Plantings at the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial
Nature is a natural consoler. The Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial is surrounded by native plantings to provide its visitors solace and beauty. Each planting was carefully selected to enhance the remembrance fountain, the rural surroundings, and add variety and interest throughout the seasons.
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London Plane Tree "Sycamore Cultivar"
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White Dogwood
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Red Maple
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Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry
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Honorine Jobert Windflower
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Kobold Gayfeather
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Milkweed
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Butterflybush
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Hay-Scented Fern
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Goatsbeard
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Lanceleaf Coreopsis
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Overdam Feather Reed Grass
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White Swan Coneflower
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Goldsturm Black Eyed Susan
Winterberry::A deciduous holly prized for its spectacular display of bright red berries on bare winter branches, providing crucial food for birds.
To learn more about the plants at the Memorial hover over a plant name for more information.
Trees
White Dogwood
London Plane Tree (Sacred Sycamore)
Arborvitae
Red Maple
Shrubs
Serviceberry
Bottlebrush Buckeye
Sweet Pepperbush
Butterflybush
Summersweet
Winterberry
Virginia Sweetspire
Fragrant Sumac
Perennials
Anise Hyssop
Plume Flower
Goatsbeard
Blue Milkweed
Butterfly Milkweed
Twilight Big Leaf Aster
Taplow Blue Globe Thistle
Baby Joe Pye Weed
Gateway Joe Pye Weed
Magnus Purple Coneflower
White Swan Coneflower
Big Blue Lilyturf
Great Blue Lobelia
Gayfeather
Snow White Bee Balm
Black Eyed Susan
Windflower
Grasses
Overdam Feather Reed Grass
Shenandoah Switch Grass
Meadow
Showy Northeast Native Wildflower & Grass Seed Mix. Ernst Seed.
Ferns
Hay-Scented Fern