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Harmon Yard Wins Honors The 1 1 olden It each Beautification Committee has chosen the yard of Dan and Rachel Harmon of 22S Ocean Boulevard West as yard of the month for October. Pictured with the Harmons (at left) is beauti ficalion committee representative Janie Steorts. They May Not Be Cherry Trees, But.. Dear Hunt Doctor: Can you suggest an easy-to-grow small tree or tree-shaped shrub to replace a Japanese cherry tree that has died? It has been growing (but not ver> well) at the end of a perennial bol der with daylilies, iythrum. boltotna and stokesia. 1 need a replacement that gives only light shade. The site is well drained and gets lull sun all sum mer. part sun in spring and fall and is completely shaded all day in win ter by a house and tree next door. I enjoy reading vour column in the newspaper and 1 especially ap preciate your advice about plants that grow well in this area. Answer: Thanks for the acco lades! The lall is an excellent time lor planting trees and shrubs. 1 com mend vou lor taking advantage of tins beautiful weather to bcautily your garden. As you have discovered, Japan ese cherry trees can be difficult to grow in our area. They are suscepti ble to many disease and insect prob lems confounded with the fact that bloom is often irregular and meager. However. I know of no small tree that would truly substitute for the beautiful flower display of a healthy Japanese cherry in the spring. I will suggest several beautiful small trees that I know w ill thrive in the coastal plains of North Carolina with minimal care. Most of these should do well in your back>ard and lit your landscape requirements. A beauulul spring bloomer that forms a small tree is the Saucer Magnolia ( Magnolia soulangiunat. There are more than a do/en culti vars available in the nursery trade which vary greatly in flower color. THE r PLANT DOCTOR ? ? C. BRUCE WILLIAMS Extension Area Turf Specialist plant height and growth habit. The Suit Magnolia (Magnolia stellata) should also be considered. A favorite of mine is the Cornc liancherry Dogwood (Ccrnus mas). This is the earliest bloomer of all the dogwoods. Small yellow (low ers clustered around the stem nodes oiler color to the landscape when all else is drab and colorless. Another dogwood that does ex tremely well in this area is the Kousa Dogwood ( Ccrnus kousa>. Although the Kousa dogwood blooms later than the Eastern Dog* wood, the beautiful smooth whitish bark, dark foliage and stark white flowers make a small tree with su perior pest resistance and drought tolerance. I would be remiss if I did not mention the "king" of eastern North Carolina spring bloomers, the Eastern Dogwood (Ccrnus florido). More than 125 cullivars are avail able in the trade. I especially favor the double- dowered cultivar "Ple na". The native Eastern Kedbud (Cenis canadensis) is difficult to beat lor early spring color (red to spring blooms) and resistance to in sects and diseases. A new white llowered cultivar developed by Dr. J.C. Raulston at N.C. Slate Univer sity is gelling inii) ihe nursery trade and should be available this year on a limited basis. II you wan i something that is a bit unusual, you may want to inves tigate the Franklin iree or Franklinia ( Franklinia alauuruiha). A native American tree, it was discovered by John Bartram along the Altamaha River in Georgia in 1770 and named tor Ben Franklin. The tree has not been seen in the wild since 1790. This small tree produces white, fra grant flowers three inches across in July and beautiful orange-red fo liage in the autumn. Witch Hazel (llanuimelis sp.) is another beautiful and well-adapted early bloomer. The fragrant yellow to red flowers blix>m in the dead ol winter in this part of the country, l itis plant docs well in moist, wet areas in which most plants will drown. Dozens of cullivars arc available in the nursery trade. T.G. Ranncy and K.A. Powell of N.C. Suite University's Horticulture Department published in May 1991 an excellent work entitled. Recom mended trees for Urban Land scapes: Proven Performers for Dif ficult Sue. Horticulture Information Leaflet No. 617. These pros recommend a list of more than 40 species of trees. The leaflet describes hardiness, mature height, form and stress tolerance and offers various other comments concerning landscape trees. You may obtain a copy of this publication Iree from any North Carolina Extension office or by sending an SASE to me. I Send your Hardening questions to Ihe Plant Doctor. P.O. Box 109. Bolivia. N.C. 2X422.) i ? 4S-- urf ^ Take time to have a mammogram vm , ...it could save your life! Breast Cancer ? What You Don't Know Can Hurt You And Your Family... The time it takes to eat lunch could save your life! No woman is immune to Breast Cancer. But. when detected early enough. ..you can beat the odds. Breast Cancer is... ? The #1 cause of death tor women 40-44 years of age. ? The #2 cause ot death for ALL American women. One ill ten women will develop breast cancer. Don't bet your life it can't happen to you. l-.arly detection makes breast cancer nearly l)5'r curable. At 1 he Brunswick Hospital we care about you and vour health That's why our BRLASI CARL CLNTLR offers complete mammography exams at an affordable price. The Breast Care Center 754-81 2 l-Ext. 276 THE BRUNSWICK HOSPITAL INC. I l\vy. 17 South, Supply irri(iii)iv CaMf0' , Appoint 'iKcnt> PMOTO BY PAT O LfARY October Yard Weil-Groomed Carolina Shores Garden Club presented its October Yard of the Month award to Walter and Joanne Could, III Sunrise Court, Carolina Shores, Calabash. 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