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'Walker Weeping' Caragana makes an outstanding accent plant

Are you seeking an outstanding accent plant for that small, tight space in your yard? If you choose Walker Weeping Caragana , you will be getting an outstanding special-featured plant for your landscape! Walker Weeping Caragana is a great selection since it is a small tree that has unique finely cut...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 11-16-2009
A Spectacular Flowering Crabapple -- Sugar Tyme®

Showing off its masses of gorgeous, sugar-white fragrant flowers, Sugar Tyme® Crabapple puts on quite the show in May! After its spectacular flowering , you can enjoy this Crabapple's colorful, crisp and lustrous green foliage that emerges. This lovely ornamental tree produces large, brilliant red...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 11-13-2009
The Rich Flavored Blake’s Pride Pear

What an aromatic, rich flavor Blake’s Pride Pear has to offer, along with its juicy flesh texture that appeals to everyone! Blake's Pride is moderate in size, averaging almost 3 inches in diameter, with a short, upright stem on the fruit. It is harvested about three weeks after the Bartlett , and...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 11-12-2009
A Snow White Flowering Dogwood called 'Cherokee Princess'

Exhibiting an early and heavy white flowering, the Snow White Flowering Dogwood ‘Cherokee Princess’ tree is one of the most beautiful ornamental trees you can have in your landscape. It is an erect growing dogwood with a straight central leader. ‘Cherokee Princess’ gives a spectacular floral display...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 11-09-2009
What is a Chocolate Persimmon?

The Chocolate Persimmon was named 'Chocolate' because of its chocolaty-brown flesh that is a sweet and tasty. This persimmon is also spicy, firm, juicy, dark flecked, and late maturing. The Chocolate Persimmon is a small to medium, oblong cylindrical fruit with a rounded apex and bright red skin...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 11-02-2009
The Oklahoma Redbud Tree Commands Attention!

The Oklahoma Redbud tree will be one of the first trees to flower in early spring; a true harbinger of spring! This redbud tree will treat you to a blizzard of bright blooms of petite purple-red flowers in large clusters. These flowers arrive before the green foliage appears. The heart-shaped leaves...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 11-01-2009
The Showy Japanese Red Maple Tree

It is fall, and I see the brilliant red colors of the Japanese Red Maple trees that break up the green monotony of many lawns and gardens. What a beautiful specimen! It is by far one of the most popular ornamental plants in the plant kingdom. This small deciduous tree is a very showy, versatile species...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 10-18-2009
Profuse Flowering Eastern Whitebud

The Eastern Whitebud tree adds a striking touch to any landscape. It is best known for its profuse white pea-like flowers. The heart-shaped leaves of this redbud tree are 3-5" across, and its fruit are brown flat pods about 2-3" long. The stout trunk of this small tree usually branches close...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 10-10-2009
Growing the Amur Maackia Tree

Amur Maakia Tree is a small, slow growing, deciduous tree with a broad, rounded habit. It typically grows at a slow-to-moderate rate to a height of about 20 feet. Amur Maackia features erect, narrow, spike-like clusters of fragrant, dull white, pea-like flowers which appear in late spring. Amur Maakia...

Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 09-30-2009
Double Flowering Plum

The Double Flowering Plum is a showstopper across the northern areas in May! It is a handsome, hardy tree or large shrub , and it is noted for its double pink flowers produced in profusion in April-May. These fully double hot pink flowers completely smother the branches in early spring, long before the...

Posted to Featured Plants (Weblog) by barb-nhn on 09-28-2009

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