THE HARDY CLIMBERS
Note.—Different varieties of same kind will bloom at different times.
| Name | Color | Height | Start
Outdoors | Good for | Place | Blooming
Season |
| Akabia (Akabia quinata) | Violet- brown | | | Light
screen | | May,
June |
| Bittersweet (Celastrus scandens) | Yellow | 20 ft. | In the
fall | | Sun or
shade | Bright
seeds
for
winter |
| Cinnamon Vine (Dioscorea) | White | 15 to 30 ft. | Plant
roots
in
early
spring | Rapid
growth | Sun | July,
Aug. |
| Clematis (numerous varietis) | White Red Purple | 5 to 25 ft. | Start
in
early
spring | Rapid
growth | Stands
part
shade | Different
kinds at
different
times.
June
to frost |
| Creeping Spindle (Euonymus radicans) | Evergreen trailer | Varies
in
height | Procure
roots | Wall
covering
like Ivy | | |
| Dutchman's Pipe (Aristolochia) | Brownish-yellow | Grows to
30 ft. | May | Dense shade | Anywhere | |
| Honeysuckle, Japanese (Lonicera Halliana) | Yellow-white | 15 ft. | Procure
plants | Trellis
Fence
Walls | | June
to Aug. |
| Hop, Perennial (Humulus lupulus) | Green | 15 to
20 ft. | Procure
roots | Trellis | Sun | |
| Ivy, Boston or Japan (Ampelopsis or Veitchii) | | Spreads
rapidly | Procure
plants | Covers
walls or
trees | Sun or
shade | |
| Ivy, English (Hedera helix) | Evergreen | | Procure
plants | Wall
covering | Shade-loving | |
| Kudzu Vine, Japanese (Pueraria Thunbergiana) | Rosy-purple | 10 ft.
First
year
from
seed | Early spring | Thick
screen | Sun | August |
| Matrimony Vine (Lycium barbaum) | Purplish | Shrubby | Procure roots | Ornament and use | Sun | Late
summer |
| Pea, Everlasting (Lathyrus latifolius) | Red
White | 6 to
8 ft. | Plant
tuber
or seed | Trellis
or
rough
places | Sun | August |
CHAPTER IX
Shrubs We Love to See
"Every yard should be a picture. The observer should catch the entire effect and purpose, without analyzing its parts."
Bailey.
Of course you want to know something about shrubs. For what? Possibly just to make a tiny hedge around your garden, or a taller one to shut out the view of some neighbor's untidy backyard. More likely for a lovely specimen plant for your own grounds. In that case, don't, oh, don't! set it out in the middle of the lawn! And two or three thus dotted around (in "spotty planting," so called) are the acme of bad taste, and violate the fundamental principles of landscape gardening.