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Re: Wanting winter interest plants

Mahonia Charity is in its full-glory here. Pink almost luminous berries of
the spindle last well and brighten up the hedgerows as I drive to work on
dreary days ... perhaps these are not really winter plants with you, but
thought I'd add my pennyworth  to an interesting thread. I also love the
rustle of Miscathus sacchiflorius, even after the green has gone from it,
which isn't yet.
markspkn@iol.ie
Galway, Ireland.
  

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: From: Franklin F. Simpson <frank@bedford.progress.com>
: To: woodyplants@mallorn.com
: Subject: Re: Wanting winter interest plants
: Date: 14 November 1997 03:53
: 
: Some nice ones (some mentioned before):
: 
: Acer pensylvanicum 'Erythrocladum'
: Acer rufinerve 'Winter Gold'
: Cornus sericea 'Midwinter beauty'
: Fagus sylvatica 'Tortuosa' (also Contorta etc.)
: Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula' (also Miltonensis, etc.)
: Stewartia (several)
: Betula albo-sinensis
: Salix m. Golden Curls (also Scarlet Curls)
: Robinia psuedoacacia 'Tortuosa'
: Rhododendron 'Thunderhead' (very dark read in winter)
: Pinus sylvestris 'Aurea'
: Pinus mugo 'Wintergold'
: Ulmus glabra 'Camperdowni'
: Ilex x Sparkleberry and others deciduous hollies
: Acer palmatum Sangu Kaku
: Platanus occidentalis
: Lindera angustifolia
: ghost brambles
: 
: subtle but nice-
:     Cornus controversa and alternifolia
:     Vaccinium corumbosum
:     Magnolia stellata (for the buds and bark)
: 
: All hardy in Z5 (some people have trouble with Sangu Kaku - I like
: Erythrocladum better if you can find it and it's very hardy.)
: 
: -----Original Message-----
: From: Christopher P. Lindsey <lindsey@mallorn.com>
: To: woodyplants@mallorn.com <woodyplants@mallorn.com>
: Date: Wednesday, November 12, 1997 11:38 AM
: Subject: Wanting winter interest plants
: 
: 
: >Here in zone 5b USDA (Urbana, Illinois) we've still got some color left
on
: >the trees.  Across the street from my window here at work a burning bush
: >is still glowing bright red, but the amelanchier 5 feet out doesn't
: >have any more leaves left on it.
: >
: >I know that in another month things are going to be depressing as most
: >of the color leaves the landscape.
: >
: >Does anyone have preferred tree or shrub selections for winter interest?
: >Even something as subtle as the dried flower panicles of a bottlebrush
: >buckeye sticking out of the snow is appreciated.
: >
: >So what about it?  Who has favorites that have interesting bark
highlighted
: >by the cold winter months?  What about persistent fruit or winter
flowers?
: >
: >Chris
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