Beth's Favorite Shrubs and Vines

(? = Evergreen)

SHRUBS
?Abelia

Aesculus parviflora – Bottlebrush Buckeye

?Aucuba – Gold Dust Plant

?Azalea (Rhododendron) – Azalea
(any Girard hybrid)

Berberis – Barberry
(esp. ‘Crimson Pygmy’, ‘Rosy Glow’
‘x g. ‘William Penn’ – I love it!)

Buddleia – Butterfly Bush
(esp. ‘Black Knight’)

?Buxus – Boxwood
(all – esp. sempervirens – Common,
American, or English Boxwood, s.
‘Suffructicosa’ or Dwarf English Boxwood
-the variegated form is great, but hard to
find-, microphylla – Littleleaf Boxwood,
‘Winter Gem’, x ‘Green Gem’, ‘Green
Mountain’, ‘Green Velvet’)

Calycanthus floridus – Carolina Allspice

?Camellia – (Hardy Types)

Clethra alnifolia – Summersweet

Cotinus coggygria – Common Smoketree
(esp. ‘Royal Purple’)

Euonymus alatus ‘Compactus’ – Burning Bush

Fothergilla- Fothergilla

Hydrangea arborescens - Smooth Leaf
Hydrangea (esp. ‘Annabelle’)

Hydrangea paniculata – Pee Gee Hydrangea
(esp. ‘Grandiflora’ & ‘Tardiva’)

Hydrangea quercifolia – Oakleaf Hydrangea
(all)

Ilex decidua - Possumhaw
(esp. ‘Warren’s Red’)

?Ilex glabra – Inkberry
(esp. ‘Shamrock’)

?Ilex opaca – American Holly

Ilex verticillata – Winterberry
(esp. ‘Red Sprite’ & ‘Winter Red’)

Ilex serrata x Ilex verticillata
(esp. ‘Sparkleberry’)

?Ilex x attenuata ‘Fosteri’ – Foster Holly
(great plant)

?Ilex x meserveae – China and Blue Hollies
(all – esp. the Chinas)

?Ilex x ‘Nellie R. Stevens’ – Nellie R. Stevens
Holly

Itea

?Kalmia latifolia – Mountain Laurel
(be careful)

Lagerstroemia – Crepe Myrtle
(esp. – many. Check cultivars for winter hardiness.)

?Mahonia bealei – Leatherleaf Mahonia

?Nandina domestica - Heavenly Bamboo
Nandina (esp. ‘Harbour Dwarf’ & ‘Plum
Passion’ and ‘Compacta’)

?Picea pungens – Blue Spruce
(esp. ‘Fat Albert’, ‘Globosa’, ‘Montgomery’)

?Pinus mugo – Mugo Pine
(esp. named dwarf forms)

?Prunus caroliniana – Carolina Cherry Laurel
(esp. ‘Bright N Tight’)

?Prunus laurocerasus – English Laurel
(esp. ‘Mt. Vernon’, ‘Otto Luyken’, &
‘Schipkaensis’ or Schip)

Rosa – Rose (esp. disease resistant shrub types)

Spiraea – Spiraea
(esp. ‘Goldmound’, ‘Limemound’, ‘Anthony
Waterer’ and many others)

?Taxus – Yew
(all – esp. ‘Capitata’, ‘Densiformis’, ‘Hicksii’)

?Thuja occidentalis – Arborvitae
(esp. ‘Emerald’)

Viburnum – Snowball Bush
(esp. carlesii – Koreanspice, ‘Juddii’,
plicatum var. tomentosum- doublefile,
x r. ‘Allegheny’)

?Yucca – Yucca

VINES
Clematis – Clematis
(esp. Montana var. rubens
terniflora – Sweetautumn
and many, many, named cultivars)

Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris –
Climbing Hydrangea

Polygonum aubertii – Silver Lace Vine

Wisteria – Wisteria
(all)

Also – most ivy, moonflower, morning glory, honeysuckle, and Jackson vine.