(Pearlbush)

Forming a vase-like shrub and lined with white blossoms in spring, the hybrid pearlbush combines the qualities of the common pearlbush (Exochorda racemosa) and Exochorda korolkowii. A hybrid deciduous shrub it attains a floppy, somewhat unkempt habit in a few years. Seed capsules persist on the shrub into winter, adding interest.

Before any leaves emerge in mid-spring, the five-petaled white blossoms cover the branches. Each blossom has five petals and appears on racemes, short-stemmed...

(Pearlbush)

Forming a mounding, almost weeping shrub lined with white blossoms in spring, The Bride hybrid pearlbush combines the qualities of the common pearlbush (Exochorda racemosa) and Exochorda korolkowii. A deciduous shrub, it attains a mounded, partially weeping habit apropos for the average garden's scale and size. When in flower you may mistaken it as a spirea.

Before any leaves emerge in mid-spring, the white blossoms cover the drooping branches. Each blossom has five petals...

(American Beech)

The American beech is one of the most distinctive and beautiful of the North American hardwood trees. It is a large, deciduous tree best known for its smooth, gray, elephantine bark that people can’t resist carving their initials into (sadly). When mature, it develops a shallow, spreading root system and broad canopy. Both are so dense it is difficult to successfully grow shade-loving annuals and perennials beneath. Native populations inhabit forests across the eastern half of North America, from...

(Silver Lace Vine)

Russian vine is a rampant, deciduous, woody vine that produces a profusion of small white flowers in summer and fall. Hailing from Afghanistan, Pakistan and nearby surrounds in central Asia, it likes to spread via rhizomes, or its underground stems. This twiner has glossy, mid-green, heart-shaped leaves that have bronze tones when young. Showy masses of greenish-white flowers appear from late summer to fall, followed by pinkish-white fruit. It is deciduous in cooler regions, and can be evergreen...

(Japanese Knotweed)

Japanese knotweed is an immense herbaceous perennial with attractive foliage and flowers but a rampantly invasive habit. Native to East Asia and naturalized worldwide, it is listed as a noxious weed in many areas including the eastern United States. It is known by several other botanical names including Reynoutria japonica, Polygonum cuspidatum, and Polygonum japonicum.

The vigorous underground rhizomes of this "super-weed" spread rapidly to form dense nearly ineradicable...

(Crimson Beauty Japanese Knotweed, Japanese Knotweed)

The Japanese knotweed cultivar 'Crimson Beauty' bears showy red late-summer flowers on tall, relatively slow-spreading plants.

Japanese knotweed is an immense herbaceous perennial with attractive foliage and flowers but an often invasive habit. Native to East Asia and naturalized worldwide, it is listed as a noxious weed in many areas including the eastern United States. It is known by several other botanical names including Reynoutria japonica, Polygonum cuspidatum, and Polygonum...