Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Euonymus carnosus

Family: (Celastraceae)

Deciduous shrub to 12′.  Fleshy-flowered Spindletree.  Taiwan.  A special Euonymus noted for its excellent ornamental qualities.  Fragrant creamy-white flowers in showy, dense corymbs of 5 to 8 flowers, dangle from long pedicels over a long bloom period from spring into summer.  Glossy, waxy-looking, elliptic to ovate, dark green leaves up to seven inches long are notable throughout summer.  In late summer, coral-red fruit capsules develop which split open to reveal fleshy, orange arils that encase the seeds.  The leaves turn deep-red to burgundy-purple colour in late autumn, followed by smooth grey bark in winter after leaf drop.  You cannot go wrong with this all-season show-stopper.  Full sun to partial shade. 3 & 6

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Euonymus europaeus

Family: (Celastraceae)

Hardy shrub to 15′.  Spindleberry.  Europe.  A familiar shrub of British hedgerows.  A vigorous, green-stemmed shrub covered in autumn with scarlet capsules which open to reveal the orange-coated white seeds.  Rather small, narrow leaves with excellent reddish fall colour whilst fruiting.  Sun/partial shade.  3 & 6

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): 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): 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): Daphne mezureum f. alba

Family: Thymelaeaceae

(P) to 4′.  White Mezereon.  British native.  An easy deciduous Daphne which blooms before foliage emerges in early spring.  White, strongly fragrant, axillary flowers coat the upright stems.  Foliage becomes a subtle grey-green, and in midsummer, is joined by attractive yellow berries, alas poisonous.  Charming.  Sun or light shade.  4 & 6 & 7