plants. In addition, plants must grow well in containers to become a successful commercial crop. Three eastern U.S. native deciduous shrubs with ornamental potential for landscape use are american fly honeysuckle, hobblebush, and sweetbells. American fly
habitats, we identified the following eight underused native shrubs as potential candidates for use as invasive plant alternatives: creeping sand cherry, elderberry, gray dogwood, highbush blueberry, round leaf dogwood, northern spicebush, sweetbells, and
production systems and etridiazole may be beneficial in Pythium management. Three Novel Native Shrubs Pass the Nursery Production Test Lubell and Gardner (p. 375) evaluated softwood stem cutting propagation for sweetbells and hobblebush, and growth in
and Lubell (p. 171) evaluated eight native shrubs for adaptability to parking lots and response to white-tailed deer browsing. Sweetbells exhibited excellent performance, equivalent to invasive control plants, and was deer resistant; virginia rose and