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We lived here 12 years from 1988-2000. The present owners value the unusual plants.
| Albizia kalkora appears to be zone 6b |
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| The flowers emerge light gold then fade to dark gold in a beautiful two tone display |
Albizia kalkora, purchased from Woodlanders in 1988 as a one gallon plant now about 40' high. It blooms
about two weeks before julibrissin and has larger curved leaflets. It is self fertile. Down to -4°F there has been
no damage. At Dayton, Maryland another specimen has grown well for 15 years in zone 6b, freezing to the ground at -16°F
in 1994.
| lithocarpus henryi |
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| 15 years from a 1 gal Woodlanders plant |
At Dayton 2 L. henryi stayed evergreen at -16°F. They have now flowered for several years and Dan Turner,
of Patuxent Valley Nursery, has over 50 vigorous seedlings growing. The flowers are just like chestnut blooms.
| Thujopsis dolobrata |
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| One of my favorite dwarf conifers, unlike arborvitae it likes shade and stays green in the winter. |
| Prunus lusitanica at my previous abode |
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| Beautiful evergreen and tough, here competing successfully with a 60 foot red maple |