The Glencarlyn Library Community Garden coordinators have created a new series of short videos highlighting the beauty of native plants. We will be sharing these videos as well as additional resources on our website every month as well as glossary words that go along with each month’s topic.
While most of the Glencarlyn videos have a science-based, instructional focus, the series on “Beautiful Native Plants” was created to simply celebrate the ornamental characteristics of many species that are either native to the Mid-Atlantic region or are environmentally friendly and grow well here. Based on a personal library of still photos and a few video clips, each presentation introduces viewers to around a dozen plants, providing scientific and common names and illustrating their full forms as well as details of buds, flowers, and foliage through the seasons. The videos are designed to be viewed with audio on to provide a background of music and the sounds of nature. You are invited to fall in love with beautiful native plants.
Beautiful Native Plants: Shrubs with Outstanding Fruit
Featured Plants
- Aronia arbutifolia (Red Chokeberry)
- Aronia melanocarpa (Black Chokeberry) *
- Callicarpa americana (American Beauty-berry) *
- Euonymus americanus (Strawberry-bush) *
- Ilex glabra (Inkberry) *
- Ilex verticillata (Winterberry) (cultivars) *
- Lindera benzoin (Spicebush) *
- Viburnum acerifolium (Mapleleaf Viburnum)
- Viburnum dentatum (Arrowwood)
- Viburnum nudum (Possum-haw) *
- Viburnum prunifolium (Black Haw)*
*Tried & True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Related Illustrated Glossary Terms
- aril – [ AR-il ] noun: an extra seed-covering, generally fleshy and brightly colored, especially one that develops from the funiculus or seed stalk
- dioecious – [ dahy-EE-shuhs ] adjective: plant species having male and female reproductive organs on different individual plants
- drupe – [ droop ] noun: a fleshy, simple fruit with a central stone containing the seed
- glabrous – [ GLEY-bruhs ] adjective Botany: smooth, having a surface lacking hairs, bristles, and glands
- pome – [ pohm ] noun: an accessory fruit with fleshy receptacle tissue (hypanthium) surrounding a tough core (inferior ovary) containing the seeds
