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Summersweet - Hummingbird
Summersweet - Hummingbird Summersweet - Hummingbird, Clethra alnifolia 'Hummingbird', is a medium-sized ornamental shrub forming tight colonies with age. It has a spreading mound growth habit with a slow growth rate. Due to its compact habit, it is well suited for small gardens. Hummingbird Summersweet is a dwarf cultivar which has a more compact and spreading growth form than the species. This cultivar will have twice as many flowers than the species, and will grow 3' by 3'. The flowers are borne on bottlebrush-like inflorescences from mid to late summer. With its profusion of fragrant and beautiful white to light pink spikes, Hummingbird Summersweet will attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds into the garden. This Summersweet shrub can grow in sunny locations as well as shady locations, but will perform best in locations with partial shade. It thrives well in wet areas. This shrub is effective when planted in mass, mixed into perennial borders, or along foundations. * Shade * Fragrant * Small gardens
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Potentilla - Pink Beauty - Sale Price: $29.95 Ornamental Shrub with Prolific Flowers The Pink Beauty Potentilla is an ornamental, deciduous shrub known for its prolific blooming. Plant a few as a decorative shrub border or along a walkway. Your Pink Beauty Potentilla is a cute little shrub that will surprise you with its abundance of blooms. It also has fern-like, compound foliage that together with the pink flowers softens its appearance and sets it off from other harsher landscape plantings. The Pink Beauty grows about three feet tall with an equal spread. Its luscious, bright green foliage provides the perfect backdrop to the flowers that begin to form in late spring. When you notice the first scattering of delightful pink flowers with yellow centers, you’ll be pleased. However, soon you’ll be overwhelmed as the adorable pink blossoms continue to cover your shrub, and remain all summer long. Your Pink Beauty Potentilla’s foliage turns a lively shade of yellow-green in the fall, continuing to accent the pink blooms that will persist until the first frost. This shrub really packs a lot of beauty into its small size, and isn’t at all demanding of your time or energy. It’s hardy and tolerant of a wide variety of conditions. It attracts butterflies, but deer tend to leave it alone. If you want a shrub that takes little room, requires almost no care, and will provide exquisite beauty all summer long, the Pink Beauty Potentialla is for you. * Prolific and long-lasting blooms* Low maintenance* Deer resistant |
| Weigela - Nain Rouge - Sale Price: $57.10 Ornamental Shrub with Outstanding Flowers The Nain Rouge Weigela is a deciduous shrub prized for its floriferous nature. It would do well as a foundation plant or as a boarder along a walkway. The floral display of the Nain Rouge is staggering in its intensity. Not only will it bloom all summer for you, but the blossoms actually seem to blanket the shrub in radiant bright red. The yellow stamens nestled within the crimson petals create an arresting effect that will cause friends and family to stop and stare as they pass by. It’s simply a plant that should not be missed in any landscape. The Nain Rouge is a dwarf variety that has a mounded and cascading form. Its dark green leaves transform to a vibrant red in the autumn, offering you one last blast of color before winter’s rest. The Nain Rouge Weigela is a beautiful and high-performing small shrub that is loved by bees, butterflies and birds alike. It will likewise become a favorite of yours for your home’s landscape. * Stunning summer flowers * Fall color * Wildlife interest |
| Holly - Dwarf Yaupon - Sale Price: $106.95 The Holly, Dwarf Yaupon, 'Ilex vomitoria 'Nana', is a dwarf, compact formed holly with small shiny leaves. It is excellent in planter boxes or as a low hedge. This plant matures at 3-5 feet high by 8-10 feet wide if left unpruned. The Dwarf Yaupon makes a gigantic mounded cushion if not pruned. Fruits on female yaupon holly are a beautiful red, in contrast to the shiny black fruits of Japanese holly. The showy berries often last for several months and they attract birds. It will grow in full shade to full sun, but the more light it has, the more dense its foliage will be. It is drought and salt spray tolerant. This broadleaf evergreen shrubs needs to planted in well-drained soil. It is drought tolerant and it is tolerant of salt spray. Zones 6-10. |
| Rose of Sharon - Aphrodite - Sale Price: $64.15 The Aphrodite Rose of Sharon, Hibiscus syriacus, is an upright, deciduous shrub that is a vigorous, erect, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows 8-12' tall. This shrub may also be trained as a single trunk tree or espalier. Leaves are diamond-shaped, dark green, slightly palmate and toothed. 'Aphrodite' bears dark hollyhock-like rosy-pink flowers with deeper red eyes from late summer until mid-fall. This plant really requires no pruning, unless you need to remove a dead or damaged branch. It has a long, early summer to fall bloom period. This cultivar is a sterile triploid that produces very few if any seed pods. Aphrodite is an excellent flowering shrub that may be massed, planted in groups, or used as a specimen. The plant is very tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Larger flowers may be obtained by pruning back hard to 2-3 buds in early spring. Otherwise, prune to shape. You will love these flowers! Wow! |
| Lilac - Evangeline - Sale Price: $57.05 The Lilac Evangeline, Syringa x hyacinthiflora 'Evangeline', is graced with fragrant, conical clusters of double lavender-purple flowers that become a butterfly’s delight! Evangeline is an early flowering, attractive hardy hybrid that is a profuse boomer. It is non-suckering and deer resistant too! Since Evangeline is an early bloomer, it flowers a week or more before common lilac. Sites with full to partial sun and well-drained, mildly acidic to mildly alkaline soil are ideal for this early flowering lilac. Evangeline is an ideal old-fashioned shrub for screens, tall hedges, or specimen plants. The blooms make a lovely flower arrangement! This lilac tolerates road salt and exposed windy sites! Do any needed pruning after flowering. If you are looking for a traditional lilac, with striking flowers, this is a great choice! |
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