(Jessamine, Orange Peel Jessamine)

Attracting hummingbirds and butterflies to its clusters of golden flowers, ‘Orange Peel’ jessamine brings floral splendor to the garden nearly year round. A hybrid, vigorously growing evergreen shrub, it was developed by crossing day-flowering jessamine (Cestrum diurnum) with the night-jessamine (C. nocturnum). The leaves are glossy green and lance-shaped, darkening as they age or receive full sunlight. Flowering most heavily in spring, it flowers less heavy the rest of the year...

(Night Jessamine, Night-blooming Jasmine)

When the moon shines a heavenly fragrance announces night-blooming jasmine.

A member of the nightshade family, night-blooming jasmine is native to the tropical Americas and West Indies. It is a large, sprawling evergreen shrub with simple, waxy, oval-shaped leaves. Clusters of small, tubular,green-white to cream-colored flowers appear from spring to fall and are followed by berries that are most commonly white. Plants are most floriferous when weather is moist and warm.

Night-blooming jasmine...

(Japanese Flowering Quince)

A uniformly dwarf, alpine form of standard flowering quince, 'Alpina' is a long-cultivated type selected from seed collected on Japanese islands near Kyushu by the first director of Harvard's Arnold Arboretum, C. S. Sargent. Admired for its beautiful spring blooms, Japanese flowering quince is a spiny, compact to medium-sized, deciduous shrub native to Japan. Profuse clusters of small, salmon or orange, bowl-shaped flowers cover the plant very early in spring, before and after its smooth green leaves...

(Japanese Flowering Quince)

This dwarf, white-flowered flowering quince was selected in Japan and is favored for small gardens and bonsai. Admired for its beautiful spring blooms, Japanese flowering quince is a spiny, deciduous shrub native to Japan. Profuse clusters of small, bowl-shaped flowers cover the plant very early in spring, before and after its smooth green leaves emerge. These are followed by gnarled, yellowish, apple-shaped fruits that are fully ripe by fall and may be used to make preserves or jelly. Of all the...

(Japanese Flowering Quince)

Named for the English nurserymen, Maule, who first introduced this compact Japanese selection in 1869, 'Maulei' boasts lots of single salmon orange blooms in spring followed by an extra heavy load of edible fruit. Admired for its beautiful spring blooms, Japanese flowering quince is a spiny, compact to medium-sized, deciduous shrub native to Japan. Profuse clusters of small, salmon or orange, bowl-shaped flowers cover the plant very early in spring, before and after its smooth green leaves emerge....

(Japanese Flowering Quince, Maule's Flowering Quince, Orange Beauty Flowering Quince)

The smallest of the flowering quinces, Chaenomeles japonica is a low, spreading, spiny deciduous shrub native to Japan. The cultivar 'Orange Beauty' bears masses of bright orange flowers as its glossy leaves emerge in early spring. Small, fragrant, greenish yellow, apple-shaped fruits with a red blush ripen in fall and can be used for preserves and jellies.

Japanese flowering quince is adaptable to a wide range of soils and flowers best in full sun, although it can also be grown in part shade....

(Crimson and Gold Flowering Quince, Hybrid Flowering Quince)

The very compact and fast growing hybrid flowering quince, 'Crimson and Gold', offers loads of deepest crimson, bowl-shaped flowers with conspicuous golden yellow anthers inside. This deciduous shrub is most attractive when in bloom but does produce some marginally attractive yellow fruits in fall. Many favor hybrid flowering quince because it combines the most desirable features of its parent species, common flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa) and Japanese flowering quince (C. japonica)....

(Hybrid Flowering Quince, Texas Scarlet Flowering Quince)

The compact, glossy-leaved hybrid flowering quince, 'Texas Scarlet' , bears masses of striking reddish flowers in spring and has few thorns, unlike most other selections. Many favor hybrid flowering quince because it combines the most desirable features of its parent species, common flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa) and Japanese flowering quince (C. japonica). 'Texas Scarlet' is a compact, densely branched selection ideal for foundation plantings, low hedges and rockeries.

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(Falsecypress)

Comprising a handful of species from Taiwan, Japan, and North America, these evergreen conifers are garden favorites worldwide. In the wild they form majestic, conical, stout-trunked trees with beautiful shredding red-brown bark. In cultivation they are mostly known by their myriad dwarf (or slow-growing) cultivars, which come in diverse colors, sizes, and shapes.

Chamaecyparis cultivars may be conical, globular, prostrate, fastigiate, weeping, or contorted in habit. Many eventually...