What color and what an easy plant to grow!! This selection of Staghorn Sumac is going to take everything you think about Sumac and throw it out the window! Big foliage fronds emerge chartreuse in the early spring and mature to bright, non-burning yellow, providing an eye opening contrast against pinkish colored stems. In fall the color morphs again into a blazing shade of scarlet that you can see for miles! Remember, all you sumac-a-phobes, this is a non-poisonous plant that thrives in poor, well-drained soil and full sun.

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.

With deep-green, glossy leaves that will turn a maroon color in the fall, along with its tiny yellow-green flowers, it is often seen and used as an ornamental addition to the landscape. It’s shrubby appearance will provide cover for birds and wildlife. Red fruit clusters will last through the winter, edible for both birds, deer, and humans.

Low-growing and fast spreading, this plant is a perfect low groundcover for banks, groupings, and poor soil areas. Fragrant yellow flowers bloom in April followed by red, pubescent fruit. Showy orange-red fall color. Beautiful fall color with fast compact growth makes an excellent groundcover, perfect for erosion control and steep banks. Deer tolerant, Frost tolerant.

Neat, small leaves have a lovely matte green color that is the perfect background to the flower show to follow. Dusky pink buds open into rich salmon pink nuggets with full flowers maturing into a creamy-rich yellow. Exceptional flower production on a reliable grower. This rounded and compact beauty offers flowers that from opening pink to maturing pale yellow. Great for smaller gardens or pool side containers.

Any yellow flowered Rhododendron gets notice, but ‘Patty Bee’ will further pique your interest with a tight, dense landscape form that every gardener loves. It’s hard not to love this little beauty because it can be used in so many different locations in the landscape and is a no brainer for grouping in the foreground of any planting. It is slightly slower growing than ‘Towhead’ with larger, pointed, more consistently green colored foliage that produces a whole different look in bloom when covered with small trusses of light yellow flowers in mid-May or without bloom. Give this plant some winter wind protection and a morning sun location and get prepared to be charmed.

This variety is a beauty with a dense, compact habit and narrow deep dark green foliage. Later blooming, toward the end of May, it’s usually covered with big trusses of white flowers with yellow centers.

A dense growing beauty with bronze winter foliage, this plant is highlighted in late April with an eye-catching display of profuse, soft yellow flowers. Low and dwarf, this plant deserves a try in any small landscape space.

In early May, the abundant, soft lemon-yellow flowers of this compact plant cover the tidy habit of this dreamy ‘Lemon Dream’. Each flower is arranged in big trusses above handsome, rounded, dense, deep green leaves, which are brushed with a bit of brownish orange indumentum on their undersides and many individual flowers may even have a double set of petals to make them stand out even more. For success with ‘Lemon Dream’ in your garden, provide rich, well-drained soil and a partially shaded location. ‘Lemon Dream’ is a prime candidate for inclusion in any small garden because of its small stature and its excellent flower power makes it perfect to plant in groups to create a wave of mid-spring color.