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El Niño Chitalpa

🌸 Meet the El Niño Chitalpa! This gorgeous, fragrant tree combines the best of two unique plants – desert willow and catalpa – to bring beauty and resilience to any garden. If you’re looking for a low-maintenance, long-blooming addition, this tree is for you! 🌿 ✨ Why You’ll Love It: • 🌺 Stunning Blooms: Soft pink flowers that resemble orchids and snapdragons • 🌞 Sun Lover: Thrives in full sun or part sun • 💧 Drought Tolerant & Low Maintenance: Perfect for hot, dry climates • 🦌 Deer Resistant: No more worries about nibbling visitors! • 🍃 Fragrant & Long-Lasting: Enjoy the sweet scent all summer long • 💚 Adds Beauty: Use it as a border, in mass planting, or as a focal point 🌱 Care Tips: Easy pruning in early spring keeps this beauty blooming on new growth!

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El Niño Chitalpa

The Perfect Perennial Flower For Fall!

Blanket flower is a long-blooming native perennial with gorgeous fiery flowers that last spring through fall. It’s perfect for those with hot, sunny gardens who don’t have time to fuss with extra watering or maintenance. The bright red and yellow hues instantly heat up the fall landscape.

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Pink Purple Flowers

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Pink And Purple Flowers

El Niño® Chitalpa

This shrub blooms continuously in the summer, with spires of pink-purple flowers that look like orchids. They have a truly unique fragrance that’s a bit hard to describe, but most people we ask describe it as vanilla and ripe melon. Since it blooms in the summer, that sweet scent wafts on the warm breeze, perfuming the area and drawing you to it, making its unusual blooms all the better. Vigorous, heat-tolerant & deer-resistant! Check out our website for more information!

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Plants For Butterflies

Proud Berry Coralberry | ButterflyBushes.com

Looking for something a little different that's still super tough and durable and attracts pollinators? Try Proud Berry coralberry (Symphoricarpos sp.). This extremely hardy, deer resistant, shade tolerant flowering shrub graces your garden with neat little round leaves of a versatile, appealing blue-green hue. In late summer, it develops waxy little bell-shaped flowers that expand and then turn into bubble-like pink berries for autumn.

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Garden Design Layout Landscaping

Proven Winners Perennials

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Hedge Plants

Kintzley's Ghost® Honeysuckle Vine

Add a showstopping display of unusual foliage that begs to be looked at with Kintzley’s Ghost® honeysuckle vine (Lonicera reticulata). This beautiful, unique vine grows just about everywhere, is not invasive, and looks stunning all season long. It’s covered with yellow trumpet flowers in late spring and early summer, but it’s the foliage that sets it apart from the rest: it emerges as unusual flying saucer-like discs around the stem with a silvery-blue tint.

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Agapanthus Blue

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'Blue Yonder' Lily-of-the-Nile

Most people associate Lily-of-the-Nile (Agapanthus sp.) with warm climates, but ‘Blue Yonder’ is a special selection that’s a perennial even in USDA zone 6. Enjoy clusters of bright purple-blue blooms all summer long, hovering above a mound of neat, strappy leaves.

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Waterfall Plants

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African Lily

'Little Galaxy' Lily-of-the-Nile

Little Galaxy’ Lily-of-the-Nile (Agapanthus sp.) has everything you love about ‘Galaxy Blue’, but in a compact habit. Though it has a shorter height and spread (now only 2’), it still boasts huge clusters of true-blue blooms. Flowers last all summer long with a super long bloom time, making it an outstanding perennial for cut flowers.

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Planting Spring Bulbs

Iris Care

New House Landscaping

'Yarai' Japanese Iris

‘Yarai’ Japanese iris (Iris pseudata) may just about be the most elegant plant we’ve ever seen. Simply put, we were entranced by its blooms when we first laid our eyes upon it. Peachy flowers with rich purple veining and a prominent yellow eye, wow, year after year.

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Native Plant Gardening

Sun Perennials

Blue Lily

'Galaxy Blue' Lily-of-the-Nile

We are so excited to be offering ‘Galaxy Blue,’ a very unique, hard-to-find HARDY Lily of the Nile (Agapanthus sp.) that’s a perennial even in USDA zone 6. Enjoy clusters of true-blue blooms all summer long, hovering above a mound of neat, strappy leaves.

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Golden Shadows® Pagoda Dogwood

Who knew a dogwood could add such insane character and architectural interest to the shade garden? Walt Stackman, the discoverer of Golden Shadows® Pagoda Dogwood, that’s who! With bright yellow and green variegated, heart-shaped leaves and a stately horizontal habit, it’s sure to draw attention

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Shrubs For Landscaping

'Aphrodite' Sweetshrub

One look and you will fall in love! ‘Aphrodite’ sweetshrub (Calycanthus hybrid) is one of those plants that, once you’ve seen it, you must have it. Big, cupped flowers in summer look like a dark red magnolia. They begin to appear in early summer and here in Michigan, continue to bloom all summer long

Juke Box® Pyracomeles

Juke Box® Pyracomeles is the ideal alternative to boxwood – especially in hot climates! This handsome evergreen naturally grows as a tidy mound of neat, glossy green leaves for that classic touch in your landscape. Grow as a low-maintenance no-prune shrub or, if you prefer, trim or shape for a more formal look.

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Beyond Pink'd™ Bluebeard

While Beyond Pink’d™ may be a bluebeard (Caryopteris incana), there’s nothing blue about this spectacular shrub! Each summer, spires of pure pink flowers top this compact plant. Extra-large, glossy foliage only adds to the showy nature of this bluebeard. Producing tons of blooms each season, there will be plenty of flowers for both you and pollinators to enjoy.