You’ll find it hard to find anything you won’t like about this long blooming, extremely hardy perennial and the same goes for a multitude of landscape critters! ‘Ruby Star’ forms a tall, narrow upright profile in the garden that is perfect for the middle or back of any garden that grows in full sun. Flower buds begin to form in early July and, by later in the month, you’ll be enthralled by the big, carmine red daisies that emerge. Enjoy their fragrant beauty in the garden or in a vase but be willing to share because native bees and butterflies cherish this plant’s nectar while sparrows, finches, cardinals, and others will gorge themselves on its seed. ‘Ruby Star’ blooms into early September and is an absolute must for your American Beauties garden.
Brilliant colors, superior branching and blooms early in the first summer in the landscape. Bright burgundy pink blooms are fade-proof and absolutely unique. Ideal for use in meadows or borders. Good cut flowers. Attracts butterflies. Strong, upright grower. A tough plant that handles heat with ease. Prefers well-drained soil in full sun. Very drought tolerant.
You’ll find it hard to find anything you won’t like about this long blooming, extremely hardy perennial and the same goes for a multitude of landscape critters! ‘Happy Star’ forms a tall, narrow upright profile in the garden that is perfect for the middle or back of any garden that grows in full sun. Flower buds begin to form in early July and, by later in the month, you’ll be enthralled by the big, white daisies that emerge. Enjoy their fragrant beauty in the garden or in a vase but be willing to share because native bees and butterflies cherish this plant’s nectar while sparrows, finches, cardinals, and others will gorge themselves on its seed. ‘Happy Star’ blooms into early September and is an absolute must for your American Beauties garden.
‘;Green Twister’; has lemon-lime petals that transition to a light pink or carmine red near the center cone. A robust plant with strong stems to hold the flowers upright when they bloom in mid-summer to fall. Stems lengthen after the first year and make excellent cut flowers. This plant is a natural mutation of ‘;Magnus’;, it is not a hybrid and therefore overwinters better than many modern hybrids. Coneflowers are well known for attracting butterflies and other pollinators and the seeds are relished by birds in the autumn. Drought resistant once established and easy to grow in sun and light shade.
Old-fashioned bleeding heart. Largest flowers of the group, pleasantly pink. Round growth habit brings the plant to 30″ tall and wide. Blooms May through June. Potential mid-summer dormancy, yet will reflourish with sufficient moisture and shade.
If you like ‘Nikko’, you’ll love this extra-heavy blooming variety. In fact, this free blooming, long blooming selection will make ‘Nikko’ look like a flower slacker with its immense bloom power! Elegant white spring flowers appear at the perfect time for spring gardens, and its neat, mounded habit and attractive fall color make it a great landscape plant, too. Perfect alone or in groups, this selection is an easy to grow winner in half to full day sun. Deer resistant.
That’s right, pink flowers on a low spreading deutzia. A shower of elegant pink flowers creates a carpet of color. Great for mass plantings because of its neat, mounded habit and rich burgundy-purple fall color.
This gold medal winner is truly an unrivaled Olympic champion. Introduced by our National Arboretum, ‘Nikko’ is even more compact than the species with even more show stopping bloom! Low and spreading, this fine textured deciduous shrub lends itself to such an explosion of blooms lasting up to 2 weeks that it completely obscures the small, light to medium green foliage… its like Deutzia gracillis on steroids! Culturally the same as the species, ‘Nikko’ thrives in rich, well-drained soil, plenty of sun, and with a good pruning after flowering. Plant it in groups in amongst perennials, along a foundation or in a small border area for a fiercely snowy early to mid May storm of bloom.
Think of this plant as a ray of sunshine that brightens the garden all season with stunningly bright yellow foliage that holds its color without burn even in the sunniest parts of the landscape. ‘Chardonnay Pearls®’ is a dense, slightly spreading plant that is easy to grow and is perfect for any sun or partial sun situation. In late May, masses of buds open to clouds of small, white, star-shaped flowers that really put on a show into mid-June
Dark green needles arranged in numerous branchlets create a graceful, broadly pyramidal habit. Great little specimen tree that is sure to draw interest from everyone. Slow growth and compact habit are perfect for smaller spaces in the landscape. Perfect as a specimen.
A more compact form of shrubby dogwood, this selection has beautiful cream-edged variegated foliage and stand-out bright red twigs that really enhance the winter landscape. Great for massing or for use in slightly smaller areas than ‘Elegantissima’.
A real workhorse in the perennial border, ‘Zagreb’ will bloom from late June to late August adding color to the garden during the hottest part of the summer. Bright yellow daisy flowers with a darker yellow disk are tightly grouped above its needle-like green foliage. A compact plant that is more upright and less rounded than its more famous relative Coreopsis ‘Moonbeam’, ‘Zagreb’ is a great companion to mingle with other sun lovers since its thin foliage and constant color are make it so easy to work with. Tolerant of heat, humidity and drought, plant ‘Zagreb’ in any sunny border with well drained soil, the bigger the group you plant, the more impressive the summer show! Be sure to give it a quick shearing as flowers fade in August to promote a colorful later September rebloom!
This 1992 perennial plant of the year still packs a summer garden punch that few plants can equal! Pale yellow daisy flowers seem to float above delicate, needlelike foliage nearly all summer long and even into the fall once they start blooming in early July. Few perennials can match the reblooming power of ‘Moonbeam’ as loads of buds rise above spent flowers to keep adding color to the garden. ‘Moonbeam’ is drought tolerant and deer resistant and its ability to fill in around other sun loving perennials with its thin, non-shading foliage makes this easy to grow selection a perfect companion plant in the garden. For a powerful statement, group ‘Moonbeam’ in the middle of any sunny, well drained planting area and watch the summer fireworks!
Ablaze with butter yellow blossoms with a soft red eye that extends to cover more of the petal in cooler temperatures. Forms a compact mound of medium green foliage that stays clean and neat all season. Sterile flowers need no deadheading. Attractive in mass plantings. Excellent cut flower.
Sugartina® ‘Crystalina’ enhances all the great summer attributes of our native Clethra and puts it all together in a tight, dense, small landscape friendly package. Dense and full, this wider growing than tall selection will never breach the 3′ foot range in height yet it is still a powerhouse in the landscape with deep green, impossible glossy foliage and branch ends topped with 2 to 4″ long spires of pure white, incredible fragrant flowers in late July and August. The scent from this plant’s bloom will fill your yard with sweetness and will attract quite a following of local butterflies, too! With its low growing, contained form, ‘Crystalina’ will fit nearly anywhere in the landscape meaning its seductive scent can grow right up near the house or will make a pleasing, controlled grouping near a woods edge at your property border. It even has a great display of yellow fall foliage color that is the climax to the season for this easy care shrub that will thrive in sun, partial sun or mostly shade and will even tolerate wet feet.
A dense, compact selection of alnifolia with lustrous, deep, dark green foliage and a profusion of long, extremely fragrant flower spikes that will really add spice to any early to mid-summer landscape. Like the species, ‘Hummingbird’ tolerates shade and moist soil conditions and lights up the fall landscape with a bright yellow show of fall foliage.
Ravishingly red double flowers do more than just decorate the early spring landscape; they resist deer and drought, and are magnificent in cut flower arrangements.
This American Beauties native has a storied American history on the east coast as its common name came from the fact that its foliage was used as a tea substitute during the Revolutionary War. Today, it’s just a great shrub that will thrive in a sunny, well-drained location! Four inch long, deep green leaves with hairy, gray reverse tightly pack this branchy plant to form a dense, compact, spreading plant that pushes flower stalks from leaf bases on the upper ends of branches in early May. Tiny white flowers cluster on these stalks in late May filling the garden with sweet fragrance and attracting butterflies and hummingbirds from far and wide. New Jersey Tea is easy to grow and drought resistant… it’s tough enough for rough landscape spots but refined enough to use as specimen or border planting in a more formal setting.
Dark and dreamy!You’ll love this new caryopteris – it has extremely dark, glossy foliage, a compact habit, and deep blue flowers. It adds much-needed color to the late summer landscape and makes a handsome companion with perennials. A great favorite with pollinators of all types!
We talk a lot about “winter interest” ? let’s talk now about spring, summer, autumn AND winter interest, because that’s what you get when you plant ‘Winter Gem’. Let’s start in the spring, when lime-green new growth explodes in a burst of chartreuse on stunning yellow young stems. This vigorous grower quickly becomes blanketed with fresh green, delightfully shiny foliage for the warm summer months. Late summer brings deep green, glossy, sun tolerant leaves that will delight you as they transition into autumn with their light golden bronzing to mark the descending temperatures. ‘Winter Gem’ is one of the easiest of the Boxwoods to grow and as easy to prune as the rest. In fact, a couple of light trims in season will encourage a neat compact form that will serve it well, whether it is being used as a specimen or it is grouped in sun or partial shade to produce a hedge or border planting.
