Garden Design With Calycanthus

S tarting to plan a garden from scratch whether it s a small garden in the city or a sprawling country garden can be a daunting task what good design is really about i think is mastering the hugely different dimensions that there are in any garden.

Garden design with calycanthus. Across 10 cm adorned with yellow and purple central markings. The color of the flowers is reminiscent of those on the native tree liriodendron tulipifera tulip poplar perhaps a little softer. Calycanthus floridus has garnered many common names derived from its unique scent which is like cloves mashed with pineapple and bananas the elongated thin petals of its flowers vary from a deep maroon to a rust red.

Carolina allspice calycanthus floridus a deciduous shrub of woodland edges that reaches 6 to 12 feet tall with glossy dark green aromatic foliage. Calycanthus floridus athens bears softly colored butter yellow flowers on a shrub that grows to nine feet tall after many years in the garden. Resembling magnolia blossoms they are produced in abundance at the ends of short branchlets in late spring with some sporadic continued.

The bizarre dark red flowers with their many straplike petals are also fragrant. Native plant is a great addition to the garden as a naturalized shrub that s allowed to spread or as a specimen plant near the patio. Calycanthus hartlage wine was developed at north carolina state university.

Calycanthus hartlage wine is a cross between the native eastern sweetshrub calycanthus floridus and chinese sweetshrub calycanthus chinensis. A fast grower in the garden in my experience hartlage wine has not been notable for fragrance. Strawberry bush home and garden garden plants shrubs foliage landscape plant leaves garden design home garden information center clemson cooperative extension sweetshrub calycanthus floridus has many common names including carolina allspice strawberry bush sweet bubby sweet betsy and spicebush.

It has very large wine red flowers. Sweetshrub is native along the east coast from pennsylvania south to northern florida and west to mississippi. Plant database entry for carolina allspice calycanthus floridus with 59 images 2 comments and 53 data details.

Space scale texture harmony colour structure light dark charm strength sense of place romance history and so on. Genus calycanthus are deciduous shrubs with simple aromatic leaves and solitary fragrant flowers in summer details aphrodite is a multi stemmed deciduous shrub to 3m high with oval to oblong glossy green leaves that turn yellow in autumn.