Shrub Lavandula angustifolia 'Ellagance Snow' [White Common Lavender] 'Ellagance Snow' is a smaller cultivar with beautiful, fragrant white flowers and foliage. Great plant for fine texture in the front landscape borders. Pruning to the ground every 3 to 4 years keeps the foliage full to the ground and produces uniform, fresh new growth.
Shrub Lavandula angustifolia 'Munstead' [Munstead English Lavender] 'Munstead' is a compact plant with beautiful, fragrant lavender-blue flowers and foliage. Great plant for fine texture in the front landscape borders. Pruning to the ground every 3 to 4 years keeps the foliage full to the ground and produces uniform, fresh new growth.
Shrub Lavandula angustifolia 'Rosea' [Pink Common Lavender] 'Rosea' is compact and mounded with beautiful, fragrant pale pink flowers and foliage. Great plant for fine texture in the front landscape borders. Pruning to the ground every 3 to 4 years keeps the foliage full to the ground and produces uniform, fresh new growth.
Shrub Lavandula × intermedia 'Provence' [Provence Lavandin] Lavandula x intermedia is a hybrid of L. angustifolia and L. latifolia. 'Provence' has beautiful, fragrant light purple flowers and foliage. Great plant for fine texture in the front landscape borders. Pruning to the ground every 3 to 4 years keeps the foliage full to the ground and produces uniform, fresh new growth.
Tree Indiana Native Liquidambar styraciflua [American Sweetgum] Handsome shade tree with few troubles and outstanding seasonal interest. Widely adapted to soils and climates, as evidenced by its wide range. Fall foliage coloration varies greatly in timing and intensity among individuals. Rather difficult to transplant in large sizes. Varies widely in hardiness. Select native northern stock for use in North. Horned fruits can be a serious litter problem, dulling mower blades and injuring bare feet. Also see Liquidambar styraciflua (Shuttle Gum Group).
Tree Liquidambar styraciflua 'Hapdell' [sold as Happidaze™] [Happidaze American Sweetgum] Handsome shade tree with few troubles and outstanding seasonal interest. Widely adapted to soils and climates. 'Hapdell', commonly sold under the name Happidaze, is a fruitless cultivar with a dense crown and deep maroon fall foliage. Rather difficult to transplant in large sizes.
Tree Indiana Native Liquidambar styraciflua (Shuttle Gum Group) [American Sweetgum] This group of Liquidambar styraciflua (Sweetgum) trees was germinated in August of 1984 aboard the space shuttle Discovery. Purdue astronaut Charles Walker of Bedford, Indiana, brought back 200 tiny trees; these recognize Purdue's many astronauts. Sweetgums are handsome shade trees with few troubles and outstanding seasonal interest. Widely adapted to soils and climates, as evidenced by their wide range. Fall foliage coloration varies greatly in timing and intensity among individuals. Rather difficult to transplant in…
Tree Liquidambar styraciflua 'Slender Silhouette' [Slender Silhouette Sweetgum] As the cultivar name suggests, this tree has a narrow, columnar-conical habit, which is a desirable for those small spaces within the landscape. 'Slender Slihouette' considered a 'fruitless' cultivar, but does produce a small number of multi-horned, round fruits that mature in the fall. Its leaves are a lustrous-dark green, which turns to a mixture of deep purples, reds, and yellows.
Tree Liquidambar styraciflua 'Ward' [sold as Cherokee™] [Cherokee American Sweetgum] This variant of the American Sweetgum is nearly fruitless and hardy to -28 degrees F without injury. Handsome shade tree with few troubles and outstanding seasonal interest. Widely adapted to soils and climates, as evidenced by its wide range. Fall foliage coloration varies greatly in timing and intensity among individuals. Rather difficult to transplant in large sizes.
Tree Liriodendron tulipifera 'JFS-Oz' [sold as Emerald City®] [Emerald City® Tulip Tree] 'JFS-Oz' is a cultivar with a bright yellow fall color and more glossy dark green foliage in summer. It has a more compact oval-upright form with a strong central leader than other varieties, while keeping its classic green-yellow-orange tulip-like flowers.
