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Summersweet - Sixteen Candles
Summersweet - Sixteen Candles Summersweet - Sixteen Candles, Clethra alnifolia 'Sixteen Candles', is a summersweet cultivar that is noted for its erect, candle-like flower spikes and compact size. It features narrow, fluffy, bottlebrush-like, terminal spires of extremely fragrant, creamy white flowers, that bloom on the current year's growth for approximately 4 to 6 weeks in mid-summer. It is a densely-branched, rounded, suckering deciduous shrub that typically grows 3' to 5' tall. Sixteen Candles Summersweet is easily grown in average, medium to wet soils in full sun to part shade. This Summersweet prefers part shade and consistently moist, acidic soils, but tolerates full shade. It is a good flowering shrub for shade in woodland gardens. It is also appropriate for moist soils along stream banks or pond/water garden peripheries. * Water tolerant * Full Shade * Fragrant
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| Euonymus - Sarcoxie - Sale Price: $56.95 Euonymus - Sarcoxie, Euonymus fortunei 'Sarcoxie', is a multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a ground-hugging habit of growth and valued for its foliage and form. It is a spreading, sprawling broadleaf evergreen vine that can actually grow to be a large shrub or trained to climb structures; very versatile and adaptable! ‘Sarcoxie’ Euonymus has attractive white-variegated dark green foliage with glossy, oval leaves that are ornamentally significant but do not develop any appreciable fall color. It features abundant showy shell pink capsules from mid to late fall. ‘Sarcoxie’ performs well in both full sun and full shade. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist locations, and should do well under average landscape conditions. This plant is not particular as to soil type and is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. Requiring occasional maintenance and upkeep, it can be pruned at any time. |
| Alpine Currant - Green Mound - Sale Price: $51.35 Green Mound Alpine Currant, Ribes alpinum 'Green Mound', leafs out in early spring and has clean, dark green foliage throughout the summer. Green Mound creates a beautiful low maintenance hedge with its disease resistant foliage. Green Mound is a mounding, compact, dense, spineless, deciduous shrub that grows to 3-4 feet tall and 2-3 feet wide. The species is a dioecious shrub which requires both male and female plants for fruit production (an inedible, scarlet berry). Green Mound is a male cultivar which obviously bears no fruit. Grow this plant in sun or shade with normal to moist soil. It is a tough and hardy dwarf shrub that adapts well to urban conditions and makes an excellent small hedge. It can also be massed in the shrub border and effective in shady woodland areas. It is very winter hardy and drought tolerant! Green Mound attracts birds and butterflies. * Tolerates dense shade* Rabbit resistant* Excellent fall color |
| Weigela - Pink Princess - Sale Price: $57.05 Weigela - Pink Princess, Weigela florida 'Pink Princess', is a shrub that is spreading and open with egg-shaped mid-green leaves that are 4-1/2 inches long. Clear pink-lavender blooms appear over a long period, blooming in late spring until early summer. Flowers attract hummingbirds. Pink Princess is suitable for a shrub or mixed border. Pink Princess prefers full sun, well-drained soil and is very adaptable. It is best to prune after flowering to encourage compact growth and prevent legginess. Blossoms are borne on 1-year-old branches, so prune heavily during or just after flowering to encourage next year's blossoms. When not in flower, this shrub tends to look rather ordinary. |
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