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St Johnswort - Ames
St Johnswort - Ames The Ames St Johnswort, Hypericum kalmianum 'Ames', often commonly called Kalm St Johnswort, is an evergreen shrub or subshrub with upright branching that typically grows in a dense mound to 2-3’ tall. It is a neatly rounded garden shrub with dazzling golden yellow flowers in mid summer. 'Ames' is slightly hardier than the species and has a more uniform shape. Flowers give way to beaked, oval, brown seed capsules that mature in fall and often persist on the shrub until spring. 'Ames' St Johnswort is easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. It prefers moist, rich, sandy loams and tolerates some drought. Use as a low hedge, for shrub borders, rocky slopes, or a naturalized areas or pond peripheries.
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Elderberry - Golden Elder - Sale Price: $57.10 Golden Elder, Sambucus canadensis 'Aurea', is a hardy, rapid growing shrub with bright golden yellow leaves. The clusters of tiny white flowers in spring are followed by bright red fruits in August. These fruits are excellent for making pies, jam and wine. This broad rounded shaped shrub grows in average, medium to wet, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade, and grows 8-12 feet in height and width. The best golden foliage color is created in full sun. Golden Elder tolerates a wide range of soils, but prefers moist, humus soils. Perhaps best when massed in naturalized areas where suckering spread is acceptable. Also effective in shrub borders, roadside plantings, wet or low areas or as a screen. |
| Mock Orange - Miniature Snowflake - Sale Price: $51.35 Fast-Growing Shrub with Outstanding Spring Display The Miniature Snowflake Mock Orange is a flowering deciduous shrub. It would look terrific in your yard as a low hedge or do well as a foundation planting. Your Miniature Snowflake is just as the name implies—a small shrub that appears at times to be covered in delicate white snowflakes. It will grow to about 3-5 feet tall with an equal spread, which gives it a compact, rounded form. Multiple double white flowers cluster together in early spring, veritably covering your shrub in snowy-white perfection. The sweet fragrance will call to the bees and butterflies of your yard, providing them much needed nourishment and an idyllic garden atmosphere for you. During the summer, 5 inch oval green leaves will fill out your shrub. One of the great features of this shrub is it tends to maintain its full nature all the way to the ground, eliminating the need for attention to facer plants. Your Miniature Snowflake is quite hardy and tolerates a wide range of soils. It will even thrive in city environments. The Miniature Snowflake is a hardy shrub with a lot to offer. Its long-living and fast-growing nature makes it a good garden investment, both short and long-term. * Outstanding spring flowers * Fast-Growing * Hardy |
| Holly - Compact Japanese - Sale Price: $106.95 The Compact Japanese Holly, Ilex crenata 'Compacta', is a well-branched, somewhat oval-shaped, and compact shrub to 4 feet high and wide. It does well in neutral to acid soil. Plant this holly in mass groups as low shrubs, low hedges, or tall groundcovers. The compact habit of growth and small leaves make these ideal plants for use as clipped, formal hedges. Japanese Holly develops without clipping making it well suited for planting along a foundation. Plant 3 to 4 feet apart to form a hedge, plant farther apart if used in a shrub border. It shears fairly well, but will thin slightly toward the base, especially if not located in full sun. This compact holly can be sheared into various shapes. This plant is an evergreen and it is deer resistant! If you are using this plant as a hedge, clip the hedge so it is wider at the bottom. This will allow light to the bottom leaves and branches and will help keep the hedge full to the ground. Zones 6-9. |
| Viburnum - Nannyberry - Sale Price: $54.25 Nannyberry Viburnum, viburnum lentago, is a hardy, upright growing shrub with glossy green foliage that turns red-purple in fall. The creamy white flat-topped flower clusters mature into small blue-black fruit, which provide winter food for birds. Due to its mild suckering, it becomes more open at maturity, with arching branches. Nannyberry is a large tree-like leggy native shrub that can be pruned into a small tree form. This shrub is good for farmstead windbreaks or a screen plant with year-round interest. It prefers rich loam to clay loam soil with ample moisture. Nannyberry does well in either full sun or shade and is one of the more tolerant woody plants in shady sites. It grows 20 feet tall and 6-10 or more feet wide. Pruning is required to remove suckers if a tree form is desired. Viburnum tends to be multi-season plants with ornamental value throughout a large part of the season. * Hardy * Stunning color * Windbreak |
| Honeysuckle - Claveys Dwarf - Sale Price: $54.25 Clavey’s Dwarf Honeysuckle, Lonicera xylosteum 'Claveyi', is a compact, finely branched, dwarf Honeysuckle that has clean gray-green foliage and can be sheared to form a dense hedge. The yellow flowers in May are followed by red berries in autumn. It is a useful and easy-to-grow plant and likes average, well-drained soil. Once established, the plant is drought tolerant and grows 6-8 feet tall and has a 5-6 foot spread. This plant appears to be quite salt tolerant. Honeysuckles are easy to grow, vigorous, heat-tolerant, and nearly indestructible. The flashy and fragrant flowers will attract hummingbirds and butterflies all summer long. Many honeysuckles will thrive in containers as well. Clavey’s Dwarf produces blue/gray-green foliage all season long. It is best pruned in late winter. This plant tolerates urban conditions well and it is not fussy about soil types. Zones 3-7. |
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