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Perennials & Shrubs:
Year-Round
Radiance
New perennial and shrub introductions offer more choices for color and texture to growers and gardeners.
Ball FloraPlant
With striking flowers and dark foliage on upright, “airy” plants, ‘Ballerina Compact White’ is an upright, more compact gaura that adds versatility for use in smaller spaces and mixed containers. Perfect for full sun gardens, it grows 12 to 18 inches tall and spreads 24 to 36 inches. Hardy to Zones 6 to 10. New viola ‘Harvest Moon’ is a mounding, trailing variety with fragrant, bright yellow blooms over healthy, dark green foliage. It blooms continuously and offers excellent heat tolerance. ‘Harvest Moon’ grows 6 to 8 inches tall and spreads 18 to 24 inches. Hardy to Zones 5 to 8.
Ball Ornamentals
Fireball Red Photinia is a completely new Red Tip bred and selected for its bright red new growth. Fireball Red grows into an upright shrub, approximately 3 to 4 feet tall and 4 to 5 feet wide and is perfect for colorful, low-growing foundation plantings and general garden use. Hardy to USDA Zone 7 and warmer.
Lady in Red Physocarpus is a naturally compact shrub with richly-colored burgundy foliage that highlights the large pink flowers in the summer. The plant matures quickly and performs well in the often difficult location of dry, sandy soil. Great for summer containers, it can be transitioned to the garden in fall.
Bailey Nurseries
All the Rage, Easy Elegance rose has coral buds that swirl open to apricot-colored blossoms with yellow centers, aging to deep pink. Super Hero, Easy Elegance features red hybrid, tea-shaped blossoms that stand out strongly against dark green, satiny foliage. My Girl, Easy Elegance has adorable, round buds held in large clusters, opening to ruffly, lipstick-colored blossoms.
Benary
Armeria maritima ‘Morning Star Deep Rose’ is a FastraX perennial that flowers the first year from seed, offering versatile uses in the pot or the garden. Its habit is compact (6-inch) with a multitude of rose-pink flowers.The bellis Speedstar series offers beauty, vigor, and increased uses for multiple seasons. Speedstar can be produced for both fall and spring sales windows, which, along with a compact habit and leaf size makes ‘Speedstar’ a great companion to pansies.
Blooms of Bressingham
Centaurea montana ‘Amethyst Dream’ introduces a bold new, deeper purple color than typical of the genus. Radiant, royal-purple blooms in May are big and showy, 2 ½ inches in diameter. Unique “shingled” flower buds for garden interest even before blooming. Hardy to Zones 9 to 1. Dendranthema ‘Cool Igloo’ offers sweet, rich raspberry flowers that hold color beautifully. Tough and reliable, it is tested hardy to at least Zone 5. Weeks of solid color on rounded domes of unparalleled uniformity.
Centerton Nursery
‘Mean Mister Mustard’ is a new daylily from Dr. Darrel Apps, the breeder of ‘Happy Returns’ and ‘Rosy Returns. Hardy to Zone 4, ‘Mean Mister Mustard’ has a 6-inch, mustard yellow flower with a wine red eye and picotee edge, amazing bud counts and more than 70 days of color.
Donahue’s Clematis
An Evison/Poulsen cultivar, Bourbon has stunningly vibrant red, 5- to 6-inch, round flowers with contrasting yellow anthers. This clematis is an ideal plant for container growing as its height is only 4 to 6 feet. It blooms from June through early August.
Garden Splendor
Lychnis ‘Rolly’s Favorite’ is a Zone 4 perennial smothered in soft, pink flowers with centers from late spring to summer. Growth habit is bushy, compact and freely branching over rich green foliage. An easy grower ideal for any conditions in fun to part shade.
Jelitto
Gaura lindheimeri ’Summer Breeze’ is a perennial hardy to Zone 6, but sometimes tricky to get through cold winters. A new seed strain, ’Summer Breeze’, has been better able to handle over-wintering in containers after several years on trial.
Dianthus arenarius f. nanus ’Little Maiden’ is a new compact (6 inches), dense form of ‘Sand Pink.’ Thin grass-like leaves are topped with dozens of pure white, fringed blooms that are deliciously fragrant. Drought tolerant, summer flowering ’Little Maiden’ is hardy to Zone 3. Rare in cultivation, Scabiosa lachnophylla ’Blue Horizon’ is selected for its balanced growing habit and reliably perennial nature. Foliage is finely filigreed; flower buds resemble small pale green saucers before opening violet-blue. First year flowering, this scabiosa is a butterfly and bee magnet July until frost and hardy to Zones 4 to 9.
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