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Shrub: deciduous
Welcome to Gateway Garden Center's Plant Database. We are in the process of building our Database therefore it is far from complete. If you do not see a specific plant, please call us at 302-239-2727 to inquire about availability.
Plants are for sale at our Hockessin retail store only, based on availability. As you browse the Database, use the Garden Planner to create a printable list of plants that interest you. Bring your list to Gateway and we will help you with your plant selections.
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Common Name: (Photinia pyriflolia) Red Chokeberry
This deciduous shrub has it all! Fruit for the birds, nectar for insects, cover for wildlife and multi-season beauty. Clusters of spring blooming white to pinkish flowers provide loads of nectar for pollinators. Dense clusters of glossy red fruit follow the flowers. The fruit ripens in late summer and persists through winter. The glossy foliage turns brilliant red in autumn, making it a terrific alternative to the non-native, burning bush (Euonymus alatus). Benefits:
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Common Name: Button Bush
Hundreds of tiny, tubular creamy white flowers are packed into large showy flower heads, which dangle from the bush in August. Butterflies and other insects find the nectar irresistible. The fragrant flower heads mature into round fruits each containing hundreds of nutlike seeds that are eaten by waterfowl and other birds such as quail. Many birds use this deciduous shrub as a nesting site.
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Common Name: Summer Sweet Bush
Summer sweet is a vase-shaped deciduous shrub, which features fluffy, bottle brush-like, 3-6" spikes of extremely fragrant white flowers that are an extremely important nectar source in summer. Glossy, dark green leaves turn a rich yellow in autumn. [ More Information ]
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Common Name: 'Geauge' Gray Dogwood
Gray twig dogwood is a deciduous shrub bearing dome-shaped clusters of white flowers in late spring. The flowers give way to clusters of small white berries and the stems holding the flowers and fruit are licorice red which makes a distinct contrast. Gray-green leaves turn dusky purple-red in fall. This thicket-forming shrub is a good source of food, cover and nesting sites.
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Common Name: 'Cardinal' Red-Osier Dogwood
'Cardinal' is a fast-growing, multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub with cherry red winter stems. The stems are especially showy against a snowy backdrop. Tiny white flowers appear in flat-topped clusters in late spring. Flowers give way to clusters of creamy white fruit in late summer. Fruit is very attractive to birds and is generally considered to have as much if not more ornamental interest than the flowers. Dark green leaves turn an attractive red-purple in autumn.
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Common Name: Oakleaf Hydrangea
Rugged, oak-like leaves cover this rounded shrub and provide the backdrop for huge, pyramidal stacks of white flowers that stand up to 12" above the foliage in late summer. In fall, foliage turns a dramatic deep burgundy while exfoliating cinnamon bark adds interest during the winter months. [ More Information ]
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Common Name: Winterberry
Winterberry is a deciduous holly that is slow growing, with an upright-rounded habit. In the wild, it often suckers to form large thickets or colonies but can be pruned to form a small tree. Inconspicuous greenish-white flowers appear in late spring and give way to a crop of bright red berries in late summer to fall. Berries are quite showy and persist through most of the winter, hence the common name.
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Common Name: Sweet Gale
This dense, rounded shrub features narrow, fragrant green leaves whorled on stems that create great cover for native birds. Sweet Gale thrive is wet soil conditions where few others can while creating an attractive mass planting. Fall fruit is attractive to native birds. [ More Information ]
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Common Name: Blizzard Mock Orange
Dense and rounded, this plant's medium green, oval leaves serve as the backdrop for pure white, fragrant flowers that will cover the plant during its June bloom. Perfect for border or hedging, this easy care plant is a butterfly magnet with its immense bloom and abundant nectar. [ More Information ]
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Common Name: Pacific Ninebark
This easy to grow shrub is rounded and aggressive growing with trident, maple-like foliage that shows off the terminal clusters of small white flowers with red stamens that bloom in Late May and June. Perfect for borders and hedging, this plant tolerates wet and dry and bird love its cover and seeds [ More Information ]
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Common Name: Swamp Azalea
This deciduous azalea blooms in summer. The abundant white flowers have a spicy, clove-like fragrance that fills the garden. The flowers attract butterflies and hummingbirds. Plants grow into multi-stemmed shrubs that put on a show in fall with their flame red foliage.
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Common Name: Western Spiraea
Multi-stemmed, spreading and fast growing, this easy to grow plant offers cover or sustenance to nearly every critter in the landscape. It thrives in moist soils but is adaptable to a variety of areas ranging from dry to pondside. Steeple shaped clusters of pink flowers bloom from June - August. [ More Information ]
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Common Name: Common snowberry
This old fashioned, deciduous shrub forms a neat thicket that weeps over at the top. June flowers are small, white to pink colored and attract butterflies and hummingbirds. Pure white berries last into winter and local native birds devour them. Easy to grow and tolerant of all but very wet soils. [ More Information ]
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Common Name: 'Blue Blaze' Arrowwood
Flat-topped clusters of white flowers, 4" across, bloom in spring. The flowers are a good source of nectar for butterflies, native bees and other pollinators. Flowers give way to blue-black, berries, which are loved by birds and other wildlife. This upright, multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub has glossy, dark green leaves. The leaves turn yellow, orange or red in fall. 'Blue Blaze' is a compact arrowwood growing half the size of the species with fruit that tends to stay on longer in the season.
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Common Name: Blackhaw Viburnum
Blackhaw is a large, upright, multi-stemmed, densely twiggy deciduous shrub that can be pruned to grow as a small tree. Creamy white flowers in flat-topped clusters to 4.5" across appear in spring. Flowers provide nectar for butterflies, native bees and other pollinators. Flowers give way to blue-black, berry-like fruits, which are a good source of food for birds and wildlife in fall and early winter. This handsome plant has glossy dark green leaves changing to shades of red and purple in fall.
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