Large, dark blue-green foliage and exceptional berry production make this evergreen holly particularly attractive. This broad growing holly can reach a height of 12 ft. and 9 ft. wide. Performs well in full sun or partial shade. It can be used in the landscape as a specimen or as an accent piece.
Superb dark blue-green leathery foliage on purple stems! This variety, along with its ability to pollinate any female meserveae holly, has great form and texture in the landscape and is extremely hardy.
Vigorous growing and oh so tough, this blue holly selection possesses the same lustrous, deep blue-green foliage and the same abundant red berry fruit set as its other blue relatives, just on a larger scale. Tall growing and pyramidal, ‘Blue Maid’ makes an outstanding specimen or works well planted in a group to form a breathtaking hedge.
The marvels of modern planting have produced a plant that is guaranteed to be loaded with glorious red berries each season! A ‘Blue Prince’ and ‘Blue Princess’ are combined in close proximity creating a colorful, distinctive, pyramidal evergreen that satisfies all season long. Perfect for customers that want all their hollies to have berries or those whose space is limited and can’t accommodate separate male and female plants.
There’s so much to say about this superb dwarf Winterberry, a must-have selection and certain seller at the garden center or to your landscape customers. Indigenous and care-free, this compact female is a real berry factory. Huge red berries up to «” in diameter nearly obscure the dense, compact branching all winter long providing food for over 40 species of birds! Perfect for summer or winter interest anywhere, ‘Red Sprite’ also thrives in wet, acidic soil. Plant in full to part sun, and be sure to provide a preferred male like ‘Jim Dandy’ for pollination. Its a dream of a plant for using as grouped border planting or for using singly and admiring the remarkable show of berry color!
A great alternative to boxwood!This cool new dwarf, broadleaf evergreen looks more like a boxwood than an inkberry. A dense, ball-shaped plant, Gem Box ilex has small, dainty, dark green leaves with attractive red tips during the spring flush. It maintains good branching right to the ground so it never looks bare-legged like other cultivars may. It’s great as a small evergreen hedge or used as a container specimen in milder climates.
This tough, durable broadleaf evergreen is an outstanding American Beauties plant due to its ability to provide year round cover for a host of native bird species while providing an excellent food source for these same birds with its black berries. Even better, ‘Densa’ is such an easy plant to grow and tolerates just about any landscape situation, especially sandy soils or places prone to exposure to road salt or seaside conditions. Plant it individually or in groups to form a low barrier or screen, thick with small, dark green, lustrous foliage.
This tough, durable broadleaf evergreen is an outstanding American Beauties plant due to its ability to provide year round cover for a host of native bird species while providing an excellent food source for these same birds with its black berries. Even better, ‘Densa’ is such an easy plant to grow and tolerates just about any landscape situation, especially sandy soils or places prone to exposure to road salt or seaside conditions. Plant it individually or in groups to form a low barrier or screen, thick with small, dark green, lustrous foliage.
The cheerful color of this Hydrangea’s flower display will astound you! Billowing pyramidal towers of fluffy, vanilla-white blooms emerge in late July and, as they age, they tint strawberry-pink and, finally, to strawberry-red making this long lasting floral display look good enough to eat. Since flowers on this selection emerge throughout the months of July and August, there are a cacophony of flower colors present at any one time on the plant, making it a fall treat that is as colorful as it is unique. Vanilla Strawberry™ has a strong, upright habit that opens up to a more fountain-like shape once all its massive blooms are open and flowers are carried on showy red stems that add to the distinctness of this plant. Like all Panicle Hydrangeas, Vanilla Strawberry™ prefers a place in the sun, but it will perform well in partial shade as a specimen or a brilliant hedge.
This is a dwarf form of the popular Quick Fire™ Hydrangea coming in at only have the height and width of its relative. Like Quick Fire™, it is early blooming, flowering about a month before other hydrangeas starting in late June or early July. Its small stature does not diminish its urge to bloom as it will cover itself with white flowers that transform to pink-red as they age and the summer progresses. Little Quick Fire™ will be perfect for a small space that other paniculata Hydrangeas overpower or will even add excitement to a mixed planter for sun or partial shade.
Get ready for a revolutionary new member of the Hydrangea family! ‘Limelight’ will take your breath away with its unique lime-green flowers that cover the plant in big, poofy snowballs starting in mid-August. Very vigorous and very floriferous, this is just the plant to inject excitement into the late summer landscape.
Loads of flowers on a tiny plant! This dwarf panicle hydrangea will turn heads! Bobo® hydrangea is engulfed by large white flowers in summer. The flowers are held upright on strong stems, and continue to grow and lengthen as they bloom. No flopping, unlike some panicle hydrangeas! As blooms age, they turn pink. It is compact and dwarf in habit, and the flowers cover every inch of the plant right down to the ground.
Experience another Endless Summer® breakthrough plant with ‘Twist ‘n Shout®’, a superb cross between Hydrangea ‘Penny Mac’ and Hydrangea ‘Lady in Red’ that combines the best of each into one stunning plant. Like The Original Endless Summer® and Endless Summer® ‘Blushing Bride®’, ‘Twist ‘n Shout®’ is Zone 4 hardy, blooms on new wood and blooms repeatedly throughout the growing season. ‘Twist ‘n Shout’ differs by offering a big, beautiful lacecap blossom and a bi-color mixture of deep pink and startling blue to create a truly unique landscape look. Like ‘Lady in Red’, it also offers stems that are sturdy and deep maroon-red to set off the copius bloom and and the lustrous, deep green, mildew resistant foliage that, by the way, produces a fall foliage color of deep maroon red that is unmatched in the Hydrangea world. It all adds up to a truly unique landscape experience that you’ll find impossible to pass up!
Here’s a plant to shout about from the highest mountaintop! Endless Summer® ‘The Original’ will revolutionize the macrophylla Hydrangea market because, unlike all the others, it blooms reliably on new wood. That means glorious, beefy blue, pom-pom flowers every early July and lasting late into the summer even if last year’s branches are winter damaged right to the ground. Now people in some of the coldest spots in the northeast can grow this summer charmer instead of just dreaming about it. Deep green foliage serves as a perfect backdrop to 4 to 6″ diameter flowers that get even bluer in more acid soils. A great plant that will sell in endless numbers!!
With a profusion of big raspberry red or neon purple blooms, Summer Crush™ brings floral quality blooms to your garden or patio container. Not only is it drop-dead gorgeous, but it is compact so you get a neat, tidy look throughout the summer. Fill a patio container with Summer Crush for a stunning look all season long. Summer Crush™ will make your outdoor living space the talk of the neighborhood.
The latest craze to hit the Hydrangea world, ‘Blushing Bride®’ is the next of the Endless Summer® line of plants and, like its wildly popular older relative, it is a flowering demon that blooms on new wood and is a repeat bloomer to boot. Because of this ability to bloom on new wood, northern gardeners can plant ‘Blushing Bride®’ and still enjoy the signature summer snowball flowers that they have been denied until the advent of Endless Summer®. And what flowers they are! Huge, up to 6″ diameter balls of pure white bloom emerge in mid to late June and continue blooming right on through until frost. As the flowers age, they take on a charming, light blue or pink blush that provides great contrast with newly emerging pure white blooms. ‘Blushing Bride®’ even has the advantage of far better foliage than its famous relative, sporting luxuriant, deep green leaves that are the perfect foil for the unending supply of snowy bloom. Easy to grow, ‘Blushing Bride®’ will perform best in a half a day of sun in moist well-drained soil. Plant a bunch for a summer filled with flowers!
Dense and compact with deep green foliage, this selection is a reblooming beauty with deep blue, mophead flowers starting in June and continuing all summer. Heavier blooming than Endless Summer® The Original. All summer color. Deep green foliage along with dark red stems add to its attraction. Easy to grow. Perfect for use as a specimen or in groups.
New and improved! The second generation of Invincibelle Spirit hydrangea delivers on all accounts: it has darker foliage, stiffer stems, and larger flowers that are a richer pink that ages to an attractive green. This hydrangea grows from Manitoba to Mobile, blooming every year from mid-summer to frost. It is a strong rebloomer, and will deliver plenty of rich pink flowers through the summer and into fall. As with the original Invincibelle Spirit hydrangea, $1 from every plant sold will be donated to the Breast Cancer Research Center. BCRF is dedicated to preventing breast cancer and finding a cure in our lifetime by funding clinical and translational research worldwide.
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.
Possibly the best, most stately vine available! Slow growing when young, more rapid as it ages, this Cary Award winner will grow over and cover any structure with ease. Deep, dark foliage, excellent exfoliating bark, and immensely showy, 6-10″ diameter white flowers in late June. A real beauty!