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| DWARF AND SLOW GROWING
SHRUBS AND CONIFERS |
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| 4236 | BETULA PUMILA ( Swamp Birch ) H-15 cm.-1.5 m. A shrub of low or prostrate habit with young branchlets covered with brown fuzz or down. Circular leaves are coarsely toothed and shiny on the upper surface, while pale and felt-like underneath. Small erect cones. For a shady site of the rock garden. Found growing on bogs and fens. Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada. $6.00  |
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| 4237 | BUXUS ‘ELEGANTISSIMA’ H-30-120 cm. A very attractive variegated boxwood. Mid-green leaves with creamy irregular margins makes a neat specimen shrub or a dense compact hedge. Judicious pruning will keep it in good form. Garden origin. ONE PER CUSTOMER. $5.00 |
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| 4243 | BUXUS ‘MORRIS MIDGET’ H-30 cm. This Little-Leaf Boxwood selection is undoubtedly a miniature. Slow growing with a dense and rounded habit. It will take many years to reach its ultimate height. An ideal trough bushlet. Garden origin. $6.00 |
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| 4244 | BUXUS SEMPERVIRENS ‘JENSEN’ H-up to 60 cm. An upright boxwood with evergreen blue-green thick broad leaves. Hardy and slow going it makes an excellent bonsai or an appealing rock garden “woody” Easy in sun or semi-shade. Garden origin. $6.00 |
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| 4245 | CHAMAECYPARIS ‘COMPACTA’ H-up 60 cm. A first rate little cultivar with tight recurved sweeps of dark green needled foliage. Dwarf and compact with a low, bun-shaped stature, it makes for a perfect trough or small rock garden conifer. Garden origin. $6.00 |
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| 4204 | COPROSMA PETRIEI H-5 cm. Creeping taproots form mats of entwined hard stems clothed with tiny pointed leaves. Inconspicuous flowers and shiny blue fruit. Adequately drained soil and a sunny site is suitable for this unisexual shrub. Alpine regions, New Zealand. $6.00 |
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| 4246 | COTONEASTER DAMMERI ‘STRIEB’S FINDLING’ H-5
cm. A tiny selection of almost flat ground-hugging habit. Under-utilized, this well behaved Cotoneaster has dense miniature dark green leaves that turn a bronzy-green shade in winter. Bright red fruit. Let it drape over a trough or a wall. Garden origin. $6.00 |
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| 4205 | DAPHNE ARBUSCULA H-12-15 cm. Semi-prostrate shrub with lustrous, leathery, evergreen leaves and very fragrant rich pink flowers. It is easy in very gritty sunny conditions. A very desirably species. Czech Republic. ONE PER CUSTOMER. $10.00 |
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| 4206 | D. x BURK. ‘CAROL MACKIE’ H-1 m. An excellent medium-size Daphne with creamy variegated leaf margins and very fragrant pink flowers. Best in full sun. Garden origin. $6.00 |
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| 4207 | D. x BURK. ‘G. K. ARGLES’ H-1.2 m. A splendid sport with broad gold edge to the leaves. Pinkish-white blooms and very upright habit. A vigorous grower. Full sun. Garden origin. $8.00 |
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| 4208 | D. x BURK. ‘LAVENERII’ H-90 cm. A French hybrid of open habit and glaucous foliage. Similar to D. ‘Somerset’ with flower buds of deeper pink opening white to pale pink. It blooms from May to June and is semi-evergreen to deciduous. Rarely offered. Garden origin. ONE PER CUSTOMER. $8.00 |
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| 4210 | D. CNEORUM V. VARIEGATUM H-30-40 cm. A vigorous low growing form with pink blooms and yellow margined leaves. For an open, sunny, well-drained site. Garden origin. $6.00 |
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| 4247 | D. CNEORUM V. PYGMAEA H-15 cm. Smaller in all its parts than the species, more compact and slower growing. Makes an excellent trough plant. Typical pink flowers. Garden origin. $6.00 |
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| 4248 | D. x TRANSATLANTICA ‘BEULAH CROSS’ H-1.5
m A variegated clone of Daphne ‘Jim’s Pride’ with broader leaves and creamy margins. A robust fast growing shrub that would make a delightful addition to a garden. Responds well to good pruning. Garden origin. $10.00 |
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| 4249 | D. x TRANS. ‘JIM’S PRIDE’ H-90 cm. A hybrid of D. caucasica and D. collina, it produces abundant fragrant sparkling white flower clusters in spring with new flushes throughout the summer. A handsome shrub of good stature that produces yellow fruit. Depending on zonal conditions it can be evergreen or semi-deciduous. Plant in full sun with humus-rich well drained soil. Garden origin. $10.00 |
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| 4217 | D. x TRANS. ‘SUMMER ICE’ H-90 cm. Another variegated clone of Daphne ‘Jim’s Pride’ of superior qualities. Leaves have been described as “dusky-grey” with icy-white variegation. A prolific bloomer that blooms throughout the summer. Does well in full sun or partial shade with more or less neutral soil conditions. Garden origin. $10.00 |
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| 4213 | D. GENKWA HACKENBERRY GROUP H-1.5-2 m. An upright form of the above with paler lilac flowers. A fast grower that benefits from pinching back during its growing period to develop a fuller plant. Rarely offered. Garden origin. $12.00 |
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| 4214 | D. DOMINI H-15 cm. A slow growing evergreen species closely related to D. oleoides with a very compact habit. Tufts of narrow green leaves on red-tinged bark and half-closed pink and white flowers that reliably produce orange fruit. Bulgaria. $6.00 |
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| 4215 | D. MEZEREUM f. ALBA’ H-1 m. A deciduous Daphne with stunningly fragrant creamy white flowers; yellow berries follow. Blossoms are produced before foliage. Europe & Central Asia. $6.00 |
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| 4250 | EMPETRUM NIGRUM H-6 cm. A small shrub mat-forming in nature and heath-like in appearance. Ascending or prostrate stems are clothed with needle-like dense semi-lustrous evergreen leaves. Lovely pink to purplish flowers in summer followed by black berries. A great ground cover. Prefers sun or part shade and well-drained peaty soils. Circumpolar. $5.00 |
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| 4251 | EPHEDRA AFF. PULVINARIS H-3 cm. Dense tiny cushions of leafless grey-green stems thickly jointed, much like Horse-tails. This ancient conifer relative is a high alpine species with striking large orange berries. Small enough for a trough. Full sun and good drainage are essential. A Halda collection. Tadjikistan. $6.00 |
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| 4252 | GAULTHERIA MIQUELIANA H-20-30 cm. A dainty little alpine evergreen shrub that is easy and very ornamental. Red stems carry matt green oval-shaped leaves minutely toothed and veined. Pendent clusters of white bells followed by white to pink wintergreen-flavored berries in summer. Spreading by underground runners it makes an excellent lush ground cover. Acid moist conditions recommended. Japan. $6.00 |
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| 4253 | JUNIPERUS ‘SHIMPAKU’ H-30 cm. A very interesting slow growing juniper of irregular vase-shaped form. Grey-green leaves and flaking bark makes it a sought-after bonsai specimen but is also highly appreciated as a miniature tree in a trough or rock garden. Hardy and long-lived. Garden origin. $6.00 |
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| 4254 | LONICERA NITIDA ‘BAGGESEN’S GOLD’ H-15-30
cm. A rare and excellent shrub for the winter garden. Of low arching habit, its evergreen leaves have a bright golden yellow to chartreuse coloring. For best effect plant in partial shade. Garden origin. $6.00 |
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| 4221 | LONICERA PROSTRATA H-6-10cm A deciduous shrub of creeping habit. Branches are thin with ovate foliage forming a rounded mass. Paired flowers of pastel yellow in summer followed by red fruits. This dainty honeysuckle would make an excellent ground cover. China. $6.00 |
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| 4222 | ONONIS NATRIX H-20-60 cm. A decorative leguminous sun-loving bushlet with solitary yellow pea-flowers streaked red or purple. Palmate leaves on densely hairy stems. South Europe. $5.00 |
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| 4224 | PINUS STROBUS ‘HORSFORD DWARF’ H-30 cm. in
10 yrs. Dwarf, bun-shaped with short light green needles. Ideal for small gardens and troughs. Garden origin. $15.00 |
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| 4255 | PINUS STROBUS ‘SEA URCHIN’ H-20 cm. An extremely dwarf white pine with short light blue needles with a dense, bun-shaped form. Very hardy and ideal for troughs. Garden origin. $15.00 |
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| 4227 | POLYGALA CHAMAEBUXUS ‘KAMNISKI’ H-20 cm. A larger more robust form with bright purple-yellow flowers in spring and often again in late summer. Give it some shade in the rock garden. Garden origin. $6.00 |
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| 4240 | SALIX ARCTICA H-12 cm. A dwarf alpine willow with prostrate rooting branchlets of yellowish- green forming loose mats. Leaves are highly variable in shape & size depending on distinct populations. Our plants are from wild collected seed with leaves more or less broadly ovate and slightly elliptical. Glossy when young, grey-green with white hairs as they mature. Another highly desirable species. Labrador, Canada. $10.00 |
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| 4256 | SALIX CALCICOLA H-10 cm. The Limestone Willow is a spreading, low growing shrub with ascending branchlets. Hairy when juvenile becoming thick and shiny, yellow-brown to red-brown with many bud scars as they mature. Leaves are thick, broadly-ovate, minutely toothed that have a remarkable fleeciness to them when they unfurl in spring. This exceptional, slow growing willow is distinguished by its long upright catkins. It forms small thickets on calcareous, wet, stony areas or cliffs. Rare! Newfoundland, Canada. $15.00 |
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| 4257 | SALIX JEJUNA H-2-4 cm. The Barrens Willow, is an exquisite and very rare dwarf willow endemic to north-western Newfoundland where it is found in few locations, notably Strait of Belle Isle. This jewel of a shrub grows on coastal limestone barrens and exists under extreme arctic-like conditions. It forms small mats of red-brown stems rooting as they crawl and often with secondary branchlets. shooting upwards from underground. Diminutive spoon-shaped leaves, lustrous with distinct veination. Best in poor gravelly soils with added limestone. Newfoundland, Canada. $15.00 |
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| 4232 | SALIX RETICULATA H-6 cm. Dense mats of trailing stems and net-veined lustrous leaves followed by showy catkins. A stunning dwarf willow. Newfoundland, Canada. $8.00 |
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| 4233 | SALIX UVA URSI H-3-4 cm. Our selection from Newfoundland found in moist calcareous rocks. This dwarf alpine species has a flat and branching habit to about 30 cm. wide. Short, slender, ascending dark brown branchlets with elliptic dark glossy leaves and slender catkins. A superb rock garden shrub. Newfoundland, Canada. $8.00 |
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| 4234 | SALIX VESTITA H-20 cm. A glorious alpine species with ascending gnarled, rough branchlets. Leaf surface like S. reticulata but undersides are lined with dense white silky down. Very distinct bud hues. In Newfoundland, depending where they grow, the bud color ranges from vivid reds, flaming oranges to muted yellows. Grows in limestone barrens where there is some moisture. Newfoundland, Canada. $8.00 |
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| 4241 | 4241 SPIRAEA DECUMBENS H-15-25 cm. A tiny shrub of semi-prostrate habit. Wiry stems are clothed with oblong serrated green leaves and capped with tiny white-flowered flat heads in late spring. This deciduous mat-forming shrub is ideal for the small rock garden. Shear lightly after bloom to shape and encourage re-bloom. Alps. $5.00 |
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