...

• Old Fashioned Weigela - WINE & ROSES®

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, birds, Butterflies
  Botanical Name: Weigela florida 'Alexandra' Common Name: Old Fashioned Weigela - WINE & ROSES® Updated 3/2013 Click on an image to enlarge form flower Height: 4-6' Spread: 4-6' Habit/Form: Compact, rounded Growth Rate:...

• Red-leaved Rose

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Rosa, Rose
  Botanical Name: Rosa glauca Common Name: Red-leaved Rose Updated 12/2012  Height: 5-7' Spread: 4-6' Habit/Form: Upright arching, spreading and eventually rounded Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 3Cultural Requirements: Best in full sun with...

• Shining Sumac PRAIRIE FLAME

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Chicagoland Grows, Low growing shrubs
  Botanical Name: Rhus copallina var. latifolia 'Morton' Common Name: Shining Sumac - PRAIRIE FLAME™ Updated 12/2012 Height: 5-6' Spread: up to 10' Habit/Form: Compact, mounding Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 5-7Cultural Requirements: Full sun for best...

• Marmo Freeman's Maple

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Columnars, Fastigiates, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name: Acer x freemanii 'Marmo' Common Name: Marmo Freeman's Maple Reviewed 1/2012   Click on an image to enlarge form fall color Height: 45-70' Spread: 35-40' Habit/Form: Uniform, upright to columnar Growth...

• European Larch

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, large evergreen, not favored by deer, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical Name: Larix decidua Common Name: European Larch Updated 2012 Click on an image to enlarge. Form Winter form Leaf   Flower Cone Bark Height: 70-75' Spread: 25-30' Habit/Form:...

• Oak-leaf Hydrangea

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Hydrangea, Intermediate Sized, shrubs
  Botanical Name: Hydrangea quercifoliaCommon Name: Oak-leaf Hydrangea Updated 6/2012 form fall color Click image to enlargeHeight: 4-6'(8') Spread: 4-6' Habit/Form: Upright mounded  Growth Rate: Slow to medium  Zone:...

• Morton Miyabe Maple - STATE STREET®

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name: Acer miyabei 'Morton'  Common Name: Miyabe Maple- STATE STREET® Updated 1/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form Leaf   Fruit Bark   buttress fall...

• Cardinal Red-Osier Dogwood

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name: Cornus sericea ssp. sericea 'Cardinal' Common Name: Cardinal Red-Osier Dogwood Updated 3/2012 Click on an image to enlarge   winter summer   Height: 6-9' Spread: 6-9' Habit/Form: Broad...

• Apple Serviceberry

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Plants for Shady Sites, Butterflies, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name: Amelanchier x grandifloraCommon Name: Apple Serviceberry Reviewed 2/2012   fall color bark leaves in fall fruit   Height: 20-25' Spread: 20-25' Habit/Form: Broad, and often...

• Paperbark Maple

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, Four Season Landscape, Fastigiates, Columnars
  Botanical Name: Acer griseum Common Name: Paperbark Maple Updated 1/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Summer Form Winter Form Fruit   Summer leaves Fall Leaves Bark Height:...

• Pagoda Dogwood

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Plants for Shady Sites, Native Trees, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Butterflies, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name: Cornus alternifoliaCommon Name: Pagoda Dogwood Upated 3/2012   Click on an image to enlarge form flowers fall color Height: 15-25' Spread: 20-25' Habit/Form: Oval, most commonly found as...

• Bluebeard

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Summer-Flowering Trees & Shrubs, Low growing shrubs, Late Summer & Autumn Perennials, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name: Caryopteris x clandonensis Common Name: Bluebeard Updated 2/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Caryopteris xclandonensis 'Blue Mist' Caryopteris xclandonensis 'Blue Mist' Height: 2-4' Spread: 3-4' ...

• Hesse Cotoneaster

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Low growing shrubs, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name: Cotoneaster 'Hessei' Common Name: Hesse Cotoneaster Reviewed 3/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Hesse Cotoneaster Hesse Cotoneaster Height: 1-2' Spread: 5-6' Habit/Form: Low, spreading Growth Rate: Slow to...

• Dwarf Fothergilla

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Low growing shrubs, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name: Fothergilla gardenii Common Name: Dwarf Fothergilla Updated 4/2012 Click on an image to enlarge   form flowers fall color Height: 2-3' Spread: 2-3' Habit/Form: Rounded mound Growth Rate:...

• Japanese Kerria

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Low growing shrubs, not favored by deer
  Botanical Name: Kerria japonica Common Name: Japanese Kerria Updated 10/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form Kerria japonica 'Pleniflora' Height: 3-6' Spread: 5-8' Habit/Form: Upright and arching Growth Rate: Medium Zone:...

• Crimson Pygmy Japanese Barberry

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, barberry, Berberis, Low growing shrubs
  Botanical Name: Berberis thunbergii ' Atropurpurea Nana'Common Name: Crimson Pygmy Japanese Barberry Updated 2/2012 Height: 1 ½ to 2' Spread: 2 ½ to 3' Habit/Form: Mounded  Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 4-7Cultural Requirements: Prefers...

• Wild Hydrangea

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Low growing shrubs, native
  Botanical Name: Hydrangea arborescensCommon Name: Wild Hydrangea Updated 4/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form flower Height: 3-5' Spread: 3-5' Habit/Form: Rounded mounds Growth Rate: Fast Zone: 4-9Cultural Requirements:...

• Staghorn Sumac

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Large Deciduous Shrubs, native, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical Name: Rhus typhinaCommon Name: Staghorn Sumac Updated 12/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form fruit fall color Height: 15-25' Spread: 15-30' Habit/Form: Large, suckering, colonizing shrub. Growth Rate: Fast ...

• Panicled Hydrangea

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Butterflies, Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Hydrangea paniculataCommon Name: Panicled Hydrangea Updated 5/2012 Height: 10-20' Spread: 10-15' Habit/Form: Upright to spreading Growth Rate: Fast Zone: 3-8Cultural Requirements: Full sun to part shade; prefers moist,...

• Common Witch-Hazel

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Butterflies, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Midwest, native, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical Name: Hamamelis virginiana Common Name: Common Witch-hazel Updated 4/2012 Click on a photo to enlarge form fall color flowers Height: 15-25' Spread: 15-20' Habit/Form: Upright to rounded Growth Rate:...

• Red-Flowered Vernal Witch-Hazel

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name: Hamamelis vernalis f. carneaCommon Name: Red-Flowered Vernal Witch-Hazel Updated 4/2012 Click to enlarge image Fall color Height: 6-10' Spread: 10-15' Habit/Form: Irregular to rounded Growth Rate: Medium Zone:...

• Winter King Green Hawthorn

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Crataegus, Hawthorn
  Botanical Name: Crataegus viridis 'Winter King'Common Name: Winter King Green Hawthorn Updated 3/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form leaves Height: 20-25' Spread: 20-30' Habit/Form: Rounded, almost vase-shaped Growth...

• European Beech

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Fagus, European, Beech, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical name: Fagus sylvatica Common name: European beech Updated 4/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form leaves and fruit bark Height: 50-60' Spread: 35-45' Habit/Form: Densely pyramidal to oval or rounded,...

• Katsura tree

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Intermediate Sized Trees
  Botanical name:  Cercidiphyllum japonicumCommon name:  Katsura tree Updated 2/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form early spring growth fall color Height: 40-60' Spread: 25-30' Habit/Form: Pyramidal Growth...

• Sargent's Cherry

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Intermediate Sized Trees
  Botanical Name:  Prunus sargentiiCommon Name:  Sargent's Cherry Updated 11/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form flower bark Height: 30-40' Spread: 25-30' Habit/Form: Upright Growth Rate: Fast Zone: 4-7Cultural...

• Three-Flowered Maple

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name:  Acer triflorumCommon Name:  Three-Flowered Maple or Shaggy-barked Maple Updated 1/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form fall color bark Height:  20-25' Spread:  20-25'...

• Summersweet Clethra

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Butterflies, Intermediate Sized, Plants for Shady Sites, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Summer-Flowering Trees & Shrubs, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical Name: Clethra alnifolia Common Name: Summersweet Clethra Updated 3/2012 form flower Fall leaves Click on image to enlarge.Height:  6-8'  Spread:  4-6'  Habit/Form:  Oval to...

• Possum-haw

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, birds, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Midwest, native, Plants for Shady Sites, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Bonatical name:  Ilex deciduaCommon Name:  Possum-haw Updated 7/2012 Click on image to enlarge. Form Leaf Fruit Height: 10-15'+ Spread: 10-15' Habit/Form: Rounded Growth Rate: Medium Zone:...

• Spicebush

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, butterfly, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Midwest, native, not favored by deer, Plants for Shady Sites, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical Name:  Lindera benzoin *Common Name:  Spicebush Updated 10/2012   Click on image to enlarge Winter form Fall form Fall leaf   Fruit Bark Height:...

• Common Winterberry

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Plants for Shady Sites, native, Intermediate Sized, Interesting Fruits of Trees & Shrubs, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical name:  Ilex verticillata*Common name:  Common Winterberry Updated 10/2012   Form Leaf   Fruit Bark Click an image to enlarge.Height: 6-10'  Spread:...

• Brevipetala Chinese Witch-hazel

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Hamamelis 'Brevipetala'Common Name: Brevipetala Chinese Witch-hazel Updated 4/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form flower fruits Height: 8-10' Spread 8-10' Habit/Form: Upright in youth; rounded to...