Time of Blooming 
(In approximate order) 
April 
Willows 
Buffalo berry 
Forsythia 
Garland Spirea 
Fl. Almond 
Fl. Currant 
Siberian Pea 
Fl. Quince 
Plums 
Cherries 
Apples 
Double Spirea 
May 
Lilacs 
Bird Cherry 
Nanking- Cherry 
Honeysuckles 
Flowering Crabs 
Wayfaring bush 
Hawthorns 
Spirea V. H. 
Thimbleberry 
Native Clematis 
Max. Honeysuckle 
Pearl bush 
Yellow shrub roses 
Snowball 
Low Ninebark 
Nannyberry 
Mountain Ash 
Beauty bush 
June 
Pink shrub roses 
Late lilacs 
Korean Spirea 
Chokecherry 
Rose-acacia 
Jetbead 
Dogwood 
Ninebark 
Cotoneaster 
High bush cranberry 
Bladder Senna 
Russian Olive 
Climbing Roses 
Shrubby Cinquefoil 
Elderberry 
Rock Spirea 
Amorpha nana 
Wisteria 
Buckthorn 
Mock Orange 
Euonymus 
Privet 
Arrowwood 
July 
Frobel Spirea 
Jap. Lilac 
Tamarix 
Amorpha 
Late Honeysuckle 
Catalpa 
Sorbaria 
Billiard Spirea 
August 
Varnish tree 
Leadplant 
Silverlace Vine 
Butterfly bush 
Althea 
Tender Roses 
Large Fl. Clematis 
Mallow Marvel 
Desmodium 
Genista 
Aralia 
Honeysuckle vines 
Trumpet Vine 
Hydrangea 
False spirea 
Autumn Clematis 
September 
(Ornamental Fruit) 
Hawthorn 
Roses 
Privet 
Sumac 
Cranberry bush 
Snowberry 
Coralberry 
Barberry 
Euonymus 
Cotoneaster 
Englemann Ivy 
Bittersweet 
Russian Olive 
Fruits Attractive to Birds 
Barberry 
Bird Cherry 
Black Cherry 
Buckthorn 
Buffaloberry 
Chokecherry 
Coralberry 
Cotoneaster 
Crabs 
Currants 
Dogwood 
Elderberry 
Euonymus 
Englemann Ivy 
Flowering Crab 
Gooseberry 
Hackberry 
Hercules Club 
Honeysuckles 
Hawthorn 
Juniper 
Mountain Ash 
Mulberry 
Nanking Cherry 
Ninebark 
Plums 
Privet 
Roses 
Russian Olive 
Sand Cherry 
Snowberry 
Sumac 
Thimbleberry 
Viburnums 
Wild Grapes 
Wild Plums 
Useful for Their Winter Color Effects 
Junipers, Pines, Spruce and Firs with evergreen foliage. 
Dogwood, Meadow Rose and Wild Rose with red stems. 
Coralberry, Barberry .Hawthorn, Cranberrybush and Roses for 
their persistent red fruits, 
Cotoneaster and Buckthorn with black berries, 
Snowberry with white berries. 
Privet, Honeysuckle vine and Euonymus vine with partly evergreen 
leaves. 
Siberian Pea, Forsythia and Euonymus for green stems. 
Russian Olive for gray berries and stems. 
Mountain Birch and Bird Cherry with smooth red-brown bark. 
Blue-stem Willow with blue-gray stems. 
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