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Reply Re: Privacy Hedge, LONG - PART IV

PART IV

(Summer fruiting plants, continued)
---Sambucus canadensis (Elderberry -- American Elder).  This is native to
our area -- mine just appeared one day.  Stoloniferous, multistemmed, fast
growing, deciduous shrub.  has flat-topped cymes of white flowers up to 10"
wide in profusion followed by blue-black berries that make Elderberry wine
or jelly and the birds love them.  They tend to arch out and when mine try
to take up too much room, I give them a severe haircut.  Can get from 5' to
10' tall.  Probably get taller if the soil stays moist.  Hardy USDA z. 3-9.
 There are several cultivars:  'Aurea' has yellow foliage and red fruit;
'Rubra' has red fruit and there are others.  Flowers around June-July.
---Vaccinium corymbosum (Highbush Blueberry) -- Deciduous shrub, 6' to 12'
tall x 8' - 12' spread.  Needs acid soil conditions.  Hardy USDA z. 3-7(8) 
Has white flowers in spring, blue-black edible berry in late summer, good
fall color.
---Prunus maackii (Amur Chokecherry) -- Deciduous, rapid growing small
tree; height: 20-30'; width: 18-25'; very attractive smooth copper colored
bark.  Long clusters of small white flowers in spring. Mature fruit; small,
black cherry.  Hardy to USDA z.3a 

* Fall-Fruiting Plants

---Cornus florida (Dogwood) -- Small tree to 20' - 30' with same or greater
spread, attractive in all seasons;  white flower (bract) in spring before
leaf out; red berry in early fall eaten by birds and squirrels.  Really
prefers partial shade to full sun in our area, where it is a native
understory tree of our woodlands.  Can be grown in full sun, but needs
extra care and watering IMO.  Hardy to USDA z. 5.
---Cotoneaster species.  -- Deciduous, evergreen and semi-evergreen.  There
are a number of species and cultivars in a range of sizes from fast
spreading low ground-cover (C. salicifolius 'Scarlet Leader') to large
shrubs over 12' in height.  All produce small pink flowers in spring
followed by small, red or black fruit in fall..  Probably the best for what
you want would be:
--------C. divaricatus (Spreading Cotoneaster) --deciduous shrub with
arching, spreading branches. 5'to 6' high x 8' wide.  Can have excellent
fall color.  Red to dark red berries Sept. - Nov.  Hardy USDA z. 4-8.
--------C. horizontalis (Rock Cotoneaster) --Deciduous although in mild
winters is semi-evergreen for me.  Has neat fishbone pattern to the stem
formation and branches mound, spreading horizontally, sort of forming
tiers.  I've seen it used very effectively in the UK against a wall, pruned
so that the fishbone pattern is prominent.  Gets about 3' or so high (not
fast) by 5' or more in spread.  Small red berries late August through
October.
--- Ilex verticillata (Winterberry, Coralberry, Michigan Holly, Black
Alder) -- Deciduous shrub 6' - 10' high with similar spread.  Hardy USDA z.
3-9.  Needs both male and female plants to set fruit which is an orange to
red berry -- late August - Sept.  There are numerous cultivars.  One of the
best known is 'Sparkleberry' which gets to 12' high and has lots of berries
that hold into the winter.  'Appollo' is the male form for pollination.

(Continued and ended in Part V)

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
Editor:  Gardening in Shade
http://www.suite101.com

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> From: RobsGardn@aol.com
> Date: Monday, August 11, 1997 8:03 AM
> 
> I would like the area to be somewhere in the area of 40'x40' to 30'x50'.
I
> plan on using the hedge as a year 'round divider, with perennials such as
> butterfly bush and cone flower to highlight the area as well as attract
birds
> and butterflies. If the you can suggest a mixed hedge, I would be very
> interested in it. As I said, I don't want to look too stiff, just have an
> area in my back yard that that is "protected" all year.
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