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‘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!
The vine of choice for university buildings! A quick grower that adds a look of stateliness wherever it grows. Very similar in habit and growing conditions as quinquefolia with the same excellent fall color and bird attracting fruit.
Here’s a vine that has so much to offer the landscape yet few people know about it. Virginia Creeper is easy to grow and is a perfect plant for sun or partial shade on a trellis, rock wall, or any other sturdy structure. It displays a unique, 5 leaflet palmate, dark green foliage that looks beautiful throughout the growing season and provides great bird and mammal cover and a great food source for the caterpillars of some of our favorite butterflies. This plant’s inconspicuous spring flowers produce a multitude of deep bluish-purple berries that birds find quite attractive. This functional, easy to grow plant also puts on a crimson-red fall foliage show that would make this American Beauties selection worth growing even if the landscape critters didn’t love it!
Some of the sweetest looking plants seem to go undiscovered as is evidenced by this charmer. ‘Goshiki’ is a dense growing, pyramidal shaped evergreen with cut, prickly, holly-like foliage that will mesmerize you with its heavy dose of gold flecked variegation that turns cream as the leaves age. New foliage has a distinct reddish-bronze cast, adding to the attractiveness of this easy care plant that thrives in sun or part shade.
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Blue Wonder’ is a fragrant, low, soft green/grey silvery foliaged selection that forms a spreading mound that will be smothered with larger than usual lavender-blue blossoms in summer, from May to July. Shearing off the spent flowers will promote rebloom on this tough, tolerant, deer resistant, drought resistant selection. Its shorter stature makes it suitable for the front of the border, for use as a groundcover and makes it perfect for underplanting large shrubs. ‘Blue Wonder’ is a great plant that you’ll love almost as much as your cats, that crave its scented foliage, and your local moths and butterflies that flock to it for its nectar.
There may not be a plant, native or otherwise, that has as many uses and ‘talents’ as Northern Bayberry. It has a long history in the eastern U.S. due to its scent and the use of its essential oil in soaps, candles, and other household products. It also has a long, storied landscape history and is a prime wildlife support plant. Northern Bayberry forms a wide, spreading presence in the landscape with deep green foliage densely held and very aromatic when crushed. It’s a very tolerant plant, surviving sun or partial shade, moist or dry soils, great conditions or seaside spray with ease, all while providing loads of cover for birds and supply of gray, waxy berries in the fall and winter that birds love. This plant is big, so give it ample space in the landscape… it may be a great plant for that rough area you have where you can let it grow, enjoy its lushness and watch the birds flock to your yard!
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Wine red flowers open from buds that resemble raspberries. A stunning and long flowering perennial that makes a great cut flower and the petals are edible. The flowers’ sweet nectar attracts scores of hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees to the garden. The aromatic foliage smells like mint when crushed and is often used to flavor teas. Attractive, dark green foliage exhibits excellent mildew resistance.
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.
The name says it all! A very showy vine with extremely fragrant yellow flowers blooms from mid-spring to late summer, followed by bright red berries. This floriferous honeysuckle has a very long bloom time, and is a wonderul addition to summer gardens, especially when trained up a trellis or fence. Even better, this selection is deer resistant and can provide great fall color with its collection of bright red berries
Every American Beauties garden should have a home for a plant this versatile and this easy to grow. Oval and upright, Spicebush is a perfect plant for grouping as a backdrop or screen in any garden in almost any location since it tolerates shadier, moist conditions without missing a beat. Tiny yellow-green flowers emerge before this plant’s pungent foliage develops, providing early season nectar to native bees and butterflies. Deep green leaves provide great summer cover for birds but it’s this plant’s red berries that have birds coming from far and wide to snack on, whether they are local natives or migratory birds passing through. Showy yellow fall foliage color will really stand out in the garden.
If ever there was an under appreciated easy-care shrub that gives throughout the year, this has got to be it. Evergreen, slow growing and deer-resistant, this versatile beauty will please you 12 months a year, brightening the shade landscape wherever it resides. The milky foliage, mottled delightfully with shades of green, pink, and bronze, is pure summer happiness. Adding to the pleasure are the extravagant, long lasting, drooping clusters of small, creamy flowers that are well suited to cutting and show from late May through June. Autumn adds to the grand performance by providing intense purplish bronzing to the evergreen foliage that lasts through the winter. Plant in semi-shade for best results, and be sure to feed early in the season with an all-purpose acid fertilizer.
Single 2-3″ white flowers all summer long if dead headed. Lustrous deep green foliage. Hardy and durable if planted in well-drained soil and full sun. June-July. 2003 Perennial Plant of the Year.
Bountiful, long spikes of lavender-blue blooms over bluish-green evergreen foliage spring through fall. Though rot-resistant, this Lavander will definitely have increased performance in well-drained soil. A popular variety for drying and potpourri. Deer resistant as well! Flowers June-September. See pages 14-15 for more details on the White Flower Farm program.
A slightly smaller version of ‘Hidcote’ with flowers of a paler lavender color. Needs well-drained soils. Many uses for its fragrant leaves and flowers. June-September.
Graceful, upright, and spreading, this specimen boasts profuse, long blooming, extra large 1.5 to 2″ diameter flowers against a background of rich, green, finely serrated foliage. A great border plant for partial shade!
A free flowering, fine textured shrub that performs well on borders and tolerates shadier conditions without compromising bloom. Bright yellow blossoms are heaviest in late April to early May but plant will flower sporadically throughout the year. Interesting bright green stems are effective in the winter landscape.
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.
Well-branched with a wide, upright habit. Brilliant red buds open with a broad cinnamon red band which almost fills the white corolla. Late flowering. A vigorous grower with new growth, reddish in color. A Richard Jaynes’ introduction.
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.
It is hard to resist this dense, spreading, and irregularly shaped evergreen with show-stopping, rich, blue foliage color! Tough and slow-growing, it is an ideal rock garden specimen or can be grouped in a foundation planting, sunny perennial bed, or even used in a container.