Forsythia

Name:  Forsythia

Variety: Spring Glory and Lindwood Gold

Type:  Shrub
Light:  Full Sun
Size:  6'x7'
Bloom time:  Spring
Flower color: Yellow
Fragrance: None
Plant location: Back yard north east corner
Care: Fertilize yearly with stake.   Prune early spring after flowers die.  Do not prune the rest of the year.   Flowers come on year old growth.

One survived frost and two were replaced 2017.  

Burning Bush

 

Name:   Burning Bush

Variety: Euonymus altus

 

Type: shrub

 

Height: 6 ft x 5 ft

Sun: sun to shade   

Flower color:  None

Leaves turn red in fall
 

Bloom Time:  none
 

Fragrance:  none
 

Location:  two sets of shrubs--two on north side back yard; two on east side back yard


Care:  Fertilize yearly with fertilizer stakes

Sugar Moon Rose

 

Name: Rose, Sugar Moon
Variety: Rosa, Hybrid Tea, Sugar Moon
Type: Shrub
Height: 3-4'
Light: Full sun
Color: White
Fragrance:  Citrus
Bloom Time: Summer
Location:  West of water fall 

Care:  Bayer once a month, fertilize two weeks later.  Prune to canes in winter and cover with burlap.  Mulch heavy.  Water well during summer.

Spray weekly with copper spray when leaves are out.  When in bud spray with soap spray for thrips.  Dead head as needed.  

Purchase May 2014 Sells.

Ninebark Coppertina

Name: Ninebark
Variety: Physocarpus opulifolius  Coppertina
Type: Shrub
Height: 6'
Sun: Full Sun
Zone:  3
Flower color: white
Bloom Time: June
Fragrance:
Location: north east on property next to forsythia
Care:   fertilizer stake in spring

Purchased from Plymouth Nursery 2016.

Yew

Name:   Yew
Variety Taxus bacatta
Type: evergreen shrug
Height: 10-15'
Sun: Full Sun to shade
Flower color:  none
Bloom Time: none
Fragrance:  none
Location:  north east side of house
Care:  fertilize stakes in spring

There were three landscape items given us when they installed the grass--these yews, a pine tree that died and a deciduous tree for the parking strip.  The last two died but they did replace the tree.  We had to replace the pine tree ourselves.   They are really rangy, but do provide some plants on the north side of the house where we never go.

Hilmond Pillar Barberry

Name:  Hilmond Pillar Barberry
Variety:  Berberis Thumbergii Helmond Pillar
Type: Shrub
Height: 3 ft x 1-2 ft
Sun: Full Sun
Flower color:  None
Bloom Time:  none
Fragrance:  none
Location:  front yard in front on arborviate on either side of perennials
care:  fertilize yearly with stakes.

Purcahsed at Lowes May 2017

New Purchase Ring of Fire Rose

Name: Rosa

Variety:  Ring of Fire

Type:  Shrub 

Height:  5-6'

Sun:  Full Sun

Flower Color:  orange and coral

Bloom Time: Summer

Fragrance:  Slight

Location:  Rose garden--ne spot

Care:  Bayer once a month.  Fertilize with rose granuals twice a month not the bayer time.

This was purchased from Home Depot in April.  Planted last week of April.

New Purchase Hellmond Pillar Barberry

We found a great buy at Lowes.  We're looking for a different shrub in front bookending the flowers in front of the arborviate.  We needed something small and thin.  This works and it matches the other barberry in the front yard.

Name:  Hilmond Pillar Barberry
Bio Name:  Berberis Thumbergii Helmond Pillar
Height   3ft  x 1-2 ft
Full sun
Leaves--green turning to dark red.

Arborvitae in Front Yard

Name: Arborvitae
Variety: Thuja Evergreen pyramidal
Type: Evergreen Shrub
Height: 20'
Light:  Full Sun to Shade
Location: North side of frong yard
Care:   Fertilize with evergreen stakes in spring

Name: Arborvitae Globe
Variety: Thuja occidentalis 'Danica'
Type: Evergreen Shrub
Height: 3'
Light:  Full Sun to Shade
Location: Front yard in front of windows and one by garage; also one on south side of house
Care:   Fertilize with evergreen stakes in spring.   Trim back at the first of summer to control growth.

Arborvitae in Back Yard

Name: Arborvitate
Variety: Thuja occidentalis ‘Hetz Midget’
Type: Shrub
Light:  Part to full
Size:  3' x 3'
Plant location: Back yard around deck  7 shrubs.
Care: Trim to keep small shape.  Fertilize with evergreen stakes in spring

Ninebark

Name: Ninebark Summer Wine
Variety: Physocarpus opulifolious
Type: Shrub
Height: 5-6'
Light: Full sun
Color:  White to light pink 
Bloom Time: Early Summer
Location:  East edge of property north of arbor

We purchased these last May at Meijers to replace the spirea that looked so terrible.  They are doing great, survived the winter and are full of blooms.   We are pleased.

Potentilla

Name: Potentilla or Cinquefoil
Variety: Potentilla fruticosa 'Gold Drop'
Type:  Shrub
Light:  Full Sun
Size:  3'x3'
Bloom time:  June through August
Flower color: Yellow
Fragrance: None
Plant location: Back Yard west of waterfall
Care:  Fertilize in spring with flowering shrub stake.  Prune in fall to keep compact

Snow Mound Spirea

Name:   Snow Mound Spirea
Variety: Spirea japonica "snow mound"
Type: Shrub
Height: 5' x 5'
Light: Full sun
Flower Color: white
Location:  north side back yard by fence
Bloom Time:June

We bought two plants at Plymouth nursery in 2010.  They have not done well and it seems that there parts that are dead each year.  They have been there for two years and have not grown well.  This year they have finally bloomed better.

Shrub Althea Chiffon White

Name:  Shrub Althea, Chiffon White
Variety:  Hibiscus syriacus notwoodtwo
Type:  Shrub
 Light:  Full to Part Sun
Size:  8' x 6'
Bloom time:  Mid Summer
Flower color:  White
Fragrance: None
Plant location: North East Corner of the house
Care:   Fertilize with stake fertilizer in spring


This was developed by Monrovia.   When it becomes 8' tall it is going to be spectacular.

Summer Snowflake Viburnum

Name: Snow Flake Viburnum
Variety:  Viburnum plicatum va. tomentosum 'Summer Snowflake'
Type:  Shub
Light:  Full Sun
Size:  6' x 6'
Bloom time: Early summer
Flower color:  white
Fragrance:  None
Plant location:  back yard waterfall hill east side
Care:   Use fertilizer stakes in spring to fertilize.

We purchased this at Plymouth Nursery.   We had to postpone planting it until yesterday to do the hot weather.  The plant struggled in the hot weather in the pot, but hopefully will recover now that it is planted.

Julia Child Rose

Name: Rose
Variety: Rosa Julia Child Floribunda
Type: Shrub
Size: 3' x 3'

Light: Full sun
Flower Color: Butter Yellow
Fragrance: Light scent (yes one rose was fragrant--I have hope)
Bloom Time: Starting in late May

I love roses and this one is going to be of my favorites. Named for Julia Child, it is a wonderful butter yellow rose with a sweet fragrance. This is a 2006 AARS winner. I've been doing a lot of research about fragrance since my roses are not fragrant. Supposedly it will depend upon the maturity, temperature and humidity of the plant. They say roses are really fragrant in India because of the heat and humidity. Hopefully I'll get that opportunity here in cold Michigan.

Spirea In Bloom

Name: Spirea
Variety: Goldflame
Type: Deciduous bush
Flower Color: Dusty Rose
Height: 3' by 3 ' wide
Sun: Full Sun
Bloom Time: Late May Early June


The spirea are in bloom. They are a lovely fushia flower and each of the 9 shrubs is covered with flowers. I clipped the blossoms off the newest one so that it would concentrate on roots not flowers. So far in the garden something has been in bloom since the daffodils in April.

Weigela

Name: Weigela
Variety: Weigela Florida Java Red
Color: Pink with dark leaves
Type: Shrub
Height: 5' x 4'
Sun: Full sun
Bloom Time: Mid May

We purchased this for about $6. It was a small shrub and has taken awhile to grow. It's suppose to get taller than the spirea, but right now it's smaller. Still it flowers out beautifully in the spring time and has interesting foliage in the summer. It doesn't have a good fall show.

Summer Lilac

The flowers now have died. There was a wonderful show. However, the leaves are always a lovely cool addition to the summer garden. Wayne clipped all the dead blossoms so as to direct the growth to the roots and to better flower production next year.

Lilacs

Name: Lilac
Variety: Syringa Vulgar
Type: Shrub
Height: 8'
Sun: Full Sun
Flower Color: Deep Purple
Bloom Time: Late April
Location:  Front north of house, south of garage

I didn't keep the variety of lilacs other than the common vulgar. I'm not certain I ever had that information because these came from a local grower. They are doing so well. Last year the large bush had some sort of fungus so we pruned it out. Thanks to the internet I was able to save this beautiful bush. The smaller plant is also doing very well now that we've replanted it in better soil. I look for many many years of beautiful lilacs. These are a deep dark french purple and have a very light scent. I love seeing them very day as I drive home from work.