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Viburnum - Dwarf European Cranberrybush
It scarcely ever develops the white flowers, let alone cranberries. Dwarf European Cranberrybush, viburnum opulus 'Nanum', is a small, mounded, dense shrub that has compact branching and small green foliage that develops a burgundy fall color. Despite not fruiting and flowering, it can be an interesting deciduous shrub, small and mounded, much more densely leafed than the majority of viburnum. The trunk is stout, upright, and straight when young, becoming slightly ridged, furrowing, and arching with maturity. It is a low maintenance shrub, and is excellent as a foundation plant or low hedge. Dwarf European Cranberrybush is adaptable to permanently moist to wet soils, dry soils, poor soils, soils of various pH, heat, drought, and pollution. It grows 2-3 feet tall and 2-4 feet wide. ... get more information
Lilac - Korean This deciduous shrub is especially urban tolerant. Meyeri is named after F. The Dwarf Korean Lilac, Syringa meyeri 'palibin', is known as a compact but spreading, small-foliaged Lilac with showy late May lavender-purple flowers that are spread over the entire shrub canopy. Meyer, who introduced this species to the United States from Northern China in the early 20th century. It is the most common cultivar of the species, valued for its even more compact habit (to 4-6”). Syringa translates from the Greek as "pipe", in reference to the hollow stems. It is widely used as a foundation, group planting, informal or formal hedge, or specimen shrub. N. Gardening News and Articles |
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