THE TERM “food forest” from the permaculture world sounds big—like if I suggested you start one, you’d probably say, “I don’t have room for a forest of any kind.”
Favorite Native Shrubs And Trees
24.07.2023 - 11:50 / hgic.clemson.edu
One of my earliest horticultural memories was watching my grandmother arrange purple berried branches of American beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) in a vase and place it in the center of her dining room table. These beautiful, native shrubs grew wild in the woods surrounding her home, full of clusters of purple berries in the fall.
I’ll admit that I am not a native plant purist because many non-native plants thrill my gardening soul. My landscape is a combination of many native plants and plants from other countries. A big advantage of indigenous, native plants is that they are extremely hardy and tend to be pest free. To protect pollinating and beneficial insects, I never use insecticides in my garden; I always choose plants with natural pest insect resistance.
Spring bloomers, such as a wide variety of native azaleas (Rhododendron species), fothergilla (Fothergilla major), and Virginia sweetspire (Itea virginica), all fill the air with their wonderful scents and are included in my plant collection.
Other favorites include sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus) with its clove-scented, rust-colored flowers and its yellow-flowered cousin, Athens sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus ‘Athens’), which has a fragrance similar to apples and bananas. There’s nothing more pleasurable than being outside on a warm spring day with the scent of flowers drifting in the breeze throughout the garden.
Some of my other favorite native shrubs include oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia), Annabelle hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens), Florida anise (Illicium floridanum), buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis), and a number of buckeye species (Aesculus species).
Don’t forget the flowering native trees. Everyone is familiar with our native dogwood
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