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!
This close relative of ‘Francee’ shines like a beacon in dark, shady areas with bold white margins surrounding deep green, heart shaped foliage. Spectacular color, great mounding form, and lavender flowers that rise above the foliage on long stalks in August complete a beautiful picture.
This purple form of the dwarf Lil’ Kim® hibiscus is perfect for containers and smaller gardens. It has the same compact habit but with plum-violet flowers accented by a red eye. The large – up to 3″ across – flowers are very striking against the dark, glossy foliage and are held up by very strong stems.
Another plant breakthrough from Proven Winners®/Color Choice®, ‘L’il Kim’® is the first dwarf variety of Rose of Sharon on the market opening up loads of landscape possibilities that weren’t available previously given the 8-10’ sizing of all others in this species. ‘L’il Kim’® is less than half the size meaning it will fit in small spaces or along the foundation without overpowering the area. Just because it’s small, don’t think that ‘L’il Kim’® is a wimp when it comes to blooming! Starting in mid July, big, beefy buds begin to open to reveal 2″ diameter, star shaped, pure white flowers with a stunning deep red center. The bloom is heavy, lasts into early September and the individual flowers last up to 3 days, 3 times longer than those on any other Hibiscus!! Even its foliage is better than its larger brethren showing better thickness and much deeper color than others. You’ll want to plant more than one ‘L’il Kim’® and why not with its easy care nature and its ability to thrive in full or half day sun.
A super tight, mounding habit and luminescent plum-purple foliage color highlighted with silver veining make this plant some serious garden eye candy. White and pink flowers are held on airy flower stalks in mid-June adding to this plant’s charm. Perfect for edging beds and borders. Also makes a colorful addition to the rock garden. Attracts butterflies.
You’ll smell the carnival midway when you catch your first glimpse of this 5″ diameter clear pink bloom with red eye zone and green throat and, like cotton candy, once you see one bloom, you’ll crave more. It’s a good thing this mid-season blooming selection is so prolific because you’ll have weeks of flowers in July and August to whet your appetite. Flowers are borne on thick, 24″ stalks above dense, deep green foliage that is attractive even without this fantastic bloom.
It’s not often you find a plant that revolutionizes gardening but ‘Stella D’Oro’ is one of those seminal plants that has changed how people look at Daylilies. Its lightly fragrant, bright yellow, star-shaped flowers that constantly cover this daylily from May until July and its short dense, carefree stature have all contributed to this selection being the most widely known, widely used Daylily in history. Incredibly adaptable to poor soil and viscious landscape spots that would make other plants fade away, ‘Stella D’Oro’ performs like a champ with attractive foliage forming a tight clump that serves as a perfect backdrop for a seemingly ceaseless stream of flowers stalks that rise above the plant. Group this plant is any sunny or shady location with great results. It even performs splendidly in a container!
This lovely garden plant has violet-blue saucer-shaped 2″ flowers. ‘Rozanne’ has a spreading compact habit with deep green, slightly marbled foliage. Adrian Bloom says this is one of the best geraniums he has ever introduced! The flower period is from mid-June to October. 2004 Hardy New American Garden Plant.
An attractive, evergreen groundcover that saves its best show for fall and winter with red-tinged, dark green foliage and an outstanding display of large red berries that are both persistent and edible. Dense, compact and hardy.
OOOHHH, what a plant! Dense and upright with cool, dark, blue-green foliage and an abundant early spring show of stamened, cone-like, white flowers that fill the air with their light fragrance. Superb summer foliage turns a striking yellow-orange-red in the fall. Truly a plant for all seasons!
It seems like almost all Forsythia is showy but ‘Show Off’r stretches the bounds of showiness with a display of bloom that is an incredible blast of golden yellow color in April and early May on a plant that is denser, rounder and more controlled than ‘Lynwood Gold’ could ever think of being! With deep, dark green foliage it takes on a neater, more refined look in the summer months and, like most Forsythia, it’s perfect for grouping to make a border planting, but it will do so in a much more confined area without growing you out of house and home!
This miniature, upright selection delivers more flowers per inch to create an outstanding spring display. A very compact, dwarf plant, it provides an immense amount of spring color in a small space and does it while asking for very little in the way of special care. Perfect for half to full day sun, it will thrill alone or overwhelm when grouped to form a tight, color bomb of a hedge. Deer resistant.
‘Kramer’s Red’ puts on an astounding show of deep, purplish-red flower color to usher in the spring. The first warm days of late March and April see this selection’s stems loaded with buds between deep green, needle-like foliage and starting to flame into color. Bloom lasts for nearly a month on this mounding, spreading plant that loves to be massed in partial sun areas.
Deep green, thick, serrated foliage forms a dense basal mound of leaves in the garden that gives rise to sturdy flower stalks in mid-June topped by big, squat buds. Buds unfurl in late July producing big, 3-4″ diameter, white rayed daisies with a big, bulbous center cone that puts on a garden show that you and the local butterflies will appreciate throughout the summer bloom season that stretches into early September. ‘White Swan’ loves a full sun spot and puts on a fantastic show in well-drained soil planted in a group.
