Newsletter May 2015

Cool Plants

Here are some plants that we have in stock and that we think looks great in your garden right now. Want to know more about these plants? Visit our plant database.

Centaurea montana

Delicately fringed, rich blue flowers with reddish-blue centers appear atop tall unbranched stems. In cooler climates, can spread and naturalize to form colonies of gray-green, lance-shaped leaves. Excellent for naturalized meadows.

Light Need: Full Sun
Plant characteristic: Herbaceous

Dicentra Golden Bleeding Heart

Vivid golden foliage on large open plants can be used for contrast and to brighten darker shade gardens. Traditional heart shaped pink flowers dangle from long wands above the leaves. Perfect for woodland gardens and under larger shade trees.

Light need: Full to partial shade
Plant characteristic: Herbaceous

Aubrieta Axcent Blue with Eye

A popular spring-flowering rock garden perennial it forms a low carpet of evergreen leaves, literally smothered by flowers for several weeks. This selection has single flowers of bright lavender-blue with a tiny yellow eye. Excellent in the rock garden, cascading over walls, for edging or in alpine containers.

Light need: Full sun to part shade
Plant characteristic: Herbaceous

Blechnum spicant ‘Deer Fern’

Two frond types give this deep shade loving Fern many uses. Sterile leaves spread flat, creating a glossy, evergreen groundcover. Fertile leaves emerge upright from the center midsummer. Tuck into shady spots to add strong texture to any woodland garden.

Light need: Full to Partial Shade
Plant characteristic: Herbaceous

Hosta ‘Frosted Mouse Ears’

Mini paddles of thick, round blue-green leaves with a wide brassy yellow margin that turns creamy yellow accented with a thin white stripe between the inner and outer colors. Attractive light lavender flowers bloom in dense clusters just above the foliage in perfect symmetry with the clump. Frosted Mouse Ears is a premier dwarf Hosta. Hosta thrive in shade, even in competition with tree root.