Merlot is a perfect addition to your small landscape areas with its tight and upright form. Covered in pink-purple flowers and red-wine colored, glossy leaves incorporate in areas where the bold red color will pop with contrast. The amazing weeping form and arching stems produce a truly unique landscape experience. ‘Merlot’ makes a great specimen. Attracts birds, butterflies, and bees. Deer resistant!
You may love the one of a kind flower color this native brings to the landscape but birds and butterflies appreciate it for other reasons just as ardently. Redbud’s big, heart shaped leaves and dense, rounded form are perfect for providing shelter and nesting area for many of our area’s birds while its foliage provides caterpillar food for some our areas most sought after butterflies. Those are great reasons to grow this specimen but you might just like if for the incredible late April, reddish-purple show of flowers that it provides and the easy grow nature that will make this plant a landscape fixture. See pages 12 & 13 for more details on the American Beauties program.
Finally, a hardy Ceanothus with real pink flowers! Marie Rose® has panicles of rich pink flowers that appear in mid-summer and again in early fall, followed by showy red seed capsules. It is an upright, compact plant with glossy foliage and purple stems. An extremely drought-tolerant plant. Adored by hummingbirds and butterflies!
Ruby Infusion is an attractive, small -statured shrub that will attract all the pollinators to your yard! It has light pink-flowers and vibrant red fruits.
It features light purple leaves. Each stem will produce pink blooms year round when mature. Adds instant color in mixed containers or landscapes. Dark foliage and colorful flowers makes this a great novelty for a sunny garden or for growing in a container. Easy to grow.
A dense mound of foliage provides the backdrop for flower stems bearing huge buds that open in late May through June to show off huge, 2″ long dangling tubular bells of mulberry-rose colored bloom. Easy to grow, this selection maintains its neat form while providing masses of color especially when grouped in the front or middle of a garden or when used to help color up a mixed container on a deck.
A throw back to gardens past, this updated version of Canterbury Bells features towering flower stalks that rise from a tight basal mound of foliage bearing huge purple to pink colored bell flowers starting in early summer. This easy-care biennial is easy to grow and bursting with summer landscape color!
Modern bellflower hybrid has large pink buds that burst into pendulous blooms with long, slender, widely spaced, candy pink petals. Grows well in rock gardens, along with stone walls and border fronts. A great groundcover for small areas with numerous, long-lasting flowers. Flowers are slightly fragrant and attract hummingbirds. Long blooming with outstanding early to mid-summer color. Unique bloom shape and texture is riveting. Perfect for massing and wonderful as part of a mixed perennial container