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Dandy Man® Purple Rhododendron

This hard-working Joe Parks’ hybrid has proven itself hardy in Maine and New Hampshire. You’ll love the rich purple blooms, but you will really appreciate the R. pseudochrusanthum genes which […]

Black Hat® Rhododendron

Welcome spring in style! Be the first on your block with colorful blooms in spring with Black Hat® rhododendron. This very early blooming rhododendron is a confection of ruffled lavender flowers […]

Dense, upright nearly rounded evergreen with leathery, bronze-green foliage and an explosion of mid-April lavender-pink flowers. Foliage is deep mahogany in fall and winter.Very hardy and easy to grow. Perfect […]

Kikusui Asian Pear

This fruit has a cult-like following and it’s easy to see why! This bumpy skinned green fruit looks like and apple but tastes like the crispest, juiciest Asian Pear ever. […]

Trevi Fountain Lungwort

Hosta may be the king of mid spring to fall shade foliage plants but Pulmonaria make a strong case for being the ruler of the early to mid spring garden […]

Damson European Plum

Legendary for its productivity, this European Plum is a vigorous grower and bloomer as it covers itself with a cloud of white bloom in spring. Small plums form and mature […]

Pink Snow Showers™ Weeping cherry

A weeping tree that’s sure to bring joy to homeowners in spring. The elegant, arching branches of Pink Snow Showers weeping cherry are a flurry of sweet pink flowers in […]

Higan Cherry

‘Autumnalis’ is a deciduous fruit tree that has a long season of interest opening ½” blossoms that are pale pink to white in color along with black, pea-sized fruit. Showy […]

Newport Cherry Plum

Popular flowering plum variety with wonderful, showy, deep purple foliage spring through fall. Masses of soft pink, single blooms in early spring. Sparse purple fruit in summer. Exquisite flowering specimen […]

Pink Cascade® Flowering Cherry

Single, bright pink flowers cluster along draping branches in early spring which are a magnet for pollinators. Black, pea-sized fruit, although inedible for humans, are adored by birds. The seeds […]