Chlorophytum comosum

• Common Name: Spider Plant
• Medium Light Intensity House Plant
• Native to South Africa 
• Excellent for hanging baskets (2-3’)
• Stoloniferous so prduces “Daughter” plants that are easy to propagate
• Needs adequate waterings

Crassula ovata

• Common name: Jade Plant
• High Light Intensity House Plant
• Multi-stemmed house plant
• Thick Succulent leaves and stems
• Rarely flowers in home
• High light/Low Relative Humidity
• Let soil dry before watering
• Easy to propagate from cuttings
• Is a Cam Plant - Stroma is open at night and closed during the day = less water loss

Spathiphyllum sp.

• Common Name: peace lily
• Low light intensity house plant
• Native to tropical America
• Stemless plant, glossy large leaves
• Easy to flower and long flower life
• Can take punishment– “bounce-back factor”

Ficus elastica

• Common Name: rubber tree
• High light intensity house plant
• Can grow up to 200ft in the outdoors of India and Indonesia
• Upright woody evergreen tree(Banyon group)
• Large dark green rubbery leaves
• High light/Low Relative Humidity
• Aerial and Buttresting roots
• Milky Latex

Narcissus sp.

• Common Name: Daffodil 
• Family Amaryllidaceae
• ~50 species
• Hundreds of cultivars
• Divided into 13 Divisions
• Often fragrant
• Has Corona(cup)

Allium sp. 

• ornamental onions, garlic, chive, garlic etc.
• Northern Hemisphere
• 500+ species
• Fall plant, April - June flowering
• Pest resistant
• Cultivars of interest: ‘Globemaster’, Gladiator
• Biggest issue is cost

Muscari sp. 

• Common Name: Grape hyacinth
• North, Central, South America
• Tender bulb, Zone 8/7
• Often forced as an indoor holiday bulb
• Forcing: 9-10 months sunny, 70 degrees
• 8-10 weeks 50 -55 degrees F, low water
• Plant in garden in Spring

Rosmarinus officinalis

Rosemary – evergreen woody shrub with

blue flowers in later winter early spring

Lycopersicon esculentum

• Common Name: Tomato
• South American native, solonaceae family(nightshade)
• 7500 cultivars, most hybrids
• thanks to cortex or Columbus
• Plant 2 weeks after FFFD
• DETERMINATE TYPE: Flower all at the same time
• INDETERMINATE TYPE:  Keep Flowering til frost

Capsicum annum

• Common name:Pepper
• Tropical American native, Solonaceae family(nightshade), Perennial
• thousands of cultivars
• Bell peppers, hot peppers, etc.
• Heat in peppers: CAPSAICIN, pepper spray, medicinal, culinary
• Scoville units- heat in peppers
• Plant 2 weeks after FFFD

Nerium oleander

• Common Name: Oleander
• Family: Apocynaceae
• Native: Mediterranean
• Size: 12’ evergreen
• Prized: Flower and Salt tolerance
• Caution: Deadly!!!
• Common plant to find on coast

Ilex verticillata

• Common Name: Winterberry holly
• Family: Aquifoliaceae
• Native: North America
• Size: 6-10’ deciduous
• Prized: Fruits, Dioecious, Tolerance of wet soils

Euonymus americanus

• Common Name: Strawberry bush; hearts a’ burstin
• Family: Celastraceae
• Native: Eastern North America
• 4-6’ tall deciduous
• Prized for: Fruits

Callicarpa americana

• Common Name: American beautyberry

• Family: Verbenaceae

• Native: Southern USA

• Deciduous, 8’ x 8’

• Prized: Magenta fruit, Attracts wildlife

Edgeworthia chrysantha

• Common Name: Oriental Paper bush

• Family: Thymelaeaceae

• Native: Asia

• Deciduous, 6’ x 6’

• Prized: Feb. fragrant yellow flowers, Large leaves

Cercis canadensis

• Common Name: Redbud

• Native region: Eastern North America

• 15 -25’ deciduous tree, many cultivars

• Rose colored flowers, emerge March

• Edible and high in vitamin C

• Great specimen tree, accent, understroy

• SMA Urban Tree of the Year 2010

• Family: Fabaceae

Cornus kousa

• Common Name: Kousa or Japanese dogwood

• Native region: Asia

• 20-30’ upright to tiered deciduous tree

• Flowers: yellow w/ white bracts in late April to May

• Larger red singular fruit, edible

• Red – purple fall color

• Cornaceae

• Great understory, specimen, accent, courtyard

• Drought tolerant

Platanus occidentalis

• Sycamore
• Native: North America
• Size: 75-100’
• Features: White Bark
• Family: Platanaceae

Diospyros virginiana

• Common name: Persimmon
• Native: Eastern US
• Size: 35-60’
• Features: Bark, Fall Color, Fruit(dioecious and attracts wildlife.  Also used for jams and such)
• Family: Ebenaceae

Quercus alba

• Common Name: White oak
• Native: Eastern US
• Size: 80-100’
• Features: Canopy – shade, Wood (makes wine and whiskey barrels), Fruit (Acrons-Attract wildlife)
• Family:Fagaceae
• Reproductive units- Catkins
• Fruit- Acrons
• Fun Facts: 50% of forests in the U.S east of the Mississippi are deciduous.
• 43 species and varieties of oaks.

Acer saccharum

• Common Name: Sugar maple
• Native: Eastern NA
• Size: 75-100’
• Features: Fall Color, Sap
• Family: Sapinaceae
• Reproduce with Samaras

Ginkgo biloba

• Common Name: Ginkgo, Maindenhair tree
• Native: China
• Size: 50-80’
• Features: Fall color, Seeds
• Smelly Fruit
• Family:Ginkgoaceae
• Ginko leaves found in fossils 190 million years old

Amsonia hubrichtii

•Common name: Arkansas star

• Herbaceous perennial

• South Central US native

• Light blue flowers in April

• Full sun to partial shade

• Narrow lanceolate leaves (fine texture)

• 2011 Perennial Plant Association Plant of the Year

Solidago rugosa ‘Fireworks’

• Fireworks goldenrod

• Native herbaceous perennial

• Full sun, drought tolerant

• 3-5 feet tall

• Flowers in Sept. – Oct.

• Attracts butterflies

Aesculus parviflora

• Common Name: bottlebrush buckeye

• 8-12’ X 12-20 deciduous shrub

• SE US native

• White flowers June – July

• Awesome yellow fall color

• Partial shade

• Naturalizing

• Understory plant

Phlox paniculata ‘David’

• Common name: David phlox

• Chance seedling discovered near PA in 1980’s

• 2-4’ upright habit

• Pure white flowers in late June-July to late August

• Full sun to partial

• Butterflies and hummers

• Mildew resistant

• Cut back in late Feb. - early march

Polygonatum odoratum ‘Variegatum'

•Common name: Variegated Solomon’s Seal

• 18-24” upright with variegated leaves

• Small white bell shaped flowers; April

• Partial to full shade

• Propagate by division

Echinacea purpurea

• Common name: Purple cone flower
• Size:3’ tall
• Native: Central US
• Sun plant
• Features: Flowers (summer)
• Family: Asteraceae

Pennisetum alopecuroides

• Common Name: Fountain grass
• Size: 2-3’ tall
• Native: Asia
• Sun, Well Drained
• Features: Flowers (fall)
• Family: Poaceae

Dahlia x hortensis

• Common name: Garden dahlia
• Size: 1-5’ tall
• Native: S. America
• Sun Plant
• Features: Flowers (fall)
• Family: Asteraceae

Celosia argentea var. plumosa ‘New Look’

•Common Name: New Look Celosia

• 12-14” tall

• 4-6 inch plumes that are bright red

• Leaves reddish green

• Great in patches or mass planted

Euphorbia hypericifolia ‘Inneuphdia’

• Common Name: Diamond Frost, Diamond Frost Euphorbia

• 1-2’ X 1-2’, mounded habit

• Small white flowers, flowers all frost free season

• “Goofproof” plant, deer resistant, drought tolerant

• Beds and borders, mass planting, accent, containers

Gomphrena globosa

• Common Name: Gomphrena or globe amaranth

• 1-2’ X 1’, upright habit to “bushy”

• 1” “clover-like” flowers all summer

• Pinch back stems and dead-head

• Beds and borders, mass planting, accent, containers

• Many great cultivars ‘Fireworks’

Pentas lanceolata

• Common name: pentas, star flower

• 1-2’ X 1-2’’, upright to mounded

• Tubular, star shaped flowers

• Red, violet, pink, white flowers, attracts butterflies

• Beds and borders, mass planting, accent, containers

• Many great cultivars: ‘Graffiti’ series

Caladium bicolor

• Common Name: caladuim, “elephant ear”

• 6” – 2’, upright leaves from a crown

• Corms planted 2-4 weeks after FFFD, soil temp.

• Multicolored leaves, differing in size

• Requires shade to partial shade

• Some cultivars tolerate full sun:

• ‘White Queen’’, Florida Sweetheart’, Carolyn Wharton’

Euphorbia cotinifolia

• Common Name: Caribbean Copper plant, Mexican spurge

• 3 – 7’ (in zone &) upright shrub

• Deep reddish-burgundy leaves

• Flowers small and cream colored

• Accent plant used for it’s leaves

Manihot esculenta ‘Variegata’

• Common Name: variegated tapioca

• 3 – 6’, upright to mounded

• Attractive deeply lobed, variegated leaves, reddish petioles and

stems

• Full sun to partial shade

• Accent plant, specimen used for it’s leaves, containers

• Tapioca pudding made with starch extracted from root

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