2021 New Plants

A Louisiana Super Plant selection! The large 3-4" wide, coral pink, funnel-shaped flowers are produced beginning in late spring with sporadic summer flowering and another nice show in fall with the flowers attracting bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Watchet Azalea, an evergreen Satsuki type, has a neat and compact, densely branching, naturally rounded habit that lends itself to use in low-maintenance gardens and landscapes, including formal settings. Its small size also lends Watchet to use in bonsai as well as for low-maintenance container plants. Provide your evergreen Azaleas with a well-drained, average moist, humus rich, acid soil and topdress with an organic mulch for the best results. Item# 12575

Pure white tubular flowers emerge from tall, velvety, white calyxes on dense flower spikes from late summer to fall and may flower again in spring in areas where the plants do not freeze to the ground. White Mischief Mexican Sage Bush has soft velvety medium to gray-green foliage adorning upright to arching shrub-sized plants. This is a drought tolerant, sun and heat loving, reliable, clump forming, shrub-like perennial that is considered virtually deer proof thanks to its fragrant foliage. A selection of Salvia leucantha, White Mischief Mexican Sage will be most dependable in full to mostly sunny sites with very good to excellent drainage. This is a die-back perennial in zone 8 and colder, freezing to the ground and then returning in spring. Item# 12545

The tall stems of this native perennial cover up in 1" light purple daisies in late summer and fall. Willowleaf Aster, Symphyotrichum praealtum, produces a multitude of upright to arching stems once well-established and makes a grand statement in the fall garden, prairie, meadow, or roadsides. The flowers attract a variety of pollinators but are an especially important late summer and fall nectar source for native bees. Willowleaf Aster or Willow Aster is long rhizomatous, versus clumpforming, and will slowly colonize an area once established creating a dense stand at maturity. Provide a full to mostly sunny site in moist to average moist soils. Cutback to ground level after flowering to prevent unwanted seedlings if desired. Item# 10693.

Clusters of extra large (for a Beautyberry) showy purplish-pink flowers are produced for an extended period beginning in late spring or early summer and continuing into fall all the while ripening clusters of showy rich purple berries. The Willowleaf Beautyberry, Callicarpa salicifolia, is something of a rarity in the horticultural trade but is gaining in popularity for being one of the showiest. This large growing deciduous shrub has a naturally upright to rounded, well-branched habit lending it to use as a specimen plant and as an informal hedge or screen. The fruit attracts songbirds, small mammals, as well as likely deer and other wildlife while the nectar rich flowers attract bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. Provide the Willowleaf Beautyberry with a full to mostly sunny site in an average moist, well-drained, fertile soil for optimum vigor and flowering. Item# 12455

From flattened iris-like bluish-green fans emerge spikes of deep coral 1" wide flowers that have a contrasting splotch of dark orange-red at the base of the three lower petals that acts as a 'bee guide' and the flowers are produced over an extended period in late winter, early spring, to spring depending on your zone. Woodland Painted Petals or Flowering Grass, Freesia laxa, is an easily grown cormous heirloom perennial and RHS Award of Garden Merit winner which readily multiplies via seed to make a loose groundcover. Provide an average to well-drained soil in a full to partly sunny site for optimum vigor and flowering. Freesia laxa is suitable for container culture as well as in the garden and landscape. Naturally winter dormant. Typically 2-3 or more bulbs per pot. Item# 12370

Loose clusters of sweetly fragrant, creamy yellow, star shaped flowers are produced over a long period beginning in late spring and early summer on this vigorous and durable evergreen twining climber. This cultivar of Confederate Jasmine appears to flower a good deal longer than the more common white flowered selections. An excellent choice for arbors, trellises, and evergreen screening on a lattice work or fence. Confederate Jasmine can also be used as a deep groundcover that will grow to 12-24" high. Where not hardy they can be maintained as easy and low maintenance container specimens. This may be the same as Woodlander's 'Mandianum' which may yet be the 'Star of Toscane'. Item # 11020

From spring to fall a near continuous display of the 2-3" wide bright sunny yellow trumpets are held against a foil of deep green glossy foliage. The flowers attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. The Yellow Mandevilla, Pentalinon luteum or Urechites lutea, is a vigorous twining, naturally evergreen, tropical vine native to southern Florida, the Caribbean, and Honduras. It is vigorous enough to cover a small arbor or medium-sized trellis but is mannerly enough to be maintained on a smaller 3-4' high support where it can be enjoyed as container plant for a sunny patio. Provide the Yellow Mandevilla with a fertile, average moist, average to well-drained soil in a full to mostly sunny site for maximum flowering and vigor. Item# 12385

1" wide bright sunny yellow starry flowers are held in small clusters atop sturdy stems that push the flowers just above the wide blue-green grass-like foliage. Flowering is heaviest in spring but may continue sporadically through summer and into fall. Yellow-Eyed Grass, Sisyrhinchium californicum, is a naturally evergreen clump-forming miniature iris-like perennial that readily reseeds under good conditions. This West Coast native is typically found in consistently moist to wet sites in coastal areas, lake edges, and seeps but it is tolerant of short dry spells and is adaptable to a variety of growing conditons from average moist to wet, salt, and acid to alkaline soils. Provide a full to mostly sunny site for optimum vigor and flowering. Yellow-Eyed Grass may reseed into zone 6 and is considered perennial in zones 8-10. Item# 12290

1" wide bright sunny yellow starry flowers are held in small clusters atop sturdy stems that push the flowers just above the wide blue-green grass-like foliage. Flowering is heaviest in spring but may continue sporadically through summer and into fall. Yellow-Eyed Grass, Sisyrhinchium californicum, is a naturally evergreen clump-forming miniature iris-like perennial that readily reseeds under good conditions. This West Coast native is typically found in consistently moist to wet sites in coastal areas, lake edges, and seeps but it is tolerant of short dry spells and is adaptable to a variety of growing conditons from average moist to wet, salt, and acid to alkaline soils. Provide a full to mostly sunny site for optimum vigor and flowering. Yellow-Eyed Grass may reseed into zone 6 and is considered perennial in zones 8-10. Item# 13020

The heavily variegated foliage is broadly edged, splotched, and flecked with creamy white and the variegation may also overlay patches of the green creating a silvery look. The young leaves are reddish purple eventually lightening to pink and finally maturing to cream. Not only does this beautifully variegated Sweet Olive look great but it also has excellent flower power with the show of sweetly fragrant clusters of creamy white blossoms beginning in fall and continuing into spring. Yinbi Shuanghui Sweet Olive is sure to make a statement in the garden and landscape year round. It is tolerant of full sun conditions, unlike many variegated plants, but it has also proven to be reliably cold hardy into zone 7B. Provide a full sun to partly shaded location in a well-drained, average moist, fertile soil for optimum vigor and flowering. Item# 12366

The large, fully double, sterile florets emerge either light pink (alkaline soils) or light blue (acidic soils with Aluminum) and deepen to rosy pink or deep blue as they age and can ultimately become red or deep purple in fall and winter. YOU&ME® Together Bigleaf Hydrangea was selected not only for its double flowers that are produced continuously throughout the growing season atop sturdy stems but also for its dense compact habit that lends it to use as a container specimen. It is equally useful in the garden and landscape for continuous color.  As with other Bigleaf Hydrangeas provide a moist, well-drained soil in an area that receives morning sun and shade during the hottest portion of the day, at least in hot summer climates. Images courtesy of Concept Plants BV®, all rights reserved. Item# 12481