Plant Profile: Tree Peony (Paeonia suffrcticosa)
Karen For large beautiful flowers it is hard to beat the tree peony. Grown in China for over a thousand years, tree peony is a deciduous shrub with spreading branches growing…
Plant Profile: Trailing Lantana (Lantana montevidensis)
A butterfly magnet, trailing lantana is a low woody shrub with vine-like stems that can grow up to six feet long. A member of the verbena family, Verbenaceae, it is…
Plant Profile: New Zealand Tea Tree (Leptospermum scoparium)
This evergreen shrub or small tree is upright, fine textured, and has dense branching. The narrow leaves are fragrant, dark green to bronze and prickly; the five petaled flowers are…
Plant Profile: Pearlbush (Exochorda racemosa)
Pearlbush is a large, spreading deciduous shrub native to China but adapts well to a variety of conditions. In spring the bush is covered with white flowers that emerge from…
Plant Profile: Sand Myrtle (Leiophyllum buxifolium)
Sand myrtle is a small wide-spreading evergreen shrub native to the East coast of North America from New Jersey to Georgia. It has a rounded habit, fine texture, and tiny,…
Plant Profile: Hollyhock ‘Queeny Purple’ (Alcea rosea ‘Queeny Purple’)
If you have a small garden or are tired of staking hollyhocks, consider ‘Queeny Purple’, a dwarf hollyhock standing only 36” high. ‘Queeny Purple’ has large purple-magenta flowers with fringed…
Plant Profile: Slender Deutzia (Deutzia gracilis)
Slender deutzia is a low, broad, deciduous shrub native to Japan and popular in many parts of the world. In spring it produces a lavish display of small white flowers…
Plant Profile: Warminster Broom (Cytisus x praecox)
This deciduous shrub provides year round interest in the garden. Pale yellow pea-like flowers are fragrant and cover the bushes for a showy display in late spring to early summer.…
Plant Profile: Beautybush (Kolkwitzia amabilis)
This large bushy deciduous shrub, native to rocky outcrops of mountains in central China, produces an abundance of showy flowers in late spring on long, arching branches. The bell-shaped flowers…
Plant Profile: Green Hawthorne (Crataegus viridis)
This medium-sized native tree of central and southeastern United States provides interest in spring, fall and winter. In early spring two inch wide clusters of small white flowers make a…