01 Berberis thunbergii ‘Rose Glow’
- common name: Japanese berberis
- family name: Berberidaceae
- Quick ID: new leaf: small, 1cm long; old leaf: big, 3 cmd long. spots on leaves
- Useful cultivars and selections: ‘Rose Glow’
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3 to 7
- Mature height and spread: Height: 3-6ft/4-7ft
- Form: de.sh
- Water use: Dry to Medium
- Soil requirements: average, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade
- Leaf arrangement: alternate
- Flower/cone/fruit description(s): insignificant flower, fruit showy, red
- Limitations: No serious problems. Some susceptibility to bacterial leaf spotanthracnose, root rots, wilt, aphids, barberry webworm and scale.
- Fall colour: Red and green
- Suitable uses: berrier, hedge
02 Brachyglottis ‘SunshineShrub – De.
- Common name: daisy bush
- Family name: Asteraceae
- Quick ID:white leaf margin (fuzzy leaf back)
- Useful cultivars and selections: ‘Sunshine’
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 8-10
- Mature height and spread: 1m
- Form: ev. sh.
- Water use: medium
- Soil requirements: well-drained
- Leaf arrangement: alternate
- Flower/cone/fruit description(s): showy yellow flowers like daisy
- Limitations: ugly seed, not hardy
- Fall colour: green
- Suitable uses: flower border
03 Ceanothus ‘Victoria’
- Common name: California lilac
- Family name: Rhamnaceae
- Quick ID: Leaves curl over. upright leaves and branches
- Useful cultivars and selections: ‘Victoria’
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 7-9
- Mature height and spread: 1m
- Form: ev.sh.
- Water use: medium
- Soil requirements: well-drained
- Leaf arrangement: alternate
- Flower/cone/fruit description(s): :blue , flower. Red/black capsular fruit . late spring flowers
- Limitations: prune after flowers; will grow big
- Fall colour: green
- Suitable uses: borders
04 Choisya ternata
- common name: Mexican orange
- family name: Rutaceae
- Quick ID description: 3-lobed palmate leaf, trifolius
- Useful cultivars and selections:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 8
- Mature height and spread: 1m
- Form: ev. sh.
- Water use: medium
- Soil requirements: well-drained, full sun to part shade
- Leaf arrangement: opposite
- Flower/cone/fruit description(s): sweet smell
- Limitations: not hardy
- Fall colour: green
- Suitable uses: specimen, hedge, containers
05 Cotoneaster dammeri ‘Lowfast’
- common name: Bearberry Cotoneaster
- family name: Rosaceae
- Quick ID description
Evergreen, fast growing ground cover with oval, glossy, bright green leaves and bright red fruit
- Useful cultivars and selections: ‘Lowfast’
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 6-8
- Mature height and spread: 1m
- Form: de. sh.
- Water use: low
- Soil requirements: no
- Leaf arrangement: alternate
- Flower/cone/fruit description(s): red fruit
- Limitations: not tidy, need pruning
- Fall colour: green
- Suitable uses: ground cover on slopes
06 Cotinus coggygria
- Common name: Smoke tree, smoke bush
- Family name: Anacardiaceae
- Quick ID description: flower and fruit on the shrub like smoke
- Useful cultivars and selections: ‘Royal purple’
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 5
- Mature height and spread: 4-8m
- Form: de. tr.
- Water use: low
- Soil requirements: well-drained
- Leaf arrangement: alternate
- Flower/cone/fruit description(s): like smoke, varied in colours
- Limitations: need well-drained soil, desease
- Fall colour: yellow to purple
- Suitable uses: ornamental plant for fall colour
07 Erica carnea
- Common name: winter heath
- Family name: Ericaceae
- Quick ID description: needle-like leaf 1*6mm
- Useful cultivars and selections: ‘Springwood Pink’
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 5-7
- Mature height and spread: 30cm
- Form: ev. sh.
- Water use: medium
- Soil requirements: well-drained
- Leaf arrangement: alternate
- Flower/cone/fruit description(s): small, yellow flowers 1mm
- Limitations: full sun
- Fall colour: green
- Suitable uses: ground cover
08 Escallonia x exoniensis ‘Fradesii’
- Common name: Escallonia, Pink Princess Escallonia
- Family name: allonGrossulariaceaeink Princ
- Quick ID:
leaf 3-4cam, teeth on the top half of the leaves
- Useful cultivars and selections:’ Fradesii’
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 7-9
- Mature height and spread: 1.8m
- Form: ev. sh.
- Water use: medium
- Soil requirements: well-drained
- Leaf arrangement: alternate
- Flower/cone/fruit description(s): tubular flowers on the tip of the branches
- Limitations: tender
- Fall colour: green
- Suitable uses: border
09 Hebe ‘Blue Mist’
- common name Blue Mist hebe
- family name Plantaginaceae
- Quick ID description: biggest leaf
Distinctive flowers; glossy textured boardleaves
- Useful cultivars and selections:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 8
- Mature height and spread: 1m
- Form: ev. sh.
- Water use: medium
- Soil requirements: moisture!
- Leaf arrangement: opposite
- Flower/cone/fruit description(s): blue flowers in clusters
- Limitations: need irrigation
- Fall colour: green
- Suitable uses: rock gardens
10 Hebe ‘Emerald Gem’
- evergreen shrub
- Common name: hebe ‘Green Globe’
- Family name: Plantaginaceae
- Quick ID: smallest leaves, like conifers
- Useful cultivars and selections:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 6
- Mature height and spread: 0.3m
- Form: ev. sh.
- Water use: medium
- Soil requirements: moisture!
- Leaf arrangement: opposite
- Flower/cone/fruit description(s):
- Limitations: need irrigation
- Fall colour: green
- Suitable uses: rock gardens, along paths, grown on slopes
11 Hebe rupicola
- Common name: rock hebe
- Family name: Plantaginaceae
- Quick ID: longer leaves
- Useful cultivars and selections:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 6
- Mature height and spread: 1m
- Form: ev. sh.
- Water use: medium
- Soil requirements: moisture!
- Leaf arrangement: opposite
- Flower/cone/fruit description(s):
- Limitations: need irrigation
- Fall colour: green
- Suitable uses: rock gardens
12 Hebe topiaria
- evergreen shrub
- Common name: topiarist’s hebe
- Family name: Plantaginaceae
- Quick ID: round leaves
- Useful cultivars and selections:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 6
- Mature height and spread: 1m
- Form: ev. sh.
- Water use: medium
- Soil requirements: moisture!
- Leaf arrangement: opposite
- Flower/cone/fruit description(s):
- Limitations: need irrigation
- Fall colour: green
- Suitable uses: rock gardens
13 Lavandula angustifolia
- Common name: English lavender
- Family name: Lamiaceae
- Quick ID description: special smell
- Useful cultivars and selections: ‘Hidcote’
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 5 to 8
- Mature height and spread: 1-1-5 ft
- Form: ev. sh.
- Water use: Dry to medium
- Soil requirements: average, dry to medium, well-drained, alkaline soil
- Leaf arrangement: opposite
- Flower/cone/fruit description(s): Flower: Showy, Fragrant
- Limitations:
- Fall colour: Fall color is unremarkable.
- Suitable uses: edge
14 Magnolia virginiana
- Common name: sweetbay magnolia
- Family name: Magnoliaceae
- Quick ID: leafback white, entire leaf margin
- Useful cultivars and selections:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 5
- Mature height and spread: 6m
- Form: ev. tr.
- Water use: medium
- Soil requirements: well-drained
- Leaf arrangement: alternate
- Flower/cone/fruit description(s): flower in smell like honey
- Limitations: easy to break
- Fall colour: green
- Suitable uses: flowering tree
15 Metasequoia glyptostroboides
- Common name: dawn redwood
- Family name: Cupressaceae
- Quick ID: 2*1.5mm opposite leaves
- Useful cultivars and selections:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 5-8
- Mature height and spread: 30m
- Form: de. tr. con.
- Water use: medium
- Soil requirements: full sun
- Leaf arrangement: opposite
- Flower/cone/fruit description(s): fruits: 0.3cm
- Limitations:
- Fall colour: green
- Suitable uses: big tree
16 Rosmarinus officinalis
- Common name: rosemary
- Family name: Lamiaceae
- Quick ID: Evergreen. Shrub. Small leaves (2-5mm). Simple. Opposite. Linear.
- Useful cultivars and selections:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 8-10
- Mature height and spread: 2-6 ft
- Form: ev. sh.
- Water use: dry to medium
- Soil requirements: well-drained
- Leaf arrangement: alternate
- Flower/cone/fruit description(s):
- Limitations: Bacterial disease, blight, root rot
- Fall colour: green
- Suitable uses: rock gardens, dear problem
17 Rubus rolfei ‘Formosan Carpet’
- common name ：Formasan Carpet rubus, creeping Taiwan bramble
- family name ： Rosaceae
- Quick ID description
Very rugose (wrinkled) dark green leaves with 3-5 lobes.
- Useful cultivars and selections:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 7
- Mature height and spread: ground cover
- Form: ev. sh
- Water use: medium
- Soil requirements: moisture
- Leaf arrangement: alternate
- Flower/cone/fruit description(s):
- Limitations: tender
- Fall colour: green
- Suitable uses: ground cover
18 Sarcococca hookeriana var. humilis
- common name ：dwarf sweet box
- family name ：Buxaceae
- Quick ID description: pointy leaves
- Useful cultivars and selections:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 5
- Mature height and spread: 1m
- Form: ev. sh.
- Water use: medium
- Soil requirements: moisture
- Leaf arrangement: opposite and alternate
- Flower/cone/fruit description(s): fruit: black berry 0.8cm
- Limitations: need irrigation
- Fall colour: green
- Suitable uses: ground cover
19 Taxodium distichum var. distichum
- Common name: Swamp cypress
- Family name: Cupressaceae
- Quick ID description: Smaller leaves than metasequoia glyptostroboides.
- Useful cultivars and selections:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 5-9
- Mature height and spread: 20m
- Form: de. tr. con.
- Water use: medium
- Soil requirements: higher PH
- Leaf arrangement: opposite
- Flower/cone/fruit description(s):
- Limitations:
- Fall colour: green
- Suitable uses: near water
20 Taxodium distichum var. imbricarium
- Common name: pond cypress
- Family name: Cupressaceae
- Quick ID description: awl-like appressed leaves
- Useful cultivars and selections:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 5-9
- Mature height and spread: 20m
- Form: de. tr. con.
- Water use: medium
- Soil requirements: lower PH, can tolerate wet, compact soil
- Leaf arrangement: opposite
- Flower/cone/fruit description(s):
- Limitations: full sun
- Fall colour: green
- Suitable uses: wet soil
