Peirce’s Woods, Longwood Gardens
This seven-acre area has been developed as an "art form" garden that brings together the most ornamental characteristics of the eastern deciduous forest. Under the high branches of oak, ash, maple and tulip trees, sweeps of native shrubs and native ground cover plantings carpet the woodland floor, punctuated by flowering understory trees. Various "rooms" have been created within the woods, with emphasis on native deciduous azaleas blooming from early spring to summer. The concept of using native plants to create the woodland garden as an art form is one of the first such projects in any public garden.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Actaea pachypoda | White Baneberry Dolls Eyes | |
Allium cernuum | Nodding Onion | |
Amelanchier canadensis | Canadian Serviceberry Canadian Service-berry Shadblow Serviceberry Juneberry Shadbush Junebush | |
Amelanchier laevis | Allegheny Serviceberry Allegheny Service-berry Serviceberry | |
Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
Athyrium filix-femina | Common Lady Fern Subarctic Lady Fern Lady Fern Ladyfern | |
Carya glabra | Pignut Hickory Sweet Pignut Hickory Coast Pignut Hickory Pignut Sweet Pignut Smoothbark Hickory Broom Hickory Red Hickory Swamp Hickory Switch Hickory Switchbud Hickory | |
Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud Redbud | |
Cornus florida | Flowering Dogwood Virginia Dogwood Florida Dogwood White Cornel Arrowwood American Boxwood False Box St. Peter's Crown Corona De San Pedro | |
Diphylleia cymosa | American Umbrellaleaf Umbrella-leaf | |
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