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  • Beijing Gold Peking Lilac A New Tree Lilac

    If you love the smell of Lilacs but would prefer a tree to a bush, this is the answer for you. The Beijing Gold Syringa pekinensis 'Zhang Zhiming' is a new tree lilac. It flowers with yellow fragrant blooms and has cinnamon colored bark making it a wonderful ornamental tree for your landscape...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by patti-nhn on 01-18-2009
  • Amethyst Falls American Wisteria Beautiful And Most Familiar

    The Amethyst Falls American Wisteria Wisteria frutescens 'Amethyst Falls' ' is one of the best known Wisteria vines around. You will often find them delicately winding around mailboxes, lamp posts, fence posts, patio screens and the list goes on and on. There are so many uses for this awesome...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by patti-nhn on 01-05-2009
  • Cutleaf Lilac An Unusual Shrub

    The Cutleaf Lilac Syringa laciniata is not your typical Lilac shrub . Unlike most Lilacs that grow in an upright form, this Cutleaf Lilac grows in a mounding form. It also tends to be a little smaller height at 6 to 8 foot tall and slower growing than some lilac shrubs . It's leaves are finely cut...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by patti-nhn on 01-03-2009
  • Moonglow Sweet Bay Magnolia Is Hardy From Zone 5 And Up

    This Moonglow Sweet Bay Magnolia Magnolia virginiana 'Jim Wilson' is known for its hardiness from zones 5 and up. It has proven to be very winter hardy for the past 30 plus years. It is decorative with its dark semi-evergreen foliage. It grows upright and flowers into late spring. The height...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by patti-nhn on 12-25-2008
  • Smokebush - Golden Spirit Has Lots Of Spirit For Your Landscape

    The Golden Spirit Smokebush Cotinus coggygria 'Golden Spirit'' is a great addition to your landscape. They are good sized and very dense so could make a good border or screen as well. They can grow to 8 foot tall by 6 foot wide. One of the things that makes it stand out is its lime green...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by patti-nhn on 12-18-2008
  • Variegated Winter Daphne Is Highly Fragrant

    The Variegated Winter Daphne 'Daphne odora 'Aureomarginata' also known as Daphne odora 'Marginata' is noted for its fragrance. Its fragrance carries long distances and can often be smelled before you even see the plant in early spring. The flower buds are purple and as they open will...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by patti-nhn on 12-06-2008
  • Dolgo Crabapple - An Excellent Pollinator for Apple Trees

    If you are interested in growing your own apple trees , one of the main things you will need to look into is whether your tree requires a pollinator. Most apple trees do. What you may not be aware of is that you can use a Crabapple tree as a pollinator. You will want to make sure that the bloom time...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by patti-nhn on 10-23-2008
  • A fun August "Surprise" Lily

    We just had a surprise in our landscape this August. We moved into a home that is over 100 years old. The original owners had done lots of landscaping although after they passed away and new owners took over, it was and still is quite an overgrown area. We have had lots of surprises of plants that have...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by patti-nhn on 08-20-2008
  • Issai Beautyberry-Graceful and Refined

    I have heard the Issai Beautyberry Callicarpa Dichotoma 'Issai' described as a graceful and refined shrub. Their long slender branches arch and touch the ground at their tips. Dainty pink flowers bloom in the spring. If you enjoy bird watching, you will probably notice them checking out the lavender...
    Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by patti-nhn on 03-04-2008
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