Butterfly Blue Pincushion flower is known for being the most floriferous of the Scabiosa family. We have been enjoying them particularly this spring because our crop of propagated liners is half blue and half hot pink. The stems on the Butterfly blue are 12-18” tall so they make a nice …
Need a little more depth to your garden pallet? Ready to bring your design up a level? Wine and Roses Weigela brings rich dark foliage to the yard adding intrigue and contrast against the glossy greens of the PNW landscapes. Wine and Roses blooms in May, and reblooms in late …
Double Play Big Bang Spirea-We love spirea at this time of year, the new growth is always as colorful as a bouquet of flowers, usually in pinks, reds, oranges, and sometimes lime. Walking the fields right now, one spirea stands out for the most neon colors of orange and hot …
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 …
