The Kays' favorite plants

George and Brian Kay list 300 of their favorite plants in their book "Yard and Garden Makeovers." Here are some.

• Apache Chief bald cypress is a deciduous conifer shade tree with needle-like leaves that turn orange-brown in fall.

• Apple serviceberry is a smaller tree that grows in sun to partial shade and provides fall color.

• Pagoda dogwood is a choice with yellowish flowers and good fall color.

• Saucer magnolia or soulangiana blooms white, pink and purple.

• Japanese tree lilac or reticulata blooms in mid-June and is the least troublesome lilac

• Large junipers include Fairview, which grows 20 feet tall and 10 feet wide and is bright green even in winter.

• A Scotch pine, traditionally a Christmas tree favorite, can grow artistically up to 60 feet tall.

• Dwarf Mugo pine is round and mounded and grows 5 feet tall.

• Bottlebrush buckeye or aesculus parviflora is a large shrub that grows 8 to 15 feet tall, spreads wide and flowers in June and July.

• Smaller shrubs include New Jersey tea or ceanothus americanus, which grows well in sun or shade.

• European ginger or asarum europaeum is an evergreen ground cover for a moist, shaded area.

• Goldflame honeysuckle is a handsome climber.