Plant Info

Small Trees (Less than 20' high)

• Red Laceleaf Japanese Maple

• Green Laceleaf Japanese Maple

• Bloodgood Japanese Maple

• Oshi Beni Japanese Maple

• Weeping Birch

• White Fringetree

• White, Pink, or Japanese Dogwood

• Saucer, Star & Sweet Bay Magnolia

• Thundercloud Plum

• Weeping & Snow Fountain Cherry

• Redbud

• Crabapple

Medium Trees (20-30' high)

• Amelancher

• Cornelian Cherry Dogwood

• Franklinia

• Southern Magnolia

• Crabapple

• Sourwood

• Mt. Fuji & Autumnalis

Tall Trees (More than 30' high)

• Ash White & Red

• Sargent, or Kwanzan Cherry

• Yoshino Cherry

• Red or Pin Oak

• Weeping Willow

• Chinese Scholar Tree

• Greenspire Linden

• Village Green Zelkova

• Sweetgum

• Norway, Sugar, Red & Crimson King Maple

• White Birch, Heritage, Jacquemonti & White Spire Birch

• Katsura Tree

• European or Weeping Beech Fernleaf, & Weeping Purple Beech

• Honeylocust

Small Trees (Less than 20' high)

• Hinoki Cypress

Tall Trees (more than 20' high)

• Fraser Fir

• Blue Atlas Cedar

• Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar

• Weeping Alaskan Cypress

• Cryptomeria

• Norway Spruce

• Weeping Norway Spruce

• Colorado Blue Spruce

• Hoopsi Spruce

• Moerheim Spruce

• Serbian Spruce

• Bristlecone Pine

• Swiss Stone Pine

• White Pine

• Columnar White Pine

• Douglas Fir

• Canadian Hemlock

Tall Shrubs (Mature size of 10-15 feet)

Medium Size Shrubs (Mature size of 3-10')

• American Boxwood
• Burning Bush
• Ilex - San Jose or Dragon Lady Holly
• Ilex - Dr. Kassab, Cherokee Holly, Blue Boy/Girl, Blue Maid Blue Prince, Princess, Blue Stallion, or American Holly
• Foxtail Spruce
• Tanyosho Pine
• Japanese White Pine
• Pyrancantha
• Tallhedge Buckhorn
• Native Rhododendron
• Purple or White Liliac
• Cap Yew
• Gold Arbovitae
• Pyramidalis, Emerald Green or Nigra Arborvitae
• Dentatum, or Prunifolium Viburnum

• Abelia
• Azaleas
• Exbury Azalea
• English Boxwood
• Clethra
• Red Twig Dogwood
• Var. Red Twig Dogwood
• Gold Thread Cypress
• Scotch Broom
• Duetzia
• Enkianthus
• Dwarf Burning Bush
• Gold, Gold Spot, Silver King, & Manhatten Euonymus
• Forsythia
• Fothergillia
• Witchhazel
• Hibiscus - Ardens, Jeanned d'Arc, Lucy
• Hydrangea
• Ilex - 8 varieties
• Winterberry Holly
• Junipers - 4 Varieties
• Leucothoe - 2 varieties
• Mountain Laurel
• Oregon Grape Holly
• Northern Bayberry
• Mockorange
• Pumila Spruce
• Dwarf Blue Spruce - 2 varieties
• Montgomery Blue Spruce
• Andromeda
• Mugo Pine
• Dwarf White Pine
• Dwarf Scotch Pine
• Spirea
• Cherry Laurel or Skip Laurel
• Sand Cherry
• Flowering Almond
• Rhododendron - 18 varieties
• Red & Dwarf Lilac
• Brown, Densiforma, Hicksii, Hatfieldi, or Wardii Yew
• Globe, Golden Biota or Rheingold Arborvite
• Weeping Hemlock
• Burkwoodi, Juddi, Opulus, Carlessi, Doublefile, Leatherleaf, Pragenese, or Viburnum
• Weigela & Var. Weigela

• Bog Andromeda
• Azaleas
• Barberry
• Boxwood Winter Gem, and Green Beauty
• Cotoneaster
• Dwarf Hinoki Cypress
• Euonymus
• Dwarf Forsythia
• Hydrangea
• Junipers
• Luecothoe Lovita
• Liriope
• Microbiota
• Birdsnest Spruce
• Potentillia
• Skimmia
• Spirea
• English & Dwarf Yew
• Dwarf Arborvite
• Dwarf Hemlock
• Bright Edge, Gold Sword, Adams Needle or Weeping Yucca

• Chamaecyparis filifera aurea
• Cercis - Redbud
• Doublefile Viburnum
• Burkwood Viburnum
• Korean Spice Viburnum
• Buxus microphylla - Korean Boxwood
• Forsythia
• Spirea napponica 'vanhouttei'
• Spirea bumaldo 'Anthony Waterer'
• Quercus palustris - Pin Oak
• Wisteria sinensis
• Berberis thunbergii
• Picea omorika
• Magnolia soulangiana
• Cornus alba 'elegantissima' - Variegated Reg Twig Dogwood

(These plants work well in oceanside areas where aerial salt rather than soil salt is the primary concern)

• Amelanchier - Shadblow
• Chionanthus - White Fringetree
• Cornus - Dogwood
• Malus - Crabapple
• Prunus - Cherry, Plum, Laurel
• Quercus - Oak

Shrubs

• Ilex - Holly
• Rosa - Rose
• Viburnum

Perennials

• Allium - Ornamental Onion
• Budlea - Butterfly Bush
• Dianthus
• Echinacea - Coneflower
• Lavandula - Lavender
• Lychnis - Catchfly
• Lythrum - Loosestrife

• Amelancher canadensis - Shadblow
• Chamaecyparis pisifera - Goldthread Cypress
• Clethra Alnifolia - Summersweet
• Cotoneaster salicifolius - Willowleaf Cotoneaster
• Fraxinus americana - White Ash
• Hydrangea arborescens & macrophylla - all varieties
• Ilex Glabra - Inkberry Holly
• Juniperus - chinensis, conferta, virginiana all varieties
• Myrica pennsylvanica - Northern Bayberry
• Pinus parviflora - Japanese White Pine
• Potentilla fruticosa
• Pyracantha coccinea
• Saphora Japonica - Japanese Scholar Tree
• Spirea x bumalda 'Anthony Waterer' - Dwarf Red Spirea
• Spirea x vanhouttei - Bridalwreath Spirea

• Acer platanoides
• Amelanchier canadenis
• Salix
• Tsuga canadensis
• Pinus strobus
• Picea abies
• Thuja occidentalis nigra

Shrubs

• Abelia grandiflora
• Forsythia intermedia
• Ilex opaca
• Ligustrum ovalifolium
• Lonicera
• Pyracantha
• Viburnum

• Acer rubrum
• Amelanchier canadensis
• Ilex opaca

Shrubs

• Andromeda prolifolia
• Salix
• Calluna vulgaris
• Clethra alnifolia
• Ilex glabra
• Ilex verticillata
• Kalmia latofolia
• Viburnum dentatum
• Viburnum opulus

• Pinus strobus
• Thuja occidentalis nigra
• Taxus capitata
• Tsuga canadensis

Shrubs

• Abelia
• Berberis thunbergi
• Buxus sempervirens
• Buxus suffruticosa
• Ilex crenata varieties
• Ilex opaca
• Ligustrum ibolium
• Lonicera tatarica
• Pyracantha coccinea
• Spirea van houtei
• Taxus in variety
• Thuja in variety

• Pinus sylvestris
• Gleditsia varieties
• Pinus strobus
• Sophora japonica Regent

Shrubs

• Juniperus chin sargenti
• Juniperus conferta
• Juniperus horiz. varieties
• Ligustrum in variety
• Lonciera tatarica
• Myrica pennsylvania
• Rosa rugosa
• Yucca filamentoso

• Amelanchier canadensis
• Cornus florida and rubra
• Ilex opaca (Evergreen)
• Magnolia virginiana
• Oxydendrum arboreum
• Tsuga canadensis

Shrubs

• Abelia grandiflora
• Cercis canadensis
• Clethra alnifolia
• Cornus mas
• Euonymus fortunei varieties
• Hamamelis*
• Hedera helix*
• Hex crenata varieties
• Hex glabra & compacta
• Hydrangea quercifolia
• Kalmia*
• Mahonia aquifolium*
• Pachysandra terminalis*
• Pieris japonica
• Pyracantha coccinea
• Rhododendron max*
• Rhododendron hybrids*
• Taxus baccata
• Taxus cuspidata
• Taxus densformis
• Vinca minor

* Tolerates dense shade

• Boxwood
• Cotoneasters
• Fir
• Scotch Broom
• Liliac
• Magnolia
• Pieris
• Periwinkle
• Pines
• Redbud
• Rhododendron
• Smoke Tree
• Spruces
• Yucca
• Leucothoe

• Acer palmatum
• Acer rubrum + cvs.
• Acer saccharum
• Berberis
• Cornus
• Cotoneaster horizontalis
• Euonymous alata
• Oxydendrum arboreum

Purple

• Acer platanoides 'Crimson King'
• Prunus cerasifera 'Thundercloud'
• Ginkgo biloba

Yellow

• Acer platanoides
• Acer saccharum

Bronze to Gold

• Abelia grandiflora
• Cryptomeria japonica
• Fagus sp.
• Gleditsia sp.

PLANTS TOLERANT OF HEAVY CLAY SOIL

PLANTS TOLERANT OF MOIST AREAS

PLANTS TOLERANT OF SHADE