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SHRUBS FOR SUMMER BLOOM AND WINTER COLOR 



Height 

 Time Common Name Botanical Name Color Feet 



April Golden bell Forsythia yellow 8 



Spiraea Thunbergii . .white 4-6 



May Japanese quince Cydonia Japonica scarlet 3-6 



Flowering almond . ..Amygdalus nana pink 5 



Red-fruited elder . . . Sambucus pubens white 10 



Tartarian honeysuckle Lonicera Tartarica ..pink or white ... 28 



Common lilac Syringa vulgaris ....purple or white.. 10 



Double-flowering 



plum pink 8 



June European privet Ligustrum vulgare ..white (black ber- 

 ries) 10 



Old blush rose ,. . . . flesh pink 6 



Sweetbrier Rosa rubiginosa pink 4 



Hybrid perpetual 

 rose red, white or pink. 2-3 



Snowball Viburnum sterilis ..white 10 



Snowberry Symphoricarpus race- 



mosus pink 5 



Sweet-scented shrub. .Calycanthus dark red 6 



Bridal wreath Spiraea hypericifolia. .white 6 



Golden spirea Spiraea aurea white 8 



Wahoo or burning Euonymus atropur- 

 bush pureus purple 15 



Staghorn sumac Rhus typhina greenish yellow . .20 



Mock orange Philadelphus or sy- 



ringa white 8 



Tamarisk Tamarix pink 5 



Early white vibur- 

 num Viburnum lantana . . .white 8 



Weigelas Weigelia pink 6 



Golden flowering 

 currant Ribes aureum yellow 8 



Japanese barberry ...Berberis Japonica ...red or yellow... 4 



