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A
HARDY Zone 7, medium size Rock Rose! A
moderate to fast grower, it has 2" flowers of deep rose pink
which grace this dense, low shrub. Silvery-gray EVERGREEN leaves add
interest and texture. The conspicuous single, papery
blooms look like wild rose blossoms but last only one day -- however
-- they come in such mass profusion that they literally cover the
plant and you can count blooms for months, heavy in the spring then
for the next several months! Wow! When temperatures go
over 90 degrees, blooming may stop. This is truly, truly an
amazing plant. From Southern Europe. 
this hybrid
Clematis
fremontii is a very unique non-climbing shrub like clematis with
erect-stemmed branches. Forms dense clumps over time with purple to
white bell shaped flowers. Flowers produce attractive seed heads.
Tolerates dry, rocky soils once established. Will grow under Black
Walnuts and is deer resistant.
A long and profuse flowering season (June to
September), healthiness, extreme hardiness range and ease of culture
are just some of the reasons to grow this amazing
ground-cover/trailing/shrubby Clematis. Also works in
containers and trailing over balconies or walls and weaving it's way
about your garden and
Fragrant, lacy, white flowers in May-July, followed by fluffy, silvery seed heads.
Maroon-ish
gray foliage. Prefers alkaline, moist soil in sun. A NON-CLIMBING clematis. Long-lived. Keep mulch away from stems. FRAGRANT! Can be trained to a support if desired
Upright small shrub (can be pruned to a
tree in warmer zone) that is so stunning in bloom or in berry that you
will stop dead in your tracks! We did, the first time we saw it.
Flowers start into July and continue even as the berries start to
form. The berries are even more stunning that the flowers. Yup, that's
right. Needs some shade from the mid-day sun.
A endangered, small deciduous native
tree found in the Appalachian region. It's Common Name comes
from the cinnamon color of the inner bark which is revealed as the
outer layers peal away, an effect especially noticeable in winter.
Long white spires of bell shaped flowers, resembling Lily of the
Valley, appear in early summer when few other trees or shrubs are in
bloom, opening sequentially from base to tip and are a good source
of Butterfly Nectar. Often needs some pruning to maintain a
tree form as opposed to a large shrub form.
Good yellow to gold fall color. Excellent for4-6 weeks of summer flower. Good plant for heavy shade & wet spots. 2-6" long panicles of flower,
TREMENDOUS FRAGRANCE, clean winter habit, handsome foliage. TDF shrub -- To Die For!
A
breakthrough in Summersweets! It has all the same wonderful
qualities of the species and various cultivars but has a RED
STEM. Originating at Dodd and Dodd Nursery in Alabama, 'Sherry
Sue' displays bright pinkish-red twigs throughout the growing
season. This pink pigmentation also grades into the blooms,
yielding pink tones in the flowers! 
One
of the very best, most versatile shrubs that we grow. Ruby Spice has
2-6" intense deep rose flowers that don't fade. Good yellow to
gold fall color. Excellent for 4-6 weeks of summer flower. Good plant
for heavy shade & wet spots. TREMENDOUS spicy cinnamon floral
FRAGRANCE, clean winter habit, handsome foliage. Prune after
flowering.
An improved dwarf selected by Michael Dirr from a group of open pollinated Hummingbird' seedlings. It has superior dense, mounded habit and larger blooms. The dark green foliage sets off the sensuous fragrant white flowers in mid-summer. Good yellow fall color. Much more erect and not floppy like Hummingbird. Candle -like blooms, hence the name. 
A real winner, this new introduction!
The dime-size blooms are about double the size of others. The
bloom stalks reach a staggering 10-12" long and all this on a
compact shrub, much more agreeable to smaller yards than the rangy
species. It also blooms longer than most!
Acquired
when we bought out a Rare Plant Nursery. A fast growing,
deciduous shrub or small tree. Numerous wonderfully fragrant
white flowers in 4-6" long racemes in late summer when the color
is needed in the shrub/tree plantings. Smooth peeling gray to
reddish-brown bark. Persistent fruit capsules are
attractive. Red foliage in Fall with blooms still
attached. Looks like a Sourwood (Oxydendron) Bush!
Totally beautiful in Fall!
Vigorous
rare white flowered selection of Cumberland Rosemary. Fragrant
1/2" white flowers in May/June. Short needles on shaggy
red-brown stems resembles Rosemary, hence the
Common Name. Tolerates deep sandy soil BUT keep well-watered
the first year.
Gray
green leaves, broadly margined with cream or white on burgundy red
stems makes this very eye-catching. Vigorous, upright growth in
any moist soil, even soggy. In winter, the red stems can be
riveting, especially against the snow but also has year round
interest. Starts blooming in May and flowers sporadically all
summer. White berries with tints of blue and green follow around
June/July. 2005 Great Plant Pick. Native to Siberia,
Manchuria, N. Korea 
A
spreading, horizontal branching pattern give a wonderful layered look
to this dogwood. Slow to moderate grower. 2-5"
alternate leaves turn a outstanding maroon to reddish purple color in
the fall. Clusters of greenish white flowers in late summer
which are fragrant give way to purplish black berries on red stems in
Fall. Very Disease resistant. Keep root zone cool with
mulch.
A
new Pagoda Dogwood with beautiful leaf colors on the large heart
shaped leaves that emerge from the distinct horizontal branching of
Cornus alternifolia. The new growth is flushed with shades of
reddish orange. The leaves then turn to a bright yellow color and
are speckled with a irregular green thumbprints. Best in
warmer areas in part-shade so leaves don't scorch and it's so pretty
in some shade!
A
low, deciduous, rhizomatous shrublet, a mere 2-8" tall with tiny
white clusters of flowers surrounded by four large white bracts, which
give the appearance of a single bloom. (This is true for the
Dogwood Tree as well, and the blooms of Bunchberry look just like them
-- only down on the ground!) A charming plant. A red drupe
(loved by Grouse and Vireos) follows the blooms in Fall.
Native. Please note, Moose love this plant, so if you have Moose
in your neighborhood, you might want to pick something else...
This plant which is native to about half
the country and is threatened in many places. Host Plant for the
Spring Azure Butterfly.
A Japanese/Chinese
Native that has better resistance to disease and better cold
hardiness than our Native Dogwood WHEN that matters. Our
Native in an acceptable zone and in an open planting area where
leaves don't pile up around the based, air circulation is good, etc.
is a GREAT plant. But this offers a better solution in
woodland areas and in colder areas. Blooms are 3-5" across,
similar to our native but a couple of weeks later and you can extend
the show by planting both. The pinkish red berry is
significantly different and reminds me a bit of a raspberry.
Foliage turns reddish purple to scarlet in Fall. The casual
observer will often confuse the two in bloom -- they look quite
alike but the blooms are a tad bigger and later. MOBOT Plant
of Merit.
A multi-stemmed,
low-branching deciduous shrub with yellow blooms generally reaching
15-20' in height and width but can be trained as a small tree by
removal of lower branches and suckers. The star-like flowers
borne in umbels in late winter to early spring appear before the
foliage and give way to tiny red drupes which can be used in jellies
and syrups. The Drupes persist into Fall and are eaten by
birds. It has attractive grayish brown bark which exfoliates
on the mature branches. Useful for very early spring bloom and
can be used as a hedge, screen or specimen plant. Will
naturalize in woodland areas. European Native.
Impressive form & foliage. New growth emerges red to create a beautiful contrast w/ the rich green mature foliage. The red tip foliage is prominent all summer long. Habit is a dense, pleasing irregular mound. Rare. Really, really rare! Use for massing groundcover, interesting low hedge, shrub border or foundations.
Showy
fragrant flowers in late spring to early summer. Best known for the
yellow stems tipped with red during the winter after the showy
golden yellow leaves drop. Flowers give way to clusters of dark
purple drupes appear after flowering. Attracts birds and
butterflies. Pruning is not required, but many choose to cut
back all plant stems to 1' in late winter each year to promote the
best winter stem color. There will be a loss of some but the flowers
are small and the trade off for better stems makes cutting back
useful.
Red or Yellow Twig Dogwoods
A
multi-stemmed, stoloniferous native shrub found from Canada down to
Arizona and new Mexico. A large shrub for gardens with
some room but especially in mass, against snow in winter, they will
make people stop their car to look! Stems are purple red from Fall
through winter. White to pale blue fruit in Fall that are as
ornamental if not more so than the white blooms. Good for
hillsides and boundaries/hedges.
Cornus
sericea 'Cardinal is a rapid growing, deciduous, multi-stemmed shrub
which grows much taller than other cultivars -- reaching 6-9'.
With a rounded loose habit, like all, it spreads -- is
stoloniferous. It's bright red winter stems are exceptionally
showy -- especially again snow. 2.5" clusters of white flowers
appear in late spring and continue here and there throughout summer.
Flowers are followed by whitish (occasionally bluish) drupes in late
summer, probably more ornamental than the blooms. Dark green
2-4" leaves turn attractive reddish purple in Fall. Good for
property boundaries, screens.
A
COMPACT selection of the industry favorite C. baileyi that is half
as tall and with twice as many branches. And twice as many
branches means twice the wow power in winter when the red twigs are
strutting their stuff. A great breakthrough for smaller
gardens or residential landscapes. The sensational stems are
excellent for cut stems at Christmas in decorations. This
plant is listed elsewhere as C. stolonifera but Missouri Botanical
garden specifically says it's NOT stoloniferous and is, in fact, a
form of C. sericea. (The same confusion exists of the parent C.
baileyi (syn. C. sericea ssp. sericea) The important
implication of this information is that it doesn't spread wildly.
Spring prune to keep new more intensely colored stems to come in
Winter.
Bright golden yellow and emerald green
variegated leaves clothe deep red stems. From 100' away this plant
will catch your eye! Interesting every season of the year. A new
discovery from the Northwest, it blooms with big domes of white blooms
in April and May. Hard prune to ground in early spring to renew
colorful stems every 2-3 yrs. Can be used as a hedge, screen or as part of
the shrub border. Spring prune to keep new more intensely
colored stems to come in Winter.
Interesting dark red stem color makes it suitable for shrub border. Great for holding banks. Beautiful in the snow. Best in moist or well-watered soil. Low-growing, neat, compact form looks good in front of leggy shrubs. The red stems aren't quite as showy as the species BUT the plant is much more well-behaved and compact -- better if you have a smaller area to work with.
A
deciduous small to medium size shrub from Japan and Taiwan. A
slow growing, restrained, wonderful plant with dark green leaves that
turn yellow to golden in Fall. Fragrant buttercup yellow flowers
dangle in small chains in very early Spring on slender brown zig-zag
stems. A good alternative to the common Forsythia as it's more
refined and shapely. The flowers occur along the whole length of
the branches. The delicate blooms are followed by equally
delicate, strikingly beautiful green leaves, narrowly bordered
in spring in reddish-purple. 
A wide-spreading shrub that forms an attractive mass of crooked, flexible branches. "I have seen specimens ... in flower and they were spectacular. Ranks at the top of my list of early flowering shrubs. They bring a magnificent presence to the landscape." (M. Dirr) Leaves emerge a rich vinous purple, eventually change to bluish green. Great w/ an evergreen backdrop.
A large shrub from China. that is one of
the most beautiful of the winter hazels. Flowering in late
march to early April it fills the blooming gap between winter and
spring. Like it's relatives, it blooms on bare stems all the
better to appreciate the large yellow blooms which are stupendous!
Weeping racemes reaching to 3" are composed of up to 15 small,
buttery-yellow fragrant blooms with red anthers. As they fade
the pretty leaves appear, dark green above, blue-green beneath and
4" long, turning straw yellow in Fall.
Twisted spiraling
branches, twigs, and leaves. Has separate male and female flowers (monecious)
on the same plant. Yellow leaves in the fall, and amazing winter
interest from the contorted branches and wonderful when the
pendulous catkins appear in spring on the twisted stems. Slow
growth. Very hardy. Species native to Europe.
Most
Smoke Trees are known for the 'smoke' but not so 'Golden Spirit'.
In some years, it might not bloom at all but with this Smoke Tree,
it's not about the Smoke -- it's all about the Flame! Grown
for it stunning golden foliage, often bronzed at the tip when
emerging which turns brilliant fiery shades of orange and red in
Fall! Doesn't sun scorch like many golden plants.
At the 1999 Planetarium (Boskoop, Holland), Golden Spirit Smoke Tree
won the Gold Medal Award for the "Best New
Plant Introduction".
A
hybrid between between C. coggygria ‘Velvet Cloak’ and our
native C. obovatus. The cross was designed to bring some of the
purple foliage from ‘Velvet Cloak’ into the hybrid and to improve
the fall color. Introduced by Peter Drummer of England's Hiller
Nursery in 1978. The 'smoke' effect comes from massive (14"
tall x 11" wide) pink flower panicles followed by seed
panicle. Reddish new foliage turns blue-green in summer, giving
way reddish purple in Fall. A truly amazing tree full of
smokey clouds. According to Raulston Arboretum, "It is
more impressive than any C. coggygria cultivar we know."
A new, exciting Smoke Bush to the trade
that blooms pink as a young shrub from JUNE through AUGUST and is
literally smothered in frothy blooms! Shorter than the species,
with blue-green foliage that turn yellow, red and orange in the Fall.
From Boskoop, Netherlands.
A very dwarf, tiny adorable Cotoneaster (pronounced ko-to-ne-as'-ter). Deciduous foliage following red Fall foliage. Rose tipped white flowers. From China. Root where the tips touch the soil so it's perfect for a ground cover. Dark, glossy green leaves. Stupendous in fruit!
Low growing evergreen shrub. Dense, prostrate branches covered by petite, rich green foliage with Coral Pink flower buds. A profusion of Coral Berries in the Fall. Excellent groundcover. Drought tolerant when established. AKA C. d 'Royal Beauty'. 
An
evergreen or semi-evergreen (in cold areas) prostrate groundcover,
12-16" high in the species but much shorter in Mooncreeper with
slender, creeping branches which root down readily where they touch
the soil. Small bright red berries with lustrous dark green
leaves. Makes a dense, beautiful carpet. White flowers in
spring are larger than species and this is 'The' form of the species
to grow! Successful in the Southeast where others are not happy.
Franchett's
Cotoneaster starts it berry color at the beginning of September with
orange red and by November provides a sea of bright red berries.
With winter closing in, some of the leaves turn beautiful shades of
yellow and red but 1/3 to 1/2 remain green as it is a semi-evergreen
or evergreen shrub which makes an excellent, fast-growing, dense
hedge. From Tibet and China. Leaves are small, green-gray
above and furry gray beneath on arching stems. Does self seed
some so shouldn't be planted in Native/Wild areas where seedlings
wouldn't be monitored.
Spreading, evergreen shrub with oval, gray-green leaves. Cymes of 15-40 white flowers are
produced in midsummer, followed in late autumn by orange-red fruit to 1/4" long. From China and rarely seen in the trade. Our original cuttings came from the National Arboretum. So RARE it's not even in the' Bible of Shrubs' - the Dirr book!
Unlike
the average, creeping, crawling, ankle- or knee-high cotoneasters,
here's something totally different! So big, that it can be
trained up over an arbor or a Pergola! Yeh, that big!
Branches may reach 18' in length. (Not 18 inches but 18
feet!) So, everything about the Genus is about the same, berries
and all that, so you just have to rethink how in the world you might
use such a magnificent thing.
AKA
Cotoneaster apiculatus 'Tom Thumb' and Cotoneaster adpressus 'Tom
Thumb'
A
slow-growing, prostrate, horizontally-spreading, deciduous shrub
which can grow taller but generally it's 12-18" tall and
spreads very wide. It has 5-petaled, small pink flowers in
May/June, followed by bright scarlet berries in late summer to
fall. It has tiny, round, shiny dark green leaves which turn
reddish-purple in Autumn. Valuable in the landscape for banks
or slopes where grass won't grow and for erosion control. Can
also be espaliered and will scramble over rocks in the rock
garden. Best with a fair amount of sun.
Lot's
of things about this plant are typical of Cotoneaster - white blooms
in spring, red berries in fall and evergreen foliage but the big
difference in this one is Variegated Foliage! Nice change.
Tiny oval leaves to 1/2" with attractive creamy white
margins. In Fall, leaves turn pink to red! 
The
Chinese deciduous creeping cotoneaster is a low-growing shrub grown
primarily for it's attractive shiny green foliage and red
berries. It creeps and arches and grows together to form a
dense, impenetrable, spreading shrubby mound to 36" tall.
Tiny pink flowers in spring which give way to the red berry-like
fruits which ripen in late summer, persisting into winter.
Stems may root where they touch the soil. Leaves turn reddish
purple in Fall.
The branches on this compact, conical bush are erect & spreading. The short, stiff leaves are light green. The trunk thickens rapidly with a good taper. ‘Jindai Sugi’ can be used either in a group plantings or as a formal upright. 6-9' with great age!
Flowers are insignificant but the 1" cones are nice!
Bright
green, fast growing plant that makes a fine lawn specimen. This is one
of the most admired tree at the nursery. Rich, bright
blue-green summer foliage that becomes slightly bronze-green in cold
weather. Grows fast & develops a handsome form without extensive
pruning. Fairly fast growth rate according to the 
An
extremely rare evergreen from Asian countries found growing in the
medium-elevation conifer forests with Pinus tabulaeformis.
Mingjiang cypress is grown for it's wood there. We acquired this
as a seed grown plant when we bought out a fledgling 'Rare Plant'
nursery when the owner got a job offer in Ireland (see more about Eric
below). Grows about 6-12' in 10 years, so although ultimately
very tall, it doesn't happen in one lifetime! Very lovely fine, wispy
gray-green foliage. Fairly cold hardy for a Cypress. Found in
China 1964 but virtually unknown here.
This rare tree is one of the most beautiful in bloom. With
tiny red anthers and large white bracts (much like pendulous white
Poinsettia bracts) it flutters in the lightest breeze like a
butterfly. It's difficult to propagate, hard to find and when
you do, they command a healthy price and have remained almost a
collectors plant for years.
Flowers are followed by 2-3" green golf ball like fruit.
Good fall color. For more information on this treasure, visit
this great website 
Somewhat
rare in the trade due to the extremely long period for propagation
and growing on to a saleable size. Long, green stems arch outward
from central clump and shinny green leaves through the winter
months. Once established, they produce marble size orange berries in
the fall make this a favorite for gardeners and florists alike.
Drought tolerant once established and thrives in even the darkest
shade. Racemes of white blooms in the spring. 
Well
the Botanists have just had a hayday with the name of this plants --
formerly Desmodium tiliifolium,
Hedysarum tiliifolium, and
Meibomia tiliifolia all are former names of this Chinese Native
which is popular in Europe but virtually unheard of here.
Graceful,
compact, spreading, shrub covered with
showy white flowers in spring. Bright green leaves turn an excellent
burgundy in the Fall. Best use is in a shrub border. Profuse white
spring flowers in erect clusters (which are often used for
forcing) Needs Sun or very
light shade. Japanese Native.
Graceful, compact, spreading, extremely dwarf form of the species covered with showy white flowers in spring. Bright green leaves turn an excellent burgundy in the Fall.
Profuse white spring flowers in erect clusters (which are often used
for forcing). Best use is in a shrub border. Needs Sun or very light shade.
Japanese Native.
An
exceptionally beautiful form of a shrub that was already exceptionally
beautiful! Still has the profuse white spring flowers in erect
clusters (which are often used for forcing) but now we have the
additionally all summer beauty of variegated leaves. Protect
from spring frost. Japanese Native.
Open
shrub with hanging clusters of starry pink to white flowers in mid
summer. Received the prestigious Award of Garden Merit 2004 from
the Royal Horticultural Society. Very graceful with branches that arch
to all sides. Stem is gray-black with white to pink flowers produced
in great abundance in June or July. Extremely rare. 
One of the most beautiful summer flowering shrubs. Unique clusters of white star-like flowers create a remarkable display in corymbs 3-4" across. Upright shrub w/ peeling, pale brown bark when mature. Lovely, long-pointed, glaucous, gray-green leaves. Very floriferous form. Very rare even though it was introduced from China in 1895.
A Spring Meadow Introduction. An award winning spring beauty with masses of lightly fragrant, rich
carmine-pink flowers. A recent arrival from France. We really like it. Blooms when customers are in the store! AWARDS: AGM 
A breathtaking show of large, pink w/ white edge flowers. Wow! A 1925 Lemoine hybrid which has stood the test of time. Small, bell-shaped flowers (to 3/4" ) are pink with white edging & appear in late spring in numerous racemes which cover the shrub for about two weeks.
Lanceolate, opposite, bright green leaves. Burgundy fall color
Open deciduous shrub with arching branches and star-shaped pink flowers in early summer. A hybrid between D. purpurescens and D.
parviflora, it's named various things -- we follow the Arnold Arboretum Botanical & the RHS name. A "charming, floriferous shrub" (Hillier) with large white blooms that are flushed with pink and carmine. The leaves are flushed with purple in the Fall.
From
China, this is a rare evergreen hydrangea like shrub with 4-8" long
glossy-green leaves with have prominent veins and small serrations.
Terminal heads of the branches hold clusters of hydrangea-like
flowers with white buds opening to starry bright blue flowers in
spring and summer. Flowers are followed by metallic blue berries
that hold onto the plant thru winter. They create spectacular
display of fleshy fruit of vibrant violet blue for the winter
garden.
An
endangered Native plant. Georgia Bush-honeysuckle is native to
the southeast United States. The flowers are lemon yellow and
produced in mid-summer on a rounded shrub.. The plant tolerates dry
soils and can be grown in the shade. Provides a lovely display
of panicles or cymes of trumpet like flowers. Great for a low
hedge. Birds and bees and HUMMINGBIRDS love it! Dark green leaves.
Native to the Appalachian Mountains. Disease & pest free.
A
slender-branched, deciduous shrub with rounded shape, blue green
foliage which turns a variety of colors in Autumn from orange to red
to purple. Gorgeous in Fall and that is it's main
feature. Somewhat aromatic, very small and inconspicuous dark
purple flowers also appear in Fall, followed by seed capsules the
Fall of the following year. The leaves resemble those of the
Redbud. Tolerates full shade but at it's best in light
shade and with protection from wind. 
A
relative of Witch Hazels, this rare Chinese Shrub with glossy
narrow, dark blue-green leaves with lateral branching that create a
layered effect. The flowers, similar to Parrotia, have
clusters of red stamens with no petals and line every stem
beautifully followed by black fruit in Fall. A lovely and
unique plant but slow growing, 4-8" per year. Because
it's slow growing, many sources list the height after 8 years (an
industry standard for shrub height) but it will get taller than the 4' often
reported. Protection from strong winds is a good idea.
(Oddly enough, ours in 2007, must have been really happy because
they were definitely medium growers, not slow.)
TDF
(to-die-for!) FRAGRANCE . There isn't anything else even close to the fragrance of this shrub in the fall. Nothing. Period. Heat and wind tolerant. Not our prettiest shrub,
just average in looks, but EVERY YARD SHOULD HAVE THIS SHRUB for the smell. It's incredible.
Red drupe (berry) in spring. A strong grower that needs pruning
to keep it tidy. Well behaved everywhere but Florida where it
shouldn't be planted near natural areas. The first time we
smelled this was late in the evening in the National Arboretum and we
were almost locked in for the night trying frantically trying to
figure out where the heavenly smell was coming from. We kept
looking for a blooming shrub and the blooms are so tiny you can barely
see them. We finally found it and barely made it through the
gate with about 2 minutes to spare! 
Similar to the species but with an irregular blending of gold, yellow and green
foliage. Like all Eleagnus pungens, it makes a great hedge.
Looks very similar to 'Eleador' but might be more fragrant since
it's a cultivar of E. pungens rather than a hybrid. Eleagnus
pungens is Native to Japan and China.
A
strong growing evergreen shrub with large golden leaves margined in
green, silvery beneath and with small, very fragrant silver flowers in
the Fall followed by fruit the following April.
Particularly striking in the dull, grey days of winter. Readily
accepts pruning to maintain smaller size. Resistant to maritime
exposure and salt-laden winds. 
Small
greenish white flowers in umbels in late spring. An erect,
upright shrub but with branches that arch over. Can be severely
pruned for renewal, is easy to transplant, adapts to poor
growing conditions; and makes a good screen or barrier. Does
tend to sucker. Leaves are a high quality, very bright
green. Leaves remain late in the Fall. Takes dry
shade. Makes a great barrier due to small but quite sharp
thorns. Great in urban areas with high pollution from traffic
where other plants fail. The species is more vigorous than the
Variegated form.
formerly
Acanthopanax sieboldianus 'Variegatus'
Here is a semi-woody shrub from China with narrow, lance-shaped leaves with a minty fragrance when crushed, and showy 8-10" panicles of purplish-pink flowers in late summer. Heavy bloomer. Hardy to -20 degrees. Used in potpourris and dried arrangements. Disease and insect free.
These tiny, bell-shaped flowers in terminal clusters adorn this medium
size shrub in late spring. In full sun the blooms will be yellow with red veins. Brilliant fall
red and orange foliage color. This shrub will add excitement to your landscaping. Bright to medium green foliage in summer. Combines well with Rhododendrons.
Dehiscent capsules, 3/4" long follow blooms. Prune late winter,
early spring for shape. flaming foliage in red and orange tones.
Easy in acid, well-drained soil but needs to be watered in dry spells
to reach superb form. 
Blooms open pink then darken to Heliotrope Red over
Medium Green foliage tipped red initially fading to pink and cream.
Bushy Habit. Trim after flowering but avoid old growth.
Bright Rose blooms over medium green foliage.
Reddish purple blooms over bushy medium green foliage. A rare,
hard to find plant with a long bloom period. One of the
shortest of this group.
Shell to deep pink from Sept. thru May. A tough, bushy plant
sometimes sold as Medium Pink.
Reddish purple blooms over dark green foliage that develops cream
red tips in spring.
3-8"
very lustrous dark green leaves look at those they've been waxed,
they're so shiny on a medium size tree with Elm-like (ulmoides)
ascending branches; rounded to board spreading form; low
branching. Grown as an ornamental shade tree because of its
attractive glossy green foliage and its excellent resistance to insect
and disease problems. Probably extinct now in it's native
China. Rubber can actually be made from the tree but the process
is cost-prohibitive unfortunately. A wonderful, FAST shade tree for
lawns or parks. Male or female BUT this only matters if you want
seed - otherwise, the sexes are identical.
A hardier selection of the classic
'Burning Bush' -- hardy to zone 3 with the same brilliant fire engine
red, traffic stopping foliage in Fall AND the color display starts
earlier. Abundant orange fruit. While it behaves well in
urban areas, E. alatus planted near
woodlands, mature second-growth forests, and pastures can be
problematic from seeds. 
Red Fall foliage is the reason to have this plant. It's a knockout. Insignificant flowers produce interesting red berries which birds love. Best Fall color achieved in sun but develops acceptable color in shade. No wet soils for this one. (Note: This IS the dwarf form at 6-8'. The regular form is 15' tall!)
While it behaves well in urban areas, E. alatus planted near
woodlands, mature second-growth forests, and pastures can be
problematic from seeds. 
A
dwarf, evergreen creeper with irregularly marked green and white
leaves that flush pink in early spring and fall. Very short
with oval leaves that are smaller and flatter than most.
Introduced by one of our favorite gardens in Maryland,
Brookside. This slow controllable groundcover will cover a
modest 18-36" in 3 years. Will scramble over shorter
rocks. Wonderful under leggy shrubs. *Zone 4 per
Monrovia.
Dainty, prostrate form of Wintercreeper w/ tiny leaves. Forms low mat, only several inches. If allowed to climb a tree, it develops the var. radicans character w/ much larger leaves, flowers & fruits. The basal portion however, retains the
'Kewensis' characteristics. So, if you like it little & cute, don't let it play in your trees. Forms little mounds. Great in a rock garden.
This cultivar was selected in Japan and introduced to the US by Brookside Gardens, Wheaton, MD. It has smaller solid green foliage very formally arranged around the stem on almost fastigate growth of a dense & refined character. It seems less susceptible to scale attack than the normal forms. There's nothing else with foliage quite like this! RARE!
Introduced
by the National Arboretum, which is the plant equivalent of the Good
Housekeeping Seal! A great plant for narrow spots. A very
formal plants that perfect when you need height but don't have much
space. Dark green leather like leaves. Some sources say Greenspire and Bekkomasaki, above, are one and the same,
however, if you look at the photo of Greenspire on the link above at
the National Arboretum, it clearly seems MUCH wider.
Durable
small tree that makes a lovely specimen for the small garden or in a
mixed hedge row. Besides it's agreeable size, it has small
yellow blooms followed by a fall show of cherry-red 1/2" fruits
that open to expose blue-black seeds, lovely striated bark - white
webbing on chocolate-purple trunks -- and glossy foliage 2-5"
long. This J.C. Raulston Arboretum Introduction is drought
tolerant and a stunner!
Here
comes 'The Bride'! And she's a beauty. A trouble free and tough E.
korolkowii and E. racemosahybrid is a "vision of beauty'
according to Spring Meadow. A compact shrub w/ delicate gray-green
foliage, which turns yellow and orange in fall, with pearl-like flower
buds atop her arching frame in April, she springs into full bloom with
1-2" flowers in May. Heat & drought tolerant. Can be severely
pruned for renewal. Awards: AGM Hybrid of species from
Turkestan and China.
