Shrubs

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Shrubs

Shrubs Currant - Yellow Flowering
Currant Yellow Flowering Yellow Flowering Currant, 'Ribes aureum', is an attractive shrub with fragrant yellow flowers in spring followed by black berries in late summer. Green summer foliage turns scarlet-red in the fall. Valued for its foliage and flowers, Yellow Flowering Currant has yellow flowers that are popular with hummingbirds. It has yellow berries that turn black as they ripen and are quite tasty. This xeriscape plant tolerates a range of light exposures and soil types and can be used on difficult sites, but make sure they have good drainage. These drought tolerant plants don't want wet feet. It grows 6 feet in height and width and makes a neat clean bush.

Juniper Arcadia It is a grass-green selection with a mature height of one to one and a half feet, and it has good resistance to juniper blight. It displays a spreading habit with a dense, dwarf, somewhat layered effect. Arcadia Juniper is excellent for foundation and mass border plantings. Prefers a well-drained soil and a sunny location. Junipers are important evergreens for landscape use due to their tolerance of unfavorable soil conditions, their hardiness and great variation in size, habit, color and growth rate. Junipers are used as ground covers, in foundation plantings, or as hedges, screens or windbreaks.
Juniper Blue Forest Blue Forest Juniper, Juniperus sabina 'Blue Forest', is a distinctive groundcover-type evergreen that has very attractive silvery-blue foliage. The upright growing branches present the "look" of a miniature "blue forest". Looks great when planted above a boulder retaining wall. It prefers moist, well-drained soil, but very adaptable. It is urban tolerant. Junipers are used as ground covers, in foundation plantings, or as hedges, screens or windbreaks.
Juniper Buffalo Buffalo Juniper's feathery branches are of bright green foliage; retains color in winter. May prune to shape desired. This Juniper prefers sun and a well-drained soil, but tolerates a range of soil types; drought and heat tolerant. It has a height of 12-15 inches and a spread of 5 feet. Junipers are important evergreens for landscape use due to their tolerance of unfavorable soil conditions, their hardiness and great variation in size, habit, color and growth rate.
Juniper Maney It has a horizontal layered, irregular habit. It is a fast grower and has excellent cold tolerance. Junipers are important evergreens for landscape use due to their tolerance of unfavorable soil conditions, their hardiness and great variation in size, habit, color and growth rate. Junipers are used as ground covers, in foundation plantings, or as hedges, screens or windbreaks. These plants may also be utilized for background plantings in shrub beds or flower gardens, as specimen plants, in rock gardens or for topiary or espalier purposes.
Yew Dark Green Dark Green Yew, taxus x media 'Dark Green', is an excellent evergreen with beautiful dark green foliage for the shade garden or shady side of the home. It is has a spreading compact habit, and its forest-green foliage does not burn in winter. It exhibits a small wide spreading form, with soft textures, and rich green short needles that are easily pruned into various shapes. This yew can be used as a low hedge or specimen plant and requires good drainage and prefers a shady location with loamy soil. Remove 1/2 to 3/4 of the new growth each year with hand pruners; you can control the size and maintain a healthier shrub with a more natural form.
Yew Taunton Spreading Taunton Spreading Yew, taxus x media 'Tauntoni', is a spreading evergreen that has short dark green needles and is very hardy. It grows 3-4 tall and 4-6 feet wide. Remove 1/2 to 3/4 of the new growth each year with hand pruners; you can control the size and maintain a healthier shrub with a more natural form.
Harry Lauder’s Walkingstick This unique deciduous shrub has interesting gnarled and twisted branches so it is often not grown primarily for its blooms but for this unusual branching pattern. Harry Lauder's Walkingstick has terrific yellow fall foliage color with showy greenish-yellow catkins (as on pussy willows) that brighten the winter scene. It is a slow grower to 8 to 10 feet tall and wide and prefers well drained soil in sun to part shade.
Buttonbush Flowers are creamy-white, on spherical heads, 1 to 1 1/4 inches long, blooming in late summer. The fruit is a nutlet that persists through winter. Native from New Brunswick to Florida, west to Minnesota, Oklahoma and southern New Mexico, Arizona, California, into Mexico and Cuba.
Spiraea Pink Parasols The Spiraea Pink Parasols, 'Spiraea f. 'Pink Parasols', a Proven Winners selection, is immediately known as a Spiraea with pink blooms, a first! Spiraea has been long prized for its attractive fall color and Pink Parasols adds fluffy pink colorful flowers in the summer and brilliant orange foliage in the fall. This plant is very durable and adaptable to many sitres.
Russian Sage In late summer and autumn Russian sage produces 12 in.
Rose Of Sharon Satin Rose Enjoy these beautiful mid summer blooms.
Rose Of Sharon Satin Violet Satin Violet produces strong growing plants with lots of large bright blooms.
Ash Leaf Spirea Sem This dwarf variety makes a wonderful low hedge, or a great accent.

 

Shrubs