Vitex and Raion Add Cool Miidenniies Color 
quickly grow up to be big trees that cover the windows and 
smother the house. 
There are many fine plants that are naturally low-growing, 
spreading, compact, rounded, or semi-upright in maturity. 
They are in better taste, make excellent permanent plantings, 
don’t have to be rearranged or taken out every few years, re- 
quire no harsh pruning. Here are some of the best: 
Evergreens: Boxwood, Spreading and Dwarf Yews and Juni- 
pers, Leucothoe, Laurel-cherry, Inkberry, Dwarf Japanese and 
Box-leaf Holly, Wilson Rhododendron, Laurel, Dwarf Mugho 
Pine, Hinoki Cypress, Azaleas, Abelia, Pieris, Globe Arborvitae, 
Dwarf Biota; and of course the ground-cover plants like Myrtle, 
Pachysandra, Pachistima, English Ivy, Euaonymous, Daphne, and 
Heather. 
Deciduous: Floribunda Roses, Azaleas, Barberry, Bayberry, 
Warminster Broom, Cotoneaster, Dwarf Deutzias, Blue Hy- 
drangea, Regel Privet, Waterer Spirea, and Vitex. 
PLANTS FOR MIDSUMMER FLOWER BEAUTY 
Summer residents add materially to the pleasure of living on 
Cape Cod. 
Naturally they like trees, grounds, and gardens to be at their 
best in midsummer, while they may enjoy them. We natives, 
too, take pride in trying to have our year-round homes in good 
shape at that time. Here are plants that help: 
Kousa Dogwood is a beautiful small tree that is covered in 
late June and early July with large creamy flowers. 
In shrubs we like Rose of Sharon, Butterfly Bush, Vitex, 
Hydrangeas, Sweetpepper, Waterer Spirea, and particularly the 
Floribunda Roses. 
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