Russian Cypress is one of the hardiest plants you could ever grow tolerating temperatures down to -50 without batting an eye. Unfortunately, even with its outstanding cold hardiness, many strains of this incredibly tough groundcover tend to succumb to disease problems making them fade away in the landscape piece by piece in an ugly manner. Celtic Pride™ is the most disease resistant selections you will find allowing you far more success in the landscape. Celtic Pride™ is all about ease and success with its no prune form, its ability to perform in sun, partial sun or shade and its deep green summer color that can fill the roughest toughest, driest, most gnarly areas of the landscape with a carpet of green. In the winter its color transforms to a striking bronze shade making this easy care, drought tolerant, deer resistant beauty with the soft, feathery foliage texture one of the easiest plants you’ll ever grow.
This Cary Award winning shrub earns all its accolades by being one of the best groundcover conifers available! Very hardy with a soft, feathery touchable foliage, this selection does great in sun or shade and has a striking bronze fall color.
It’s a special day when you discover a plant that’s as unique and beautiful as this one. Similar to Little Lime® hydrangea with its useful, compact stature and emerging lime-green blooms, but it differs as the flowers age to pink. New blooms emerge to give you a festive mix of pink, green, white, and Hawaiian Punch-red blooms all on the same plant. It’s hard to describe, but the plants just make you feel happy.
Everyone is looking for a dwarf Blueberry to use in the landscape but the varieties available invariably disappoint due to poor fruiting or poor growing. Jelly Bean® changes all that in the form of a dense, compact, small leaved plant that produces masses of medium sized, dark blue, incredibly tasty blue berries in July and early August. It is so prolific and such an easy care, easy to grow plant that you won’t know where to use it first, grouped to form a fruiting small, formal hedge in any sunny garden or in a container where you can pick right from your back door. Add in spectacular fall foliage color and you have a small Blueberry that will be a big winner in your garden.
Striking, riveting, brilliant blue flowers grace this selection in early May, nearly covering its uniquely small, elongated, shiny foliage. Compact, mounded landscape form is easy to work with and looks good year round, even in winter as its foliage takes on a decidedly reddish-bronze hue.
A grouping of this sensually hued blooming powerhouse will attract a crowd with masses of flower cones with deep purple/white-eyed flowers that you’ll have to see to believe. Volcano™ Purple with White Eye begins blooming in early July and is awash in color for weeks on sturdy, highly mildew-tolerant plants. Flowers are deliciously fragrant.
‘Blue Jean Baby’ is the answer to the gardeners’ call for a shorter, more manageable Russian Sage that is still vigorous yet brilliant in the landscape. This baby has it all! This sun lover is the perfect choice for a hot, dry climate. Blooming earlier than most others, the vivid color holds well from mid-summer to mid-fall. Deer resistant!
Pink Icing® has breathtaking spring and fall foliage. Spring brings lovely new growth foliage color that has varying shades of pink mixed with blue and deeper greens. In the winter, Pink Icing foliage takes on a stunning iridescent turquoise blue foliage hue which is impressive when planted en masse. Pink Icing® is a wonderful complement to Peach Sorbet®, another Bushel and Berry™ blueberry variety. Plant Pink Icing® as a backdrop with Peach Sorbet in the front for varying heights of foliage colors. Bushel and Berry™ network growers trialed this variety for 2-3 years and begged us to release it due to its beautiful foliage colors. So here is PInk Icing! Plant in decorative patio pots or plant in the landscape or garden for year round color and beauty.
One of the most aggressive growing of the small leaf Kalmias, ‘Tinkerbell’ is a show-off both in form and landscape performance. Upright growing branches spread as they age produce a dense, rounded, bulky presence balanced by delicate foliage which gives a fine textured appearance to the plant. ‘Tinkerbell’ will bud heavily, and deep pink bunches open as pure pink flower trusses in early June. It’s a perfect plant for foundation or for border groupings and a must-have for the landscape. 2003 Cary winner.
Originally introduced by Connecticut’s Richard Jaynes, this spectacular banded Kalmia will never cease to impress. Fast-growing, dense and upright, ‘Carousel’ features burgundy stems holding dark glossy foliage that impresses all year. Soft pink flower buds open in late May to immaculate clusters of cup-shaped flowers boasting intricate patterns of cinnamon-purple bands painted on a pure white canvas. It’s bloom and form make ‘Carousel’ exquisite in appearance, but it’s functional in the landscape as well with its resistance to leaf spot, easy going personality and sun or shade tolerance. As a woodland native, ‘Carousel’ would make a perfect grouped border planting in dappled shade or an arresting single plant specimen.
This plant has got to be on the juice! One look at ‘Incrediball®’ and you’ll swear some plant breeder has found a way to inject plants with anabolic steroids. How else can you explain the flowers this plant pumps out starting in July and continuing into late summer? Each bloom has roughly 4 times as many individual white flowers as ‘Annabelle’ and the globe they form seems at least 4 times as big…they are enormous!! Even better, its stems seem to have benefitted from this alleged drug activity since they are strong and thick with nary a care of collapsing under the weight of the massive bloom. ‘Incrediball®’ forms a dense, rounded plant featuring deep green foliage with buds forming at the end of the new year’s growth. While it really is untrue that ‘Incrediball®’ is the first plant on steroids, its great bloom and strong stems are the real deal and this plant will keep you enthralled when planted in full sun in most any well drained soil.
Echinacea purpurea is one of the great butterfly magnets of the native perennial garden. Coneflowers are easy to grow in average to dry, well-drained soils. Flowers with large orange-gold spiky centers and strong reflexed rose-pink petals appear in July and August. Very drought tolerant.
Like all Wisteria, this native to the lower mid-Atlantic area is a quick grower that needs space and support to grow and look its best. A heavy arbor will allow this plant to thrive and do what it loves to do: grow and produce spectacular, 8-10″ long racemes of lavender-blue flowers in late May that may repeat during the summer months. Its flower display is breathtaking, fragrant and attractive to any number of native insects and butterflies looking to fill up on nectar. ‘Blue Moon’ loves full sun and will flower its best in that environment but it will tolerate less sun and still grow well. While this selection is native further south, it is one of the most northern hardy of all Wisteria and blooms reliably into Zone 3. ‘Blue Moon’ is a nearly ‘no care’ plant, in fact, your pruning will encourage vegetative growth at the expense of bloom so cut judiciously!
Perpetua® is a true double-cropping blueberry that sets one crop of fruit in mid-summer, and then flowers and fruits a second time to provide ripe fruit in the fall. The leaves are dark green, somewhat shiny, and curly or twisted in the spring and summer, turning to deep reds and greens in the winter. The new canes are bright yellow and red in winter. Perpetua® has smallish berries that are mild and sweet.
We think this selection may be the best early season producer out there! Which other variety will give you such massive yields in such dense, rounded, compact package? ‘Patriot’ isn’t only an incredible fruiting plant, it’s an incredible landscape plant with superb, lustrous, deep green foliage and a fiery orange-red fall color that will stop you in your tracks!
Blueberry Glaze® is unlike any other blueberry variety. With its small stature and incredibly glossy, dark green leaves, Bushel and Berry® is reminiscent of a boxwood and can easily be sheared as such. The white with pink spring flowers beautifully contrast the deep foliage color. Small, little dark (almost black) berries present in little bundles mid-summer. The small berries have intense flavor much like the flavor of wild blueberries. With their deep flesh color, these berries pack a healthful punch with their antioxidant-rich qualities.
One of the signature plants for late spring and early summer, ‘May Night’ puts on an amazing show with tall, colorful, indigo-blue flower spikes from early June through mid-July. Group this plant in the front or middle of any sunny perennial bed and marvel at the powerful show its massed bloom will put on. 1997 Perennial Plant of the Year.
