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Trees
Landscapers palette
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This is a list of garden
plant varieties listed by Latin name and common name. Inclusion
here is by plants that I am familiar with as a landscaper. It
is not a complete or exhaustive list. The title "Landscapers
palette" comes from the fact that these are the plants
that for 95% of the time I would choose from when planning a
planting scheme.
Exclusion doesn't always
mean that a plant doesn't deserve a place here on merit,
it may be because it's uncommon, difficult to get hold of,
that I haven't yet got around to including it yet - or of
course that it doesn't deserve a place here on merit.
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Key: habit: clump - clump
forming, rhiz - rhizomatous | colour - var- various
| difficult - able to tolerate named difficult conditions
| everg - evergreen | shd - will grow in shade
| sshd - will grow in semi-shade | flower
colours - if more than one usually refers to different varieties
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Medium / Small Trees
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Name |
habit |
colour |
difficult |
scent |
seasons |
height |
spread |
flower |
everg |
shd |
sshd |
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Abies koreana |
conical |
purple cones |
shade |
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all |
30ft |
20ft |
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Y |
Y |
Y |
Acer palmatum
Japanese Maples
Acer Garnet |
rounded |
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containers / need shelter |
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Sp-Aut |
30ft v. slowly |
30ft v. slowly |
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Y |
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Acer platanoides
Norway Maple, esp. Drummondii | Crimson King |
upright / spreading |
variegated / purple |
clay |
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Sp-Aut |
30ft |
30ft |
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Alnus incana esp. "aurea" |
upright |
yellow lvs |
v. wet, v. dry, cold exposed |
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Sp-Aut |
25ft |
15ft |
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Amelanchier - shadbush
esp. canadensis | lamarckii |
upright then arching |
sp and aut leaf colour |
clay |
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Sp-Aut |
20ft |
10ft |
 |
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Y |
Catalpa bignonoides -
Indian Bean Tree Catalpa
bignoides | aurea | purpurea |
rounded |
white |
needs shelter, good pollarded
every 3rd yr. |
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Sp-Aut |
30ft |
30ft |
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Cercis
siliquastrum Judas tree
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spreading |
pink flws Sp. |
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Sp-Aut |
30ft |
30ft |
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Corylus avellana Contorta
Corkscrew Hazel |
rounded |
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chalk |
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Winter |
15ft |
15ft |
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Y |
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Name |
habit |
colour |
difficult |
scent |
seasons |
height |
spread |
flower |
everg |
shd |
sshd |
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Crataegus Hawthorn, esp. "Paul's
Scarlet" |
upright |
scarlet |
tolerant, cold, clay |
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Sp-Aut |
20ft |
15ft |
 |
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Y |
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Cupressus sempervivens "stricta"
Italian Cypress |
v. narrow upright |
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sun, dry |
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all |
70ft slowly! |
3-20ft |
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Y |
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Eucalyptus gunnii
Cider Gum |
upright |
grey / green |
cold, exposed |
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all |
30-80ft good pollarded |
20-50ft |
|
Y |
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Juniperus scopulurum "Skyrocket" |
narrow upright |
glaucous green |
sun, dry |
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all |
20ft |
5ft |
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Y |
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Magnolia esp. stellata |
rounded |
white / pink |
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Y |
Sp-Aut |
20ft |
20ft |
  |
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Y |
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Malus Crab Apple,
esp. "John Downie" | "Golden Hornet" |
upright or domed |
coloured fruit |
clay |
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Sp-Aut |
30ft |
20ft |
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Parrotia persica
Persian Ironwood |
spreading |
Sp flws, aut lvs |
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Sp-Aut |
25ft |
30ft |
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Picea glauca "Albertina
Conica" |
conical |
green |
cold, exposed, wet, moist |
|
all |
20ft |
8ft |
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Y |
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Name |
habit |
colour |
difficult |
scent |
seasons |
height |
spread |
flower |
everg |
shd |
sshd |
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Picea pungens
esp. "Kosteri"
| "Hoopsii" |
conical |
great blue / green |
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all |
50ft |
15ft |
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Y |
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Prunus,
Flowering Cherries esp. Amanagawa | Kanzan | Tai
Haku |
upright / spreading |
pink flws, aut lvs |
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Sp-Aut |
20ft |
20ft |
  |
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Y |
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Robinia pseudoacacia #
esp. "Frisia" |
upright |
bright green / yellow |
NOT exposed |
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Sp-Aut |
50ft |
25ft |
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Rhus typhina
"laciniata"
Stags Horn Sumarch |
spreading |
Aut lvs |
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Sp-Aut |
12ft |
12ft |
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Sequoia sempervivens "Adpressa" |
conical |
white shoots |
pollution, exposed |
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all |
25ft |
20ft |
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Y |
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Sorbus Aria "Lutescens"
Whitebeam |
rounded |
pale green |
cold, exposed |
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Sp-Aut |
30ft |
25ft |
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Sorbus,
Rowan esp. commixta | huphensis |
upright |
red / yellow berries |
cold, exposed |
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Sp-Aut |
20ft |
20ft |
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Syringa
Lilac, esp.
"Katherine
Havermayer" - lilac,
"Charles
Joly" - dark purple,
"Mme. Lemoine"
- white.
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upright / spreading |
white to deep purple |
|
Y |
Sp-Aut |
20ft |
20ft |
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Large Specimen Trees
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Name |
habit |
colour |
difficult |
scent |
seasons |
height |
spread |
flower |
everg |
shd |
sshd |
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Betula utilis
Himalayan Birch
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upright |
white trunk |
cold, exposed |
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all |
60ft |
30ft |
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Silver
Birch Betula pendula
esp. "Dalecarlica" |
upright |
white trunk, Aut lvs |
cold, exposed |
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all |
50ft |
30ft |
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Cedrus atlantica glauca |
conical |
glaucous blue / green |
dry |
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all |
50ft |
15ft |
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Y |
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Cedrus libani Cedar of
Lebanon |
spreading |
green |
chalk, everybody should have
one |
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all |
100ft |
100ft |
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Y |
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Chamaecyparis lawsoniana # Lawson cypress |
columnar |
green |
many varied cultivars |
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all |
20 - 130ft |
6 - 15ft |
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Y |
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Y |
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Fagus sylvatica Beech esp. "Dawyck"
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"flame" shaped |
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wet, moist, exposed |
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Sp-Aut |
40ft+ |
10ft+ |
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Y |
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Gleditsia triacanthos "Sunburst"
Honey locust |
spreading |
yellow in aut |
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Sp-Aut |
100ft |
70ft |
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Ilex Holly |
conical to rounded |
many variegated - red / yellow
berries |
cold, exposed |
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all |
20ft+ |
20ft+ |
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Y |
Y |
Y |
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Name |
habit |
colour |
difficult |
scent |
seasons |
height |
spread |
flower |
everg |
shd |
sshd |
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Juglans Walnut |
spreading |
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Sp-Aut |
100ft |
50ft |
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Liquidambar
styraciflua
Sweet Gum esp. "Worplesdon" |
broadly conical |
esp. aut lvs |
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Sp-Aut |
80ft |
40ft |
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Liriodendron
tulipifera
Tulip Tree |
broadly columnar |
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Sp-Aut |
100ft |
50ft |
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Picea omorika Serbian spruce |
narrow, spire |
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cold, exposed, wet, moist |
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all |
70ft |
10ft |
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Y |
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Quercus Oak esp. Holm
Oak | Common Oak |
upright then spreading |
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tolerant - everybody should
have one |
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Sp-Aut |
70ft+ |
50ft+ |
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some |
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Sequoiadendron giganteum,
giant redwood, Wellingtonia |
conical |
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everybody should have one |
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all |
100ft+ |
30ft+ |
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Y |
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Taxus baccata # Yew |
upright |
red berries |
NOT wet, moist |
|
all |
50ft+ |
25ft |
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Y |
Y |
Y |
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Name |
habit |
colour |
difficult |
scent |
seasons |
height |
spread |
flower |
everg |
shd |
sshd |
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