Sassafras albidum
SASSAFRAS
- Shrubby when young, maturing to a dense, pyramidal crown
- Can spread by root suckers to form colonies
- Clusters of greenish-yellow flowers; dioecious, having separate male and female trees
HEIGHT: 10-15 m · SPREAD: 9-12 m
Stachys byzantina
LAMB'S EAR
- AKA Stachys lanata, Stachys olympica
- Foliage perennial, ideal for edging or a ground cover
- Mat-forming grayish-silver felted foliage
HEIGHT: 20-25 cm · SPREAD: 50-60 cm
Stachys byzantina 'Helen Von Stein'
LAMB'S EAR
- AKA Stachys byzantina 'Big Ears'
- Foliage perennial, ideal for edging or a ground cover
- Mat-forming grayish-silver felted foliage
HEIGHT: 20-25 cm · SPREAD: 50-60 cm
Thalictrum aquilegifolium
COLUMBINE MEADOW RUE
- Lacy columbine-like leaves in erect clumps
- Pink, white or purple flowers in dense clusters in early summer
- Hairless gray-green leaves form on wavy margined leaflets
HEIGHT: 55-60 cm · SPREAD: 40-50 cm
Thuja occidentalis
EASTERN WHITE CEDAR
- Upright pyramidal with slightly arching branches
- Light green foliage grows in flattened sprays
- Colour fades to a duller bronze-green
HEIGHT: 10-12 m · SPREAD: 3-4 m
Thuja occidentalis 'Brandon'
BRANDON PYRAMIDAL CEDAR
- Hardy selection of cedar
- Soft, feathery, flattened sprays of scale-like foliage
- Upright, dense, pyramidal habit
HEIGHT: 5-6 m · SPREAD: 100-125 cm
Thuja occidentalis 'Danica' (PP2861, COPF)
DANICA CEDAR
- Dense evergreen shrub with a rounded to oval habit
- Extremely slow-growing
- Bright green foliage grows in vertical sprays
HEIGHT: 80-100 cm · SPREAD: 80-100 cm
Thuja occidentalis 'Degroot's Spire'
DEGROOT'S SPIRE CEDAR
- Narrow upright with sharply ascending branches
- Twisted scale-like medium-green chamaecyparis-like foliage
- An excellent selection for providing a vertical accent
HEIGHT: 6-8 m · SPREAD: 80-125 cm
Thuja occidentalis 'Emerald'
EMERALD CEDAR
- AKA Thuja occidentalis ' Smaragd'
- Upright narrow pyramidal habit
- Emerald-green foliage grows densely in vertical sprays
HEIGHT: 4-5 m · SPREAD: 1-2 m
Thuja occidentalis 'Golden Globe'
GOLDEN GLOBE CEDAR
- Evergreen shrub with a rounded to oval habit
- Bright golden-yellow foliage grows loosely in mostly vertical sprays
- Turns a pale coppery-yellow colour in the winter
HEIGHT: 100-125 cm · SPREAD: 100-125 cm
Thuja occidentalis 'Holmstrup'
HOLMSTRUP CEDAR
- Densely branched upright with a rounded to pyramidal habit
- Gray-green foliage grows densely in sprays
- An excellent plant for low screening
HEIGHT: 250-300 cm · SPREAD: 125-150 cm
Thuja occidentalis 'Wareana'
WAREANA CEDAR
- Upright cultivar with a broad pyramidal shape becoming rounded in mature trees
- Dark green foliage grows in vertical sprays
- A denser, darker cedar with a wider appearance
HEIGHT: 250-300 cm · SPREAD: 175-250 cm
Thuja plicata 'Whipcord'
WHIPCORD WESTERN CEDAR
- Dwarf mounding habit with arching pendulous branches
- Light green whipcord-like tendril-like foliage resembling a mop
- Provides an interesting shape or texture to the landscape
HEIGHT: 125-150 cm · SPREAD: 100-125 cm
Trillium catesbaei
BASHFUL WAKEROBIN
- White flowers turn pink with age
- Blooms face downward with narrow petals
- Green foliage on a purplish stem
HEIGHT: 25-30 cm · SPREAD: 25-30 cm
Trillium erectum
RED TRILLIUM
- Native to woodlands throughout North America
- Outward-facing deep red three-petaled flowers
- Stalkless broadly ovate mid-green leaves
HEIGHT: 15-30 cm · SPREAD: 10-15 cm
Trillium grandiflorum
WHITE TRILLIUM
- Native to woodlands throughout North America
- Showiest of all the native trillium
- Outward-facing white three-petaled flowers
HEIGHT: 20-30 cm · SPREAD: 20-30 cm
Trillium recurvatum
WOOD LILY
- Upright purple to brownish-purple flowers
- Stalkless with purple mottled dark green foliage
- Spreads by thick underground rhizomes
HEIGHT: 30-50 cm · SPREAD: 25-30 cm
Trillium sessile
WOOD LILY
- Leaves and petals and sepals come in groups of three
- Hosta-like leaves are mottled with purple, mint and white
- Flower is three erect petals of maroon, to brownish-purple to dark red
HEIGHT: 30 cm · SPREAD: 30 cm
Tsuga canadensis
EASTERN HEMLOCK
- Pyramidal growth habit when young
- Flat sprays of lacy short dark green needles
- Needles have two white bands underneath
HEIGHT: 18-21 m · SPREAD: 8-10 m
Tsuga canadensis 'Cole's Prostrata'
COLE'S PROSTRATE CANADIAN HEMLOCK
- Slow-growing prostrate habit
- Dark green foliage contrasts with older exposed silver-white bark
- Makes an interesting small specimen or ground cover
HEIGHT: 25-30 cm · SPREAD: 125-150 cm
Tsuga canadensis 'Gentsch White'
GENTSCH WHITE CANADIAN HEMLOCK
- Globose conifer that could be pruned conical
- Needles at the branch tips are silver-white
- Inner needles are dark green with two whitish bands underneath
HEIGHT: 125-150 cm · SPREAD: 125-150 cm
Tsuga canadensis 'Hussi'
HUSSI CANADIAN HEMLOCK
- Very slow-growing upright dwarf conifer (3-5cm/yr)
- Short dense twiggy branches
- Thick bright green spring needles contrast with the older dark green foliage
HEIGHT: 100 cm · SPREAD: 50 cm
Tsuga canadensis 'Jeddeloh'
JEDDELOH DWARF CANADIAN HEMLOCK
- Very slow-growing flat-topped mounding irregular habit
- Bright green short needles are held on small red-brown branchlets
- Ideal as a focal point
HEIGHT: 125-150 cm · SPREAD: 100-125 cm
Tsuga canadensis 'Jervis'
JERVIS DWARF CANADIAN HEMLOCK
- Dwarf, broadly pyramidal, wider than tall
- Dense clusters of short dark green gnarled needles
- Provides interesting texture and focal point
HEIGHT: 80-100 cm · SPREAD: 100-125 cm
Tsuga canadensis 'Kelsey's Weeping'
KELSEY'S WEEPING CANADIAN HEMLOCK
- Unique pendulous habit
- Spreading secondary branches form a support for the pendulous younger branches
- Produces a full layered structure
HEIGHT: 175-200 cm · SPREAD: 175-200 cm
Tsuga canadensis 'Moon Frost'
MOON FROST CANADIAN HEMLOCK
- Dwarf, broadly rounded form
- Soft feathery foliage with creamy-white variegation
- New growth emerges white, the older needles retain a hint of white
HEIGHT: 80-100 cm · SPREAD: 80-100 cm
Tsuga canadensis 'Nana Gracilis'
DWARF WEEPING HEMLOCK
- Broad, rounded form with a flat top
- Densely branched with tips drooping at the end
- Distinct sprays of foliage arch from the centre
HEIGHT: 3-4 m · SPREAD: 3-4 m
Tsuga canadensis 'Pendula'
SARGENT'S WEEPING HEMLOCK
- Upright to mounding plant with weeping branches
- Short dark green needles have two white bands underneath
- Thimble-like light brown cones may appear on older plants
HEIGHT: 150-175 cm · SPREAD: 200-250 cm
Tsuga canadensis 'Summer Snow'
SUMMER SNOW CANADIAN HEMLOCK
- Ivory-white new foliage is striking against the mature dark green needles
- Best foliage colour is in full shade
- Upright pyramidal plant
HEIGHT: 400-450 cm · SPREAD: 250-300 cm
Ulmus americana 'Princeton'
PRINCETON ELM
- Vase-shaped broad symmetrical crown
- Non-showy spring flowers become single oval to rounded winged seeds
- Oval to elliptical rough-textured green leaves in the summer
HEIGHT: 18-23 m · SPREAD: 10-15 m
Uvularia grandiflora
LARGE-FLOWERED BELLWORT
- Clump forming upright native wildflower
- Long bell-shaped yellow flowers
- Flowers have six slightly twisted petals
HEIGHT: 50-60 cm · SPREAD: 30-45 cm
Viburnum carlesii 'Compactum'
KOREANSPICE VIBURNUM
- Rounded upright habit
- Pinkish-red buds open pink turning to white flowers
- Fragrant snowball-like clusters of flowers
HEIGHT: 100-125 cm · SPREAD: 100-125 cm
Viburnum dentatum
ARROWWOOD
- Flat-topped clusters of creamy-white flowers in spring
- Bluish-black fruit in fall attractive to birds
- Glossy dark green leaves turning yellow to reddish-purple in fall
HEIGHT: 175-200 cm · SPREAD: 175-200 cm
Viburnum prunifolium
BLACKHAW VIBURNUM
- Large upright shrub which can be trained or pruned into a tree form
- Creamy-white flat-topped flower clusters
- Flowers give way to bluish-black berries in fall and winter
HEIGHT: 3-4 m · SPREAD: 2-3 m
Vinca minor
PERIWINKLE
- Trailing perennial
- Smooth evergreen foliage
- Beautiful blue phlox-like flowers
HEIGHT: 12-15 cm · SPREAD: 40-60 cm
Vinca minor 'Alba'
PERIWINKLE
- Glossy dark green evergreen foliage
- Trailing perennial
- White phlox-like flowers
HEIGHT: 12-15 cm · SPREAD: 40-45 cm
Vinca minor 'Illumination' (PP12132, COPF, CPBR1632)
VARIEGATED PERIWINKLE
- Trailing perennial
- Smooth evergreen foliage
- Beautiful blue phlox-like flowers
HEIGHT: 10-12 cm · SPREAD: 60-70 cm
Vinca minor 'Ralph Shugert'
- Trailing perennial
- Smooth dark green glossy leaves are edged in white
- Bright blue phlox-like flowers
HEIGHT: 10-15 cm · SPREAD: 60-90 cm
Vitis riparia
FROST GRAPE
- Drooping panicles of small five-petaled yellowish-green flowers
- Blooms have a sweet musky fragrance
- Small green berries age to deep purple
HEIGHT: 10-15 m · SPREAD: 8-10 m