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Viburnum - Wentworth American Cranberrybush
Its dark green foliage turns a beautiful red in autumn. Wentworth American Cranberrybush, viburnum trilobum 'Wentworth', is a heavy fruiting, upright form of American Viburnum with white flowers in the spring, and then producing large red fruits that are excellent tasting and good for making preserves. It requires part shade to full sun and prefers sandy loam to some clay, but does best on well-drained sites with better than average moisture. This cranberrybush is rounded in form, fairly dense and grows 10-12 feet tall and as wide. It is an excellent choice for screening, informal hedging, small masses, and borders. ... more info
Adams Needle Otherwise they are handsome architectural foliage plants for dry, sunny borders. The remarkable flower-spikes, 6' or more high, appear when plants are five or more years old. Yucca filamentosa makes dense clumps of stiff leaves 30 inches or so long and edged with fine curly hairs. Yuccas are hardier than they appear, and only fail in cold exposed inland positions, where they are better grown as container plants. The Adams Needle bush, Yucca filamentosa, has stiff evergreen rosettes and are part of the scene in hot dry Central and North American scrublands. This variety has a white edge. |
