Selected Plants

Here are some selected plants to supplement those featured in UMass Extension's 2008 Garden Calendar:

Perennials for the Cutting Garden
Aster (Aster)
Astilbe (Astilbe)
Baby’s Breath (Gypsophila)
Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia)
Bleeding Heart (Dicentra spectabilis)
Coreopsis (Coreopsis grandiflora)
Daylily (Hemerocallis)
Delphinium (Delphinium)
Iris (Iris)
Lavender (Lavandula)
Pinks (Dianthus)
Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
Salvia (Salvia x superba)
Scabiosa (Scabiosa)
Veronica (Veronica)
Yarrow (Achillea)

Foliage Plants for the Perennial Garden
Bergenia (Bergenia)
Coral bells (Heuchera micrantha)
Hosta (Hosta)
Japanese painted fern (Athyrium)
Lady's mantle (Alchemilla mollis)
Lamb’s ears (Stachys)
Maidenhair fern (Adiantum pedatum)
Rue (Ruta graveolens )
Russian sage (Perovskia atriplicifolia)
Sea holly (Eryngium)
Silver mound (Artemesia schmidtiana)
Snow-in-summer (Cerastium tomentosum)
Yarrow (Achillea)

Plants for Stone Walls
Basket-of-gold (Aurinia saxatilis)
Candytuft (Iberis sempervirens)
Carpathian bellflower (Campanula carpatica)
Columbine (Aquilegia alpine)
Creeping baby’s breath (Gypsophila repens)
False rockcress (Aubrieta deltoidea)
Hens-and-chickens (Echeveria)
Red valerian (Centranthus ruber)
Rockcress (Arabis caucasica)
Saxifrage (Saxifraga)
Stonecress (Aethionema)
Thyme (Thymus)

Trees and Shrubs for Fall Color
American highbush cranberry (Viburnum trilobum)
American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana)
Birch (Betula species)
Common witchhazel (Hamamelis virginiana)
Cranberry cotoneaster (Cotoneaster apiculatus )
Doublefile viburnum (Viburnum plicatum var. tomentosum)
Dwarf fothergilla (Fothergilla gardenia)
Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)
Highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)
Red chokeberry (Aronia arbutifolia)
Red maple (Acer rubrum)
Serviceberry (Amelanchier arborea)

Trees with Interesting Bark Patterns and Color:
Amur Chokecherry (Prunus maackii)
Chinese lacebark elm (Ulmus parvifolia)
Heritage® River Birch (Betula nigra Heritage®)
Lacebark pine (Pinus bungeana)
Paper birch (Betula papyrifera)
Paperbark maple (Acer griseum)
Japanese stewartia (Stewartia pseudocamellia)
Sargent cherry (Prunus sargentii)
Striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum)
Yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis)

Trees and Shrubs with Attractive Fall Fruit:
Bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica)
Chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa)
Crabapple (Malus sp.)
Malus ‘Donald Wyman’
M. sargentii
Firethorn (Pyracantha sp.)

Hollies (Ilex species)

• Ilex glabra
• Ilex x merserveae
• Ilex verticillata
• Ilex ‘Sparkleberry’

Viburnums (Viburnum species.)

• V. trilobum
• V. dilatatum

Winter King hawthorn ( Crataegus viridis ‘Winter King’)

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