Viburnum - Chicago Lustre® Arrowwood
Chicago Lustre® Arrowwood Viburnum, viburnum dentatum 'Synnestvedt', is selected for its upright rounded, dense habit and glossy, deep green foliage that turns red-purple in fall. The creamy white flowers bloom in June and mature into clusters of globe-shaped fruit. The fruit are deep porcelain blue to blue-purple, maturing in August and providing food for the birds. Chicago Lustre is a medium-sized to large-sized ornamental shrub maturing at about 8-10 feet in height and width, although larger under optimum conditions. It has an upright oval growth habit in youth, becoming arching, spreading, and suckering with age. It has a medium growth rate and prefers full sun to partial shade with moist, well-drained soils. This viburnum is highly adaptable to dry soils, poor soils, soils of various pH, heat, drought, and pollution. It makes an excellent formal or informal hedge, border, entranceway, foundation, utilitarian, group planting, naturalizing, or specimen shrub. It is very urban tolerant. Viburnum tend to be multi-season plants with ornamental value throughout a large part of the season. ... more information
Sumac - Flameleaf The Flameleaf Sumac, Rhus copallina, is a shrub or occasionally a small tree. When left alone it will often form thickets. It is widespread in open uplands along fence rows and in waste places. It is a prolific sprouter after a fire. Leaves have a winged axis and turn flame red to dark purple in the fall, hence the common name. Fruit matures in late summer remaining attached into winter and is eaten by many species of birds and white-tailed deer. White-tailed deer also use it as a browse.
