September 30th - Plants of Interest

Chionanthus retusus

"There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with the high defiance of nature herself, creating, in the very face of her chaos and tornado, the bower of roses and the pride of irises. It sonds very well to garden a 'natural way.' You may see the natural way in any desert, any swamp, any leech-filled laurel hell. Defiance, on the other hand, is what makes gardeners."
Henry Mitchell, "On the Defiance of Gardeners", from The Essential Earthman.



Abelia x grandiflora  Glossy Abelia 
 Aronia arbutifilia Red Chokeberry 
 Chionanthus retusus Chinese Fringe Tree 
 Chionanthus virginicus White Fringe Tree 
 Cornus Kousa Dogwood 
 Elaeagnus commutata Silverberry 
 Euonymus hamiltonianus Yeddo Euonymus 
 Franklinia altamaha Franklin Tree 
 Gleditsia triacanthos (f. inermis) Common Honey Locust 
 Gymnocladus dioicus Kentucky Coffeetree 
 Heptacodium miconiodes  Seven-son flower 
 Koelreuteria bipinnata  Goldenrain tree 
 Koelreuteria paniculata  Panicled goldenraintree 
 Magnolia grandiflolia Southern Magnolia 
 Magnolia tripetala Umbrella Magnolia 
 Poncirus trifoliata  Hardy-orange 
 Rhodotypos scandens Black jetbead 
 Staphylea colchica Bladdernut 
 Staphylea trifolia Bladdernut 
 Tetradium daniellii Korean tetradium, Bee tree (formerly Evodia danielli)
 Ulmus parvifolia Chinese Elm 
 Zanthoxylum simulans  Flatspine Prickly-ash       
THE VIEW  -- Liriodendron tulipifera, Cornus florida Tuliptree, Tulip Poplar, Yellow Poplar, Flowering Dogwood 

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