Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Callicarpa dichotoma

Family: Lamiaceae

Hardy shrub to 4′.  Beautyberry.  China.  Grown for its distinctive, glossy, lilac-violet berries.  These glorious fruits appear in abundant bunches in fall and persist on naked stems long after the leaves drop.  Fabulous in arrangements, if you can bear to cut them.  Fruit is preceded by small, discreet, pink to lavender flowers that bloom in the leaf axils along the stems in summer.  Sun to partial shade.  PC- 4 weeks, 3 & T1

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Hydrangea arborescens subsp. radiata

Family: Hydrangeaceae

Shrub to 7′.  Silver Leaf Hydrangea.  Eastern US.  This versatile, multi-stemmed, deciduous shrubs is very free-flowering.  The inflorescences consist of two to six-inch wide, flat corymbs of sterile flowers with creamy white, large sepals.  These showy, sterile flowers are borne around the periphery of an inner cluster of smaller, shorter, fertile flowers.  Leaves are opposite, serrated, and dark green; the undersides are densely covered with silvery, felt-like hairs that look striking when revealed by a breeze.  Long blooming.  Shade to part shade. Moist, well-drained soil.  5 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Carpinus japonica

Family: Betulaceae

Deciduous tree to 30′. Japanese Hornbeam. Japan. A slow-growing, medium-sized, understory tree noted for its graceful form, attractive foliage and ornamental catkins.  The dark green leaves are doubly-toothed, oblong-lanceolate with prominent veining, and turn a golden-yellow colour in fall. The attractive, brown fruiting catkins, up to 2-½ inches long, are sausage-shaped and feature dense overlapping bracts. Blooms late summer with catkins into the fall. Shade to part shade. Average, moist, well-drained soil. PC 4 months & 3

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Callicarpa dichotoma var. albifructa

Family: Lamiaceae

Hardy shrub to 6′.  China and Korea.  White Fruited Beauty Berry.  Callicarpa dichotoma is, according to Dirr, the “most graceful and refined of the species.”  It is also the most cold-hardy.  This variety has white berries instead of typical purple and may get a bit taller than the typical form.  Sun to partial shade.  PC- 4 weeks, 3 & T1

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Rosa acicularis

Family: Rosaceae

Hardy shrub to 6′.  Arctic Rose.  One of the hardiest of roses used in Siberia for hedging.  Fragrant, deep-pink, single flowers are followed by bright red, pear-shaped fruits.  The blue-green elliptic foliage is coarsely toothed and the stems have distinctive narrow, needle-like thorns.  Sun.  3 & T2 & Δ

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Euonymus americanus

Family: Celastraceae

Hardy shrub to 6′.  Hearts-a-Burstin.  North America.  A small native shrub with many inconspicuous, greenish-purple flowers in summer.  By October however, the scarlet fruit capsules have popped open to reveal the bright pinkish orange seeds inside, hence its common name.  Excellent red autumn colour.  Truly spectacular.  Sun/partial shade.  3 & 6

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Akebia quinata

Family: Lardizabalaceae

Hardy vine to 20′.  Chocolate Vine.  China, Korea and Japan.  Fast growing, deciduous, and ideal for covering trellises, pergolas or other structures.  The compound leaves are tinged purplish when new and mature to a handsome blue-green.  Rather showy, pendant racemes of vanilla-scented flowers with wide, purple to dark chocolate maroon sepals.  The intriguing fruits are like fat, purple sausages, opening to reveal a white, pulpy interior with black seeds.  Well-drained soil.  Sun/partial shade.  3 & T1

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Diervilla sessilifolia

Family: Caprifoliaceae

Hardy shrub to 5′.  Southern Bush Honeysuckle.  Eastern North America and southwards to Alabama.  A charming, tough, native shrub.  Opposite leaves with veins flushed red and a reddish tinge to the stems.  The flowers are sulphur yellow, tubular, and split halfway into five equal petals that curl outward.  These grow in bunches from the axils of the topmost sets of leaves, much like the true honeysuckles.  Blooms summer to early fall.  Sun.  3 & T1

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Dioscorea japonica

Family: (Dioscoreaceae)

(P) climber to 8′.  Japanese Mountain Yam.  East Asia, China, C & S Japan.  This twining perennial vine on the Order Beds always attracts attention.  Shiny, alternate, cordate-palmate foliage.  Blooms September to October with bubble gum-scented, small, inconspicuous cream flowers borne in axillary racemes.  Sun, moist soil.  3 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Xanthorhiza simplicissima

Family: (Ranunculaceae)

Hardy shrub to 18″.  Yellowroot.  Appalachians.  A much underused native plant that makes a striking groundcover for the woodland.  In early summer, sprays of peculiar, starry, brownish purple flowers emerge atop stems of rich green, irregularly toothed, pinnate leaflets.  Over time the plants form dense, lush green colonies with the foliage turning a burnished coppery-gold in the autumn.  Partial shade/shade.  PC – 4 wks, 3 & T1

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