Chimes Tower District

This native, deciduous shrub is tough and adaptable. It grows 4 feet tall and will create thickets through root suckering, if left untouched. Fragrant, long white flower spikes appear in June. The foliage turns purplish red in the fall, and this stunning autumn color lasts well into the winter. As an added bonus, the plant is deer resistant and the flowers attract butterflies. ‘Henry’s Garnet’ prefers slightly cool, moist growing sites, although it will tolerate drier locations and performs well under a wide range of cultural conditions.

Although known as the Japanese stewartia, Stewaria pseudocamellia is found in both Japan and Korea. It is a small, slow-growing, pyramidal, deciduous tree which typically matures to 20 to 40 feet. It has cup-shaped, camellia-like white flowers two and a half inches in diameter with showy orange-yellow anthers. The flowers appear in early summer. The Korean name for this tree is No-gak-namu which translates as "deer's horn tree", which symbolically describes the beauty of the mottled, peeling bark with its tones of orange, green and grey.

Form: Stoloniferous and spreads by rhizomes 12"-18" tall. Spread of 12"-24" at least. Foliage: Wonderful umbrella-like leaves, silky when young on upright stalks to 12"-18" tall. Peltate, deeply divided with jaggedly, toothed lobes 12"-15" across. Flower: June-July, pinkish in color without rays, of botanical interest only.

Calycanthus chinensis is a deciduous shrub reaching about nine feet tall and wide. The noteworthy feature of this plant is the large, three-inch waxy camellia-like flowers with ivory-pink tepals surrounding golden yellow petals in May to July. The glossy green leaves turn a lovely golden in the fall. It does well in part shade and blooms at a young age.  In China it is found on slopes or near streams, usually under a canopy, in mountainous areas, about 1900 to 3200 feet in North Zhejiang Province. It was first introduced to North America in the 1980s and has been found to be hardy in USDA zones 6 to 9. 

Cornus kousa, commonly known as Japanese flowering dogwood, is native to eastern Asia. This tree delights in all four seasons. In late spring, after the foliage has emerged, it has an abundance of creamy white bracts which are long lasting.  Flowers are followed by bright, red fruit that is a compound berry about one inch in diameter and resembles a raspberry.  These fruits are edible and a sweet and delicious addition to the tree's ornamental value.  The deep red fall foliage and the stunning exfoliated bark give fall and winter interest.  Cornus kousa is slower growing and later blooming than other dogwood trees. With age it reaches 30 feet high and can look quite stately.