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Alpine Currant - Green Mound
Alpine Currant - Green Mound 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
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Weigela - French Laceâ„¢ - Sale Price: $49.95 French Lace™ Weigela, weigela florida 'Brigela' (PP12,666), is a new weigela that has an abundant amount of ruby-red flowers blooming in summer. Striking lime-yellow leaf margins on green leaves provide a dramatic backdrop for these ruby-red flowers. The foliage of French Lace™ has orange and red overtones in fall. This weigela is a real stand-out in the garden, and has an awesome effect when planted in mass. It forms a rounded shrub that grows 4-5 feet tall and as wide. This large upright form makes an ideal high profile accent plant. French Lace™ is equally suited for the background of perennial beds or to cloak unattractive fence lines. This weigela is also good as a shrub border, foundation or specimen plant. A deciduous shrub, it requires full sun. One should also follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. For a formal appearance, shear annually after flowering. * Fall color * Accent plant * Profuse bloomer |
| Hydrangea - Snowhill Smooth - Sale Price: $64.25 Snowhill Smooth Hydrangea, 'Hydrangea arborescens 'Grandiflora', is a low growing shrub with upright branches, lustrous dark green foliage and clusters of large white flowers that bloom all summer long. It responds well to pruning, and can be trimmed to ground in spring. This is a 5-foot-tall deciduous shrub with oval, grayish green, 4- to 8- inch leaves. Blooms can be cut and dried with good results which make a wonderful dried flower. These do not require staking to keep blooms upright, best bloom in full sun although the shrub is very shade tolerant. It prefers rich, moist soil. This plant can fit just about anywhere in the landscape! |
| Azalea - Bloom-A-Thonâ„¢ - Pink Double - Sale Price: $85.65 The Azalea Bloom-A-Thon™ Pink Double, Rhododendron hybrida 'Pink Double', is part of the poplar Bloom-A-Thon™ series of azaleas. Known for being evergreen, disease resistant, and re-blooming, the Bloom-A-Thon™ azaleas are sure to bring a wow factor to your garden or landscape. Not only will you enjoy the striking pink double flowers that will appear in April, you will get to enjoy them again, starting in early July. Amazingly, this Bloom-A-Thon™ azalea continues blooming through fall until hard frost truly gives you a bloom-a-thon! This new line of shrubs is superior to other, weaker varieties of azaleas. The improvements will be obvious as they are very easy growing, disease resistant, maintain excellent color year-round, and are strong growing plants with lots of large blooms. Bloom-A-Thon™ Azaleas have a glossy dense, bushy and vigorous growth habit; perfect for mass plantings, mixed borders, containers, foundation plantings or as specimen plants. It is best to prune to shape and fertilize after the first major spring bloom. These plants are twice as nice as other azaleas because you don't just have a week or two of beautifully colored flowers, but rather stunning blooms for up to five months! * Year-around interest* Evergreen* Easy to care for |
| Alpine Currant - Sale Price: $64.20 The Alpine Currant, ‘Ribes alpinum’, is a very hardy hedge plant that can be kept trimmed to any desired height from 18 inches to 4 feet. This plant is densely branched and will leaf all the way to the ground. The abundant green, glossy foliage forms a dense hedge. Grows well in sun or shade and is rarely bothered by insects or plant diseases. It produces small yellow flowers in the spring. The lobed leaves turn yellow in the fall. The Alpine Currant can survive the coldest of winter climates with annual temperatures as low as -50° Fahrenheit. It does well in dry soils. Alpine currant is drought tolerant. This plant can be pruned at any time. Birds will be attracted to the red berries it produces. It is very tolerant of urban conditions. Zones 2 – 7 * Dense * Hardy * Drought Tolerant |
| Mugho Pine - Pumilo - Sale Price: $39.95 Mugho Pine - Pumilo, Pinus mugo 'Pumilio', is a popular dwarf conifer that is rugged, hardy and has dark green needles on dense branches; makes an ideal choice for xeriscaping or for the moisture-conserving landscape. Pumilo is a useful slow growing evergreen for rock gardens, mass plantings and in groupings; a great container plant too. In order for it to maintain its excellent form, texture, and color detail in the garden, this Dwarf Mugo Pine needs full sun and prefers dry to average moisture levels with very well-drained soil. It will die in standing water. Prune candles to keep tight and maintain a dense habit of growth. It tends to fill out right to the ground so doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. Mugho Pine is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a rather low maintenance shrub and if pruning is necessary, it is recommended to only trim back the new growth of the current season, other than to remove any dieback. Mugho Pine grows at a slow rate, and under ideal conditions, can be expected to live for 50 years or more. * Evergreen! * Long-Lived! * Low maintenance! |
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