Low Scape Mound™ aronia is a tough, tolerant, tidy little mound of glossy green foliage. In spring, it’s covered in hundreds of dainty white flowers, and in autumn, the leaves turn brilliant red to contrast with dark purple-black fruit. The unique low-growing, mound-shaped habit of this new variety makes it perfect for mass planting as a ground cover or edging plant. Best of all, it thrives almost anywhere: cold climates and hot ones, wet soils and dry ones, sun and part shade. This native shrub will gracefully handle just about any landscape challenge you can throw at it!
This vigorous, multi-stemmed native is a true harbinger of spring in the northeast part of the country and one of the easiest, most rewarding landscape plants to grow. Its stems grow strongly upright producing an oval shaped plant that can be used easily along the foundation of a large building or as a naturalized clump in any sunny or partially sunny home landscape spot. As leaves begin to emerge, erect plumes of snowy white, small flowers emerge in late April dusting the landscape with clouds of cottony color. Deep green foliage emerges, cloaking the plant and providing a backdrop for shiny black fruit that matures in late summer much to the delight of birds anywhere in the same zip code. Remarkable golden yellow to orange fall color gives way to clean, gray, muscular bark that shows well all winter.
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.
This classic garden perennial will bring the sky to your garden with its true blue flowers. Spikes of lavender and blue on a mound of scalloped foliage will emerge in the early summer. Remove spend flowers to yield another round of blooms in the late summer and fall. Its large leaves make this plant attractive even when it’s flowers are not in season. Large flowers attract butterflies and hummingbirds!
Fire Light Tidbit™ hydrangea blooms in mid-summer. The flowers start white and develop their pink coloration beginning in late August when the weather gets cooler. Don’t sacrifice your flower coverage – blooms cover the compact form from top to bottom. Its long bloom period means you’ll enjoy colorful flowers for 3+ months every year. Fire Light Tidbit™ hydrangea’s unique small size makes it is easy to tuck into perennial borders. It also does well in containers.
The absolutely fabulous Quick Fire Fab® panicle hydrangea shares the same super-early bloom time, rock-solid reliability, and easy-going nature of the original Quick Fire hydrangea, but adds big, full, showy mophead blooms to the mix. How fabulous is that? It’s the best way to get the earliest possible panicle hydrangea flowers, expanding the seasonal display by two weeks or more every year. If you look closely at the lush blooms, you’ll see each floret has an unusual cruciform shape which gives them a textural effect you won’t find in other panicle hydrangeas. As the blooms age, they turn blush pink, then bright pink, then red, from the bottom up, making each one look like a big delicious ice cream cone that goes from vanilla to berry as the summer progresses. Quick Fire Fab provides 3+ months of flowers and color in your landscape or garden, and does it all with almost no work or effort from you.
NewGen Freedom® is a relatively vigorous, rounded cultivar that is slightly taller than wide. It has beautiful glossy medium green foliage. Its habit is more uniform and tighter than ‘;Wintergreen’; or ‘;Winter Gem’; thus making it an excellent choice for many formal and residential landscapes. Deer resistant! It was selected due to its high tolerance of boxwood blight and resistance to boxwood leafminer. Its vigor helps it create an attractive plant quicker than many cultivars but it also makes annual pruning a must. With annual pruning, this plant makes a fabulous specimen.
NewGen Independence® was chosen based on its very high tolerance to boxwood blight as well as its outstanding performance in boxwood leafminer trials. It’s growth is similar to ‘;Green Beauty’; boxwood but has much better boxwood leafminer resistance and the leaves are slightly more elongated. NewGen Independence® is a very deep green medium-sized cultivar that holds excellent color throughout the winter. It has a rounded habit that is nearly as tall as wide. NewGen Independence® can be used in formal plantings where a medium-sized round plant is desired. It would be a replacement for Buxus sempervirens ‘;Suffruticosa’; (English Boxwood) for foundational plantings. Branching structure is very strong allowing it to withstand most moderate to heavy snow loads. Deer resistant.
This upright, narrow grower has an irresistible, soft green foliage and a shape that lends itself to tons of landscape functions from hedging to specimen use. Adaptable and easy to grow.
Winterberry is an awesome plant for winter landscapes, but many homeowners don’t have room for a traditional variety. An excellent, heavy fruiting dwarf variety, Berry Poppins is ideal for gardeners who want bright winter color and fruit for cutting but don’t have room for a typical I. verticillata. It is heavier fruiting than ‘Red Sprite’. Use Mr. Poppins as a pollinator.
If your older forsythia takes up too much room and has a weak flower display, try this new, improved variety. It has the same fabulous flower display you get with Show Off® forsythia, but in a smaller package. This new dwarf forsythia is a mass of bright yellow spring flowers from base to tip. It fits into smaller mixed borders and foundation plantings, but where it saves in space, Starlet definitely makes up for with its mass of bright sunny yellow flowers that cover it from base to tip. Its deer-resistance is a major perk to this bright beauty!
This aggressively growing vine is easy to grow and one of the most rewarding plants you can have in your landscape. It may take awhile to bloom but once it does, you’ll marvel at its abundance of reddish-orange flowers throughout the summer and the wildlife they attract. Trumpet Vine is one of the best plants in the landscape for attracting hummingbirds while also providing a food source for a variety of native bees and insects. Even better, its big expanse and thick growth provide an essential nesting area for a big cross-section of our native songbirds, bringing color and life to your landscape even when it is out of flower.
This yucca has beautiful blue green foliage with numerous curly, white filaments for added texture. It has a neat, round habit, smaller than the straight species. The amazing flower stems reach 4-5′; in height and it’;s a host plant for skippers. A tough as nails perennial for sunny, dry sites including dry slopes.
Sword-like evergreen leaves add loads of texture to the landscape along with great color as it foliage is accented with a bright band of gold down the center of each leaf. Tall spikes rise above the foliage bearing creamy-white bell-like flowers in July. Superb year round color, form and texture in the perennial garden or shrub border. Drought resistant. Thrives in poor, dry soils. Easy to grow and very hardy. Nearly fool proof in the landscape.
If you love the Wisteria bloom but hate the fact that it can be one of the most noxious, overpowering, invasive plants in the landscape, why not try this outstanding, native alternative that gives you outstanding bloom without most of the headaches. ‘Amethyst Falls’ is far less aggressive than other Wisteria, yet still produces a twining woody vine that deserves a heavy duty arbor or support. Soft, gray-green compound foliage emerges later than many plants in late April or early May followed immediately by big bud clusters that elongate and open in mid to late May revealing grape-like clusters of deep lilac to purple flowers. It’s an incredible show of bloom that you, along with any neighboring native insect and butterflies, will love. Even better, ‘Amethyst Falls’ blooms dependable at an early age while most of the Asian imports seem content just to foliate you to death! This American native is so superior to the imported variety it makes you wonder why anyone would grow any other Wisteria. This container size is exclusively offered to American Beauties program buyers!
A great new plant to provide color throughout the growing season with beautiful, dark burgundy foliage and an abundant display of reddish pink flowers that any hummingbird will love!! Foliage color intensifies as autumn approaches!
The new look purple leaved weigela! Spilled Wine has dark red, wavy leaves and a spreading habit. Its hot pink-magenta flowers are similar to those of Wine & Roses, but this is a smaller plant that is wider than it is tall. This is a wonderful plant for adding lots of color in mass plantings, or tucked into an existing border.
Here’s a new sensation that will take the plant world and your customers by storm. In fact, this little gem is the perfect storm of dense, neat plant form, incredible foliage color that excites throughout the growing season, and superb flower color that seems to intensify the foliage color. ‘My Monet’™ is sure to be a favorite for its ability to provide luscious color in the landscape for a long period without hogging precious space with its mounding, dense form. Even better, it’s a plant that is a customer magnet… it’s just so cute and so attractive, it will sell from spring to fall and will be one of your best impulse sales items. This sport of Weigela ‘Tango’ features deep green foliage with creamy white edging that is infused with varying intensities of pink. Deep reddish-pink flowers add to the mix in late May through June but they are hardly necessary with the cacophony of color already present. ‘My Monet’™ is easy to grow, love full sun and makes an outstanding grouping anywhere in the landscape.
Compact, spreading form that blooms throughout the summer months with flattened, white flower heads along the stems. Very showy, excellent choice for summer interest along the foundation or border. See pages 14-15 for more details on the White Flower Farm program.
