Is there another tree growing in the northeast that is as recognizable as the Weeping Willow?? Fast growing and tolerant of wet areas, the delicate, gracefully pendulous branches of this plant seem to touch everyone with their beauty. A great specimen that needs room to deliver the most impact in the landscape.

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.

While this plant can be big and aggressive growing, there is no more appreciated landscape plant by humans, birds, and butterflies. Everybody knows this American Beauties classic provides a raft of flower catkins that every spring craving gardener loves to cut and admire but these same catkins provide early season nectar for native bees while some of our area’s most prized birds love to feed on its buds. Pussy Willow will tolerate most any soil, even very moist or wet ones, and grows large enough to provide a huge amount of cover for birds and small mammals while its leaves are the food source for many of the most colorful butterflies our area has to offer.

Grafted on a standard, this weeping form is graceful and adds an interesting looking difference to the early spring landscape. Easy to grow and very hardy, it also is a quick grower.

Perfect soft green mats bear tiny white flowers in spring. Great groundcover for stone walls or the edge of the woods, it will make you want to curl up in it and take a nap.

Every rosemary selection can seduce you with its great scent and flavor. ‘Salem’ is no exeption, providing incredibly aromatic, tasty foliage that will have your mouth watering. Where ‘Salem’ differs is its outstanding form. While rosemarys like ‘Arp’ tend to sprawl a bit and look loose at times, ‘Salem’ displays a strongly upright form and a neatness that can only be describe as more formal than other selections. It’s a very effective form for using in a formal herb garden or a container and, when left to get a little woody, its stems make a perfect, aromatic skewer for use on the grill. Even its slighly longer, deep green foliage contrast pleasingly with other rosemarys… it’s a selection that will grow on you!! Tender Perennial

A beautiful, flowing form of a tasty, multi-use herb! ‘Prostrate’ rosemary is just as prized as ‘Arp’ for use with all sorts of foods, teas, oils and sachets while its form is extremely decorative for use to trail in window boxes, containers or even hanging baskets! Be sure to grow it in full sun and allow for good air flow around your plants. Tender Perennial/Annual.

Red Lake’ is appealing not only for its fruit but for its compact, mounding habit and glossy green foliage that makes a stand out ornamental shrub. This selection produces long, pendulous clusters of greenish-yellow flowers that bloom in late April and early May. Flowers give way to long, pendant clusters of bright red Currants, which ripen in July. ‘Red Lake’, although tart, may be eaten ripe off the shrub, but are perhaps more often harvested to make jams, jellies and pies. Currants are very high in vitamin C and cancer preventative antioxidants. Birds of all kinds love the berries and they will fight you for the ripe fruit if the plant is not covered for protection. No serious insect or disease problems plague this easy care plant but good airflow is important to combat the troublesome powdery mildew. ‘Red Lake’ is not a host for White Pine blister rust.

Rhus typhina is the largest of the North American sumacs. It is native along woodland edges, roadsides, and stream embankments. Resembling the velvet that covers a stag’s horn, Staghorn sumac is noted for having reddish-brown hairs that cover the branches. It has ornamental fruiting clusters that are attractive to wildlife. It’s large, green, compound leaves that turn yellow, orange, and red colors in the fall.

Female plants produce showy, erect, pyramidal fruiting clusters (to 8″ long). Each cluster contains numerous hairy, berry-like drupes which ripen red in autumn, gradually turning maroon-brown. Best when massed for stabilizing embankments or for hard-to-cover areas with poorer soils or for naturalizing in wild areas.