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Sugartina® Crystalina Summersweet

Sugartina® ‘Crystalina’ enhances all the great summer attributes of our native Clethra and puts it all together in a tight, dense, small landscape friendly package. Dense and full, this wider […]

Summer Sweet / Sweet Pepper Bush

Summer sweet is a vase-shaped deciduous shrub, which features fluffy, bottle brush-like, 3-6″ spikes of extremely fragrant white flowers that are an extremely important nectar source in summer. Glossy, dark […]

Yellowwood

This medium-sized tree has large branches with flowers covering throughout in the spring. Blossoms are very fragrant, pale-pink flowers that resemble wisteria bring pollinators to it. Seed pods turning over […]

Superstar Green and Gold

This little gem is a superstar groundcover for bright shade. Golden yellow blossoms flower profusely in mid to late spring and sporadically the rest of the season. This green and […]

Spring Fleecing Fringetree

This Fringetree was selected because of its outstanding floral display. This has to be one of the most beautiful native trees in North America. The delicate, creamy white flowers are […]

White Fringetree

This easy to grow and widely underused American Beauties selection is the perfect combination of beauty, utility, and wildlife attractiveness. Long, wide, deep green spear-like leaves cover this multi-stemmed small […]

Turtlehead

Unknown and underutilized, this moisture loving perennial will light up the garden in late summer and early autumn just when the landscape is crying out for color. This selection is […]

Hairy Lip Fern

Love ferns for your native garden but you worry about how big they get? If that is the only worry you have in your garden world, you’re in pretty good […]

Northern Sea Oats

It’s amazing how tolerant this grass is without giving up anything in the beauty department. New stems emerge from the soil each spring forming an upright clump with wide, deep […]

Leatherleaf

Little known but great looking and well adapted to wet areas, Leatherleaf is a low growing shrub that forms a dense, spreading thicket. Its thick, leathery evergreen foliage points upward […]