Here’s a round evergreen with some personality! ‘Mr. Bowling Ball™’ has the same form as that old stand by ‘Hetz Midget’, but with lacy, awl-like, juvenile foliage that gives it a whole new look and texture in the landscape. This frilly, globe shaped plant is dead easy to grow and a delight in a foundation planting, on a border, or in any small space that could use a great looking, tolerant plant. ‘Mr. Bowling Ball’™ maintains its great looks without pruning and thrives in full sun.
This selection is narrowly columnar in habit with needles that are lustrous dark green above and lighter green beneath. Easily grown in average, well-drained soils, and will tolerate full sun to even deep shade. Use as a specimen, screen or hedge.
Looking for a pink lilac with the traditional lilac scent? ‘Maiden’s Blush’ is it! This early blooming Lilac blooms about 1 week before the common and French lilacs and is considered the best pink Lilac available on the market. The single, very fragrant blooms are held above a cloud of green leaves in big, attractive cones that will dazzle in early to mid-May. These factors, as well as being able to survive the coldest of winters and maintaining an upright form, makes ‘Maiden’s Blush’ a perfect plant for full sun or partial shade, to be planted alone as a specimen or in groups to create a deliciously fragrant border planting. Try planting ‘Maiden’s Blush’ near a porch or walkway to better enjoy the heavenly scented blooms and beauty.
An upright grower with open branches, this lilac sends out clusters of exquisite, pure white flowers in mid-May. With a heavenly scent to match its visual appeal, this is a variety that is sure to please in hedges, screens, or as an accent in your landscape.
It’s the next big thing for Bloomerang! Dark Purple is a bigger plant with larger, more rounded inflorescenses. It’s very showy in spring, and continues to amaze with fragrant blooms from mid-summer to frost. This is a strong grower, and will add beauty and fragrance to gardens from spring to fall. Perfect as a stand alone specimen or stunning when grouped to form a border planting, this selection is a butterfly magnet and is deer resistant. A light trim directly after spring bloom will greatly enhance this plant’s summer and fall blooming prowess.
Showy, 3″ long panicles of fragrant purple flowers grace this dense, full shrub in mid-May. Leaves are deep green and somewhat glossy and tend to keep clean throughout the growing season.
Graceful and arching, this selection is loaded with white flowers in mid- to late April before foliage appears. Attractive throughout the summer with a bright yellow foliage display.
A real improvement in gold foliage Spireas, this selection keeps its gold color throughout the summer and blooms heavily from mid-June through July with pink, flat flower heads. Nice, compact form makes it easy to use anywhere in the landscape.
Dense and mound forming, this selection puts on an impressive display of bright pink flowers from late June through July. Easy care and vigorous growing.
There are lots of flashy Spirea with golden foliage but ‘Double Play® Gold’ was the most vibrant one when trialed in a garden with dozens of other Spirea. It’s no wonder that this compact, low, mounded beauty with pure golden foliage and an abundance of pure pink flowers will melt your heart! Its foliage does not fade with the summer heat like many lesser varieties might and, when combined with its June pure pink blooming flower heads that repeat in numbers throughout the summer until September, it’s easy to why the local butterflies won’t be the only garden creatures hanging around this plant to take a look. You’ll be so smitten, you’ll want to plant it in groups in any sunny, well drained area you might have so you can show it off to the world!
Meet the newest and most colorful Proven Winners spirea, Double Play® Candy Corn™. The show starts in earliest spring, when the new growth emerges bright candy apple red. As it matures, it turns pineapple yellow, and the new growth continues to emerge bright orange all season. Top it off with dark purple flowers in late spring/early summer, and you’ve got a display you really have to see to believe. Be sure to click the image tab below to see just how showy this low-maintenance spiraea is!
Be the first garden center in your market to have this incredible new Sambucus that will have you rubbing your eyes in disbelief when you first see it! This Proven Winnersr exclusive is available this year in limited release only and your customers will fall in love with it as soon as they lay eyes on it. The first thing you’ll notice is the foliage that will stun you with its beauty. ‘Black Lace™’ has wispy, threadlike foliage that is made even more intriguing by its dark purple, nearly black coloration. This color and texture combine with a compact, yet open and airy plant form to give the look of a threadleaf Japanese Maple on a plant that is so much easier to get established and grow. If ‘Black Lace™’ had just its foliage and form it would be a remarkable plant, but when you add in this plant’s massive 10″ diameter, lightly fragrant, pink, flattened lacy flower heads that open up in early June, and you have a plant that has few equals in its beauty. ‘Black Lace™’ thrives in full sun or part shade and has such versatility it even grows well in a container garden!
Produces heavy crops of extra large fruit clusters, maturing 1 to 2 weeks after ‘Adams’. Fruit is high in Vitamin C and individual fruits are the largest of any variety. Vigorous shrub 8-10′.
Outstanding tri-color variegation of white, green and pink make this more compact growing pussy willow an interesting landscape addition. Easy to grow, prefers moist soil.
One of herbs “royalty” with a scent that has so many wonderful uses! A must, either fresh or dried, for seasoning hundreds of foods, ‘Arp’ is perfect for use in teas, herbal oils, bath oils, and dried sachets and potpourris. ‘Arp’ loves full sun and good air flow and will grow well in containers, inside or outside. Upright, bushy form, dark green-gray foliage, and abundant small purple flowers will make you want these by the arm load! Perennial.
(Northern Hardy) A tough, reliable performer. Compact habit with prolific, small, double-pink flowers. Excellent choice for a flowering low hedge in sunny areas.
Bred by the creator of Knockoutr, White Out™ brings strong growth and excellent disease resistance to the garden along with an unending succession of single white flowers surrounding a center of golden stamens that will populate the garden from May through October. Think of White Out™ as a more compact, vigorous ‘Iceberg’…it will have that kind of effect on the garden. In fact, the breeder feels it’s the best white shrub rose that has been introduced in decades…a strong endorsement from such a talented breeder. Try it yourself in groups to form a mass of white bloom that is even more pronounced when backed by the nearly black green foliage this selection serves up on each dense, compact plant.
(Northern Hardy)Welcome the first non-pink or red flower color to the Knock Out® Rose family to your garden! It will stand out because of its color, there’s no doubt about that, but it will also stand out because of it’s extreme vigor, outstanding disease resistance and a bloom that will make your heart melt. Loads of buds top deep green foliage from May to October, continually opening to reveal bright yellow, single, 3″ diameter flowers that mature to creamy yellow as they age. The plants clean themselves, dropping their spent petals to promote garden neatness, and they are perfect for grouping in the landscape, getting them established in any sunny area then letting them alone to do their thing which will be to make your landscape look great without taxing you in the care process!!
(Northern Hardy)Welcome the first non-pink or red flower color to the Knock Out® Rose family to your garden! It will stand out because of its color, there’s no doubt about that, but it will also stand out because of it’s extreme vigor, outstanding disease resistance and a bloom that will make your heart melt. Loads of buds top deep green foliage from May to October, continually opening to reveal bright yellow, single, 3″ diameter flowers that mature to creamy yellow as they age. The plants clean themselves, dropping their spent petals to promote garden neatness, and they are perfect for grouping in the landscape, getting them established in any sunny area then letting them alone to do their thing which will be to make your landscape look great without taxing you in the care process!!
Perhaps one of the toughest plants of any type, this selection belies its ruggedness with a beguiling display of flowering beauty. Pure white, single flowers abound in the spring, recur sporadically throughout the season and fill the air with their sweet scent. Commonly known as Beach Rose for its native habitat, this selection will tolerate sand, salt, and whatever other indignity you heap upon it and still keep growing!
