TOP-GRAFTED

TOP-GRAFTED STANDARDS
Pygmy Caragana Topgraft
Globe Spruce Topgraft
Globe Caragana Topgraft
Caragana
Caragana frutex 'Globosa'
Mature Size: 4’ x 3’ (1.25 x 0.9 m) Crown Shape: Globe
Flowers: Yellow Hardiness: Zone 2
This topgraft has a compact globe-shaped habit with densely arranged foliage. Topgrafted on a
common caragana standard.
Pygmy Caragana Topgraft
Caragana pygmaea
Mature Size: 4’ x 3’ (1.25 x 0.9 m) Crown Shape: Spreading
Flowers: Yellow Hardiness: Zone 2
This topgraft is compact, dense and thorny with fine textured foliage. Topgrafted on a common
caragana standard.
Weeping Caragana Topgraft
Caragana arborescens 'Pendula'
Mature Size: 4’ x 3’ (1.25 x 0.9 m) Crown Shape: Weeping
Flowers: Yellow Hardiness: Zone 2
The arching and weeping branches of this regular-leafed Caragana make it an ideal accent plant.
Topgrafted on a common caragana standard.
Walker Caragana Topgraft
Caragana arborescens 'Walker'
Mature Size: 4’ x 3’ (1.25 x 0.9 m) Crown Shape: Weeping
Flowers: Yellow Hardiness: Zone 2
Fine textured, light green foliage makes this plant look very graceful and elegant. Topgrafted on a
common caragana standard.
Physocarpus - Ninebark
Diabolo ® Ninebark Treeform
New
Physocarpus opulifolius 'Monlo'
Height: 8 - 10 Feet (3 m) Spread: 6 - 8 Feet (2.5 m)
Foliage: Purple Hardiness: Zone 3
New listing for 2010. A tree-formed version of this popular purple leafed ninebark. Creamy white
flowers in the spring. Basal pruning will be required to maintain single stem. USPP #11,211
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Diabolo Ninebark Treeform
Double Flowering Plum Topgraft
Globe Blue Spruce Topgraft
Picea - Spruce
Picea pungens 'Globosa'
Mature Size: 4’ x 3’ (1.25 x 0.9 m) Crown Shape: Globe
Foliage: Blue needles Hardiness: Zone 2
Topgraft has bright blue evergreen foliage and globe-shaped habit.
Double Flowering Plum Topgraft
Prunus - Plum
Prunus triloba ‘Multiplex’
Mature Size: 8’ x 6’ (2.5 x 2 m) Crown Shape: Spreading, rounded
Flowers: Double pink Hardiness: Zone 2
The showy pink blossoms appear before the green foliage and make a spectacular spring display.
Weeping Pussy Willow Topgraft
Salix - Willow
Salix caprea 'Pendula'
Mature Size: 6’ x 8’ (2 x 2.5 m) Crown Shape: Weeping
Flowers: Spring catkins Hardiness: Zone 4
Large, silver catkins in spring. Leaves are wide, serrated, bright-green above, silver below.
Beauty of Moscow Lilac Topgraft
Syringa - French Lilac
Syringa vulgaris ‘Krasavitsa Moskvy’
Height: 8 Feet (2.5 m) Spread: 5 - 6 Feet (1.75 m)
Flowers: double white Hardiness: Zone 3
Panicles of double, delicate pale pink flowers that turn white with maturity. Stunning in bloom.
Topgrafted on a villosa lilac standard.
Belle de Nancy Lilac Topgraft
Syringa vulgaris ‘Belle de Nancy’
Height: 8 Feet (2.5 m) Spread: 5 - 6 Feet (1.75 m)
Flowers: double pink Hardiness: Zone 3
Purple red buds open to panicles of double pink blooms. Use to create a fragrant privacy screen.
Topgrafted on a villosa lilac standard.

Maiden's Blush Lilac Topgraft
Syringa - Fiala / French Lilac
Syringa x hyacinthiflora ‘Maiden’s Blush’
Height: 5 - 6 Feet(1.75 m) Spread: 5 - 6 Feet (1.75 m)
Flowers: single, pink Hardiness: Zone 2
Flowers freely, even as a young plant. One of the superior hybrids from F.L. Skinner. Topgrafted on a
villosa lilac standard.
Sensation Lilac Topgraft
Syringa vulgaris ‘Sensation’
Height: 10 - 12 Feet (3.6 m) Spread: 8 - 10 Feet (3 m)
Flowers: bicolour (purple-white) Hardiness: Zone 2
New listing for 2010. An outstanding cultivar with interesting, bi-coloured flowers with purple florets
and a white border. Topgrafted on a villosa lilac standard.
Wedgwood Blue Lilac Topgraft
Syringa vulgaris ‘Wedgwood Blue’
Height: 6 Feet (1.75 m) Spread: 5 - 6 Feet (1.75 m)
Flowers: true blue, fragrant Hardiness: Zone 3
A Father Fiala cultivar with single, blue flowers with lilac pink buds. Superb fragrance. Topgrafted
on a villosa lilac standard.
Dwarf Korean Lilac Topgraft
Syringa - Other Lilac
Syringa meyeri 'Palibin'
Mature Size: 6’ x 5’ (2 x 1.5 m) Crown Shape: Rounded
Flowers: Pink Hardiness: Zone 3
This distinctive lilac produces abundant pink blooms with a heavy fragrance in late June.
Minuet Lilac Topgraft
Syringa prestoniae 'Minuet'
Mature Size: 6’ x 5’ (2 x 1.5 m) Crown Shape: Upright, dense
Flowers: Light pink Hardiness: Zone 2
A slow-growing lilac variety with large, dark-green leaves and soft white-pink blooms.
Miss Kim Lilac Topgraft
Syringa patula 'Miss Kim'
Mature Size: 6’ x 5’ (2 x 1.5 m) Crown Shape: Spreading
Flowers: Purple flowers Hardiness: Zone 3
This lilac variety is known for its fragrant, lavender-purple flowers and purple fall foliage.
Snowball Viburnum Treeform
New
Viburnum
Viburnum opulus ‘Sterile’
Mature Size: 8’ x 6’ (2.75 x 2 m) Crown Shape: Rounded
Flowers: White snowballs Hardiness: Zone 3
Treeform shrub producing large balls of double white flowers that later turn to light pink. The flowers
are sterile so do not produce fruit.
Sensation Lilac Topgraft
Dwarf Korean Lilac Topgraft
Minuet Lilac Topgraft
TOP-GRAFTED STANDARDS
Topgrafted shrubs should be pruned on an
annual basis with a focus on keeping the
topgraft rounded and neat.
Pruning the topgraft must be done with recognition
of its effect on flower development.
In the case of lilac, it is best to prune immediately
after flowering so as to allow next years
blooms to develop.
It is also critical to remove leafy shoots that
arise from along the interstem and at its
base. These sprouts and suckers can quickly
overpower the topgrafted shrub, destroying
the beauty of the grafted cultivar.
An alternative to topgrafted shrubs are treeform
shrubs. Tree-form shrubs are produced
by training up and retaining a single dominant
stem for shrub cultivars. With a treeform
shrub there is still the need for removing
lateral sprouts and basal shoots.
Snowball Viburnum Treeform
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