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Diverse Horticultural Evergreens for Various Landscaping Needs

Explore a selection of evergreen shrubs and perennials ideal for landscaping, offering diverse shapes, colors, and forms to enhance outdoor and indoor spaces. Discover unique characteristics and cultivation tips for each plant.

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Diverse Horticultural Evergreens for Various Landscaping Needs

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  1. Plant ID #3 Horticulture 2

  2. Chamaecyparis pisifera • Gold Mop • Foliage: medium- to large-sized evergreen shrub; scale-like or awl-like leaves press close to the thready stems • Height: 3'-20' tall x similar widths, depending upon cultivar • Form: round • Exposure: full sun • Landscape Use: accent plant, borders, foundations

  3. Chameadorea elegans • Parlor Palm • Foliage: Fan like leaf; compound; linear leaflets with entire margins • Flowers: rare • Height: May grow up to 15 feet outside, rarely over 5 feet when grown as an indoor plant • Spread: Can be up to 2 feet at the base when cultivated outside • Form: weeping • Leaf Arrangement: alternative • Landscape Use: container; interiorscape • Exposure: Sun • Unique Characteristic: indoor plant; good for air pollution removal

  4. Chlorophytum comosum • Spider Plant • Foliage: grass-like, evergreen perennial in the lily family; linear, 8-16 in long; simple, linear shape with entire margins • Flowers: Small white flowers are borne along outward arching wiry stalks • Height: 1-2’ • Spread: 1-3’ • Form: weeping • Leaf Arrangement: whorled • Exposure: sun • Landscape Use: Container, Hanging basket, interiorscape • Unique Characteristic: After blooming and fruiting, little tufts of leaves - baby spider plants - develop on the stalks.

  5. Chrysanthemum morifolium • Florist Chrysanthemum • Foliage: simple; oval shape with deeply lobed margins • Flowers: large flower head; red, orange, yellow, white, lavender • Height: 1 to 5 feet • Spread: up to 4 feet • Form: Short lived bushy perennial • Leaf Arrangement: alternate • Exposure: sun or part sun • Landscape Use: Container, interiorscape • Unique Characteristic: Commonly used in flower arrangements; popular potted flowering plant. MUM FEST

  6. Chrysanthemum x superbum • Shasta Daisy • Foliage: simple, linear shape, entire at base with serrated tip margins • Flowers: white with yellow centers; single and double flowered • Height: 3 to 4 feet • Spread: 2 to 3 feet • Form: upright • Exposure: Sun or Partial Sun • Landscape Use: border, cut flower, edging • Leaf Arrangement: whorled • Unique Characteristic: need some support to keep them from falling over; deciduous

  7. Clematis x jackmanii • Clematis Hybrids • Foliage: compound, 3 ovate leaflets with entire margins • Flowers: produce flowers on the current season's growth; abundant and large, to 7 in across, with 4-6 petal-like sepals; single or double • Height: 10 feet in one season • Spread: vine; twining growth • Form: vine; climbing with trendels • Exposure: Sun • Landscape Use: Border, container, edging • Leaf Arrangement: opposite • Unique Characteristic: 400 named cultivars of hybrid clematis

  8. Codiaeum variegatum • Croton • Foliage: evergreen; diversity of leaf shapes and colors; all variegated in colors; simple; entire margins • Flowers: tiny inconspicuous star-shaped yellow flowers • Height: 10 feet • Spread: varies greatly • Form: upright; shrub • Leaf Arrangement: alternate • Exposure: Sun • Landscape Use: Container, interiorscape • Unique Characteristic: house plants stay small; milky sap

  9. Coleus x hybridus • Coleus • Foliage: late spring to fall; simple, ovate shape with crenate margins • Flowers: spike, whitish-purple in summer • Height: 8 to 30 inches depending on variety • Spread: 6 to 24 inches depending on variety • Form: upright, inverted pyramid • Leaf Arrangement: opposite • Landscape Use: Border, container, edging • Exposure: Sun or Partial Sun • Unique Characteristic: grown for foliage

  10. Cornus florida • Flowering Dogwood • Foliage: deciduous; mid-green leaves; 3-6 in long, turn red and purple in autumn; ovate shape with entire, wavy margins • Flowers: Blooms before leaves come out; white or pink; single, white in early spring; indented at tip • Height: 30 feet • Spread: 35 feet • Form: short trunk with full rounded crown with horizontal branches often in layered tiers • Leaf Arrangement: opposite • Landscape Use: Border • Exposure: Light shade • Unique Characteristic: Flowering Dogwoods are one of our most common under story trees. State Flower

  11. Cornus kousa • Chinese Dogwood • Foliage: 2 to 4", simple, ovate shape with entire margins; reddish purple to scarlet fall color; deciduous; hairy underneath; no veins after midpoint • Flowers: Pointy petals; blooms about 2 to 3 weeks after C. florida; pinkish red to red fruit in late summer • Height: 20 to 30 feet • Spread: 15 to 20 feet • Form: Vase shape in youth; rounded with horizontal branching with age • Leaf Arrangement: opposite • Landscape Use: border • Exposure: light shade • Unique Characteristic: AKA Kousa Dogwood

  12. Cupressocyparis x leylandii • Leyland Cypress • Foliage: evergreen; scale-like leaves with entire margins • Flowers: not showy; brown cones • Height: 50-60 feet • Spread: 12 to 15 feet • Form: Upright; pyramidal • Leaf Arrangement: alternate • Landscape Use: border, screen • Exposure: sun • Unique Characteristic: Short-term screen plant; disease and insect prone; easy to transplant; salt tolerant

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