Description
Ezra Haggard, author of the popular Perennials for the Lower Midwest, literally takes landscape design to a higher level with this gorgeous book especially for midwesterners. Trees and shrubs add mass and the all-important vertical element to a garden. If well chosen, they also contribute beauty, texture, and color all year long and for years to come, beautifying the home and adding to its value, screening out unattractive elements, providing privacy, and improving with age.
Haggard considers all aspects of more than 100 ornamental trees, shrubs, and roses that are suitable for the Midwest, low-maintenance, and guaranteed not to outgrow a small garden. (A mistake in scale is one of the most expensive errors a beginning gardener can make—planting a row of cute baby Canadian hemlocks up against the house, for example.) Haggard gives mature sizes for all the plants he discusses, as well as other important information—enough to help gardeners decide whether they must have a particular plant or are better off without it. The midwestern rose lover will find Haggard’s assessment of relatively trouble-free roses a short but invaluable list. Plant families discussed in some detail include hollies, hydrangeas, magnolias, ornamental maples, rhododendrons, spireas, and viburnums. Old favorites like deutzia, flowering quince, kerria, and mockorange are treated, as well as such less-known but easy species as bushclover, cherrylaurel, falsecypress, katsuratree, and sourwood, which add distinction to any landscape.
Perhaps most useful of all are Haggard’s sometimes unexpected tips on plant combinations, which will be found throughout the text and in the accompanying photographs.
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Author Bio
| Ezra Haggard is an artist who works with, knows, and loves plants. With his quarter-century of hands-on horticultural experience in the Lower Midwest, he is amply qualified to give advice on how to make our gardens more beautiful and interesting and our gardening lives easier and more satisfying. |
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Acer buergerianum, Trident Maple
Acer campestre, Hedge Maple
Acer ginnala, Amur Maple
Acer griseum, Paperbark Maple
Acer palmatum, Green Japanese Maple
Acer palmatum var. atropurpureum 'Bloodgood', Bloodgood Japanese Maple
Acer palmatum var. dissectum 'Crimson Queen', Crimson Queen Japanese Maple
Acer palmatum var. dissectum 'Viridis', Green Laceleaf Japanese Maple
Aesculus parviflora, Bottlebrush Buckeye
Amelanchier arborea, Downy Serviceberry
Amelanchier canadensis, Shadblow Serviceberry
Berberis thunbergii var. atropurpurea, Japanese Barberry
Betula nigra 'Heritage', River Birch
Buddleia davidii, Butterfly Bush
Buxus microphylla, Littleleaf Boxwood
Buxus var. koreana x Buxus sempervirens, Sheridan Hybrid Boxwood
Calycanthus floridus, Carolina Allspice
Caryopteris x clandonensis, Blue-mist Spirea
Cercidiphyllum japonicum, Katsuratrree
Cercis canadensis, Eastern Redbud
Chaenomeles speciosa cultivars, Flowering Quince
Chamaecyparis pisifera, Japanese Falsecypress
Chionanthus virginicus, White Fringetree
Clethra alnifolia, Summersweet
Cornus alba, C. sericea, Tatarian Dogwood, Redosier Dogwood
Cornus florida, Flowering Dogwood
Cornus kousa, Kousa Dogwood
Cornus mas, Corneliancherry Dogwood
Cotinus coggygria, Common Smoketree
Crataegus phaenopyrum, Washington Hawthorn 'Vaughn'
Crataegus viridis 'Winter King', Green Hawthorn
Deutzia gracilis, Slender Deutzia
Euonymus alatus 'Compactus', Burning Bush
Forsythia x intermedia, Common Forsythia
Fothergilla gardenii, F. major, Dwarf Fothergilla; Large Fothergilla
Halesia tetraptera (H. carolina), Carolina Silverbell
Hamamelis x intermedia 'Arnold Promise', Witchhazel
Hamamelis virginiana, Common Witchhazel
Hibiscus syriacus, Rose-of-Sharon
Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle', Smooth Hydrangea
Hydrangea macrophylla, Bigleaf Hydrangea
Hydrangea paniculata 'Grandiflora', Standard Peegee Hydrangea
Hydrangea quercifolia, Oakleaf Hydrangea
Ilex x attenuata 'Fosteri', Foster's Holly
Ilex x meserveae, Meserve Hollies
Ilex verticillata, Winterberry Holly
Juniperus chinensis, Chinese Juniper
Kerria japonica, Japanese Kerria
Koelreuteria paniculata, Goldenrain Tree
Lespedeza thunbergii, Bushclover
Magnolia x soulangiana, Saucer Magnolia
Magnolia stellata, Star Magnolia
Magnolia virginiana, Sweetbay Magnolia, Swamp Magnolia
Malus cultivars, Flowering Crab
Malus sargentii, Sargent Crab
Oxydendron arboreum, Sourwood
Philadelphus hybrids, Mockorange
Picea pungens 'Hoopsii', Colorado Spruce
Picea pungens 'Glauca Globosa', Globe Blue Spruce
Picea pungens 'Glauca Globosa' Standard
Pinus densiflora 'Umbraculifera', Umbrella Pine
Pinus mugo, Mugo Pine
Pinus strobus 'Nana' (standard), Dwarf Eastern White Pine
Prunus laurocersus 'Otto Luyken', 'Schipkaensis', Common Cherrylaurel, English Laurel
Prunus persica, Dwarf Ornamental Peach
Prunus serrulata 'Kwanzan', 'Shogetsu', Japanese Cherry
Prunus subhirtella 'Autumnalis', Autumn Cherry
Prunus subhirtella 'Pendula', Higan Cherry
Prunus x yedoensis, Yoshino Cherry
Pyrus calleryana 'Aristocrat', Aristocrat Pear
Evergreen Azalea Hybrids
Rhododendron catawbiense 'Roseum Elegans', Catawba Rhododendron
Deciduous Azalea hybrids
Rhododendron 'PJM'
Rosa x alba 'New Dawn'
Rosa x borboniana 'Zephirine Drouhin'
Rosa centifolia 'Fantin Latour'
Rosa, Climber 'Alchymist'
Rosa, Climber 'Sally Holmes'
Rosa, Climber 'Silver Moon'
Rosa, English Rose 'Lillian Austin'
Rosa floribunda 'Sun Flare'
Rosa, Modern Shrub 'Golden Wings'
Rosa rugosa alba
Rosa rugosa 'Frau Dagmar Hartopp'
Rosa wichuraiana 'Leontine Gervais'
Sorbus americana, S. aucuparia, American and European Mountainash
Spiraea japonica, Japanese Spirea
Spiraea nipponica 'Snowmound', Snowmound Spirea
Spiraea thunbergii 'Ogon Mellow Yellow'
Syringa meyeri and S. m. 'Palibin', Meyer Lilac and 'Palibin' Lilac
Syringa meyeri 'Palibin', 'Palibin' Standard Lilac
Syringa reticulata, Japanese Tree Lilac
Taxus x media 'Densiformis', English-Japanese Yew
Taxus x media 'Hicksii', Hicksii Yew
Ulmus parvifolia, Lacebark Elm
Viburnum utile 'Eskimo', Service Viburnum
Viburnum carlesii, V. x juddii, Koreanspice Viburnum and Judd Viburnum
Viburnum plicatum var. tomentosum, Doublefile Viburnum
Weigela florida 'Park Princess', Old-Fashioned Weigela
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