Shrubs We Love to See
"Every yard should be a picture. The observer should
catch the entire effect and purpose, without analyzing
its parts."
--_Bailey._
OF course you want to know something about shrubs. For what? Possibly
just to make a tiny hedge around your garden, or a taller one to shut
out the view of some neighbor's untidy backyard. More likely for a
lovely specimen plant for your own grounds. In that case, don't, oh,
don't! set it out in the middle of the lawn! And two or three thus
dotted around (in "spotty planting," so called) are the acme of bad
taste, and violate the fundamental principles of landscape gardening.
[Illustration: CLEANING UP AROUND THE SHRUBS]
Our grandmothers all loved the tall syringa, honeysuckle, snowball,
strawberry shrub, weigela, rose of Sharon and lilac, while they
hedged both their yards and gardens with box, privet and evergreens.
Today we use a good deal of the Japanese barberry, while Uncle Sam's
recent free distribution has widely introduced that pretty little annual
bush-like plant--the kochia, or summer cypress, good for low hedges.
But there is that publisher cutting off my space again! So I can just
add a word about the lovely new summer lilac or buddleia. A tiny plant
of this, costing only 25 cents, grows into a nice four-foot bush the
first summer, and blooms until late in the season.
Most of these shrubs can be easily grown from cuttings, however, so just
ask your friends to remember you when they do their pruning.
SHRUBS
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NAME | COLOR | HEIGHT | GROWN FROM |BLOOMING SEASON
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Althea, see | | | |
Rose of Sharon| | | |
| | | |
Azalea |No blues |1 to 6 ft. | |Spring, early
| | | |summer
| | | |
Barberry, Japan | Red | 4 ft. | Seed |Red berries all
(_Berberis | berries | | |winter
Thunbergii_) | | | |
| | | |
Boxwood | Green |4 to 20 ft.| |
(_Buxus | | | |
sempervirens_)| | | |
| | | |
Bridal Wreath, | | | |
see Spirea | | | |
(_Thunbergii_)| | | |
| | | |
Buddleia | Lavender |3 to 6 ft. | Cuttings |July to frost
| | | |
Currant, | Yellow | 4 ft. | |May
Flowering | | | |
(_Ribes | | | |
aureum_) | | | |
| | | |
Deutzia | White, |3 to 12 ft.| Cuttings |May, June
| Pink | | |
| | | |
Forsythia |Yellow |6 to 10 ft.|Cuttings or |Earliest spring
| | |seed |
| | | |
Golden Bell, | | | |
see Forsythia | | | |
| | | |
Honeysuckle |White, |6 to 12 ft.|Cuttings or | March to June
(numerous |Yellow | |seed |
varieties) |Pink, Red | | |
(_Lonicera_) | | | |
| | | |
Hydrangea | White |8 to 12 ft.| Cuttings |July to November
(_Paniculata | | generally | |
grandiflora_) | | | |
| | | |
Japanese Quince | Scarlet | 8 ft. | | May
(_Cydonia | | | |
japonica_) | | | |
| | | |
Kochia (small | | 3 ft. | Seed |Bush reddens in
annual bush) | | | |fall
| | | |
Lilac (_Syringa |Lavender, | 5 to | |May, June
vulgaris_) | White | 20 ft. | |
| | | |
Mock Orange | White | 10 ft. | |May, June
(_Philadelphus| | | |
coronarius_) | | | |
| | | |
Privet | Green | 15 ft. | Cuttings |
(_Ligustrum | | unless | |
ovalifolium_) | |sheared | |
| | | |
Rose of Sharon | White, | Up to | |August to
(_Hibiscus | Pink to | 18 ft. | |October
Syriacus_) | Purple | | |
| | | |
Snowball, | White | 8 to | Cuttings |May, June
Japanese | | 10 ft. | |
(_Viburnum | | | |
tomentosum_) | | | |
| | | |
Spirea | White | 2 to | |May
(_Thunbergii_)| | 4 ft. | |
| | | |
Spirea (numerous| White, | 4 to | |Different months
other |Pink, Rose| 6 ft. | |from May to
varieties) | | | |September
| | | |
Strawberry Shrub|Chocolate-| 6 to | By division |May
| colored | 10 ft. | |
Syringa, | | | |
see Mock | | | |
Orange | | | |
| | | |
Viburnum, | | | |
see Snowball | | | |
| | | |
Weigela |White, | 6 ft. | |June
(_Diervilla |Pink, Red | | |
florida_) | | | |
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