One of the major OSU Extension Nursery Landscape and Turf Team (ENLTT) projects in 2004 was the team’s partnership with the Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association (ONLA) in the development of two popular ONLA publications:
These new publications include hundreds of pictures taken and plant descriptions written by the authors listed with this report, with Bill Hendricks providing the most images, Tim Malinich doing exemplary and exhaustive photo editing and computer image management work, and Jennifer Gray providing her ever-professional editorial touches in working with the printers.
Jane Martin, Pam Bennett, Jack Kerrigan, Erik Draper, and Jim Chatfield provided plant descriptions and other written text for the publications. We learned a great deal about the supremacy of digital photography (Pam Bennett was right — again) and about how many things have to go right to get the image you want. And we greatly improved our plant knowledge with the many days needed to make this project work. Special thanks to Jane Martin for her professionalism, expert photography, and endless time dedicated to this project.
Check out a few of the hundreds of images from Landscape Plants for Ohio and Perennial Plants for Ohio which are shown on the cover of this Special Circular. Read all about plants such as:
Cornus kousa
KOUSA DOGWOOD Zone 5
Small (15- to 20-foot) tree with showy white flower bracts; appealing multicolored bark of grays, browns, and tans; stratified horizontal branching pattern; attractive dark green leaves (red-purple fall color), and colorful roundish oversized raspberry-like fruits. Vase-shaped plant grows rounded with age. Prefers sunny moist soils, but better adapted to drought than C. florida. Flowers three weeks later and has blossoms elevated above foliage by short flower stalks.
There are many cultivars with white and pink flower forms, foliage variegation, and other features. ‘Satomi’ is one popular cultivar with pink floral effects. ‘Milky Way’ is a cultivar of C. kousa var. chinensis, and has greater numbers of flowers and fruits than the species. Rutgers hybrids are crosses of C. kousa and C. florida with intermediate characteristics and improved disease resistance over some C. florida cultivars. One example is ‘Rutcan’ (ConstellationTM with exceptional flowering.
You may order your copies from:
The Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association, Inc.
72 Dorchester Square
Westerville, OH 43081
614-899-1195, 800-825-5062
Fax: 614-899-9489, 800-860-1713
info@onla.buckeyegardening.com
Timothy Malinich, Ohio State University Extension, Cuyahoga County; William F. Hendricks, Klyn Nurseries; Jane A. Martin, Ohio State University Extension, Franklin County; Pamela J. Bennett, Ohio State University Extension, Clark County; Jennifer Gray, Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association; Erik A. Draper, Ohio State University Extension, Geauga County; Kenneth Chamberlain, Communications and Technology; Fred Hower, The Fred Hower Co.; Joseph F. Boggs, Ohio State University Extension, Hamilton County, OSU Extension Center at Piketon; Kenneth D. Cochran, Secrest Arboretum, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center; Jack Kerrigan, Ohio State University Extension, Cuyahoga County; Daniel A. Herms, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Entomology; Curtis E. Young, Ohio State University Extension, Allen County; Larry G. Steward, Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute, Horticultural Technologies; David E. Dyke, Ohio State University Extension, Hamilton County; and James A. Chatfield, Ohio State University Extension Center at Wooster, Horticulture and Crop Science.