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36 City Trees When digging holes for trees on slopes, I've found that it's useful to put the soil on the downhill side of the hole that the tree will be planted in (why fight gravi- ty?). When the tree has been placed in the hole, the fill on the lower side creates a berm; any sod that was removed goes on the berm that was created by the tree planting. I have attached a simple diagram to illustrate what it looks like. —Paul Eriksson, Natural Resources Specialist, Engineering Division, City of Cumberland, MD Woody Plants for Slopes in the Southeastern US * evergreen leaves ^ aggressive or potentially invasive # species or one of hybrid parents is native to southeastern US Woody groundcovers and small spreading shrubs for shade Ardisia japonica 'Chirimen' *^ (variegated marlberry) Cephalotaxus harringtonia 'Prostrata' * (plumyew) Clethra alnifolia 'Sixteen Candles' # (summersweet) Leucothoe axillaris *# (doghobble) Lonicera nitida * (evergreen honeysuckle) Microbiota decussata * (Siberian cypress) Sarcoccoca hookeriana var. humilis * (sweetbox) Sasa veitchii *^ (kuma zasa bamboo) Symphoricarpos x chenaultii 'Hancock' # (snowberry) Xanthorhiza simplicissima # (yellowroot) Woody groundcovers and small spreading shrubs for sun Abelia x grandiflora 'Prostrata' * (glossy abelia) Comptonia peregrina # (sweetfern) Conradina verticillata *# (beach rosemary) Deutzia gracilis 'Nikko' (creeping deutzia) Ephedra americana ssp. andina *^ (ephedra) Forsythia Gold Tide™ (dwarf forsythia) Gardenia radicans * (dwarf gardenia) Hypericum calycinum * (St. John's wort) Ilex opaca 'Maryland Dwarf' *# (prostrate American holly) Indigofera kirillowii 'Rose Carpet' ^ (false wild indigo) Itea virginica 'Little Henry' # (Virginia sweetspire) Jasminum nudiflorum ^ (winter jasmine) Juniperus procumbens 'Nana' * (dwarf Chinese juniper) Juniperus horizontalis 'Bar Harbor' * (spreading juniper) Juniperus conferta 'Blue Pacific' * (shore juniper) Lantana 'Miss Huff' ^ (lantana) Rhus aromatica 'Gro-Low' (sumac) Rosa rugosa Pavement Series™ (salt rose) Rosa 'Snow Carpet' (carpet rose) Spiraea decumbens 'White Lace' Stephanandra incisa 'Crispa' Trachelospermum asiaticum * (Asiatic jasmine) Trachelospermum jasminoides * (star jasmine) Vitex rotundifolia ^ (beach vitex) -- do not use in coastal dune areavs, highly invasive Large shrubs and trees Aesculus parviflora # (bottlebrush buckeye) Planting Trees on Slopes Chaenomeles spp. (flowering quince) Corylus americana # (filbert) Foresteria acuminata # (native privet) Hibiscus syriacus (rose of Sharon) Hydrangea quercifolia # (oakleaf hydrangea) Ilex verticillata # (winterberry) Ilex vomitoria # (yaupon holly) Myrica cerifera *# (bayberry) Robinia pseudoacacia # (black locust) Rhus copallina # (winged sumac) Rhus glabra # (smooth sumac) Rhus typhina # (staghorn sumac) Sassafrass albidum # (sassafras) Viburnum awabuki * Viburnum rufidulum # (southern blackhaw)