Beautiful assortment of flowering shrubs that are important pollinator plants. Provides flowers for bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies. Two of each species. (10 total trees/pack).
- 12-18" Red Osier Dogwood - Grows best in moist to wet soils, in full sun. Average mature height is 8’ with a spread of 6’. Has white flowers atop of bright red twigs which produce white berries in late summer. Leaves are ½” - 2” long, dull green, turning a reddish-maroon in autumn.
- 12-18" Choke Cherry - A shrub or small tree, growing erect, 6 to 25 feet tall, with horizontal branches, growing in dense thickets. Flowers April to July, fruits mature July to September. It reproduces from seeds, rhizomes, and basal sprouts. Flowers are white and in long, dense clusters. The fragrant flowers have 5 sepals, 5 petals, and many stamens. Produces a dark red to black, fleshy, cherry-like fruit. The fruit is tart and astringent, being ¼ to ½ inch in diameter. Alternate and deciduous, oval to somewhat oblong, with serrated margins. Leaves are 1 to 3 ½ inches long. Underside of leaf is somewhat paler than top of leaf. There are 2 glands at the top of the petiole. Leaves turn bright yellow to orange in fall. Twigs slender, reddish-brown to orangish-brown. The bark is gray to black, with prominent "corky" spots on the bark (lenticels), which are reddish-white. The trunk is dark red. The wood is hard, heavy, and light colored.
- 12-18" American Plum - Grows best in moist, fertile soils, in full to partial sun. Average mature height is 10’ - 20’. Characterized as a small tree or large shrub. White flowers in early May. Edible fruits - red or yellow. Very hardy and drought resistant. Excellent for wildlife plantings.
- 12-18" Meadowsweet - A perennial herbaceous plant in the family Rosaceae that grows in damp meadows. It is native throughout most of Europe and Western Asia. It has been introduced and naturalized in North America. Meadowsweet is a native, upright, loose shrub reaching 3 to 6 feet high, forming colonies of finely branched stems. Ideal for wet, sunny landscapes.
- 12-18" Pasture Rose - A low-growing shrub, which is generally upright, but may sprawl if the plants grow taller than 3 or 4 feet. In early summer it bears an abundance of 2-3-inch-wide bright pink flowers with yellow centers. The blooms are more plentiful in full sun, but this native rose is also more shade tolerant than most. Strongly serrate dark green leaves are a distinctive feature, and the stems are prickly with straight needle-like thorns. A deep taproot makes this rose very drought tolerant. It also produces shallow rhizomes and can spread vegetatively to form small colonies.
Photo credits: University of Minnesota Extension, Purdue Fort Wayne University, Johnson's Nursery, John M. Hagstrom, Arbor Day Foundation