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Western Sand Cherry
Used in screen, hedge, or border plantings. The fruits can be eaten fresh, dried, or processed as jellies and pies. It grows 5-6 feet in height and width, forming a rounded shape, and is a great shrub for farmstead windbreaks. Sandcherry is fairly drought tolerant but prefers loamy type soils. Western Sand Cherry, prunus besseyi, displays attractive, single, white flowers in May that are followed by an abundance of 3/4" purple-black sweet fruits that are used for preserves. This hardy rounded shrub has silver-green foliage and prefers a well-drained site. . Fruits are relished by many songbirds and is a nesting cover for a few species of songbirds. ... additional information
Dogwood - Greytwig Tolerant of city air pollution. Also effective in shrub borders, along streams or ponds or near buildings or when planted as a screen. Excellent when planted in groups and left alone to spread in naturalized areas or native plant gardens. Can be particularly useful because of its ability to grow in poor soils. It grows 10-15' tall and features white flowers borne in terminal racemes (hence the species name of racemosa) in late spring and grayish-green, elliptic to lance-shaped leaves (2-4" long). Red stem color is more easily seen after the fruits are gone, and red color often persists into early winter. Easily grown in average, medium wet, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Terminal stems holding the flowers are distinctively red and provide interesting contrast to the clusters of small white berries which form after the flowers have dropped. Foliage turns an interesting dusky purplish red in fall. |
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