Anemone are outstanding plants for the late summer and fall garden. The branching stems of poppy-like flowers are superb for cutting. Plants prefer a rich, moist site, spreading to form a large patch. This selection features large, delicate, semi-double, pale pink blooms on strong stems July through September.
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Easily grown in medium to wet soils in part shade to full shade. Thrives in moist soils, including standing water to 1-2” deep, but established plants also perform well in average garden soils with some moderate tolerance for drought.
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A dwarf form of 'Limelight' Hydrangea. Fresh, lime green flowers commence the summertime bloom extravaganza of our Little Lime Hydrangea shrub. These flowers will change to white and then age to a nice pink into fall. These fall blooms work well in dried flower arrangements (Blooms July-September).
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A profusion of bright red berries brighten the winter landscape and provide food for birds. An early-flowering male pollenizer such as Jim Dandy Holly is required for berry set. Extremely hardy. Deciduous.
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The artistic appearance of its twisted, rustic form makes this a wonderful landscape accent. An excellent evergreen for use as a topiary specimen in containers and formal gardens. Well-suited for cooler coastal regions.
Leucothoe fontanesiana, commonly called drooping laurel, is a suckering, multi-stemmed, broadleaf evergreen shrub with arching branches that is native to moist forested mountain areas, dense thickets, stream banks and ravines from New York south to Alabama and Georgia, primarily in the Appalachian Mountains. It typically grows in a mound to 3-6' tall and as wide.
Easily grown in average, medium moisture, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Tolerant of a wide range of soils from well-drained sandy soils to the heavy clays present in much of the St. Louis area. Prefers moist soils. Best in full sun. Less vigorous with decreased flowering and tendency to flop in too much shade.
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Muhlenbergia capillaris, commonly called pink muhlygrass or pink hair grass, is a clump-forming, warm season, perennial grass that is noted for its attractive summer foliage and spectacular clouds of fall flowers. It is native to prairies, pine barrens, and open woodlands from Massachusetts to Kansas south to Florida and Texas..
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This curly willow with such a great name is a selection found by Darrell Probst on the CT/NY border in 1987 and given to me by Allen Bush (how’s that for horticultural name dropping?) Darrell told me that he has found numerous curly willows in the wild, obviously seedlings that may involve other species, but not confirmed.
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Sarcococca hookeriana commonly called sweetbox is a low-growing, broadleaf evergreen shrub to 5' tall that spreads, albeit slowly, by stolons to 6' wide or more over time in shady areas of the landscape. Lustrous, lanceolate, leathery, dark green leaves (to 3 1/2" long and to 3/4" wide) are evergreen.
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