Trees and Shrubs for Special Purposes
See below for a list of plants for special purposes.
Drought Tolerant Shrubs
- Barberry
- Buffaloberry
- Caragana
- Juniper
- Pine
- Potentilla
- Russian Olive
- Sea Buckthorn
- Spirea
Earliest Flowering Plants
- Double Flowering Plum
- Forsythia
- Lilac
- Muckle Plum
- Princess Kay Plum
- Renaissance Spirea
- Snowmound Spirea
Most Fragrant Flowers
- Lilac
- Mock Orange
- Rose Daphne
- Roses
Plants for Semi Moist Locations
- Alder
- Beaked Hazelnut
- Birch
- Cedar
- Cranberry
- Cypress
- Dwarf Balsam Fir
- Elder
- Red Dogwood
- Snowball
- Snowberry
Plants with Red to Purple Summer Foliage
- Barberry - Concord
- Barberry - Royal Burgundy
- Crabapple - Royal Raindrops
- Flowering Crabapple - Gladiator
- Flowering Crabapple - Royalty
- Flowering Crabapple - Thunderchild
- Ninebark - Burgundy Candy
- Ninebark - Panther
- Ninebark - Summer Wine
- Ninebark - Tiny Wine
- Purple Leaf Sandcherry
- Schubert Chokecherry
- Weeping Crabapple - Rosy Glow
- Weigela - Electric Love
- Weigela - Tango
Plants Native to Alberta
- Beaked Hazelnut
- Buffaloberry
- Green Alder
- Lodgepole Pine
- Paper Birch
- Pin Cherry
- Pussy Willow
- Red Osier Dogwood
- Snowberry
- Tamarack
- Trembling Aspen
- Western Chokecherry
- White Spruce
- Wolf Willow
Plants that Attract Birds
- Amur Cherry
- Apple
- Apricot
- Blueberry
- Chokeberry
- Chokecherry
- Cotoneaster
- Crabapple
- Cranberry
- Currant
- Dogwood
- Elderberry
- Hawthorn
- Honeycuckle
- Mountain Ash
- Nanking Cherry
- Pear
- Pin Cherry
- Plum
- Rose
- Russian Olive
- Saskatoon
- Sea Buckthorn
- Sumac
Shrubs Commonly Used for Hedges
- Alpine Currant
- Caragana
- Cotoneaster
- Cranberry
- Lilac
Plants with Red to Orange Fall Foliage
- Apricot
- Blueberry
- Burning Bush
- Chokeberry
- Cotoneaster
- Cranberry
- Dogwood
- Maples (most)
- Mountain Ash
- Muckle Plum
- Pin Cherry
- Saskatoon
- Sumac
Plants with Winter Coloured Bark
- Amur Cherry
- Birch
- Caragana
- Golden Willow
- Ivory Silk Lilac
- Mountain Ash
- Pin Cherry
- Red Dogwood
- Yellow Twig Dogwood
Shade Tolerant Shrubs
- Azalea-Lights Series
- Burning Bush
- Cedar
- Cranberry
- Dogwood
- False Spirea
- Hydrangea-Smooth
- Rhododendron
- Snowberry
Shrubs with Variegated Foliage
- Golden Variegated Dogwood
- Ivory Halo Dogwood
- Silver Leaf Dogwood
- Weigela-My Monet
Shrubs with Silver Summer Foliage
- Arctic Willow
- Blue Fox Willow
- Iceberg Alley Willow
- Polar Bear Willow
- Russian Olive
- Sea Buckthorn
- Silver Buffaloberry
- Wolf Willow
Shrubs with Golden Summer Foliage
- Gold Coast Juniper
- Golden Cypress
- Golden Elder
- Golden Ninebark
- Goldflame Spirea
- Goldmound Spirea
Trees for Large Yards, Acreages or Shelterbelts
- Elm
- Laurel Leaf Willow
- Linden
- Maple
- Pine
- Poplar
- Spruce
- Sutherland Caragana
- Swedish Columnar Aspen
Trees for Small Yards
- Apple-Producing
- Apricot
- Columnar Blue Spruce
- Columnar Norway Maple
- Crimson Sentry Maple
- Evans Cherry
- Gladiator Flower Crabapple
- Grafted Caragana
- Holmstrup Cedar
- Ivory Silk Japanese Tree Lilac
- Muckle Plum
- Honeycuckle
- Navigator Pear
- Pin Cherry
- Plum-Producing
- Princess Kay Flowering Plum
- Pyramidal Mountain Ash
- Spire Crabapple