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Summer blooming shrubs

My favorite hardy, mid-summer blooming shrub is Daphne arbuscula.  It
blooms in spring, summer and fall.  It is an attractive mound about the
size of a restrained creeping phlox.  It is hardy to at least zone 5.
It does great in a large trough.  Daphne x "Lawrence Crocker"  is
another, slightly larger variety.  
Daphne jasminea is almost as hardy, a very restrainded bonsai-like shrub
perfect for a trough. 
Daphne petraea, the queen of the species is also very hardy provided it
it grafted onto a hardy species of Daphne.
Somewhat like a miniature D. arbuscula, it is a native of the Czech
republic (?).
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Frank Cooper 
Urbana, Il. 
Zone 5-b, min temp -15°F; -26°C 
Very little snow cover.  Hot weather very humid, 70%, upper 60's to
lower 90's.Rain evenly distributed throught the year, 30". 
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