Week 3

Fall Hort I

SweetgumLiquidambar strycaflua

•Height: 60-100’•Spread: 50-75’•5-7 lobed, star shaped leaves•Synacarp in fall and winter•Part shade-sun

Flowering CrabappleMalus sp.

•Height: 15-25’•Spread: 10-20’•White to rose colored flowers in April•Serrated leaves•Crabapples in mid summer•Sun

JapaneseFlowering CherryPrunus serrulata ‘Kwanzan’

•Height: 15-25’•Spread: 15-20’•Small serrated hairs on margin•White-pink single and double flowers in April and May•Sun-Part shade

Border Forsythia: Forsythia x intermedia

• Deciduous shrub• Leaf: opposite, serrated,

elliptical, pinnate, 3-5”long,1 ½” wide

• 8-10’tall/wide• Sun• Yellow flower in late

winter, early spring.• Green pod for fruit.• Stem is 4-sided, has

noticeable lenticels

Glossy Abelia: Abelia x grandiflora

• Evergreen shrub• Leaf: opposite,

elliptical, serrated, pinnate, simple

• Pink flower, funnel/tube shaped.

• Twigs are reddish-brown with streaks

Aucuba japonica!

• Height: 6 to 10 feet • Width: 4 to 6 feet• Evergreen• Flower/Fruit: Grown for

foliage rather than flowers; purple male flowers; 0.5" scarlet fruit matures in fall and persists till spring; often hidden by foliage

Aucuba japonica

• Foliage: Opposite, simple, lustrous, leathery leaf.

• Comments: Drought tolerant; young leaves exposed to sun will blacken; easy to transplant; remains dense even in heavy shade; male and female plants aves; 3 to 8" long; rounded green stems