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True blue beauty that stays put. Azurri Blue Satin is a seedless rose of Sharon, perfect for low-maintenance gardens and gardeners who want to work less and enjoy more. These wide blue blooms are centered with magenta and a classic creamy pistil. A truly inspired color combination. With its size, it makes a great specimen or hedge where it flowers for weeks, making a great backdrop to other shrubs and perennials. With this steady arrival of blooms, it can act as one of the touchstones for your garden, every other plant echoing its blue, burgundy, and cream flower coloring. It’s super easy to grow – tolerating a range of soil types, heat tolerant and deer resistant, and not needing a bit of pruning thanks to its handsome consistent habit.

Why grow Azurri Blue Satin rose of Sharon?

• Seedless, so you won’t get nuisance seedlings
• Fantastic coloring
• Impressive large habit

Plant a little nostalgia (past or future, you decide) in your garden with Baby Kim lilac! This plant is tiny when compared with some of the common lilacs of the past, which can grow past 12 feet tall and wide! Its compact habit means it’ll fit just about anywhere you’d like it. Use it in a group at the front of the border, where it will be ready to relieve your winter-weary eyes first thing in spring. Plant it as a low hedge or continuous edging to celebrate the season in a big way! No matter where you use it, you’ll love its large flowers and consistent purple coloring. These blooms hold their color better than the original ‘Miss Kim’ lilac. Its foliage remains a cheery green all throughout the season thanks to good disease resistance and its habit stays neat thanks to good genetics.

Why grow Baby Kim lilac?

• Useful small habit
• Fragrant flowers
• Reliable purple coloring

Large puffed flowers would make Blue Chiffon® rose of Sharon special enough, but the rich blue color sends it beyond that. It’s a valuable addition to the late summer garden where it stands out as a specimen or ties the entire space together with other blue-flowered shrubs or perennials. With a tolerance for clay soil, black walnut trees, deer, drought, and heat, it can bring beauty to many tough spots.

Why grow Blue Chiffon® rose of Sharon?

• Eye-catching true blue flowers
• Easy care maintenance
• Long bloom time

A classic winter view with a twist. Berry Heavy Gold winterberry has all the juicy, abundant vibes that the quintessential red winterberries have, but in brilliant gold. Each berry is larger than average, and cluster in impressive groups. Foliage falls off early in the autumn, leaving behind a vibrant show you can enjoy even at 50 mph or perhaps half a mile away. It really is that bright. Berries remain bright in cut flower arrangements and nature crafts, but will also feed birds if left in place. This North American native is made complete with tough landscape performance. It will happily live in soggy soils with a low pH, surrounded by deer. If your garden could handle some durable winter cheer, perhaps Berry Heavy Gold is the plant for the job. Use Mr. Poppins® as a pollinator.

Why grow Berry Heavy Gold winterberry?

• Brilliant gold winter display offers something different
• Durable landscape performance
• Benefits wildlife and pollinators

Let’s Dance Can Do! hydrangea is an excellent rebloomer, one of the most prolifically flowering shrubs you’ll ever see. That’s all thanks to the fact that it requires only a short period of vegetative growth to create flowers on new growth. However, it has another trick up its sleeve: it sets its flower buds along the entire length of the stem, not merely at the tips. If this hydrangea is cut back, or damaged by cold temperatures, those lower old wood buds will still develop into flowers. It’s a huge leap forward in achieving success with hydrangeas for everybody, new and well-season gardeners alike! Abundant, semi-double, star-like florets make the lacecap flowers very showy. If there’s a spot in your landscape that could use guaranteed color, this is the perfect shrub for the job.

Why grow Let’s Dance Can Do! reblooming bigleaf hydrangea?

• Incredible flower coverage
• Easy maintenance
• Very long bloom time

Dwarf conifers are cute, space-saving and so versatile in the landscape – and Anna’s Magic Ball® is the epitome of all of these things! This super-hardy selection of our native arborvitae naturally grows as a dense little globe of golden yellow foliage. It’s a fantastic choice for landscapes and gardens, as well as containers.

Why grow Anna’s Magic Ball arborvitae?

• Dwarf conifer provides year-round beauty in very little space
• Versatile habit works in landscapes and gardens
• Native plant for sun or Part Sun

This mass of cheery red berries looks at home in a variety of gardens – wildlife, native, formal, and mixed beds, of course. If you need a big surefire success for your fall show, trust Berry Heavy winterberry. It has a nice large habit, with good branching. It loads up with tiny white flowers in the springtime and when pollinators cross back and forth between it and the male pollinator, Mr. Poppins®, it develops a profusion of berries. There are more than enough branches to gather some for floral displays and leave plenty for the birds. This plant drops its leaves early in the fall, which gives it a great landscape presence. Unlike older varieties that keep their leaves well into late fall, which hides the berries a bit and makes it a little tedious to clean up to display in a vase. Once a few frosts hit, the berries will soften enough for the birds to eat them. Unlike the birds, deer won’t touch these plants, so you’ll get to enjoy watching this North American native grow uninhibited. Consider planting it in a highly visible spot where you can watch birds and pollinators interact with it or where the cheery view would welcome visitors in the wintertime.

Why grow Berry Heavy winterberry?

• Tolerates a variety of conditions, including clay soils and rain gardens
• Abundant fruit set
• Easy maintenance