A naturally occuring sport of ‘Emerald Green’, ‘Janed Gold’ features a dense, upright pyramidal form with bright golden color that holds it’s color well all year. Robust and wind resistant. 

Dwarf Alberta Spruce are extremely popular in residential landscapes – maybe too popular. Here’s an easy-to-grow alternative with the same desirable size and habit, plus brighter color. It’s perfect for flanking formal entryways, either in the ground or in large containers.

Dwarf evergreens look great year round, and fill a void in many landscapes. This bright golden evergreen ball features looser foliage than other dwarf gold colored seletions and a more block-like habit. Found at Van Vloten Nursery in Canada, it has good burn-resistance and holds its color nicely in winter and is very hardy. It thrives in partial to full sun and holds its winter color well.

An exciting new brilliant Arborvitae offer eye popping yellow edging to the lime green foliage. With the onset of cold winter temperatures the color matures into warmer tones of amber-gold. Great focal point or privacy screen evergreen. Well behaved growth habit will fit in where others do not. Adds dramatic vertical effect of color and texture to the landscape. A yellow/amber beacon that can be easily seen and enjoyed.

A sport from ‘Smaragd’ it is vigorous, upright, narrow growing evergreen with emerald green tipped in gold, fan-like foliage that forms a tight but soft textured appearance. A perfect plant for planting to form a hedge and its contrasting foliage makes it perfect as a single specimen for year round interest. Easy to grow, very hardy, low maintenance.

As much shrub-like as perennial, you will be hard pressed to find a more attention grabbing plant when it is in bloom. Carolina Lupine rises from the ground each spring on stiff, strong, very upright stems that grow quickly while unfurling big, grey-green, trifoliate, pea-like foliage, ultimately producing a nearly woody upright shrub. As spring turns to summer, each stem is topped by a tower of buds that open in July revealing a long string of large, Lupine-like hooded flowers of searing yellow that jump out at you against its grey-green foliage background. What an amazing show of color that will be enjoyed by you and by local butterflies and bees. As flowers fade in late July, sizable hairy seeds pods develop that songbirds visit often. Carolina Lupine is an easy care wonder wanting little except sun, well-drained soil and a spot that it can shine! Its big size is perfect for the back of the garden and it’s a revelation of summer interest when grouped.

Tall yellow spike-like flowers emerge from a grey-green foliage, attracting many pollinators to your yard. Long, upward, clumpforming plant hosts  bonnet-like flowers that can reach up to 3′ tall. Seed pods will have long, soft hairs. This Blue-Ridge Buckbean resembles that of the common lupine while carrying similar attributes in look, scent, and growing necessities. It is truly a dominating display in late May and June that is fleeting since it lasts only a few weeks.

It is hard to believe that a plant so breathtaking could be so rare but this selection embodies that standout pea-like flowers of creamy yellow accentuated by a fuchsia-pink lower lip in spikes above blue-green pinnate foliage on arching stems. Perfect for grouping and pollinators love it!

This multi-stemmed, upright grower is just as enticing for its spring clusters of dreamy, creamy yellow flowers as it is for its light fragrance. Place in your hedges or garden, and you will soon be as enamored of this hardy lilac as the butterflies and hummingbirds are.

Create an early season sensation in your garden with this very dependable, very showy bloomer. Heavily lobed, deep green, silver backed foliage emerges early in the spring to form a wide spreading mat of foliage. Plants are quickly topped by a continuing succession of flower buds that begin to open in mid to late April, showing off clusters of bright yellow flowers that will continue unabated until early June. While also being a shade lover, Celandine Poppy loves moisture and is at home along ponds and stream beds where it satisfies its hankering for moist feet. This plant provides lots of landscape cover for native critters and is very showy when grouped, in fact, it so aggressively seeds itself you may want to give it some room and look to keep it contained for your optimum enjoyment.