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Plants for Heavy Formal Effects: Abelia

Abelia grandiflora Hybrid Abelia Agapanthus umbellatus Blue Lily-of-the-Nile Allamanda (in variety) Allamanda Vine Aucuba japonica Japanese Laurel Bougainvillea (in variety) Paper Flower Buxus (many sorts) Boxwood Hydrangea opuloides otaksa Hydrangea Lagerstroemia indica Crape Myrtle Laurus nobilis Bay Tree Musa ensete Abyssinian Banana Nerium (in variety) Oleander Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Evonymus japonicus Eleagnus pungens Caryopteris incana Buxus (many sorts) Bougainvillea (in variety) Agapanthus umbellatus Abelia grandiflora Chinese Hibiscus Evergreen Evonymus Bronze Oleaster Blue Spirea Boxwood Japanese Laurel Allamanda Vine Hybrid Abelia Blue Lily-of-the-Nile Trained fruit trees Vitex agnus-castus Pyracantha coccinea lalandi Thuja occidentalis pyramidalis Musa ensete Tabernaemontana (in variety) Laurus nobilis Hydrangea opuloides otaksa Chaste Tree Crape Jasmine (all sorts) Pyramidal Arborvitae Evergreen Thorn Oleander Abyssinian Banana Crape Myrtle Hydrangea Caryopteris incana Blue Spirea Eleagnus pungens Bronze Oleaster Evonymus japonicus Evergreen Evonymus Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Chinese Hibiscus Pyracantha coccinea lalandi Evergreen Thorn Thuja occidentalis pyramidalis Pyramidal Arborvitae Tabernaemontana (in variety) Crape Jasmine Trained fruit trees (all sorts) Vitex agnus-castus Chaste Tree D. TREES AND SHRUBS FOR ALLEES. All plants which are adapted to allee effects must be of a type which will respond to the operations of severe pruning. Those plants in Group a must have a special adaptation for a spreading habit of growth and yet a compact habit of growth. They must be such plants as will retain their foliage during a considerable period in order to produce and maintain the pleached allee effect. The deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs shown in Group b of this list are all adapted to types of open allee developments on different scales, to be in keeping with the general landscape effect. a.

Pleached Acer campestre European Cork Maple Carpinus caroliniana American Hornbeam Carpinus betulus European Hornbeam Corylus maxima Filbert Crataegus oxycantha May Thorn Fagus sylvatica European Beech Quercus laurifolia (South of Washington) Laurel Oak Rhamnus cathartica Common Buckthorn b. Not pleached (Open Allees):

I. Deciduous:

Acer saccharinum pyramidale Pyramidal Silver Maple Acer saccharum monumentale Columnar Sugar Maple Betula alba fastigiata Pyramidal White Birch Crataegus oxycantha May Thorn Larix leptolepsis Japanese Larch Populus nigra italica Lombardy Poplar 2. Evergreen: