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Shrubs
Lilac Chinese It produces an excellent floral display in early May. The flower color is lilac purple. Flowers are produced in 4-5" long panicles after the foliage emerges. It is a profuse bloomer with fragrant flowers covering much of the plant. Lilacs prefer a rich well drained soil. Although they will grow in light shade, they will develop a more dense plant habit and flower much better when grown in full sun. Renewal pruning to remove a few older canes each year will help keep the plant full to the base. Prune after flowering for best landscape effect.
Juniper Arcadia It is a grass-green selection with a mature height of one to one and a half feet, and it has good resistance to juniper blight. Arcadia Juniper is excellent for foundation and mass border plantings. Junipers are important evergreens for landscape use due to their tolerance of unfavorable soil conditions, their hardiness and great variation in size, habit, color and growth rate. Junipers are used as ground covers, in foundation plantings, or as hedges, screens or windbreaks. These plants may also be utilized for background plantings in shrub beds or flower gardens, as specimen plants, in rock gardens or for topiary or espalier purposes.
Juniper Blue Forest Blue Forest Juniper, Juniperus sabina 'Blue Forest', is a distinctive groundcover-type evergreen that has very attractive silvery-blue foliage. Looks great when planted above a boulder retaining wall. This evergreen shrub has a wide-spreading habit with a somewhat vase shape that grows 4' to 6' tall with a greater spread. It has a medium texture and a slow growth rate. Junipers are used as ground covers, in foundation plantings, or as hedges, screens or windbreaks.
Juniper Buffalo Buffalo Juniper, Juniperus sabina 'Buffalo', has soft, feathery, bright green foliage on low spreading branches that produces an interesting form, and it is an excellent groundcover plant for borders or mass plantings. Buffalo Juniper's feathery branches are of bright green foliage; retains color in winter. May prune to shape desired. It has a height of 12-15 inches and a spread of 5 feet. These plants may also be utilized for background plantings in shrub beds or flower gardens, as specimen plants, in rock gardens or for topiary or espalier purposes.
Juniper Maney Maney Juniper, Juniperus chinensis 'Maneyi', is a semi-erect juniper that has an attractive blue cast to its foliage, along with gray-green berries in summer. It has a horizontal layered, irregular habit. This is one of the hardiest medium-sized evergreens and makes an excellent choice for any landscape planting. Maney Juniper has a handsome appearance and is medium sized for any planting. Requires a well drained soil in a sunny location, adaptable to different soil pH; tolerates fairly alkaline soils and prefers full sun to part shade. This evergreen shrub grow 4-5 feet in height and 5-6 feet in width.
Yew Dark Green Dark Green Yew, taxus x media 'Dark Green', is an excellent evergreen with beautiful dark green foliage for the shade garden or shady side of the home. It exhibits a small wide spreading form, with soft textures, and rich green short needles that are easily pruned into various shapes. This yew can be used as a low hedge or specimen plant and requires good drainage and prefers a shady location with loamy soil. It grows 3-5 feet tall and 6-8 feet wide. Yews are widely used landscape plants because of their rich, dark green evergreen foliage and versatility.
Yew Taunton Spreading It grows well in both sun or shade and is very popular as an accent, specimen, or foundation plant. It grows 3-4 tall and 4-6 feet wide. Remove 1/2 to 3/4 of the new growth each year with hand pruners; you can control the size and maintain a healthier shrub with a more natural form.
Harry Lauder’s Walkingstick Harry Lauder's Walkingstick has terrific yellow fall foliage color with showy greenish-yellow catkins (as on pussy willows) that brighten the winter scene. It does well in large containers and likes full sun.
Buttonbush It is very open, almost gangly in habit. Flowers are creamy-white, on spherical heads, 1 to 1 1/4 inches long, blooming in late summer. Native from New Brunswick to Florida, west to Minnesota, Oklahoma and southern New Mexico, Arizona, California, into Mexico and Cuba.
Spiraea Pink Parasols The Spiraea Pink Parasols, 'Spiraea f. Pink Parasols is perfect for mass plantings, mixed borders, or anywhere a low maintainance plant is needed.
Russian Sage The stems and leaves give off a pungent odor when crushed or bruised.
Rose Of Sharon Satin Rose Enjoy these beautiful mid summer blooms.
Rose Of Sharon Satin Violet These plants are clearly superior to older and weaker varieties.
Ash Leaf Spirea Sem This shrub is easy to grow and quite adaptable, thriving in any well-drained soil.
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