Spicebush
Small tree, attractive in form and bearing what resembles red coffee beans. Smooth olive green twigs with leaves scented like spicy lemon when crushed. Attractive yellowish buds, small yellow flowers, red fruits and yellow fall foliage. The spicebush can be either a shrub or a tree, depending on habit. It attracts spicebush, tiger, and zebra […]
Sassafras
Wonderful rootbeer scent in all parts of the tree. Mitten-shaped leaves (traditionally used to make file powder, the thickener in Cajun gumbos), spring-green buds, tiny but noticeable pretty yellow flowers, distinctive striated green and orange bark on younger trees. In the fall, brilliant yellow, orange and red leaves with unique and beautiful fruits: navy blue […]
Red Chokeberry
Small but striking flowers: bright white petals that contrast against gorgeous, unique pink-peach anthers. Leaves are tidy, glossy with scalloped edges and white velvety down underneath. Edible fruits are glossy bright red in the fall resembling clusters of miniature crabapples, turning red-purple in late winter. Salmon to red-purple fall foliage. Suckers and spreads. Although a […]
