A compact, low growing ground cover with small compound blue-green to copper coloured leaves. Small spherical flower clusters are followed by soft red burrs to 2cm across. Although these burrs look quite spiny, they are in fact soft.
This mat-forming perennial has rounded, deeply-lobed leaves with toothed tips. Loose cymes of yellow-green flowers are produced in summer. Height 5 inches; spread 20 inches.
This clumping perennial has 7-9 lobed blue-green leaves and produces cymes of yellow-green flowers in spring. 8-12 inch height/spread. Makes a lovely groundcover.
This clump-forming perennial has rounded, shallowly lobed hairy leaves that are blue-green in colour. Cymes of greenish-yellow flowers are produced in summer. 24-30 inch height and spread.
This deciduous, suckering shrub has oval leaves that turn bright red or yellow in autumn. Bears pure white flowers in racemes up to 3 inches long in late spring, followed by small purple-black fruit. Height and spread 12 feet.
Growing to 1.5m this Aronia is somewhat smaller than the closely related Aronia arbutifolia but still manages to put on a show most seasons. The summer flowers are small but plentiful among the mid to dark green leaves, and are followed by black shiny fruit that can persist well into the winter....
This spreading, deciduous shrub bears abundant clusters of orange to red flowers in early spring, followed by yellow-flushed-red fruit. Height 3 feet; spread 6 feet.
This deciduous cotoneaster has an upright habit and forms a medium shrub or small multi-trunked tree. The summer clusters of flowers develop into striking bunches of blue-black fruit in the autumn, which persist until well after leaf fall. Height and spread 12 feet.
Large shrub or small tree with thorny branches that bears white corymbs of flowers in spring, followed by black fruit. Fruits were a food source for Native American peoples; thorns were used as fish hooks.
Thorny deciduous shrub or small tree with silvery cut foliage that bears creamy white flowers followed by abundant purple fruits. Height and spread up to 13 feet.
