Shrubs for City Yards

Here's a list of Shrubs suitable for City yards.

As when you were deciding on which trees to plant in your yard, the same considerations should be made when deciding shrubs.

•  the various branching forms (arching - caragana; straight - dogwood; airy, open - lilac; dense - evergreen.)
• different shapes such as upright, vase, round, oval, pyramidal, columnar.
• characteristic colored bark (copper, white, reddish, or yellow) and varying textures (rough, peeling or smooth bark surfaces). Even evergreens have different colored ‘leaves’ ('Blue Globe' versus 'Gold Coast' junipers).

Coniferous Shrubs
⦁    Juniper- upright-‘Cologreen’, ‘Medora’, ‘Wichita’, ‘Skyrocket’, ‘Blue Arrow’
⦁                   -spreading- ‘gold Coast’, ‘Calgary Carpet’, ‘Blue Danube’, ‘Arcadia’
⦁    Pine- mugo ‘Mops’, ‘Pumilo’
⦁    Spruce- ‘Blue Globe’




Deciduous Shrubs
⦁    Burning Bush-'Dwarf Turkestan', 'Dwarf Winged'
⦁    Caragana- 'Walkers Weeping', 'Globe', 'Pygmy'
⦁    Cotoneaster-'Hedge'
⦁    Cranberry-'American Highbush', 'Dwarf European', 'Dwarf   Cranberry','Wentworth'                                                                         
⦁    Currant- 'Alpine'
⦁    Dogwood- 'Yellow Twig', 'Red Osier', 'Variegated', 'Golden Variegated'
⦁    Elder- 'Golden', 'Black Beauty', 'Red Berried'
⦁    Honeysuckle-'Arold's Red'   
⦁    Lilac-‘Miss Kim’, ‘Miss Canada’, ‘Pocahontas’, 'Dwarf Korean'
⦁    Mockorange-'Wateron'
⦁    Ninebark-'Darts Gold', 'Diabolo', 'Coppertina'
⦁    Plum (ornamental)- ‘Nanking Cherry’, ‘Double Flowering Plum’
⦁    Potentilla-'Abbotswood', 'Pink Beauty', 'Gold Finger','Katherine Dykes'
⦁    Spirea- 'Goldflame', 'Frobelii', 'Three Lobed', Shirobana', 'Bridal Wreath'
⦁    Sumac-‘Gro-Low’, ‘Cutleaf’ ‘Staghorn’, ‘Three Leaf’
⦁    Rose-'Adelaide Hoodless', 'Morden varieties', Therese Bugnet', 'Blanc Double de       Courbert', Pink Grootendorst', 'Topaz Jewel', Hansa Japanese', Winnipeg Parks'
              - climbing- 'John Cabot', 'William Baffin', 'John Davis'   
⦁    Willow-'Blue Fox', 'Purple Osier' (Dwarf Artic)

photos-Calgary Carpet Juniper: www.greentreelandscapes.com

            -Wichita Upright Juniper: www.plants-unlimited.com
            - Golen Variegated Dogwood: www.mesarbustes.fr
             Dwarf Korean Lilac: www.hortulus.com.1
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Trees for City Yards

As you are deciding what trees to plant in your yard, some things you should consider are:

•  the various branching forms (arching - weeping birch; straight - lilac; airy, open - maple; dense - evergreen.)
• different shapes such as upright, vase, round, oval, pyramidal, columnar.
• characteristic colored bark (copper, white, reddish, or yellow) and varying textures (rough, peeling or smooth bark surfaces). Even evergreens have different colored ‘leaves’ (blue spruce versus forest green junipers).

                                          with mature height (h) and width (w)

Coniferous Trees
Cedar- ‘Brandon’ (h=15' w=4'),
           - 'Techny’ (h=13', w=4')
Pine- Columnar Scots Pine ‘Fastigiata’(h=20',w=4')
        -Swiss Stone Pine(h=33',w=13')
Spruce- ‘Fat Albert’ (h=33',w=13-16'),
             -Columnar Blue ‘Fastigiata’ (h=15',w=13-16')
            - Montgomery’ (h=9',w=6')

 Deciduous Trees
Birch-‘Young’s weeping’h=13',w=13')
Caragana- ‘Sutherland’ (h=13',w=5')
Crabapple- ‘Strathmore’(h=16',w=13')
                  -‘Thunderchild’ (h=16',w=13')
                  -‘Royalty’ (16',w=16')
Crabapple -weeping-‘Red Jade’ (h=13',w=13')
                                 - Royal Beauty’(h=13',w=5')
                 -columnar- ‘Dream Weaver’ (h=10',w=3.25')
,                                 - ‘Siberian Crab-Columnaris' (h=23',w=7')
Hawthorn- ‘Snowbird’ (h=16'',w=13')
                - ‘Toba’ (h=16',w=13')
Lilac-‘Japanese Lilac Tree’ (h=20',w=12')
Maple- 'Baileys Compact Amur Maple (h=15',w=12')
Mountain Ash- 'American' (h=25',w=16')
                        -Columnar Mountain Ash ‘Fastigiata’ (h=20',w=7')
Nanyberry (h=10',w=7')
Plum (fruit)-‘Brookred’(h=15',w=12')
Plum (ornamental)- ‘Shubert Chokecherry’ (h=20',w=13')
                              - ‘Western Chokecherry’ (h=16',w=13')
Poplar-Swedish Columnar Aspen (h=40',w=4')
Sea Buckthorn (h=12',w=12')

photos:
Fat Albert Spruce :www.plants-unlimited.com
Swiss Stone Pine:www.ces.ncsu.edu
Baileys Compact Amur Maple: www.bronandsons
Japanese LilacTree: www.mobot.org

Flowers to Attract Hummingbirds and Butterflies

 Some perennials that attract hummingbirds are:

• beebalm
• hollyhock
• delphinium
• daylily
• foxglove
• lily
• monkshood

photos-beebalm: www.heronswood.com
           -daylily: www.dutchgardens.com
           -foxglove: www.cottage-gardens.net

Perennials that attract butterflies are ones that are suitable for sunny locations, as the butterflies need the suns heat to help them fly. Some of these are:

• gaillardia
• goldenrod
• beebalm
• black eyed susan
• aster
• rockcress
• joe pye weed
• zinnia
• salvia 
 

Photos: gaillardia: pics.davesgarden.com

             rock cress:www.seedman.com

            salvia:www.gardensoftheblueridge.com