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Where the garden meets the wild |
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| TREES & SHRUBS V - Z | ||
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| VACCINIUM HUCKLEBERRY, BLUEBERRY Ericaceae (Heath family) | ||
Vaccinium membranaceum and V. ovalifolium in early autumn on Mt. Arrowsmith, Vancouver Island. Photograph © Dorrie Woodward. |
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Photograph by Brother Alfred Brousseau, © St. Mary's College of California
Photograph © Charles Webber |
Vaccinium caespitosum
Michaux. Dwarf
bilberry. Zone 2. Pot (10 cm. / 4"). In Canada C$4.50; elsewhere US$4.00. Pot (1 gal. / 6"). In Canada C$10.00; elsewhere US$9.00.
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Photograph © Paige Woodward |
Vaccinium delavayi
Franchet. Native to western China, this beautiful shrub has shiny,
serrated, evergreen leaves reminiscent of those of V.
ovatum but its habit is more compact. The urn-shaped flowers in
spring, white sometimes blushed with pink, are followed by red to purple
berries. Height to 1 m (3'). Zone uncertain. We grow it in
Zone 6. Pot (1 gal. / 6"). In Canada C$10.00; elsewhere US$9.00. |
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Photograph © Dorrie Woodward |
Vaccinium membranaceum
Douglas
ex Torrey. Black
huckleberry, Mountain huckleberry, Thinleaf huckleberry. Zone 6,
perhaps colder.
Pot (10 cm. / 4"). In Canada C$4.50; elsewhere US$4.00.
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Photographs © Paige Woodward |
Vaccinium moupinense Franchet. Himalayan
blueberry. Also known as Vaccinium sikangense. Native to
western China. This very handsome mounding shrub has small, shiny, oval,
evergreen leaves that are pink or bronze when new, or when cold, and
bright red in autumn, producing an ever-changing display of color. It has
red-brown, urn-shaped flowers and black berries. Zone
5. Pot (1 gal. / 6"). In Canada C$10.00; elsewhere US$9.00. |
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Photograph © Paige Woodward |
Vaccinium myrtilloides
Michaux. Velvetleaf huckleberry.
Zone 2.
Pot (10 cm. / 4"). In Canada C$4.50; elsewhere US$4.00. Pot (1 gal. / 6"). In Canada C$10.00; elsewhere US$9.00. |
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| Vaccinium ovalifolium
J.E. Smith. Blue
huckleberry, Oval-leaved huckleberry.
Zone 3.
Pot (10 cm. / 4"). In Canada C$4.50; elsewhere US$4.00. Pot (1 gal. / 6"). In Canada C$10.00; elsewhere US$9.00. |
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Photograph © Pat Woodward
Photograph by Brother Alfred Brousseau, © St. Mary's College of California |
Vaccinium ovatum
Pursh.
Evergreen huckleberry, California huckleberry. Zone 7, allegedly,
but we grow it in Zone 6.
Pot (10 cm. / 4"). In Canada C$4.50; elsewhere US$4.00. Pot (1 gal. / 6"). In Canada C$10.00; elsewhere US$9.00.
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Photograph © Louise Kulzer
Photograph © Pat Woodward |
Vaccinium oxycoccos
Linnaeus. Bog cranberry. Sometimes called Oxycoccus
oxycoccos, but not by Vander Kloet. This prostrate
creeper makes a wonderful evergreen
groundcover. Its pointed, leathery
leaves are alternate, dark green above, grey below and shorter than your
baby fingernail. Tiny pink "Shooting-star" flowers in spring are followed in
late summer by red
cranberries. Our plants are grown from seeds collected in the Burns
Bog near Vancouver, BC. Give them damp, acid soil or sphagnum moss and
part-day sun. Zone 2.
Pot (4"/ 10 cm). In Canada C$5.00; elsewhere US$4.50. |
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Photograph © Dorrie Woodward |
Vaccinium parvifolium J.E.
Smith. Red
huckleberry. Zone 6.
Pot (2 gal.). In Canada C$20.00; elsewhere US$18.00. Pot (1 gal. / 6"). In Canada C$12.00; elsewhere US$11.00. Pot (10 cm. / 4"). In Canada C$4.50; elsewhere US$4.00.
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Photograph © Pat Woodward |
Vaccinium uliginosum Linnaeus.
Bog blueberry, Alpine bilberry, Bog whortleberry. Zone
2.
Pot (10 cm. / 4"). In Canada C$4.50; elsewhere US$4.00. Pot (1 gal. / 6"). In Canada C$10.00; elsewhere US$9.00. |
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Photograph © Maggie Hallam |
Vaccinium vitis-idaea Linnaeus.
Lingonberry,
Mountain cranberry.
Zone 2.
Pot (10 cm. / 4"). In Canada C$4.50; elsewhere US$4.00. Zone 2. Pot (1 gal. / 6"). In Canada C$10.00; elsewhere US$9.00. |
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Photograph © Paige Woodward |
Vaccinium vitis-idaea var.
minus
Lodd. Dwarf Lingonberry, Rock cranberry, Moss berry.
Appealing all year but irresistible in bloom in April, this dense little
evergreen Lingonberry is native to eastern North America from New England north. Zone 2.
Pot (1 gal. / 6"). In Canada C$10.00; elsewhere US$9.00. |
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VIBURNUM BUSH CRANBERRY Caprifoliaceae (Honeysuckle family) |
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Photograph © Paige Woodward
Scanned image © Paige Woodward |
Viburnum edule (Michaux) Rafinesque.
Highbush cranberry,
Squashberry. This deciduous shrub has wonderful, subtle color in
both spring and fall. At left you see the leaves (top) just unfurled in
March and (bottom) plucked in early October, before they drop. Zone
5.
Pot (1 gal. / 6"). In Canada C$10.00; elsewhere US$9.00. Pot (10 cm. / 4"). In Canada C$5.00; elsewhere US$4.50. |
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| XANTHOCYPARIS Cupressaceae (Cypress family) | ||
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| Xanthocyparis
nootkatensis (D.
Don) Farjon & Hiep.Yellow cedar, Nootka cypress, Alaska cypress. The
tree we
used to know as Chamaecyparis nootkatensis has been moved to Xanthocyparis,
a genus published in 2002 after the discovery in North Vietnam of a
new conifer: Xanthocyparis vietnamensis, the golden
Vietnamese cypress. So far the genus has only two members.
Xanthocyparis nootkatensis tolerates many sites but it is in its glory on moist slopes in the Northwest Coast rainforest. Specimens 1,000 years old are common there and some at least 1,700 years old have been found. Majestic and spreading given space, this tree grows very slowly to a height of 20-50 m (65-164'). Its rot-resistant yellow wood is clad in shaggy, grey bark in vertical strips. The "braided" leaves are opposite, with four rows of pointed scales. Small, waxy, blue female "berries" ripen after pollination into small brown cones. Zone 5. Special order only. Pot (1 gal. / 6"). In Canada C$10.00; elsewhere US$9.00. |
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