Plants/Trees For Special Purposes


Shade Tolerant Shrubs
Burning Bush
Cranberry
Dogwood
False Spiria
Hydrangea
Northern Lights Azalea
P.J.M Rhododendron
Snowberry
White Cedar

Drought Resistant Shrubs
-low maintenance
Buffaloberry
Caragana
Russian Olive
Sea Buckthorn
Siberian Salt Bush
Sumac

Earliest Flowering Plants
Rose Daphne
Forsythra
Muckle Plum
Apricot

Most Fragrant Flowers
Lilac
Mock Orange
Rose Daphne
Rose

Plants With Red Purple Summer Foliage
Purple-leaf Plum
Red leaf Rose
Royalty Crab Apple
Schubert Chokecherry
Thunderchild Crab Apple

Plants With Red to Orange Fall Foliage
Apricot
Blueberry
Burning Bush
Chokeberry
Cotoneaster
Cranberry
Dogwood
Maples (most)
Mountain Ash
Pear
Pin Cherry
Saskatoon
Sumac

Shrubs With Golden Summer Foliage
Gold Coast Jumper
Golden Elder
Golden Ninebark
Golden Pfizer Juniper
Goldflame & Goldmound Spiria

Shrubs Commonly Used for Hedges
Caragana
Cotoneaster
Cranberry
Lilac

Shrubs That Flower on New Wood
-may be sheared to ground level in spring
Clematis (Group C)
Elder
Hydrangea
Rose (most)
Spirarea bumalda cultivars
Spirarea japonica cultivars
Weigela (re-bloom only)

Plants With Winter Colored Bark
Amur Cherry
Birch
Caragana
Golden Willow
Ivory Salk Lilac
Pm Cherry
Red Dogwood
Yellow Dogwood

Plants Native to Alberta
Buffaloberry
Lodgepole Pine
Paper Burch
Pin Cherry
Prickly Rose
Pussy Willow
Saskatoon
Snowberry
Tamarack
Trembling Aspen
Western Chokecherry
White Spruce
Wolf Willow

Shrubs With Silver Summer Foliage
Blue Fox Willow
Russian Olive
Sea Buckthorn
Siberian Salt Bush
Silver Bufflaloberry
White Willow
Wolf Willow

Shrubs With Variegated Foliage
Golden Variegated Dogwood
Silver-leaf Dogwood

Height Conversion 1m = 3 feet, 4 inches

Trees for Small Yards
Apple
Apricot
Bakerii Spruce
Bristlecone Pine
Columnar Blue Spruce
Flowering Crab Apple
Grafted Caragana
Hawthorne
Ivory Silk Lilac
Japanese Tree Lilac
Montgomery Spruce
Muckle Plum
Pear
Pin Cherry
Plum
Pyramidal Mountain Ash
Russian Mountain Ash
Sutherland Caragana
Swedish Columnar Aspen
Tower Poplar
Young’s Weeping Birch

Trees for Large Yards, Acreages, Parks or Shelterbelts
Ash
Elm
Manitoba Maple
Pine
Poplar
Spruce
Willow

Plants That Attract Birds
Amur Cherry
Apple
Apricot
Blueberry
Buffaloberry
Cherry Prinsepria
Chokeberry
Cotoneaster
Crab Apple
Cranbury
Currant
Dogwood
Elderberry
Flowering Crab Apple
Hawthorn
Honeysuckle
Mayday
Mongolian Cherry
Mountain Ash
Nanking Cherry
Pear
Pin Cherry
Plum
Rose
Russian Olive
Saskatoons
Schubert Chokecherry
Sea Buckthorn
Sumac
Western Chokecherry