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Verbena - Homestead Purple
Verbena - Homestead Purple The Verbena Homestead Purple, 'Verbena canadensis 'Homestead Purple', produces deep purple, velvety flowers that dance above this vigorous groundcover type selection for a spectacular show all summer. The leaves are deep green, coarse-textured and up to 4 inches long. This plant matures at 1 foot tall and 3 feet wide. Homestead Purple is a nice compact plant with a bushy growth habit. If the plant gets a little spindly with some leggy-looking growth, pinch back the leggy growth to encourage bushiness. It is ideal for borders, hanging baskets, rock gardens and retaining walls. Homestead Purple should be placed in full sun in a well-drained soil. Like most fast growing perennials, it responds well to good soil preparation and occasional fertilization. Use this plant in containers or as a long-blooming groundcover. This plant is very useful at the base of taller summer annuals and perennials. Purple, Purple, Purple!
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Clematis - Avant Gardeâ„¢ - Sale Price: $42.75 The Clematis Avant Garde™, 'florida Evipo033(N)', is a large-flowering, hybrid Clematis. The outside is a deep magenta while the dahlia-like bloom on top is light pink. If you look at this flower closely, you will see that the magenta outer petals curl back a bit at the tips, and the lavender inner petals gleam with a satiny sheen! Each flower is two inches across and provides an amazing display with its unusual coloration and shape. Avant Garde™ is great for trellis, porch, arbor, lamp post or any focal point. Plant this clematis in a sunny, well-drained location and keep roots mulched or shaded. Prune it to 10-12” tall in early spring, and it will take off and begin climbing to 10 feet. Being a vigorous free flowering plant, Avant Garde™ flowers from midsummer until autumn. This Clematis has very striking colors and offers an exciting new look for your garden! * Dahlia-like blooms * Unusual coloration * Vigorous |
| Coneflower - Now Cheesier - Sale Price: $39.95 Echinacea Now Cheesier (Coneflower), Echinacea 'Now Cheesier', offers delicious cheddar cheese-colored deep golden yellow blooms that will lighten slightly after weeks of summer heat. New and improved, this coneflower has great vigor and better branching than many others. Great for sunny locations, this fragrant Echinacea will brighten up your garden with its stunning shade of bright yellow and sweetly scented blooms. ‘Now Cheesier’ is a long lasting flower that attracts butterflies and hummingbirds and is great in cut flower arrangements! Divide clumps when they become overcrowded (about every 4 years. ‘Now Cheesier’ usually reblooms without deadheading, but if spent flowers are removed, this procedure will encourage continued beautiful blooms and improves general appearance. Highly fragrant, this coneflower keeps coming all summer on tall plants with excellent branching. This plant is deer resistant. If you leave some spent blooms on the plants in fall their seeds provide winter food for birds. You can enjoy the dried seed heads as well, because they will provide architectural interest in the winter. ‘Now Cheesier’ is an outstanding flower with an intense golden-yellow color. It will bring a brilliant display to a sunny location! * Fragrant * Hardy * Long lasting blooms |
| Hosta - Pilgrim - Sale Price: $42.75 Hosta Pilgrim, Hosta 'Pilgrim’, is a knockout Hosta with lovely heart shaped leaves. This fast grower has leaves that exhibit a horizontal habit for classy look! The grey-green leaves have wide margins that start out yellow with grey-blue streaks in the spring and fade to cream by summer. Lavender flowers in mid-summer. Hostas grow best in moist, well-drained, highly organic soils with a pH between 5.5 and 7.5. Sandy loam is better than clay because it provides more aeration for the roots. It is best to keep areas around hostas clear of excess leaf debris to reduce the presence of slugs and snails. Plant 'Pilgrim’ in an area that receives the right amount of light. The leaves need some morning sun to bring out the best coloration; too much sun will burn the leaves. For a fantastic display in a shaded area, combine ‘Pilgrim’ with blue and solid green hostas! * Fast grower * Horizontal habit * Heart shaped leaves |
| Daylily - Preppy Pink - Sale Price: $49.95 The Daylily Preppy Pink, 'Hemerocallis 'Preppy Pink', produces a 3 1/2 inch rose-pink bloom with white margins and a deeper rose eye zone. This repeat bloomer performs in midseason and grows to 32 inches in height! The flowers of ‘Preppy Pink’ are fragrant and they will attract hummingbirds and butterflies. This plant can be used for a border, in containers, as a cut flower, and massed. Daylily clumps spread slowly over time and may need to be divided every 2 to 3 years or so. Cut back dead foliage in late fall or early spring. Daylilies are some of the easiest plants to grow and are a good choice for any gardener. They will grow in almost any soil and handle drought to wet soil conditions; prefers a full sun area that is well-drained. Use ‘Preppy Pink’ for stand alone plantings, edging, in borders or in mixed containers and tubs. Planted together in large numbers, they quickly crowd out weeds and make a carefree and colorful ground cover. The ‘Preppy Pink’ daylily can survive many harsh conditions that other plants cannot. Although the blooms will last only for one day, there are many blooms on strong stems that rise above tall grassy foliage. This tall plant provides a vivid, stunning display and is a rebloomer! * Fragrant * Tall foliage * Rebloomer |
| Lobelia - Monet Moment - Sale Price: $42.75 The Lobelia Monet Moment, Lobelia ‘Monet Moment’, also known as Cardinal Flower, has unique, large masses of rose pink spiked flowers with burgundy foliage. This is a late season dynamo because it has great flower production from late summer to fall. Fast, easy and rewarding, this lobelia has columns of bright pink flowers that last longer than most Lobelia, and are fragrant as well! It has a plant height of 36' and a spread of 12-18. 'Monet Moment' needs to be planted in full sun, but it will take a surprising amount of shade and still bloom like crazy. It does prefer moist soil but should be planted in a well-drained area. 'Monet Moment' attracts hummingbirds and butterflies and looks great in mass plantings in any perennial garden. Also use this plant in your herbaceous borders, on the edge of a pond or stream, or in a wild garden. Try pairing 'Monet Moment' Lobelia with Veronica 'Royal Candles' or Hibiscus 'Kopper King'. The color is absolutely stunning, so this is one plant not to be without! * Easy to grow * Fast grower * Fragrant |
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