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Water Oak
Water Oak The Water Oak tree, Quercus nigra, is also known as a spotted oak or possum oak. Water Oak trees are a conical to round-topped tree. It is a popular tree in the South as a shade and street tree. This deciduous tree is fast growing and it starts producing acorns before its 10th year. The Water Oak is found along streams and low ground. It is a tall tree with a slender trunk . The Quercus nigra is hardy to zone 6 and is frost tender. The plant prefers medium to heavy soils. It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. It requires moist soil. The plant can tolerate strong winds but not maritime exposure. Acorns are 1/2 inch long, very dark in color, and 1/3 covered by a flattened cap. It matures in September of the second year. The Water Oak trees attractive form makes it a popular landscape and shade tree. Water oak acorns provide food for many animals such as squirrels, white-tailed deer, and wild turkey.
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Elderberry - Variegated - Sale Price: $48.15 Fast Growing Ornamental Shrub with Edible Fruit The Variegated Elderberry is a fast-growing, ornamental shrub with edible berries. It would make an impressive specimen plant for your yard, or plant several in a side or back yard to encourage wildlife. Your Variegated Elderberry is valued for its delicious berries, but perhaps even more often grown for its ornamental features. The pinnate, green leaves are adorned with showy edging that starts out golden-yellow and later softens to a creamy-yellow hue. The affect is striking, creating a soft, elegant appearance for your home landscape. In the spring, your Elderberry’s branches will be graced by 5-8 inch, flat clusters of scented, white flowers which later develop into black berries. Those berries are delicious in wines, preserves or other culinary dishes. The Elderberry also has a long history of medicinal uses. One of the best features of your Variegated Elderberry is that it’s a veritable magnet for wildlife. Butterflies and other pollinators love it spring through summer, and birds (and other wildlife), will flock to it in the fall for the tasty berries. The Elderberry can grow up to 12 feet tall and wide. It’s fast-growing, multi-stemmed shrub with a rounded nature. It’s quite hardy and won’t require any special care. The Variegated Elderberry is a hardy shrub with decorative leaves, showy spring flowers, delicious berries and wildlife appeal. All in all, it’s a shrub with a great deal to offer. * Decorative leaves* Edible berries* Spring flowers* Wildlife appeal |
| Euonymus - Canadale Gold - Sale Price: $26.95 The Euonymus Canadale Gold, 'Euonymus fortunei 'Canadale Gold', produces large green leaves with a deep golden yellow margin that are borne on strong branches to form a sturdy compact plant. The glossy oval leaves of 'Canadale Gold' are ornamentally significant but do not develop any appreciable fall color. The flowers are not ornamentally significant, but it produces pink capsules from mid to late fall. This Euonymus is a multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a ground-hugging habit of growth. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other landscape plants with less refined foliage. This shrub performs well in both full sun and full shade. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist locations, and should do just fine under average home landscape conditions. Zones 5-9. * Widely Adaptable Ground Cover! |
| Lilac - Beauty of Moscow - Sale Price: $64.25 One of the most beautiful lilacs you can grow. Beauty of Moscow Lilac (Syringa vulgaris 'Krasavitsa Moskvy') is one of the finest lilacs. Perfect form and extremely dense flower clusters makes the Beauty of Moscow one of the most beautiful lilacs. Pink buds burst open to reveal snowy white double flowers with just a hint of pink. The large dense plumes will cover your plant in the spring. The rich green heart shaped leaves are a gorgeous contrast against the pink and white very fragrant blooms. The Beauty of Moscow Lilac is very hardy and weather resistant. It is a rugged upright plant that is excellent for cut flowers so you can enjoy their captivating scent in your home. This lilac would be excellent as a border or screen, and would make a beautiful accent plant. The Beauty of Moscow’s highly fragrant and duel color of soft pink buds against dazzling white flowers is sure to a favorite in your yard and will provide years of enjoyment. * Cold hardy* Double blooms* Highly fragrant |
| Weigela - Pink Poppet - Sale Price: $92.75 Beautiful Pink Blooms Twice a Year! The Pink Poppet Weigela, Weigela florida 'Pink Poppet', is the first in an upcoming line of weigelas with similar ground-cover habit. It has an almost trailing form reaching only 2’ tall and spreading up to 40. This dwarf, dense, rounded, deciduous shrub produces funnel shaped shell-pink flowers that are born in profusion in June, and then with a lighter re-bloom again in late summer. 'Pink Poppet' has emerald green foliage all season long that contrasts nicely with the flowers. It is easily grown in average, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun. Needs full sun for best flowering and foliage color, but will tolerate very light or sun dappled shade. |
| Juniper - Blue Rug - Sale Price: $39.95 The Juniper Blue Rug, 'Juniperus horizontalis Wiltonii', is an excellent ground cover or bank planting with it low growing thick foliage. The Blue Rug is so named because of its silver-blue color and low growing habit. Blue Rug will do well in almost any well drained soil and needs moderate moisture. This is the lowest growing of all Juniper plants and they will even cascade over walls. Prune young shoots to encourage branching, but older branches may not produce new growth. This plant prefers an acidic soil for best results. In the fall this plant will produce small, round, dark berries. The berries add to the landscape effect. It is pH adaptable and salt tolerant. Use this plant for mass planting, on banks, in rock gardens, planter boxes, and around tall shrubs or trees. |
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