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CEG Welcome Garden

The Welcome Garden in the Community Education Garden demonstrates ideas for using small trees, shrubs and perennials  for size, texture, and color. They flank a brick paver patio and pergola. This was our first garden installation, in 2010.  This list is current as of October, 2022.

Trees

Trees marked with “UF” are utility friendly trees, those expected to be short enough at maturity to plant below an overhead utility line.

  • Abies koreana ‘Horstmann’s Silberlocke’ – Horstmann’s Silberlocke Korean fir – UF: 20 ft. x 6 ft
  • Acer palmatum ‘Bloodgood’- Japanese maple – UF:15-20 ft. x 15-20ft
  • Acer palmatum ‘Sherwood Flame’ – Japanese maple – UF: 14-16 ft. x 12-14 ft
  • Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Sungold’ – Japanese false cypress
  • Cupressocyparis leylandii ‘Gold Rider’ – Leyland cypress
  • Larix kaempferi ‘Diana’ – Japanese larch – UF: 20-25ft. x 10-15ft
  • Picea glauca ‘Conica’ – Alberta spruce
  • Picea pungens ‘Glauca Globosa’ – globe blue spruce
  • Sequoiadendron giganteum ‘Pendulum’ – weeping giant sequoia -UF: 25ft. x 6ft
  • Taxodium distichum ‘Peve Minaret’ – dwarf bald cypress – UF: 6ft x 3ft.

Shrubs

  • Abies balsamea ‘Piccolo’ – Piccolo balsam fir
  • Azalea x ‘Cannon’s Double’ (Exbury hybrid) – Cannon’s Double azalea
  • Azalea yedoense ‘Poukhanense Compacta’ – Korean azalea
  • Cedrus deodara ‘Feelin Blue’ – deodar cedar
  • Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Ruby Slippers’ – dwarf oakleaf hydrangea
  • Hypericum x inodorum ‘Kolsan’ – Floralberry Sangria St. John’s wort
  • Ilex x meserveae ‘Heckenstar’ Castle Wall –  holly
  • Leucothoe fontanesiana ‘Rainbow’ – Rainbow drooping fetterbush
  • Lonicera nitida – boxleaf honeysuckle
  • Pinus mugo ‘Carsten’s Wintergold’ – mugo pine
  • Pinus mugo ‘Slowmound’ – dwarf mugo pine
  • Pinus strobus ‘Sea Urchin’ – eastern white pine
  • Sambuca nigra ‘Gerda’ Black Beauty – elderberry
  • Tsuga canadensis ‘Jeddeloh’ – Jeddeloh hemlock
  • Weigela florida ‘Elvera’ MIDNIGHT WINE –  weigela

Perennials

  • Allium ‘Millenium’ – Millennium ornamental garlic
  • Arenaria montana ‘Lemon Ice’ – Lemon Ice mountain sandwort
  • Armeria maritima – sea thrift
  • Aubrieta hybrida ‘Axcent’ – rock cress
  • Bletilla striata – hardy garden orchid
  • Cerastium tomentosum
  • Chrysanthemum ‘Weyrichii’ -hardy dwarf mum
  • Clematis integrifolia – solitary clematis
  • Coreopsis
  • Coreopsis verticillata ‘Moonbeam’ -threadleaf coreopsis
  • Dianthus deltoides
  • Dianthus  gratianpolitanis ‘Neon Star’ –  pinks
  • Erodium reichardii ‘Bishop’s Form’ – Bishop’s Form rock geranium
  • Eryngium ‘Sapphire Blue’ – sea holly
  • Gaillardia ‘Spin Top Red’ – blanket flower
  • Gypsophila repens ‘Rose’ – pink creeping baby’s breath
  • Helianthemum nummularium ‘Ben Fhada’ – Ben Fhada sunrose
  • Heuchera ‘Obsidian’ – coral bells
  • Hibiscus x moscheutos ‘Robert Fleming’ – hardy hibiscus
  • Iberis sempervirens ‘Little Gem’ – candytuft
  • Iris sibirica
  • Kniphofia uvaria – red hot poker
  • Lavandula intermedia – lavender
  • Leucanthemum x superbum – shasta daisy
  • Lithodora diffusa ‘Grace Ward’
  • Lychnis x haageana ‘Lumina Bronze Leaf Red’
  • Mukdenia rossii ‘Crimson Fans’ – red-leafed mukdenia
  • Oenothera ‘Sunset Boulevard’ -evening primrose
  • Pensetemon barbatus ‘Coccineus’
  • Penstemon barbatus ‘Elfiin Pink’ – penstemon
  • Penstemon digitalis  ‘Husker Red’ – beardtongue
  • Penstemon heterophyllus ‘Electric Blue’
  • Penstemon mexicali ‘Sunburst Amethyst’
  • Phlox subulata ‘Snowflake’ – creeping phlox
  • Ratibida columnifera ‘Red Midget’ – Mexican hat
  • Rudbeckia hirta – black-eyed Susan
  • Rudbeckia fulgida ‘Goldsturm’ – black-eyed Susan
  • Salvia nemorosa ‘Haeumanarc’ – dwarf blue sage
  • Salvia nemorosa ‘Rose Marvel’ – meadow sage
  • Saxifraga x arendsii ‘Rocco Red’ – rockfoil
  • Silene coronaria – Rose campion
  • Symphyotrichum novi-belgii ‘Raspberry Swirl’ – New York aster
  • Thymus serpyllum ‘Pink Chintz’ – mother-of-thyme
  • Veronica pectinate – blue woolly speedwell
  • Veronica penduncularis ‘Georgia Blue’ – Georgia Blue speedwell

Grasses

  • Calamagrostis x acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’ – feather reed grass
  • Calamagrostis x acutiflora ‘Overdam’- variegated reed grass
  • Deschampsia cespitosa ‘Northern Lights’ – tufted hair grass
  • Helictotrichon sempervirens ‘Saphirsprudel’ – sapphire blue oat grass
  • Miscanthus sinensis ‘Gracillimus’ – maiden hair grass
  • Schizachyrium scoparium ‘The Blues’ -The Blues little bluestem

Vines

  • Schizophragma hydrangeoides ‘Moonlight’ – Moonlight Japanese hydrangea vine
  • Vitis vinifera ‘Sweet Lace’ – ornamental grape