This section is from the book "The Complete Garden", by Albert D. Taylor. Also available from Amazon: The Complete Garden.
a. Coloured foliage.
Acer platanoides (green) Norway Maple
Cladrastis lutea (yellow) Yellow-wood
Cornus florida (scarlet) Flowering Dogwood
Evonymus alatus (scarlet) Cork-barked Burning Bush
Evonytnus atropurpureus (red) Burning Bush
Evonymus europaeus (red) European Spindle Tree
Fagus americana (rich yellow) American Beech
Forsythia viridissima (purple) Dark Green Golden Bell
Ginkgo biloba (yellow) Maidenhair Tree
Hamamelis virginiana (yellow) Witch Hazel
Mahonia aquifolium (bronze) Oregon Grape
Myrica cerifera (bronze) Bayberry
Ostrya virginica (yellow) Hop Hornbeam
Pieris floribunda (bronze)
Mountain Fetterbush Quercus alba (purple) "White Oak
Quercus coccinea (scarlet) Scarlet oak b. Green Foliage. Some trees and shrubs are exceedingly interesting in the landscape composition because of the varying and vivid colours of their autumn foliage, ranging from brown or brownish yellow, through to vivid scarlet and bright red. There is another group of shrubs which are not so valuable because of the autumn colour of their foliage, but because of the fact that their foliage is retained until extremely late in the fall, or possibly into the early winter. Such shrubs as the privets, and many others shown in this list, are very valuable in landscape plantations where the owner cannot, because of climatic or soil conditions, resort to the use of evergreens, and is still desirous of producing a foliage effect that will serve as a background or a screen until late into October or early November. Many of these shrubs are somewhat tender and the fact that they do carry their leaves unchanged until late in the autumn often shows that they are not able to mature their wood during a normal growing season. Since they often do not mature their leaves they are also liable to go into the winter with tender wood. Many of the shrubs given in this list should therefore not be planted in exposed places.
I. Shrubs:
Abelia grandifiora Hybrid Abelia
Aralia pentaphyla Five-leaved Angelica
Berberis wilsonae Wilson's Barberry
Chaenomeles japonica Japanese Quince
Cotoneaster adpressa Creeping Cotoneaster
Cotoneaster horizontalis Prostrate Cotoneaster
Eleagnus multiflora rotundifolia Round-leaved Gumi
Evonymus bungeanus semipersistens Half-evergreen Spindle Tree
Fontanesia fortunei Fortune's Fontanesia
Forsythia viridissima Dark green Golden Bell
Plate XXVI. The use of Bay-trees in tubs is required in many of the northern gardens to produce accent points often at spots where no permanent plant can be planted in the ground. These trees are stored in cool greenhouses during the winter months. (See page 146, group XVI-C)
Plate XXVII. A pleached allee may form not only a most interesting feature as shown on Plate No. XXIV, page 158, but this one serves as a solid screen between the lawn area and the service buildings. (See page 146, group XVI-D-a)
Hypericum buckleyi
Buckley's St. John's Wort Hypericum patulum henryi
Hybrid St. John's Wort Ligustrum japonicum
Evergreen Privet
Ligustrum ovalifolium California Privet
Ligustrum vulgare sempervirens Half-evergreen European Privet
Ligustrum amurense Amoor River Privet
Lonicera fragrantissima
Early Fragrant Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens Coral Honeysuckle
Lonicera standishi
Standish's Bush Honeysuckle Viburnum macrocephalum
Chinese Snowball Viburnum opulus nanum
Dwarf Bush Cranberry Viburnum rhytidophyllum
Evergreen Viburnum
Viburnum sieboldi Siebold's Viburnum
2. Vines:
Akebia lobata
Divided-leaved Akebia Akebia quinata
Five-leaved Akebia
Clematis paniculata Japanese Clematis
Lonicera japonica halliana Japanese Honeysuckle
Smilax hispida Prickly Greenbrier
 
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