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Friday, March 15, 2013

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American Beachgrass

Plants to Know - Cornelian Cherry

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Just a reminder - Both our sales yards can use your loads of woodchips. Bring them over during business hours (7am-4:30pm) or call either yard to make other arrangements.

Color Starved?

Blue Ensign Lungwort

Head inside one of the perennial houses and look for this beauty - Blue Ensign Lungwort Pulmonaria saccharata . What a blue! The flowers open before the foliage. An early spring bloomer that makes anyone smile!

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Salix melanostachys - Black Pussy Willow

Attention Specimen Tree Aficionados!

At center: Cherokee Brave Flowering Dogwood 5-5.5"

We have some stunning larger caliper ornamental trees that have landed with more on the way! For those of you looking for good size replacements for storm damaged plants, new construction, commercial sites and established residences, consider these more mature trees for your discerning customers. Please keep in mind that quantities are limited.

Common	Botanical	Size
	Newtown
Paperbark Maple	Acer griseum	5-5.5"
Crimson King Maple	Acer platanoides 'Crimson King'	6"
River Birch	Betula nigra 'Dura Heat' single stem	5.5 -6"
River Birch	Betula nigra 'Heritage' clump	18-20'
European Hornbeam	Carpinus betulus 'Fastigiata'	5-6"
Yellowwood	Cladrastis kentuckea	12-14'
Flowering Dogwood	Cornus florida 'Cherokee Brave'	5-6", 6-7"
Pink Dogwood	Cornus florida var. rubra	5-5.5"
Kousa Dogwood	Cornus kousa	6-7"
Cornelian Cherry	Cornus mas	6-8'
Hybrid Dogwood	Cornus x 'Aurora'	5-6"
Hybrid Dogwood	Cornus x 'Constellation'	6-7"
European Beech	Fagus sylvatica 'Dawyck'	5-6"
European Beech	Fagus sylvatica 'Purple Fountain'	4-4.5"
Swamp White Oak	Quercus bicolor	4.5-5"
Corkscrew Willow	Salix 'Scarlett Curls"	6-7"

	Watertown
Japanese Maple	Acer palmatum 'Bloodgood'	6/7' Spec
Wolf Eyes Dogwood	Cornus kousa 'Wolf Eyes'	4/5'
Purple Fountain Beech	Fagus sylvatica 'Purple Fountain	4-4.5"
Butterflies Magnolia	Magnolia x 'Butterflies'	6/7'
Weeping Cherry	Prunus subhirtella 'Pendula'	5-6"

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American Beachgrass
Ammophila breviligulata

Ammophila breviligulata

Our first flats of American Beachgrass have been transferred into the old P-1 ready for sale by April 1st. We have a very good supply of 50-cell flats which are convenient for your shoreline restoration projects, especially after last year's storms. Click to learn more about this hard working native grass and how to plant it.

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Plants to Know

Cornelian Cherry

Cornus mas - Deserving of more attention!

An under-used, early spring bloomer - Cornelian Cherry

Here's a subtle, yet eye catching tree that says spring is on its way! Cornelian Cherry is a small, low-branching tree that will fit into any landscape giving early interest that lasts for weeks. The yellow flowers are born in clusters and are very showy at a time when most plants are still waking up! Even when this tree is not in flower it has beautiful exfoliating bark giving it year-round interest. A nice idea near a front walkway.

Come take a look at our fresh stock of Cornus mas that are just coming into flower. It is a tree that could justifiably be used more often! Learn more from UCONN's Plant Database.

-Thanks Mark!

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Weekly Special
Kousa Dogwood - Cornus kousa

10% off 5 or more!

Kousa Dogwood - all sizes!

A small tree with year-round punch! Most of you know it by its later bloomtime and the larger red fruits as compared to our native Flowering Dogwood. But, don't forget, it will also develop interesting camouflage-like bark, making it a great plant for winter interest.

We have a great selection of all sizes - feel free to mix and match! Check them out this week!

Sale valid from Sat. March 16 - March 22

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Look what came in this week: Cherokee Sweetgum, Magestic Contorted Filbert, Wildfire Blackgum...

Dwarf Japanese Cutleaf Maples

Deciduous Trees and Shrubs

Acer griseum (Paperbark Maple)

A. palmatum dissectum (Dwarf Japanese Cutleaf Maple) 'Crimson Queen', 'Green Hornet', 'Red Dragon', 'Orangeola', 'Tamukeyama'

Acer palmatum (Upright Japanese Maple) 'Bloodgood', 'Emperor One'

Amelanchier x (Serviceberry) 'Autumn Brilliance' treeform

Aronia melanocarpa (Black Chokeberry)

Betula nigra (River Birch) 'Dura Heat'

Cercidiphylum japonicum (Japanese Katsura)

C. magnificum (Weeping Katsura) 'Pendula'

Cercis canadensis (Eastern Redbud)

C. canadensis 'Alba' (Eastern Whitebud)

Chionanthus virginicus (Fringe Tree)

Clethra alnifolia (Summersweet) 'Ruby Spice'

C. barbinervis (Japanese Clethra)

Cornus florida (Flowering Dogwood) 'Cherokee Sunset'

C. kousa (Kousa Dogwood) 'Wolf Eyes' variegated foliage

C. mas (Cornelian Cherry) 'Golden Glory'

C. x 'Ruth Ellen', 'Stellar Pink' (Hybrid Dogwood)

Corylus avellana (Harry Lauder's Walking Stick) 'Contorta', 'Red Majestic' deep burgundy foliage

Crataegus x 'Winter King' (Hawthorn)

Fagus grandifolia (American Beech)

F. sylvatica (European Beech) 'Dawyck' and 'Dawyck Purple'

A rare sight - Winter Red Winterberry & Arnold's Promise Witchhazel - just don't count on this combo occuring naturally! The birds would have devoured those berries weeks ago.

Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witchhazel)

Hibiscus syriacus (Rose of Sharon) tree form, pink, purple & white

Hydrangea paniculata (Panicle Hydrangea) 'Kyushu', 'Limelight', 'Tardiva'

H. quercifolia (Oakleaf Hydrangea) 'Alice'

Ilex verticillata (Winterberry) 'Winter Red'

Koelreuteria paniculata (Golden Raintree)

Liquidambar styraciflua (Sweetgum) 'Cherokee' An almost fruitless variety, and 'Slender Silhouette'

Liriodendron tulipifera (Tulip Tree)

Magnolia stellata 'Royal Star'

Myrica pensylvanica (Bayberry) a semi-evergreen native

Nyssa sylvatica (Black Gum) 'Wildfire'

Prunus cerasifera (Thundercloud Plum)

P. serrulata (Snow Goose Cherry)

Pyrus calleryana (Callery Pear) 'Bradford'

Quercus alba (White Oak)

Q. palustris (Pin Oak)

Q. rubra (Red Oak)

Q. x 'Regal Prince' Oak

Stewartia pseudo. (Japanese Stewartia)

Styrax japonica (Japanese Snowbell) 'Ryan's Weeping' limited

Syringa meyeri (Dwarf Korean Lilac) 'Palibin' standards

Ulmus americana (American Elm) 'Valley Forge'

U. parvifolia (Allee Lacebark Elm)

Viburnum carlesii (Korean Spice Viburnum) 'Aurora'

V. dentatum (Arrowwood Viburnum) 'Chicago Lustre'
V. nudum (Possumhaw Viburnum) 'Winterthur'

V. plicatum var. t. (Doublefile) 'Mariesii', 'Shasta'

V. x rhytidophylloides 'Alleghany'

Dwarf Hinoki Cypress Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Compacta'

Ornamental Evergreens

Cedrus atlantica 'Fastigiata' (Fastigiate Atlas Cedar)

Chamaecyparis obtusa (Hinoki Cypress) 'Compacta', 'Cripsii', 'Gracilis', 'Wells Special'

Juniperus virginiana (Eastern Red Cedar)

Picea abies 'Pendula' (Weeping Norway Spruce)

Pinus flexis (Limber Pine) 'Vanderwolf'

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Do you know where the word Salix comes from?

(There is an Irish connection!)

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Chuck and Darryl Newman
Planters' Choice Nursery