Lanham’s Purple Sumac has great fall color. As this tree gets bigger, it should create a colony via root suckers.
Category Archives: Shrub
Sumac Future
Little Staghorn Sumac trees are spreading and adding more wildlife habitat and food source. Birds gobble up the seeds and help plant new trees.
Red Lights
The green leaves on the Amur Maples have disappeared. Amur Maples are commonly planted for their vibrant fall foliage.
Iowa Pomegranate
Pomegranate has been a good ornamental flowering plant that I grow in a large pot. This plant will also produce ornamental fruit, but doesn’t ripen well for me.
Thorniest Plant
The Arala Elata is one of the thorniest plants on my Oasis. These shrubs are thornier than Aralia Spinosa, but have proved less hardy. I am starting to wonder if my plant is the less-hardy Aralia Chinensis.
Purple Devil’s Walking Stick
Devil’s Walking Stick is a suckering shrub. These plants have many ornamental features, but the best is the stunning fall foliage.
Nannyberry Colors
The Nannyberry colony is no longer green. Fall is upon us, and the suckering Nannyberry is showing off.
Double Rose of Sharon
Double-Flowered Rose of Sharons have stunning flowers. These cultivars can be propagated by grafting or cuttings.
Seaberry Fruit
Seabuckthorns are starting to produce a good quantity of fruit. The fruit is hard to pick and small, though it has an interesting flavor.
Fall Flowering Shrubs
The Seven Sons Shrub is a very late flowering plant. These flowers draw in pollinators from afar. Bumble bees were still on the plant into the night.