These shrubs are among the most beautiful, winter hardy and easiest to successfully grow. Each comes to you as a multi-stemmed shrub ready to dig in and quickly provide your yard with beauty. We offer multi branched well rooted shrubs, either bare root or in one gallon pots.
3 OR MORE $10.00/EACH This old time rugosa hybrid has pure white, semi-double blooms with an intense fragrance. The leathery, wrinkled, dark green foliage is disease resistant. Large orange-red hips follow blooms. 5' x 4'. Plant 3' apart to make a great hedge.
(Gunnera manicata) Very similar to its cousin, this Gunnera is from the mountains of Brazil and Columbia. It is also known as giant rhubarb. It may grow even a little larger but is a little less winter hardy taking temperatures down to 14° F. Grow it like its Chilean cousin. One Gallon Pot.
These are seedlings from 3000 feet up in the coastal mountains of Chile where they grow as 6Æ tall understory bushes in ôalerceö Chilean cedar forests. The beautiful flowers have red sepals and a purple corolla though as seedlings they will be variable. The edible fruit is purple when ripe and is favored in making marmalade. Like other hardy fuschias they would benefit from a winter mulch in colder winter areas. Select two to insure pollination. Estimated USDA Zones 7-9. Give them partial sun (full sun in cool summer areas is fine!) and a well drained, moist soil out of drying winds. One gallon pot.
(Hydrangea macrophylla 'Vienna Ramars') This hydrangea has very unusual eye catching variegated flowers of white and blue in acid soil or white and red/pink in alkaline. This European selection only grows to 2-3' tall and wide but its sturdy stems allow it to support loads of long lasting gorgeous flowers. USDA Zones 5-9. One gallon size.
This upright shrub grows to 8' tall and produces showy golden yellow flowers in early spring. From Canada, it has vibrant flower color. It is a reliable plant for the North. USDA Zones 3-8
(Salix caprea) You know spring is finally here when put the first of the pussy willow branches in a vase. Before leafing out, this plant produces an abundance of fat, woolly, pinkish gray catkins about one inch long. It can be kept to shrub size by cutting it to ground every few years and letting it resprout. Untended it can grow to 15-25 ft tall. USDA Zones 4-9. rs.
This is a new dwarf buddleia male sterile hybrid that doesn't produce pollen or many viable seeds, so it's not invasive. Yet it has the fragrance and butterfly appeal of traditional varieties. The bush grows to only 2-3 feet tall. Enjoy its beautiful blue colored blooms from mid summer through fall without deadheadings. It's frost tolerant and easy to grow in full sun and well drained soil. One gallon pot.
A beautiful flowering specimen tree. In late spring and early summer enjoy a profusion of white flowers with yellow centers set off against vibrant red bracts. The leaves are an attractive rubbery dark green and the foliage turns dark red in the fall. A native of China and rare in the U.S., the tree is upright with showy grey bark, and will grow to 25' tall and grows well in sun or partial shade in most soils.
(Weigela florida) An old favorite with both gardeners and hummingbirds, this compact weigela has rosy red trumpets in the spring. The creamy leaf margins give the 5' tall shrub lasting interest throughout the season.
