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Harry Lauder’s Walkingstick
It does well in large containers and likes full sun. This unique deciduous shrub has interesting gnarled and twisted branches so it is often not grown primarily for its blooms but for this unusual branching pattern. Harry Lauder’s Walkingstick, Corylus avellana 'Contorta', is noted for its contorted, twisted growth, making it a real conversation piece when grown as a specimen plant. The branches are valued for their use in flower arrangements. It is a slow grower to 8 to 10 feet tall and wide and prefers well drained soil in sun to part shade. Harry Lauder's Walkingstick has terrific yellow fall foliage color with showy greenish-yellow catkins (as on pussy willows) that brighten the winter scene. ... more info
Adams Needle The Adams Needle bush, Yucca filamentosa, has stiff evergreen rosettes and are part of the scene in hot dry Central and North American scrublands. The remarkable flower-spikes, 6' or more high, appear when plants are five or more years old. This variety has a white edge. Yuccas are hardier than they appear, and only fail in cold exposed inland positions, where they are better grown as container plants. Otherwise they are handsome architectural foliage plants for dry, sunny borders. Yucca filamentosa makes dense clumps of stiff leaves 30 inches or so long and edged with fine curly hairs. |
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