White Pillar rose of Sharon naturally grows as a narrow column, so it takes up just a fraction of the space that conventional roses of Sharon do. This particular variety sports pure white, semi-double blooms, making it an elegant choice for planting in any style landscape and along with any type of architecture. This unusual, space-saving habit unlocks so many new design possibilities: plant alongside your front entrance, as the centerpiece to a formal container, as a privacy screen, or a dramatic specimen. It’s easier than ever to enjoy this summer-blooming favorite.
USDA zones 5-9
Mature size 24-36″ W x 120-192″ H
Full sun to partial shade
Deciduous – Foliage loss in winter and new growth in spring
Recommended spacing 24 inches
Used in containers, landscapes, or as accents
Botanical Name – White Pillar® Rose of Sharon Hibiscus syriacus
Ships dormant winter through early spring
Plants are trimmed at times when shipped to promote plant health
Let’s Dance Rhythmic Blue hydrangea will make you feel like the head honcho of hydrangeas. This easy-to-grow, no prune hydrangea was developed in Michigan for superior cold climate performance. Each perfectly formed floret has a distinctive rectangular shape. They combine into dozens of lush, full, mophead flowers that are pink in alkaline soils and a fabulous blue in acidic conditions. An outstanding rebloomer, Let’s Dance Rhythmic Blue hydrangea will provide you months of flowers.
USDA zones 5-9
Mature size 36-48″ W x 36-48″ H
Full sun to part sun
Deciduous – Foliage loss in winter and new growth in spring
Recommended spacing 36 inches
Used in containers, landscapes, and as accents
Low maintenance
Botanical Name – Let’s Dance® Rhythmic Blue® Reblooming Hydrangea macrophylla
Ships dormant (no foliage) winter through early spring
Plants are trimmed at times when shipped to promote plant health
Jazz Hands Variegated is the first ever variegated loropetalum with outstanding form, flowers and foliage. Its new growth is splashed with pink and white variegation, while mature foliage is a rich purple color. This distinctive plant may be used as a specimen, border plant, in a container, landscape, or as a mass planting! Performs best in moist, well-drained, acidic soil. Fertilize in spring. Pruning is seldom needed, but may be shaped after flowering. Extra mulch around the base may be helpful in cooler climates.
USDA zones 7-9
Mature size 48″ W x 48-72″ H
Full sun to partial shade
Evergreen- Year round interest
Low maintenance
Recommended spacing 48 inches
Used in containers, landscapes, and as accents
Botanical Name – Jazz Hands Variegated® Chinese fringe-flower Loropetalum chinense
Plants are trimmed at times when shipped to promote plant health
The Autumn Debutante is an intermediate-sized Encore Azalea that produces a great show of soft-pink single form blooms with a splash of dark pink freckles down the throat in spring summer and fall. The beautiful blooms contrast nicely against the dark lustrous green foliage. The Autumn Debutante is cold hardy down to USDA zone 6b. Encore Azaleas are known for their ability to tolerate full sun better than traditional azaleas, so make sure to plant them in a location that will receive 4-6 hours of direct sunlight, with some shade during the afternoon heat. Autumn Debutante is great for planting in the landscape or in container gardens and will perform best in slightly acidic well-drained garden soil!
The Autumn Empress Encore Azalea promises to bring bounties of beautiful blooms to your landscape and/or garden! The Autumn Empress produces rich semi-double, pink blooms that have a delicately ruffled appearance to them. Blooms first appear in spring in an impressive display. Afterward, this Encore Azalea will continue the show by reblooming in summer and fall.
The eye-catching pink azalea blossoms rest atop shimmering vivid green foliage. New growth emerges a bright green before maturing to a deep green.
The Autumn Empress Encore Azalea is an intermediate sized Encore Azalea, and reaches a mature size of 4′ H x 3′ W.
Try this pink blooming azalea as a foundation planting, accent, border, hedge, or container plant. However you use it, you really can’t go wrong!
This variety is naturally compact, with a rounded growth habit. Therefore, pruning is traditionally unnecessary with this low-maintenance variety.
Spirea is an old landscape staple, so what could one do that could possible earn it superlatives? Well, seedless and non-invasive would be a start; non-stop blooming would be even better. And these are exactly what makes Double Play Doozie spirea the most beautiful, innovative, ground-breaking spirea to ever grace a landscape. Like all of the Double Play® spirea series, the show begins in early spring, when the foliage emerges in blazing brilliant color – in this case, deep red. By late spring, the flowers begin to emerge, a bright, glowing purple-red that truly sings in the landscape. And as summer comes on, the show doesn’t stop: it just keeps flowering, and flowering, and flowering. Because it produces no seeds, it puts all of its energy into flowering! It does it all with the same good looks, drought tolerance, and deer resistance that you expect from spirea, too.
USDA zones 3-8
Mature size 24-36″ W x 24-36″ H
Full sun to partial shade
Deciduous – Foliage loss in winter and new growth in spring
Used in containers, landscapes, and as accents
Recommended spacing 24 inches
Botanical Name – Double Play Doozie® Spirea Spiraea x
Low maintenance
Ships dormant winter through early spring
Plants are trimmed at times when shipped to promote plant health
Spilled Wine weigela shares the fabulous deep purple foliage and bright pink flowers of the classic Wine & Roses weigela but in a smaller size. This useful plant grows wider than tall, making it the perfect choice for edging beds or walkways and for incorporating under windows in your landscaping. Like all weigela, it is deer resistant and very easy to care for.
Top reasons to grow Spilled Wine weigela:
– Very colorful even when not in bloom
– Dwarf, wider-than-tall habit has many uses in the landscape
– Deer resistant
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USDA zones 4-8
Mature size 24-36″ W x 24-36″ H
Full sun to partial shade
Deciduous – Foliage loss in winter and new growth in spring
Used in containers, landscapes, and as accents
Recommended spacing 24 inches
Botanical Name – Spilled Wine® Weigela florida ‘Bokraspiwi’ USPP 23,781, Can 4,655
Low maintenance
Ships dormant winter through early spring
Plants are trimmed at times when shipped to promote plant health
Isn’t it romantic! Rosy-pink flowers add a touch of romance when displayed against the dark glossy foliage. The foliage is much darker than that of older varieties like ‘Java Red’. It contrasts beautifully with the rosy-pink flowers, making for a high impact display in the garden. This variety produces copious amounts of flowers in spring, and will re-bloom throughout the summer. The trumpet-like flowers are adored by hummingbirds! Try using Wine & Roses weigela’s colorful branches in flower arrangements. It can also be enjoyed as an accent plant or used for a dramatic mass planting. It is fast growing and trouble free, making it an easy way to add season long color to the garden.
USDA zones 4-8
Mature size 48-60″ W x 48-60″ H
Full sun to partial shade
Deciduous – Foliage loss in winter and new growth in spring
Used in containers, landscapes, and as accents
Recommended spacing 48 inches
Botanical Name – Wine & Roses® Weigela florida ‘Alexandra’ USPP 10,772, Can 2,642
Low maintenance
Ships dormant winter through early spring
Plants are trimmed at times when shipped to promote plant health
The Red Diamond Loropetalum is another tremendous evergreen shrub from the Southern Living Plant Collection! The Red Diamond Loropetalum produces candy red blooms in early spring. These are truly the reddest blooms of all loropetalum cultivars, and they contrast beautifully with their dark foliage. Watch these blossoms engulf the shrub, completely changing its appearance during the bloom cycle. After the considerable initial bloom, this loropetalum will periodically rebloom from early summer to fall. Meanwhile, the purple and burgundy leaves hold their color all year long, providing dynamic color in any landscape.
New growth emerges in spring as a soft purple before maturing to dark purple to burgundy.
The Red Diamond Loropetalum reaches a mature size of 6′ tall and 6′ wide. Therefore, this variety won’t engulf its surroundings like some other Loropetalums. Additionally, this naturally compact growth habit ensures that pruning is optional or infrequent.
Use this low-maintenance shrub as a hedge, container, accent, or mass planting!
USDA zones 7-10
Mature size 72″ W x 72″ H
Full sun to partial shade
Evergreen – Year round interest
Used in containers, landscapes, and as accents
Recommended spacing 72 inches
Botanical Name – Red Diamond™ Midsize Loropetalum chinense ‘Shang-Red’
Low maintenance
Plants are trimmed at times when shipped to promote plant health
Average shipping height – 2g 10-14 inches, 5g 16-20 inches
The White Wedding Hydrangea is a dynamite new addition to the Southern Living Plant Collection! This hydrangea produces gorgeous cone-shaped white blooms every summer that are guaranteed to steal the show in your landscape. These large flower clusters have a crisper white hue than many popular Paniculata hydrangeas on the market today. These blooms are also quite long-lived. Therefore, they’re absolutely ideal for a cut flower arrangement.
The foliage on the White Wedding is soft in appearance and plentiful. The leaves emerge light green and mature to a medium hue and provide reliable growing season color and texture in the landscape. Furthermore, this variety is naturally compact. So shaping and pruning are largely unnecessary!
This Hydrangea is more deer resistant than most varieties.
Use it as an accent, container, hedge or mass planting!
USDA zones 4-9
Mature size 36-60″ W x 48-72″ H
Full sun to partial shade
Deciduous – Foliage loss in winter and new growth in spring
Used in containers, landscapes, and as accents
Recommended spacing 36 inches
Botanical Name – White Wedding® Hydrangea paniculata Hybrid ‘LeeP1’ PP28973
Low maintenance
Ships dormant winter through early spring
Plants are trimmed at times when shipped to promote plant health
Vanilla Strawberry Panicle Hydrangea features enormous flower heads that are held upright on red stems. The flowers emerge creamy white in midsummer, change to pink as the night temperatures drop, and finally turn strawberry red later in fall. New flowers emerge as older blooms change color, giving Vanilla Strawberry a multicolored effect in late summer and early fall. The large blooms are excellent for fresh cut and dried flower arrangements and are especially well-liked for dried winter floral displays.
USDA zones 3-8
Mature size 60-72″ W x 72-96″ H
Full sun to partial shade
Deciduous – Foliage loss in winter and new growth in spring
Used in containers, landscapes, and as accents
Recommended spacing 60 inches
Botanical Name – Hydrangea paniculata ‘Renhy’ PP20,670
Low maintenance
Ships dormant winter through early spring
Plants are trimmed at times when shipped to promote plant health
Kaleidoscope abelia is a variegated semi-evergreen shrub. It produces pink buds in the spring that open to petite, fragrant white flowers in the summer through the fall. But its variegated foliage with three seasons of color is where this shrub shines. Abelia kaleidoscope’s foliage emerges as variegated green and yellow, slowly turning gold in summer. Then, in the fall, the golden foliage turns reddish orange.
This glossy abelia is dwarf and gets only about 2 feet tall and has a 3.5-foot spread, making it great for colorful coverage. This abelia grandiflora’s small stature makes it perfect for containers and patios.
Enjoy the bevy of bees, butterflies, and birds that are drawn to the sweet perfume of this Kaleidoscope abelia variegated semi-evergreen shrub. This dwarf variety This abelia is also very heat and sun-tolerant, producing its biggest show when it receives full sun.
USDA zones 6-9
Mature size 36-42 inches W x 24-30 inches H
Full sun to partial shade
Evergreen – Year round interest
Used in containers, landscapes, and as accents
Recommended spacing 36 inches
Botanical Name – ‘Kaleidoscope’ Abelia x grandiflora ‘Kaleidoscope’ PP16988
Low maintenance
Plants are trimmed at times when shipped to promote plant health
