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April's Plant of the Month
Amelanchier canadensis
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Shadblow Serviceberry
Also known as Snowy Mespilus. This multistemmed shrub offers beauty to your yard year round. In spring the plant offers abundant white flowers, small delicate summer foliage, excellent fall color and colorful winter buds. Found in bogs and swamps from Maine to South Carolina along the coast. Must thin out suckers at basal crown each year to maintain 4-6 main branches.
Size: 6-15' can reach 20' Habit: Upright, suckering, tightly multistemmed shrub
Hardiness: Zone: (3)4 to 8
Leaf: Alternate, simple, elliptic to
oblong 1.5-2.5" long, 1" wide, finely and uniformly toothed,woolly when young
becoming glabrous. Usually fall is yellow or gold but orangish red is common also.
Flower: white flowers on 2-3"
racemes, mid spring -(late March for Atlanta - late April for Columbus,Oh)
Culture: . Tolerates any soil even
heavy clay. Full sun or medium shade
Disease/Insects: Japanese Beetles,
leaf spot and rust may be a problem.
Landscape Value:The reddish purple
buds add some character to the plant in the winter. Good specimen or accent plants. Look
very nice with an evergreen background. Can be used around ponds or streams. An excellent
naturalizing plant, if you want a
Propagation: Best way is to remove a
rooted sucker shoot. Hardwood cuttings are very difficult.
May's 'Plant of the Month'
Dicentra spectabilis and Dicentra eximia
Bleeding Heart
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Leucophyllum frutescens - Texas Sage
Fraxinus americana - White Ash
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