Speech in Mississauga
FOR THE APPLEWOOD HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
SELECTED PLANT LIST by Marjorie Harris
Some of the professionals who work in my garden:
Monique Dobson mondobson@gmail.com
Derek Welsh of Authentic Tree Care 1.888.366.2273
These are some of my favourite plants and they’ll be included in my talk.
Acer griseum
Acer palmatum Japanese maple ‘Dissectum Atropurpureum’; ‘Tamukeyma’; ‘Sango?kaku’; ‘Scolopendrifolium’ ‘Koto no-Ito’; ‘Evergreen’; ‘Hanna Matoi’; ‘Shaina’
Acer shirasawanum ‘Aureum’
Albizia ‘Chocolate Drop’
Allium afflatunense ‘Purple Sensation’
Amelanchier canadensis
Amsomia tabernaemontana; A. hubrechtii
Aralia cordata ‘Sun King’
Artemisia absinthium ‘Lambrook Silver’; ‘Huntington’; lactiflora ‘Guizhou’; x. ‘Powis Castle’
Aster ‘Little Carlow’
Arum italicum
Berberis thunbergii ‘Hermann’s Pillar’ ; ‘Golden Nugget’;
Brunnera macrophylla – ‘Jack Frost’
Buxus microphylla var. koreana ‘Winter Beauty’; B. m. ‘Variegata’
Calycanthus floridus
Carpinus betula ‘Fastigiata’; ‘Columnaris Nana’
Cercis canadensis ‘Forest Pansy’ ,
Chiononanthus virginicus
Cimicifuga ‘Hillside Black Beauty’; ‘Black negligee’
Clematis ‘Betty Corning’
Coleus ‘Black Magic’ , ‘Victorian Ruffles’
Cornus sibirica red-twigged dogwood; alba ‘Elegantimssima’
- alternafolius ‘Argenta’; C. compressa; C. controversa ‘Variegata’
‘Praire Fire’ and ‘Arctic Fire’; C. ‘Hedgerow Gold’; C. ‘June Snow’; kousa ‘Samaritan’.
Diervilla lonicera
Daphne ‘Eternal Fragrance’
Eupatorium coelestinum fistulosum (Wine coloured stems); rugosum ‘Chocolate’.
Euphorbia ‘Ascot Rainbow’; ‘Tasmanian Tiger’
Fagus sylvestris ‘Roseo-marginata’; ‘Purple Pendula’.
Ginkgo biloba ‘Ohasuki’
Gymnocladus dioicus Kentucky Coffee Tree
| Hosta .’Gold Standard’
‘Gold Edger’ ‘Halcyon’ ‘Kabitan’ ‘Frances Williams’ ‘Liberty’ ‘Gingko Craig’ ‘Fragrant Gold’ |
Helianthus ‘Lemon Queen’
Helleborus atrorubens; H. foetidus; H. ‘Pink Frost’
Hydrangea petiolaris (climbing hydrangea);
? quercifolia (oak leaf hydrangea);
‘Fire and Ice’
Lathyrus vernis
Lespedeza ‘Gibraltar’
Liriodendron tulipifera ‘Fastigiata’
Liquidambar ‘Slender Silhouette’ Sweet Gum
Maackia amurensis
Ostrya virginiana Ironwood
Penstemon ‘Dark Tower’
Persicaria amplexicaule ‘Firetail’, ‘Gold Arrow’
Phlox paniculata ‘David’
Physocarpus opulifolium ‘Diablo’
Plectranthus ‘Mona Lavender’
Pyrus salicifolia ‘Pendula’.
Rhamnus frangula ‘Fine Line’
Rudbeckia nitida ‘Herbstonne’
Salix candida
Sambucus nigra ‘Aureomarginata’; nigra variegata; n. purpurea
Sciadopitys verticillata; ‘Joe Kozy’
Solidago odora; also look at: ‘Golden Fleece’; ‘Laurin’; ‘Golden Wings’. Not in the show but all recommended.
Stewartia pseudocamillia
Viburnum bodnantense ‘Dawn’; plicatum ‘Summer Snowflake; ‘Pragense’plicatum tomentosum ‘Shasta’.
ORNAMENTAL GRASSES:
Chasmanthium latifolium a seeder of great magnitude
Festuca glauca (blue fescue)
Hakenochloa macra ‘Aureola’ ‘All Gold’
Pennisetum alepecuroides ‘Red Head’
Miscanthus sinensis purpurea; s. ‘Sarabande’ ; s. ‘Gracemillimus’ ; s. ‘Sirene’ ; s. ‘Nippon’; s. ‘Zebrinus’; s. ‘Morning Light’.
Molinia caerulea ‘Sky Racer’
BULBS:
Hyacinthoides non scripta English Bluebells
Muscari latifolium; M. l. ‘Plumosum’
Tulipa batalini ‘Bright Gem’;kaufmanniana ‘Johan Strauss’; ‘Queen of night’; ‘Spring Green’.
Narcissus ‘Tete-a-tete’ and ‘Thalia’
Nectaroscardum
Scilla sibirica
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