Trees & Shrubs
Type | Botanical Name | Native | Common Name | Description | Height | Light Req. | Zone | Add to My List |
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Tree/Shrub | VIBURNUM opulus ‘Compactum’ | Eastern Cranberry Bush | A dense compact form with lace-cap white flowers in May followed by showy ornamental scarlet-red fruits early fall. Attracts butterflies. |
4-6 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
Tree/Shrub | VIBURNUM opulus ‘Roseum’ | European Cranberrybush | Rounded habit; Blooms emerge soft lime-green clusters and turn pure white and often blush pink before fading. Shades of orange and red in fall. Attracts butterflies. Sterile. |
10-12 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
Tree/Shrub | VIBURNUM plicatum ‘Kern’s Pink’ | Doublefile Viburnum | Ball-shaped medium pink flowers and red-tinged foliage. More upright growing than the traditional doublefile viburnum. Deer resistant. Great fall orange color. |
8-10 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Tree/Shrub | VIBURNUM plicatum ‘Mariesii’ | Doublefile Viburnum | Striking horizontal branching. White lace cap flowers in the spring. Attracts butterflies. |
8-10 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Tree/Shrub | VIBURNUM plicatum ‘Molly Schroeder’ | Doublefile Viburnum | Consistently pink, lace cap-shaped flower clusters and an excellent rebloomer with fantastic fall foliage. Lovely layered branch habit. Deer resistant. Attracts butterflies. |
7-8 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Tree/Shrub | VIBURNUM plicatum ‘Opening Day’ | Doublefile Viburnum | Lots of white snowball blossoms in early summer on a tight-growing, rounded plant. Great purple-bronze fall color. |
5-10 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Tree/Shrub | VIBURNUM plicatum ‘Popcorn’ | Doublefile Viburnum | Heavy clusters of popcorn-like flowers cover the plant in spring. One of the best heat/drought tolerant viburnums. Attracts butterflies. |
6-8 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Tree/Shrub | VIBURNUM plicatum ‘Shasta’ | Doublefile Viburnum | Large lacy white flower clusters on a wide-spreading shrub. Great layered branch habit. Attracts butterflies. |
6-8 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Tree/Shrub | VIBURNUM plicatum ‘Summer Snowflake’ | Doublefile Viburnum | A wide-spreading form with large, flat clusters of white flowers on tiered horizontal branches spring through fall. |
6-8 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Tree/Shrub | VIBURNUM plicatum ‘Wabi-sabi’ | Doublefile Viburnum | A low-spreading form with layered branching and white lace cap flowers in the spring. Pruning not needed. |
2-3 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Tree/Shrub | VIBURNUM sargentii ‘Onondaga’ | Sargent Viburnum | New growth is bronze-purple, fall color is reddish-purple shades. Maple-like leaves. Attractive purple-centered lacy white flower clusters spring. Upright habit. Attracts butterflies/hummingbirds. |
6-8 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Tree/Shrub | VIBURNUM burkwoodii ‘Mohawk’ | Korean Spice Viburnum | Red buds open to intensely fragrant white flowers which last 2-3 weeks in early spring. The habit is dense and compact. Attracts butterflies/hummingbirds. |
4-6 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Tree/Shrub | VIBURNUM burkwoodii | Korean Spice Bush | More open growing than V. ‘Mohawk’. Pink buds open to fragrant white flowers in early spring. Attracts butterflies/hummingbirds. |
8-10 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Tree/Shrub | VIBURNUM juddii | Judd Viburnum | Light pink buds open to fragrant white flowers in rounded clusters in early spring. Similar to V. carlesii, but a bit denser and more floriferous.Produces red-black fruit and fall color is red-purple. Attracts butterflies. |
6-8 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Tree/Shrub | WEIGELA florida First Editions ‘Shining Sensation’ | Weigela | Lovely pink blooms in May/June contrast with the shiny burgundy foliage on arching branches. Deer/rabbit resistant. Attracts butterflies/hummingbirds. |
5-6 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Tree/Shrub | WEIGELA florida ‘Czechmark Trilogy’ | Weigela | Blooms in shades of red, pink and white late spring to early summer. Attracts butterflies/hummingbirds. Deer/rabbit resistant. Light pruning after blooming only if necessary. |
3-4 feet | Full sun | 4 | ||
Tree/Shrub | WEIGELA florida ‘Lemon Ice’ | Weigela | Light lemon-yellow flowers on reddish, immature branches in mid-to-late spring, earlier than most cultivars. Attracts hummingbirds. |
5-6 feet | Full sun | 4 | ||
Tree/Shrub | WEIGELA florida ‘Mor Colorful’ | Weigela | Showy rose-colored buds open to lovely clusters of pink trumpet-shaped flowers in late spring. Variegated green and creamy white foliage with hints of pink and lime green when growth emerges in spring. Attracts butterflies/hummingbirds. |
4 feet | Full sun | 4 | ||
Tree/Shrub | WEIGELA florida ‘Variegata’ | Weigela | Variegated form with foliage edged cream. Prolific light pink flowers in June. Attracts hummingbirds. Responds well to hard regenerative pruning. |
5-6 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
Tree/Shrub | WEIGELA ‘Red Prince’ | Weigela | Profuse bloom of outstanding, non-fading red. May repeat bloom. Attracts butterflies/hummingbirds. |
5-6 feet | Full sun | 4 | ||
Tree/Shrub | WEIGELA ‘Sonic Bloom Pearl’ | Weigela | A strong repeat bloomer with showy white to pink flowers starting in June. Attracts hummingbirds. |
4-6 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Tree/Shrub | WEIGELA subsessilis ‘Canary’ | Weigela | Pale yellow June trumpets on a rounded, spreading shrub. Additional sparse rebloom. Deer resistant. |
3-5 feet | Full sun | 4 | ||
Tree/Shrub | WISTERIA macrostachya ‘Blue Moon’ | Kentucky Wisteria | Gorgeous, pendulous racemes of pale lavender pea-like blooms in June, then some reblooming throughout summer. Hardier than the Asian species. Deer resistant. Minimal pruning in winter. |
15-20 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Tree/Shrub | WISTERIA macrostachya ‘Summer Cascade’ (syn. Betty Matthews) | Summer Cascade Wisteria | Fragrant, foot-long tresses in blue-purple that blooms mid-to-late spring, and possibly twice more! Powerful grower, but not invasive. Prune after flowering and again in fall. |
15-20 feet | Full sun | 4 | ||
Tree/Shrub | XANTHORHIZA simplicissima | Yellowroot | Celery-like foliage on an excellent groundcover plant for damp areas. Foliage a yellow/orange/striking purple in autumn. |
2-4 feet | Sun/Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
Tree/Shrub | SYRINGA hyacinthiflora ‘Mount Baker’ | Mount Baker Lilac | Early flowering hybrid with fragrant, single white flowers, and purplish fall color. Some disease resistance. Attracts pollinators. |
6-10 feet | Full sun | 3 |