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Is there a rose I can use as a groundcover?

Growing only 2 feet in height, ‘ Charles Albanel’ Rose makes an ideal groundcover for steep banks and roadsides. It is a hardy, low spreading rose that produces cupped, double deep-pink blossoms with yellow-green leaves. It provides a heady fragrance that can be admired from spring to fall! Plant in...

Posted to Common Questions Answered (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 03-18-2010
How tall does the 'Blue Nest' Spruce get?

The ‘ Blue Nest’ Spruce is an adorable, tidy, globe-shaped shrub . The Blue Nest Spruce is a slow growing, dwarf, globe-shaped evergreen with blue-green foliage and a dense compact habit. It is an excellent specimen for the landscape and would be a standout in your rock garden. This is an excellent plant...

Posted to Common Questions Answered (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 03-16-2010
Is the ‘All the Rage’ Easy Elegance rose flower multicolored? 　

‘ All the Rage’ Easy Elegance is an easy to grow, multicolored spectacle. You can plant this gorgeous rose shrub and never have to worry about it. It has tight, coral buds swirling open to apricot-colored blossoms with luminous yellow centers. Its blooms change to a lipstick pink before dropping cleanly...

Posted to Common Questions Answered (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 03-01-2010
Is there a lilac called ‘President Lincoln’?

The 'President Lincoln' Lilac is a fast and large growing shrub for the northern landscape. Like its namesake, it is tall, reaching a height of 8-10 feet or more. The flowers are an orchid color when in bud, opening to a gorgeous blue. The leaves are large and heart-shaped. 'President Lincoln'...

Posted to Common Questions Answered (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 02-28-2010
Could you give some information about the Cotoneaster ‘Peking’?

The Cotoneaster Peking is an erect shrub that has slender spreading branches. This ‘Peking’ Contoneaster flowers in mid to late spring, with dark pink buds that open to small pinkish-white blooms. Best used as a hedge, or in groupings, this shrub displays yellow to red fall foliage and performs best...

Posted to Common Questions Answered (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 02-27-2010
Can you tell me about the P. J. M. Rhododendron?

Rhododendron 'P.J.M.' is a compact evergreen shrub with a mounded, neat appearance. This rhododendron is popular with gardeners across the United States because of its showy clusters of lovely trumpet-shaped lavender flowers. The blooms last early through mid spring. ‘P.J.M..’ has dense foliage...

Posted to Common Questions Answered (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 02-23-2010
What is a Flowering Quince Shrub?

The flowering quince is an easy to grow, round-topped, deciduous shrub growing 6 feet tall and 10 feet across. This shrub is a mass of tangled, thorny branches with mundane foliage. But, in spring the beast becomes a beauty with showy single or double blossoms. The flowering quince produces stout thorns...

Posted to Common Questions Answered (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 02-07-2010
Is the Thornless Boysenberry really thornless?

The ‘Thornless’ Boysenberry is Sweet and Juicy. The ‘ Thornless’ Boysenberry is easily grown and produces very sweet and juicy berries; reddish-black 21/2 inch fruits These berries are rich, luscious, wine colored with a flavor that is a taste of loganberry, raspberry , and blackberry . Since this bush...

Posted to Common Questions Answered (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 02-03-2010
Are the flowers fragrant on the ‘Black Beauty’ Elderberry?

The Elderberry is a member of the honeysuckle family and is a shrub that bears tiny branched lacy flowers. The Elderberry ‘Black Beauty’, displays intense purple-black foliage for season-long interest and color. (It is such dark purple that it is almost black.) The fragrant pink flowers are grouped in...

Posted to Common Questions Answered (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 01-21-2010
What is a ‘Silver’ Buffaloberry’?

‘ Silver’ Buffaloberry is an underused plant that deserves more attention! It is a tough, extremely cold hardy shrub that is excellent for use as an ornamental shrub. It works well in wind breaks, or in confined areas where it can be limbed up for use as a small tree. The female plants bear heavy crops...

Posted to Common Questions Answered (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 01-18-2010

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