We love Peking Cotoneaster for its stunning fall color, berries for the songbirds in winter, and attractive white flowers with glossy leaves in spring. This large shrub, 6-10’ tall and wide, is often used as a wind block and to provide a thicket to shelter small birds in winter from …
Beyond Midnight Bluebeard is not only one of the bluest flowers available, it blooms in the late summer/through fall when most other flowers are spent, or are rusty yellows and reds. Beyond Midnight is a sturdy fall sub-shrub that looks fantastic contrasted with the bright colors of coneflower, the …
Autumn Joy Sedum is a favorite standby of cottage and xeriscape gardeners alike. It’s hard to get such a riot of late summer/fall color without requiring a lot of water and maintenance. Flower buds are soft pink, open to hot pink, and in fall they turn rusty orange …
Summer Wine Ninebark is a gracefully arching shrub with maroon-purple foliage and lightly fragrant pale pink blooms. Summer Wine Ninebark is an extremely low maintenance shrub in our climate, it is drought tolerant when established, and no pruning is necessary, unless to harvest the branches to add to flair to …
