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Shopping for plants? Take home a winner- •
"TakehoTne 3 Georgia Gold
Medal plant, and you’ll take home a
winner!’' proclaims Gary Wade, the
Extension leader for horticulture
with the University of Georgia
Extension Service.
Wade clearly isn’t bashful when
it comes to touting the Georgia
Plant Selection Committee’s unique
program.
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on late in the fall, often into
November, before dropping for the
winter.
White mowers develop from
buds of the previous year and are
visible by mid- to late June in cen
tal Georgia.
In July the flowers, about a half
inch across, begin opening along
four- to six-inch flower stalks,
flowering from the bottom to the
top over four to six weeks. When
in full flower, the plant has a
whitish haze blanketing the lower
dark green foliage.
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Hummingbird Clethra
or Summersweet
The flowers give way to small
brown capsules that ripen in
October to November and persist
throughout the winter. They pro
vide dormant season interest and
may be removed in early spring
before growth begins.
Over time the plant forms suck
ers out from the crown and
begins increasing in size as a
colony.
These suckers can be separated
from the parent plant and trans
planted to another part of the land
scape or cut off at ground level to
He’s sold on the program’s ben
efits to Georgians.
“Selecting a new plant for the
landscape can be frustrating,” Wade
says. “There are so many plants to
choose from.”
Those countless plants may look
much the same at buying time,
when they’re all together at the gar
den center. But each variety makes
restrict its size and spread.
Hummingbird Clethra asks lit
tle, yet adds beauty and fragrance
to the landscape. It grows and
flowers well in either full sun or
partial shade.
It prefers moist, acid, and rea
sonably well-drained soils. It’s an
ideal plant to use along lakes,
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its own special contribution in the
landscape and has its own unique
requirements.
“Without the help of a profes
sional, it’s easy to get stuck with a
lemon,” Wade said, “one that looks
great in the pot but becomes a high
maintenance nightmare after it’s
planted in the landscape.”
That’s where the Georgia Plant
streams and ponds because of its
tolerance to moist sites. Before
buds break in spring, broadcast a
10-10-10 fertilizer around the
plants at a rate of one pound per
100 square feet. Add a second
application after the summer
bloom is complete, for more rapid
growth.
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Selections Committee, Inc., comes
in.
Now in its third year, the com
mittee of green industry profession
als and university faculty identifies
and promotes the production, sale
and use of superior, can’t-miss land
scape plants.
The group meets quarterly to
compile and review lists of superior
Michael Dirr, professor of hor
ticulture at the University of
Georgia, says Hummingbird
Clethra is “a unique shrub that
always looks wellgroomed. It’s a
user-friendly plant and a garden-
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plants in four categories: trees,
shrubs, herbaceous perennials and
annuals.
Nominations of superior but
underused plants are submitted by
nurserymen, flower growers, land
scapers, botanical garden horticul-
See PLANTS, Page 27D
er’s delight.”
If good looks, fragrant flowers,
compact size and low maintenance
are among the qualities you want
in a plant, look no farther than
Hummingbird Clethra
