Fragrant flowers and juicy, thin-skinned fruit make the Meyer Lemon the pre-eminent tropical lemon. Keep away from frost and freezing contitions during New England winters. Will produce and survive in a large container.

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 lightly fragrant. They are easy to grow in full sun or part shade in moist, fertile soil. They are pollinated by bees and are a host plant for several species of moths. This is a male selection so, it will not produce fruit as some find that messy. If you have a female tree this will be a suitable pollinator.

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 tree and serve as a perfect backdrop for 4-6 drooping strings of white fringe-like petals from mid-May to mid-June. In late summer, bunches of dark, bluish-black fruit appear, providing prized food for local birds and other garden critters. Even with its attractive fruit and flowers, Fringetree may save its best show for last with a bright yellow fall foliage display that is as bright as it is beautiful. Use Fringetree in your landscape in any sunny location that calls for a small specimen or it can even be grouped along the border to form a unique hedge or windbreak that will enhance your landscape with its ability to house many colorful local birds. 

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 stiffly upright growing and ideal for grouping in organic soil areas or moist areas in partial shade areas. Dense, squatty pyramids of buds form at the top of the stem in August and open late in the month exposing white, snapdragon-like flowers with just a touch of pink. You’ll love how this plant grows and thrives in moisture while your landscape’s native bees and butterflies will love its nectar food possibilities and, even birds will use the dried stems of this plant for nesting.

Easy to grow with outstanding texture, this herb can multi-task in the landscape while providing great scent and a boatload of herbal uses in the home. Tolerating full sun or partial shade, this Chamomile is a low, creeping, yet aggressive growing plant with fine, almost frilly, fragrant foliage. It can create a thick stand and often has been used outside the herb garden as a lawn substitute, but you will find it an easy going, easy growing plant that works well in any herb or container garden. The fine textured foliage serves as a great backdrop for small daisy-like flowers with white rays and yellow center that bloom from early summer through frost. Flowers can be dried and used in soothing, great tasting teas that have a long, detailed history of use as treatment for a wide variety of ailments. Its apple scented foliage can be used in sweet smelling potpourris with ease. Perennial.

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 while its tiny white flowers bloom below the upturned foliage along its branches from April to June and have a delicate refreshing scent. These nodding, bell shaped blooms are a larval food source for many butterflies especially the Coleophora Butterflies and the plant offers great cover and nesting for a myriad of native critters. Plant Leatherleaf in partial to full shade for best results…it’s one of the best least known plants you can get for your Rain Garden!

Pea-shaped, white blooms cover the delicately twisted branches in April-May, followed by lush heart-shaped leaves that turn gold in fall then drop to reveal weeping, twisting branches. Vigorous grower. A very cold tolerant ornamental tree, perfect in the landscape or for an eye-catching specimen plant any month of the year. Drought tolerant once established.

This groundcover has a more restrained, compact habit than other Cerastium but still provides great form and striking gray foliage. It is covered with small white bloom in June making it one of the most attractive plants for massing you can find for sunny, dry soil spots.

A profusion of tiny white flowers explodes from the wooly white-gray foliage in late spring. Its spreading, mat-forming habit makes a great groundcover for sunny locations. May to June. See pages 26 & 27 for more details on the Jeepers Creepers® program.