Little Spark is a compact spirea with orange new growth that holds its yellow leaf color throughout the summer, even when planted in full sun. A summer bloomer, the pink flowers arise just above the foliage, and if you give them a quick shear when they are done, it will rebloom in late summer. Fall color includes shades of pink, creating a multi-toned effect. Little Spark® is fantastic when planted along a garden border or as a featured shrub in a decorative container.
USDA zones 3-8
Mature Sizes- 18-24 inches H x 18-30 inches W
Deciduous – Foliage loss in winter and new growth in spring
Full sun to part shade; Blooms in spring
Used in containers, landscapes, and as accents
Recommended spacing 18 inches
Botanical Name: LITTLE SPARK® SPIREA SPIRAEA JAPONICA ‘MINSPIL04’ PP30,819
Ships dormant (no foliage) winter through early spring
Plants are trimmed at times when shipped to promote plant health
French Cabaret Red is a double-flower, sterile hibiscus with an upright habit and bright red flowers. Growing in clusters of three to five pompom blooms, the red color and double flower appear carnation-like, bringing an unexpected and beautiful texture to the garden all summer and into fall. A vigorous grower, French Cabaret Red fills in quickly to a large shrub with big impact in the mid-season landscape.
USDA zones 5-8
Mature size 4-7 feet W x 5-8 feet H
Deciduous – Foliage loss in winter and new growth in winter
Full sun to part shade
Low maintenance
Used in landscapes, screens and as accents
Recommended spacing 48 inches
Botanical Name- FRENCH CABARET™ RED HIBISCUS, HIBISCUS SYRIACUS ‘MINDOUR 1’ PP30,101
Ships dormant winter through early spring
Plants are trimmed at times when shipped to promote plant health
Super-sized flowers! Incrediball hydrangea will make you say WOW – it’s an improved version of the garden classic ‘Annabelle’ hydrangea, but with strong, sturdy stems that don’t flop over and extra-large blooms to boot. White flowers begin to appear in mid-summer and open to enormous snowballs, nearly the size of basketballs! They then age to a lush jade green, which persists through frost. It’s a super easy, super reliable North American native that grows in chilly USDA zone 3 all the way up to USDA zone 8/9. Plant Incrediball hydrangea in your landscape and find out for yourself just how big, beautiful, and rewarding it can be. Top reasons to grow Incrediball hydrangea:- enormous, long-lasting flowers every summer- Strong, sturdy stems keeps blooms showy and upright- easy to grow native shrub.
USDA zones 3-8
Mature size 48-60 inches W x 48-60 inches H
Full sun to part sun
Deciduous – Foliage loss in winter and new growth in spring
Recommended spacing 48 inches
Used in containers, landscapes, and as accents
Low maintenance
Botanical Name – Incrediball® Smooth Hydrangea arborescens
Ships dormant (no foliage) winter through early spring
Plants are trimmed at times when shipped to promote plant health
Red Pillar is a totally unique rose of Sharon: it naturally grows as a narrow column instead of a wide, spreading plant. Anywhere you need a little privacy and/or color in a narrow space, this plant is a great choice. Each one of Red Pillar rose of Sharon’s plentiful blooms is a big red bullseye. This unusual columnar habit makes it a real space saver – if you thought you didn’t have enough space to grow rose of Sharon, Red Pillar is perfect for you. Try it in containers, or flanking your front door, or simply as a quirky accent in your landscape.
Long Blooming, Heat Tolerant, Drought Tolerant, Salt Tolerant
Attracts: Bees , Butterflies , and Hummingbirds
Resists: Deer
USDA zones 5a-9b
Mature Sizes- 120-192 inches H and 48-60 inches W
Deciduous – Foliage loss in winter and new growth in spring
Full sun to part shade; Blooms spring through fall
Used in containers, landscapes, and as accents
Recommended spacing 48 inches
Botanical Name: Red Pillar™ Hibiscus syriacus ‘GFNHSRP’ USPPAF, Can PBRAF
Ships dormant (no foliage) winter through early spring
Plants are trimmed at times when shipped to promote plant health
The luminous Everillo Carex is an outstanding new addition to the Southern Living Plant Collection! The Everillo Carex produces brilliant lime-green foliage in spring before maturing to a golden hue as the year goes on. The long-leafed foliage grows in a naturally mounding habit. Consequently, this Sedge grass excels at adding dynamic groundcover texture to any landscape or garden.
A moderate growth rate and a mature size of 12-18″ H x 12-18″ W means that trimming is completely unnecessary. Therefore, low-maintenance gardeners can rest assured that this grass won’t go wild while they aren’t looking.
The Everillo Carex is certain to brighten shady spots and add a sensational pop of color to your container gardens.
USDA zones 5a-9b
Mature Sizes- 12-18 inches H and 12-18 inches W
Deciduous – Foliage loss in winter and new growth in spring
With perfectly round baseball-size flowers in April, this beacon has the perfect name of spring Opening Day Viburnum. This shrub is covered with snowball-like flowers that open with a tinge of green and quickly mature to pure white. Plants are tight in habit with dark green, corrugated foliage that turns beautiful shades of cabernet red in the fall. Plant in containers, landscapes or accents!
USDA zones 5-8
Mature size 6-8 feet W x 6-8 feet H
Deciduous – Foliage loss in winter and new growth in winter
There’s nothing else quite like the New Vinho Verde Weigela! The lime green leaves showcase a bold black margin. Like all variegated plants, it will occasionally revert, but it reverts to all black, so will not overgrow the plant. A light crop of red-pink flowers appears in late spring, but the foliage – coupled with an irresistibly neat habit – is the primary reason to grow this beauty! Perfect in containers, landscapes, and as accents!
USDA zones 4-8
Mature size 3-5 feet W x 3-5 feet 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 – Vinho Verde™ Weigela florida
Low maintenance
Ships dormant winter through early spring
Plants are trimmed at times when shipped to promote plant health
Canyon Creek Abelia is a multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a mounded form. This compact shrub has glossy dark green leaves that are tinged with bronze, with a dazzling bronze-rose fall color. The tidy, mounded habit and tubular pinkish-white flowers make this shrub a welcome addition to smaller spaces! Canyon Creek features dainty clusters of lightly-scented white tubular flowers with shell pink overtones at the ends of the branches from early summer to mid fall, which emerge from distinctive rose flower buds. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.
Canyon Creek Abelia is recommended for the following landscape applications- mass planting, general garden use, and container planting.
USDA zones 6-9
Mature size 36″ H x 48″ W
Full sun to part shade
Evergreen- year round interest
Great for accents, containers, or border plants
Recommended spacing 36 inches
Delicate clusters of pinkish-white blooms spring through early summer
Botanical Name – ABELIA X GRANDIFLORA ‘CANYON CREEK’
Plants are trimmed at times when shipped to promote plant health
Kleim’s Hardy showcases pinwheel-shaped, creamy white flowers white with a yellow center. They are so beautiful and perfect they almost look fake! The foliage is shiny and deep green, typical of Gardenias. The natural shape of this shrub is mounding. At a mature size of 2 to 3 feet tall and wide, this shrub is perfect for just about any spot in your yard, garden, or patio. They even do great in containers!
USDA zones 7-10
Mature size 2-3 feet W x 2-3 feet H
Full sun to partial shade
Evergreen – Year round interest
Used in containers, landscapes, and as accents
Recommended spacing 24 inches
Botanical Name – Gardenia jasminoides ‘Kleim’s Hardy’
Low maintenance
Plants are trimmed at times when shipped to promote plant health
In a perfect world, azaleas would bloom for months instead of just weeks and have big, full flowers with pure and true colors. That’s exactly what Perfecto Mundo azaleas do. Perfecto Mundo Red azalea is a neat, rounded shrub that’s covered with rich red blooms in spring, when other azaleas bloom, but then after a brief rest, begins blooming again in mid-summer and continues through frost. Perfect for containers, landscapes, and as accents!
USDA zones 6-9
Mature Sizes- 30 inches H and 36-48 inches W
Evergreen- year round interest
Full sun to part shade; Blooms spring, summer, and fall
Used in containers, landscapes, and as accents
Recommended spacing 36 inches
Botanical Name: Perfecto Mundo® Red Reblooming Azalea Rhododendron x
Plants are trimmed at times when shipped to promote plant health
A vibrant tri-color foliage show! For gardeners on the hunt for elegant, but interesting foliage. Tres Amigos abelia seems to change each time you visit it out in the garden. In spring it starts out with green, cream, pink, and yellow-tinged foliage. Its most vibrant color is yellow, bringing sunshine into the slowly filling garden. By summer, the yellow has left completely and the pink edge on the leaf takes over. The new growth at the end of each stem is almost entirely a warm watermelon pink with sporadically placed white flowers. Each flower is fluted, perfect for inviting hummingbirds and butterflies into the garden, and has a lovely jasmine-like fragrance. Its compact habit suits it nicely for use at the front of the border, in containers, and in mixed borders with perennials and annuals.
Top reasons to grow Tres Amigos abelia: – Remarkable tricolor foliage – A summer-long show of fragrant white flowers – Compact habit fits easily into many gardens
Fragrant Flower
Long Blooming
Foliage Interest
Attracts: Butterflies and Hummingbirds
Resists: Deer
USDA zones 6-9
Mature Sizes- 2-3 feet H x 2-3 feet W
Evergreen- year round interest
Full sun to part shade; Blooms in spring
Used in containers, landscapes, and as accents
Recommended spacing 24 inches
Botanical Name: Tres Amigos® Abelia grandiflora
Plants are trimmed at times when shipped to promote plant health
Wine & Spirits weigela is an update on the classic Wine & Roses weigela. This vigorous, handsome variety combines even more dramatic dark foliage with crisp white-green flowers. Like all weigela, it is deer resistant and very easy to care for. A real showstopper in containers, and landscapes!
Foliage Interest
Attracts: Bees, Butterflies, Hummingbirds
Resists: Deer
Thrives in USDA zones 4-8
Grows to a mature size of 36-60 inches W x 36-60 inches 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 – Wine & Spirits® Weigela florida ‘SMNWFGC’ USPP 34,358, Can PBRAF
Low maintenance
Ships dormant winter through early spring
Plants are trimmed at times when shipped to promote plant health
