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Living in the Limelight!
Hydrangea ‘LimeLight’
HYDRANGEA – LIMELIGHT HARDY
This hardy hydrangea has a bountiful harvest of the best blooms ever! Limelight is by far a beauty in the garden, with its gigantic blooms and array of color. Limelight, in mid summer starts out as an “eye catching” lime green, and turns into a pure white color and ending in the fall with a magnificent color of pink. Limelight, makes great dried or cut flower arrangements. Limelight’s height can reach as high as 6 to 8 feet high. So, this beauty can set the stage in anyone’s garden with it’s great structure. Pruning limelight is best done in the late fall or early spring. Hardy Limelight is also very true to the name and is hardy all the way down to zone 3.
Posted in Spotlight Shrubs
Tagged Cut Flowers, fall interest, flowering shrub, full sun, hardy, hydrangea, limelight, pink flowers, proven winners, white flowers
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Summer Wine is Fine!
Ninebark ‘Summer Wine’
Summer Wine Ninebark
(Ninebark) Summer Wine® has a stunning wine color foliage, that in mid summer is dressed up with a pinkish-white button size flower. The purplish foliage of Ninebark is paired nicely with the bright yellow colors of Coreopsis. Summer Wine® is a low maintenance Ninebark, that grows neat and upward. With it’s neat and tidy character, summer wine works well for making a neat border, or planting in masses. Also, a perfect shrub for a patio container.
Posted in Spotlight Shrubs, Uncategorized
Tagged border, container, Cut Flowers, low maintenance, ninebark, physocarpus, pink flowers, summer, summer wine
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Not Your Grandma’s Shrub!
Hydrangea Cityline Rio
Not Your Grandma’s Shrub!
Shrub: A woody plant smaller than a tree, usually having multiple permanent stems branching from or near the ground.
When I used to think of a shrub, I would think of the “old fashion” shrub that every grandma had. That were over grown and needing a MAJOR “hair cut”. With today’s wonderful selection of Proven Winners® ColorChoice® flowering shrubs it puts a new and refreshing swing to the shrub world. Shrub’s can add a great focal point to a garden, providing privacy, creating screens in your backyard oasis. Shrubs also can be used alone in a container, using Proven Winners® ColorChoice® compact shrubs. With the ease of compact shrubs it brings less work and low maintenance to gardening in an condo or apartment.
Posted in Shrubs with a Purpose
Tagged compact shrubs, container shrub, flowering shrub, proven winners
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Hydrangea Bobo
HYDRANGEA – BOBO™ HARDY HYDRANGEA
Here is an dwarf hydrangea that will surely make you look twice! New to Proven Winners this year, this magnificent dwarf hydrangea is sure to turn heads. I am a super excited to try Bobo in my yard this year, as it is from the same breeder as Pinky Winky. I love the fact that it is super loaded with large flowers that are supported by strong stems, that continue to grow and lengthen as they bloom. Bobo’s flowers start out white in the summer and in August start turning to a pink hue through the fall. Bobo is perfect for any area as it is a cute compact hydrangea.
Posted in Spotlight Shrubs
Tagged bobo, compact, Cut Flowers, full sun, hydrangea, large flowers, pinky winky, proven winners, white flowers
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It’s a spring thing!
(Flowering Thornless Quince) Chaenomeles
Are you ready for instant color in the early day’s of spring? I know I am! Flowering quince can do just that with it’s burst of color in the end days of March and early April. Coming in beautiful colors of pink, orange, and scarlet, it also will make a great display for cut flowers. Not only can you enjoy the beauty of quince, it is a easy to care for chaenomeles. This flowering quince is an ornamental quince and bears no thorns or fruit. Chaenomeles enjoy full sun or part shade, and are very drought tolerant.
Pucker Up!
Cornus Pucker Up!™
Proven Winners has introduced yet another great Cornus. It’s name says it all, with it’s unique leaf texture, that has a glossy, thick puckered looked to it. Pucker Up™ has a great appearance that can add character to any setting. It has the dazzling red stems, that is sure to add to the days of winter. Red twig dogwoods love it in full sun to part shade. In the summer, Pucker Up™ blooms off of last years growth and produces white flowers, so be sure to trim after the flowers are spent. This little beauty is compact only reaching 3-4′ in height it is very adaptable to many conditions. Pucker Up™ is sure to brighten your day no matter what time of year it is.
Posted in Spotlight Shrubs
Tagged compact, cornus, Cut Flowers, full sun, part shade, proven winners, pucker up, Red Twig Dogwood, white flowers, Winter Interest
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Butterfly Bush pruning
Did you forget to cut back your butterfly bush last fall? It’s not to late! In the early spring before you see new growth you can still give them a hard trim. Treat buddleia’s like a perennial and cut it back to approximantly 2 to 3 inches above the ground. Now, don’t worry butterfly bushes don’t start to emerge until late spring or early summer. Once it starts growing, the butterfly bush will quickly reach its full size, and blooms on the new growth. Now, you will be ready to enjoy this butterfly magnet in the coming summer.
Posted in Shrub Care
Tagged buddleia, butterflies, butterfly bush, proven winners, pruning
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Forever Fragrant Little Lilac
SYRINGA – BLOOMERANG® PURPLE LILAC
Look out for this compact beauty, with a big bang of a fragrance. Bloomerang® Syringa is a must have in everyone’s garden, with it being the very first reblooming lilac. Bloomerang® has it’s first mass of purplish-pink flower blooms in the spring, and will continue to bloom all summer long until the first frost. So, you are sure to enjoy the pleasant scent of a lilac all summer long. Bloomerang® lilac is a cute compact dwarf lilac that is perfect for borders or the landscape, reaching only 4-5 feet. Bloomerang® lilac blooms also make a great bouquet for the dining room table, or, that someone special in your life.
Posted in Spotlight Shrubs
Tagged bloomerang, compact, Cut Flowers, Deer Resistant, fragrant, full sun, lilac, proven winners, purple flowers, reblooming, syringa
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