Black Ash (Fraxinus nigra)

• Growth habit - small to medium-size tree Extremely hardy

• Cultivar `Fallgold' is a seedless clone with disease free foliage, good gold fall color

Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)

• Growth habit - naturally more irregular

• Seedlings can have fruit if female plant

• Plant generally hardy and adaptable to our soils

Ussurian Pear Pyrus ussuriensis  

• Growth habit - small tree or large multistem shrub
• Hardiest of all pears from N.E. Asia, more resistant to fireblight
• White flowers early in spring
• Leaves are glossy green in summer and reddish purple in fall.

`Bradford Pear' Pyrus calleryana

• Growth habit - conical
• Subject to breakage from early or late snows and ice storms
• Hardiness more questionable for area Good flowers and fall color

• Growth habit: Multistem shrub or single stem smaller tree
• Good greenish-white flowers followed by red samara fruit in July-August
• Appears more adaptable to our clay soil with higher pHs

• Growth habit: similar to Tatarian Maple
• Often shows some chlorosis in higher pH soils
• Fruits generally do not turn red in mid-summer
• Has superior fall color

• Growth habit: small, dense branching tree or larger multistem shrub
• Good white flowers followed by green

• Growth habit: similar ultimate size
• Understock often lacks hardiness and has been observed to have more winterkill
• Plant has purple foliage throughout the season, whereas Amur Chokecherry does not
• Excellent bark characteristics
• Does not appear to sucker much
• Purple fruit
• Appears very cold hardy

• Growth habit - low growing mounded honeysuckle
• Foliage - rich, blue-green
• Gets about 3 feet tall and 4 to 6 feet wide
• No aphid damage

• 1981 introduction from Morden Research Station
• Hardier than `Emerald Mound'
• More compact with dense green foliage
• No aphid damage

• Growth habit - upright arching with dense twiggy mass
• Flowers - pink with red fruit
• Leafs out early, often hit by late frosts
• Very susceptible to honeysuckle aphid

• Growth habit - dwarfer, denser rounded habit, 4 to 5 inches high and 5 to 7 inches wide
• Reddish purple flower buds that open to whitish pink
• Blooms early in its age
• Leaves smaller, don't show mildew

• Growth habit - upright leggy shrub which is often void of lower branches after time
• Lilac extremely fragrant flowers
• Often gets mildew on leaves and borers

Chinese Lilac Syringa x chinensis

• Growth habit - broad spreading, round topped with arching branches
• Purple-lilac fragrant flowers in loose panicle inflorescence
• Can get mildew and borers
• Can get open, not pleasant looking with age

• Growth habit - about 1/2 size of V. opulus, dwarfer and denser
• Excellent in flower and fruit
• Good plant for smaller spaces
• Not as affected by aphids and other pests

• Growth habit - upright, spreading, multi- stemmed shrubs with branches arching to ground
• Flowers - white with pinwheel effect in May getting 2 to 3 inches in width
• Fruit - Red berry-like drupe which can persist into winter
• Often infested with aphids and borers

• Growth habit - more compact, upright- spreading with more slender stems
• About 1/2 size of V. trilobum
• Excellent fall color (red/purple)
• Good in flower and fruit
• Not as affected by aphids and other pests

• Growth habit - form with sterile flowers which are very showy in spring
• Aphids really seem to infest this clone

• Growth habit - low growing mounded honeysuckle
• Foliage - rich, blue-green
• Gets about 3 feet tall and 4 to 6 feet wide
• No aphid damage

Miniglobe' Lonicera xylosteum  - Miniglobe Honeysuckle

• 1981 introduction from Morden Research Station
• Hardier than `Emerald Mound'
• More compact with dense green foliage
• No aphid damage

• Growth habit - upright arching with dense twiggy mass
• Flowers - pink with red fruit
• Leafs out early, often hit by late frosts
• Very susceptible to honeysuckle aphid

• Growth habit - vigorous but often has shorter tendrils and neater appearance on walls
• Leaves often simple and darker glossy green with red-purple fall color
• Does not seem to get mildew as much
• Neater, finer appearance overall

• Growth habit - very vigorous vine with tendrils that have 5 to 8 branches with adhesive-like tips
• Leaves, 3 to 5 leaflets, dark green, courser texture and turn red in fall
• Often gets downy mildew and leaf spot on leaves
• More course overall texture