HBGF Permiter Shrub List Dedekam Garden

• Elfin King Strawberry Tree Arbutus unedo 'Elfin King' (AE)
• All have ornamental bark, clusters of little urn-shaped flowers, decorative edible fruit, handsome foliage.  Provide good drainage especially if plant receives regular water.  Thin growth of all types as needed.  'Elfen King' variety is a dwarf form (not over 5 ft. tall at 10 years old) that flowers and fruits nearly continuously, zoned 4-24 (Sunset Western Garden 2007)
• White Flowering Wild Lilac Ceanothus thrysiflorus 'Snow Flurry' (CT)
• 6-10' tall x 8-12' wide, rich green leaves, profuse pure white clusters, adaptable, dependable, good choice for coastal gardens, zoned 5-9, 14-24 (Sunset Western Garden 2007)
• Purple Smoke Bush Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple' (CC)
• Unusual and colourful shrub-trees creating broad, urn-shaped mass usually as wide as high.  naturally multi-stemmed, but can be trained to single trunk.  Plants are at their best under stress in poor or rocky soil.  In cultivated gardens, give them fast drainage and avoid overly wet conditions.  Resistant to oak root fungus.  12-15' high & wide, roundish leaves, 'Royal Purple' hold their purple color through most of the summer.  Those with purple foliage have richer purple "smoke puffs" than other species.  Leaves of all types change in fall, taking on colors ranging from yellow to orange red. (Sunset Western Garden 2007)
• Wild Mock Orange Philadelphus lewisii (PL)
• Grown for white or cram-colored usually fragrant flowers blooming in late spring or early summer.  Plants are generally large and vigorous, with fountain-like form.  Prune every year just after bloom, cutting out oldest wood and surplus shoots at base.  To rejuvenate, cut to the ground.  Taller types are striking planted in lawns and as background and corner plantings; smaller kinds can be used near foundations or planted as low screens or informal hedges.  Select this plant in bloom to check for best fragrance.  Not fussy about soil type but must have good drainage.  Deciduous.  Native to western North America.  Fountain shaped, loosely branched shrub 4-10' tall, typically broader than high.  Satiny single flowers.  Tolerate some aridity zoned 1-10, 14-24.  (Sunset Western Garden 2007)
• Laich & Lutsko selected a variety in Shasta County called Double-flowered Mock Orange Philadelphus lewisii ssp. californicus 'Marjorie Schmidt' available at Cal Flora Nursery
• Pink Winter Currant, Red Flowering Current Ribes sanguineum
• 'Spring Showers' (RS)
• 'White Icicle' (RW)
• Deciduous shrub.  Native to Coast Ranges from California to British Columbia.  5-12' tall and wide with maple-like, dark green leaves.  In spring produces drooping 2-4" long clusters of pink or red flowers.  Blue-black fruit has whitish bloom.  Little to moderate water zoned 4-9, 14-24.  (Sunset Western Garden 2007)

Find alternatives for the following:

• Lochinch Butterfly Bush Buddleia 'Lochinch' (BL)
• Well drained soil.  Blossoms attract butterflies.  Deciduous, though retains leaves in mildest winter climates.  Grows 5-8' or taller and as broad with gray green foliage and light lavender blue flowers over a long season in late summer and fall.  Cut back before spring growth begins zoned 3b-9, 14-24.  (Sunset Western Garden 2007)
• Wintersweet Chimonanthus praecox (CP)
• Needs some winter cold.  Winter-blooming shrub with spicy-scented blossoms.  Slow, open growth to 10-15' high, 6-8' wide, with many stems from base.  Flowers appear on leafless branches in winter or spring and may last for more than a month if not hit by frost.  1" wide, pale yellow blossoms with darker centers marked in shades of purple, chocolate, or maroon.  Coarse green leaves many turn green in fall.  Locate plant where its winter fragrance can be enjoyed.  Restrict size by pruning while in flower; to rejuvenate leggy plant, lop it to within a foot of the ground in late winter.  Needs good drainage zoned 4-9, 14-21.  (Sunset Western Garden 2007)
• Mock Orange Philadelphus x lemoinei 'Belle Etoile' (PB)
• Grown for white or cream-colored usually fragrant flowers blooming in late spring or early summer.  Plants are generally large and vigorous, with fountain-like form.  Prune every year just after bloom, cutting out oldest wood and surplus shoots at base.  To rejuvenate, cut to the ground.  Taller types are striking planted in lawns and as background and corner plantings; smaller kinds can be used near foundations or planted as low screens or informal hedges.  Select this plant in bloom to check for best fragrance.  Not fussy about soil type but must have good drainage zoned 1-10, 14-24.  (Sunset Western Garden 2007)
• Solanum rantonnetii (SR)
• Evergreen shrub 8-12' tall x 6-10' wide, can be staked into tree form or with support grown as a vine to 12-15' or more.  Can also be allowed to sprawl and used as a ground cover.  Bright green oval leaves, violet-blue flowers throughout warm weather, often nearly year round.  Informal, fast growing, not easy to use in tailored landscape; prune hard to keep neat.  In severe cold, leaf drop is heavy and branch tips may die back zoned 12, 13, 15-24; H1, H2.  (Sunset Western Garden 2007)
• Japanese Snowball Viburnum plicatum tomentosum 'Wantanabei' (VP)
• Prune to prevent legginess.  Aphids, thrips, spider mites, scale and root weevils are potential pests.  Keep sulfur sprays off foliage.  Deciduous to 8-15' tall and wide with horizontal branching pattern giving plant a tiered look.  Strongly veined dull dark green leaves turn purplish red in autumn.  Showy 3" snowball-like clusters of sterile flowers.  Mid spring bloom.  No fruit.  Zoned 3-9, 14-24.  (Sunset Western Garden 2007)
• Wiegela florida 'Bristol Snowflake' (WF)
• Not attractive after bloom, no real fall color.  Fast growth to 6 ft. tall and wide, with branches often arching to the ground.  White flowers opening from pinkish buds zoned 1-11, 14-21 (Sunset Western Garden 2007)