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.
Echinacea purpurea is one of the great butterfly magnets of the native perennial garden. Coneflowers are easy to grow in average to dry, well-drained soils. Flowers with large orange-gold spiky centers and strong reflexed rose-pink petals appear in July and August. Very drought tolerant.
Like all Wisteria, this native to the lower mid-Atlantic area is a quick grower that needs space and support to grow and look its best. A heavy arbor will allow this plant to thrive and do what it loves to do: grow and produce spectacular, 8-10″ long racemes of lavender-blue flowers in late May that may repeat during the summer months. Its flower display is breathtaking, fragrant and attractive to any number of native insects and butterflies looking to fill up on nectar. ‘Blue Moon’ loves full sun and will flower its best in that environment but it will tolerate less sun and still grow well. While this selection is native further south, it is one of the most northern hardy of all Wisteria and blooms reliably into Zone 3. ‘Blue Moon’ is a nearly ‘no care’ plant, in fact, your pruning will encourage vegetative growth at the expense of bloom so cut judiciously!
Perpetua® is a true double-cropping blueberry that sets one crop of fruit in mid-summer, and then flowers and fruits a second time to provide ripe fruit in the fall. The leaves are dark green, somewhat shiny, and curly or twisted in the spring and summer, turning to deep reds and greens in the winter. The new canes are bright yellow and red in winter. Perpetua® has smallish berries that are mild and sweet.
We think this selection may be the best early season producer out there! Which other variety will give you such massive yields in such dense, rounded, compact package? ‘Patriot’ isn’t only an incredible fruiting plant, it’s an incredible landscape plant with superb, lustrous, deep green foliage and a fiery orange-red fall color that will stop you in your tracks!
Blueberry Glaze® is unlike any other blueberry variety. With its small stature and incredibly glossy, dark green leaves, Bushel and Berry® is reminiscent of a boxwood and can easily be sheared as such. The white with pink spring flowers beautifully contrast the deep foliage color. Small, little dark (almost black) berries present in little bundles mid-summer. The small berries have intense flavor much like the flavor of wild blueberries. With their deep flesh color, these berries pack a healthful punch with their antioxidant-rich qualities.
One of the signature plants for late spring and early summer, ‘May Night’ puts on an amazing show with tall, colorful, indigo-blue flower spikes from early June through mid-July. Group this plant in the front or middle of any sunny perennial bed and marvel at the powerful show its massed bloom will put on. 1997 Perennial Plant of the Year.
Tough,hardy, native plant that thrives in difficult sites. Used extensively in seashore locations. Large, flowers that bloom somewhat continously all summer.
Compact growing with great dark green foliage, this selection is easy to grow and a dependable, profuse bloomer with even an occasional fall bloom! Buds are pink, opening to white with a greenish yellow blotch in early May.
A more shrubby perennial; the dark, glossy leaves are dense and create a mounded plant 3′ tall and round. Single 3″ white flowers start blooming in September and last until frost.
Pumpkin™ Hypercium is covered with yellow flowers in spring, followed by clusters of glowing orange berries each fall, making them the perfect addition to cut autumn floral arrangements. Plant in mixed containers along with fall mums or flowering kale to highlight its outstanding fall berry display, or in the garden in drifts were it can truly show off its multi-season appeal. Rust-resistant and easy to grow.
This dwarf, dense growing plant has a mounding form that lends itself to a number of landscape uses. Green, shiny summer foliage turns red in fall, revealing numerous large red berries that are prized by birds.
Everyone knows Astilbes are the definitive perennials for the shade or woodland garden and this selection is one of the best at filling this niche with color and low maintenance beauty. It’s a sure thing, being deer and rabbit resistant, and butterflies love it for its soft, peachy-pink, airy plumes of bloom that rise above the rich fern-like foliage starting in late May or early June. ‘Peach Blossom’ is one of the most drought-tolerant selections of the genus and it will flower into early July for an extended show you’ll look forward to every year. ‘Peach Blossom’ will tolerate morning sun but make sure it has enough shade so that it dependably lights up a darker area of your landscape.
A more shrubby perennial; the dark, glossy leaves are dense and create a mounded plant 3′ tall and round. Single 3″ white flowers start blooming in September and last until frost.
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.
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.
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!
We think this selection may be the best early season producer out there! Which other variety will give you such massive yields in such dense, rounded, compact package? ‘Patriot’ isn’t only an incredible fruiting plant, it’s an incredible landscape plant with superb, lustrous, deep green foliage and a fiery orange-red fall color that will stop you in your tracks!
Revolutionary! There is no other word for this Raspberry that is a quantum leap ahead of the competition. Dwarf and rounded, this thornless beauty tops off at only 3′ in height while producing a boatload of sweet tasting mid season red Raspberries in June and July. While it does spread like other Raspberries in the ground, it is perfectly suited for growing in a container on a deck so that you can pick delicious fruit at your leisure. Gone are the Raspberries that take over the landscape! Start a berry revolution in your garden today!
A thornless blackberry that yields a productive crop of large, very sweet, high quality fruit. The hardiest thornless blackberry, it does fine in all of Zone 5, and has good resistance to cane blight. Ripens in July.
