SEDUMS 30% OFF

August 5, 2024 Karen Logan

SEDUMS 30% off

There are over 400 species of sedums, in the family Crassulacea. They are known for their succulent foliage and drought tolerance. Sedums are easy to grow, hardy perennials that come in a range of sizes, colors and shapes and flower beautifully. Plant them in full sun and well drained soil and they will be happy campers. Some even do fine with afternoon shade.

Sedums are terrific low maintenance plants which really stand out in late summer to fall.

Sedums grown at our on site production location

SEDUM PLANT TYPES

Creeping Sedum: Groundcover that can spread up to 3 feet. This low growing sedum usually spreads quite wide like a carpet. Many of them have little rosettes for foliage which look like flowers but are actually foliage. The Sedum major is a great example of foliage that resembles flowers.
Tall Sedum: Upright habit that can reach 2-3’ tall and wide. These taller sedums are like small shrubs. They can even work as hedges.
Trailing Sedum: Used in containers, hanging baskets or spill over rock walls.

Vineyard Gardens usually divides Sedums into the low growing, spreading type referred to as rock garden sedums and the taller more upright type many of which are in the species spectabile, which means showy.

SEDUMS AT VINEYARD GARDENS

Sedum rupestris Angelina: A rock garden spreader with yellow foliage and yellow flowers.
Sedum reflexum Blue Spruce: Great in rock gardens and have bluish gray foliage.
Sedum Steel the Show: This sedum is the perfect ground cover for a sunny garden. It has bright blue green foliage.
Sedum dasphyllum Major: A rock garden type whose foliage looks like tiny little blue flowers.
Sedum Sunsparkler Series: This series is medium size and the foliage ranges from plum purple to green with cream variegation.
We carry Dazzleberry, Plum Dazzler, Cherry Tart, Lime Zinger, Firecracker and Blue Elf.
Sedum Munstead Dark Red: A spectabile type that grows 15-18” tall with greenish foliage and dark red flowers.
Sedum Mojave Jewels Saphire: A plum colored upright sedum.
Sedum Night Light: Flower color in shades of yellow to gold. 22-26” tall; 30-36” spread.
Sedum blooms attract pollinators. Birds, butterflies and many insects love them!

Flowering yellow sedum with Butterfly Bush and Hydrangea paniculata

PERENNIALS FOR SHADE

July 12, 2024 Karen Logan

Gorgeous combination of Thalictrum ‘Elin,’ Aquilegia, Euphorbia and the leaf and seed pod of Paeonia delavayi. The glowing spikes on the right are from a bedding pocket of a pale yellow Digitalis [photo by Andrew Wiley]

PERENNIALS

FOR SHADE

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SUMMER BLOOMING PERENNIALS FOR SHADE

Even if your yard is shady, you can still have beautiful flowers and foliage! If your yard needs more sun but you don’t want to cut down trees you can limb up or thin out a few trees to let in more sun. On the other hand, If you have a very sunny garden and want to grow some of these wonderful shade perennials, plant a few small trees or large shrubs in the beds. Not only will they provide a little shade but height and size will add interest to perennial beds.

***Alchemilla***
***Anemone***
***Asarum***
***Astilbe***
***Cimicifuga***
***Clematis***
*Dicentra*
***Epimedium***
***Euphorbia***
***Ferns***
***Foxglove***
*Galium*

***Geraniums (perennial)***
*Hackonechloa*
***Heucheras***
***Hostas***
***Ligularia***
*Pachyhsandra*
*Polygonatum*
***Rodgersia***
***Sanguisorba***
***Thalictrum***
*Vinca*

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Perennials that thrive in shade often do quite well with more sun, as long as they get enough water. The reverse does not apply. Perennials that need sun often grow long and leggy in the shade. Plants that evolved in shade, usually in the understory of other plants, often have larger leaves to capture as much sun as possible. Some good examples are Rodgersias, Hostas, Astilboides and many Heucheras, like the popular Autumn Bride. These plants usually like a rich moist but well drained soil.

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Hosta

Sanguisorba ‘Lilac Squirrel’

Astilbe

Alchemilla, Lady's Mantle

Astilbe Pumila

Anenome

Clematis Boulevard Acropolis

Clematis Sweet Autumn

Ferns

Athyrium Brilliance

Osmunda regalis

Filipendula Kahome

Geranium Max Frei

Geranium Rozanne

Heuchera Dolce Cherry Truffles

Heuchera Berry Smoothie

Heuchera Primo Wild Rose

Heuchera Snow Angel

Hosta Frech Fries

Thalictrum Black Stockings

Thalictrum flavum glaucum

Euphorbia

Foamflower

DEER RESISTANT PERENNIALS FOR SHADE

Ferns, Thalictrum, Rodgersia, Bleeding Hearts and Heucheras are all good choices for summer blooming shade if deer are a problem in your garden. Astilbes can add color to shade beds with their plumed flowers available in many colors and sizes. Many Heucheras also called Coral Bells, can add color with their foliage which comes in reds, bronzes, deep purples and green. The Heucheras will bloom for 3-4 weeks in summer and their foliage will last all summer. Everblooming Bleeding Hearts start blooming in early summer and continues blooming until late summer. Unlike it’s cousin, Dicentra spectabilis, only blooms in spring and goes dormant in summer. It will thrive in partial shade and spread and is also deer resistant.

PERENNIALS GROUNDCOVERS FOR SHADE

Plant ground covers and fill up the spaces with plants instead of mulch! Perennial groundcovers thrive and spread in partial shade. Pachysandra is the most shade tolerant. Vinca minor, Asarum and Epimedium are all good choices as well.

Perennial Geraniums and Campanulas will bloom in partial shade. Geranium Rozanne is our best selling Geranium. Geranium sanguineum Album, with white flowers and Geranium cantabrigiense Karmina, with pink flowers and fabulous fall color, are also great plants. The peach leaved Campanula persicifolia comes in blue and in white, both tall and short. The Takion series is the more compact one. We also carry Campanula poscharskyana, Campanula portenschlagiana Blue magic and Campanula rotundifolia, all shorter wider plants that can handle more sun and thrive in walls and cracks in walks. This always indicates they don’t need rich soil. New this year is Campanula cocchlearifolia in both white and Blue. We grew these from seed which was seeded in June of 23

pollinator month

national wildlife federation

PERENNIAL GROUNDCOVERS

June 28, 2024 Karen Logan

Virginia Bluebells [photo by keith kurman]

PERENNIAL

GROUNDCOVERS

Low-growing, ground-hugging perennial plants are the best low-maintenance ground coverings. Groundcovers bring color, textural interest, plant food/shelter for insects and a great replacement for mulch. They can even be an alternative to lawns. Native groundcovers require no fertilizer and only supplemental watering. There are evergreen groundcovers that cover throughout the winter and help with erosion control. Some groundcovers thrive under canopy of shade others do well in full sun.

WOOD SPURGE (Euphorbia Robbiae): A deer-resistant evergreen groundcover that is spread stoloniferously. A vigorous spreader, blooming in spring on 18” tall stalks. They prefer a little afternoon shade.
PERSICARIA: A taller groundcover with late season flowers, spanning four months from July to October. A vigorous, stoloniferous spreader. We have available Alba, Amethyst Summer and Fat Domino.
SWEET WOODRUFF (Galium odoratum): Sweet Woodruff is a lovely plant that will spread like a groundcover in your garden. It has small white flowers in spring through early summer. It’s vigorous but not aggressive and can coexist nicely with bulbs that will come right up through it. They spread stoloniferously by sending out stolons or side shoots just beneath the soil surface. An ideal ground cover around shrubs and/or as a border accent in woodland gardens. It thrives in rich garden soil, in part to full shade.
HYPERICUMS CALCYNUM (St. John’s Wort): A ground cover with large yellow flowers. It can take partial shade but likes a little afternoon shade. With this groundcover more sun equals more flowers! Hypericums calcynum spreads stoloniferously (through underground stems). If it likes the spot, it will spread vigorously. A pollinator magnet!
PACHYSANDRA: We carry the Japanese spurge, pachysandra terminalis. Our favorite is the native one, Pachysandra procumbens. Pachysandra is considered an evergreen groundcover.
VINCA: We carry Vinca minor Bowles, with the early summer blooming blue flowers and the white flowering Vinca minor. We also carry Illumination, a vinca cultivar with yellow variegated foliage and a blue flower.
EPIMEDIUM, BARRENWORT: A less common groundcover that thrives in shade. This year we have Sunny and Share, Ellen Willmot, Pink Champagne, Red Beauty and Nanum.
FERNS: Ferns can spread nicely like ground covers such as Matteuca struthiopteris (the Ostrich fern), Dennstaedtia punctiloba (Hay Scented Fern) and Onoclea sensibilis. Dennstaedtia punctiloba and Onoclea sensibilis are both hard to find. We don’t have either in stock right now.
GEUM: The native Geum is a good ground cover. Geum triflorum has beautiful seed pods.
THYME: Creeping and wooly thymes are ground covers we like to recommend for sun. Creeping thyme comes in white flowers (albiflorus), red flowers (coccineus) or pink chintz with pink flowers. We also carry creeping lemon and Elfin thyme.
LAURENTIA fluviatilis ‘BLUE STAR CREEPER’ and PRATIA: Two other interesting plants that spread like ground covers.

Wood Anenome Vestal

Sweet Wooodruff

Sweet Woodruff and French Lavender

Virginia Bluebells

Fern

Epimedium new growth

Epimedium x Domino

Viinca, white flower

Pachysandra

Bearberry (native)

Myrtle Spurge

Brunnera macrophylla

Wild Strawberry (native)

Veronica Speedwell

Mayapple

Gingers bloom in early spring. The flowers are hidden beneath the foliage, rarely seen and are pollinated by ants! They are grown for their foliage which spreads and in certain species is evergreen, like the europeum.

EUROPEAN GINGER (Asarum europeum): a spreading perennial ground cover with shiny rounded leaves.

In my opinion there isn’t a prettier flower than a Blue Bell. They spread and form large clumps with beautiful blue flowers in spring. They don’t bloom all summer so it’s a good idea to plant in combination with a later emerging and blooming perennial. The later blooming perennial will fill in the space nicely when the Virginia Blue Bells are past their bloom and dormant until the following spring.

MERTENSIA virginica ‘VIRGINIA BLUEBELLS’: They do best with a little afternoon shade.

Try planting ground covers at the base of your shrubs instead of mulching. Ground covers are very effective at keeping weeds out!

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SUCCESSION GARDENING

Succession Gardening is a new concept in groundcovers where one plant replaces another one that is gone by in the same area. These ‘groundcovers’ may not spread stoloniferously but they will cover the ground where another plant has passed.

Alchemilla, Perennial Geraniums, Hostas, Euphorbia, Lupine, Rodgersia, Cimicifuga, Aruncus, ornamental rhubarb (Rheum), Bronze Fennel, (Foeniculum vulgare), Sanguisorba , Aconitum, Foxgloves and Thalictrum, can all be used as plants that emerge late and will cover up earlier blooming plants. They will grow up, over and fill in the space when early bloomers and cool weather annuals finish blooming and go dormant, like Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica)or Bleeding heart (Dicentra spectabilis).
Enjoy the bulbs in spring and then cover up their foliage with Ladies Mantle(Alchemilla mollis) or Geranium sanguineum album.
Hostas are late to emerge and are also often planted in areas where you have early bloomers that don’t last all summer, like Trilliums, Shooting Stars(Dodecatheons) or bulbs like Crocus or Chionodoxa.
It may take larger plants such as Thalictrum to cover up larger bulb foliage like daffodils or Fall crocus (Colchicum). Even Cammasia foliage can be hidden away after it’s done blooming! The Thalictrum will come right through the messy bulb foliage and cover it right up. You don’t even have to cut it back.

This is an old concept that is being perfected at Great Dixter House and Gardens in England, where Andrew did an internship. This concept also serves to increase the biodiversity of the garden.

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Geranium 'Cranesbill'

Foxglove Apricot

Foxgloves

Lupine

Lady's Mantle

Hosta

Thalictrum

Cimicifuga Brunette

native groundcovers

for beauty & biodiversity

ecological gardening

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[PLANT PROFILE] ROSES

May 23, 2024 Karen Logan

ROSES

With all the beautiful varieties out there, how do you choose which rose fits your landscape?

Vineyard Gardens can help you choose the perfect rose for your desired location! Here is a breakdown of the types of roses and a sampling of what we carry.

David Austin Roses photo by keith kurman

ROSE VARIETIES

CLIMBING ROSES
Climbing roses work great on fences or a trellis. You can train your rose to climb in any direction that you choose by tying it in that direction.
David Austin Climbing Roses we carry:
New Dawn Roses: One of the most popular roses that climbs is the New Dawn Rose. It is a pale pink climber that is very popular on the white fences in Edgartown. We have large 9 gal trellised New Dawns for $149.95 and 20 gal for $239.95
Tess of the D’Urbervilles: A compact climbing rose with Crimson red blooms. A medium Old Rose fragrance
Bathsheba: A climbing rose with apricot flowers. Myrrh fragrance.
Zephirine Drouhin: A climbing rose with deep rose pink flowers. A strong fruity fragrance.

Climbing New Dawn Rose (David Austin Roses)

SHRUB ROSES:
Knock Out Roses: Have you ever heard of a Knock Out Rose? They have a traditional rose bloom. They are great repeat bloomers and tend to bloom longer than most other rose bushes! They hold a mounded shape if pruned correctly but they DO NOT climb. We have the double pink knockout, the red knockout and the double red knock out for $49.96.
Rosa palustris Marsh: Swamp Rose is a native multi-branched perennial shrub with extremely fragrant pink blooms. The rose hip fruit is red and fleshy. Birds love the seeds inside.
Julia Child Rose: Pale yellow flowers with licorice clove scent
Seafoam Rose: Creamy white blooms with a light fragrance.
Blanc Double de Coubert: Intensely fragrant pure white blooms.

David Austin shrub Roses we carry:
** DAVID AUSTIN ROSES: These are large shrub roses known for their double flowers and fragrant blooms. Plus they are disease resistance! We sell them for $54.95.
Vanessa Bell: Pale yellow flowers with a fragrance is similar to green tea. It forms a bushy, upright shrub. 4’ x 3’
Desdemona: White with pinkish hue blooms. Old Rose fragrance with hints of almond blossom, cucumber and lemon zest.
Gertrude Jekyll: Large shrub with bright pink blooms. Old Rose fragrance.
Olivia Rose: Medium shrub with mid pink flowers and fruity fragrance.
The Fairy: Small shrub with light pink flowers and mild fragrance.

GROUND COVER ROSES
Ground Cover Roses are great for border planting or erosion control. They will add color to any full sun area. They are best planted in the front of the garden as they stay low and sprawl!
ROSA RUGOSA
Our naturalized beach rose. The most drought tolerant rose I have ever come across. We have 3 gal pink and 1 gal, 3 gal and 10 gal alba or white.
MINIATURE ROSES
Do you want a rose bush but don’t have the garden space? We have brought in a few different varieties of dwarf roses to give you the opportunity to grow these great cut flowers in containers!

ROSE CARE

Roses love full sun, well drained soil & manure!

Apply a fertilizer now. The recommended fertilizer would be Plant-tone.

Looking for something different? We have just touched the surface on rose varieties. To learn more come visit us at the nursery and we will surely find the perfect fit for your property!

[PLANT PROFILE] FILIPENDULA

July 11, 2023 Karen Logan

FILIPENDULA

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Filipendula is a native perennial to the northeast. It is a great foliage plant that is valued for both its leaves and its flowers. Most filipendulas grow in average, medium to wet, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade.

Filipendula ‘Kahome’ (front) & Filipendula ‘Queen of the Prarie’ (back)

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Filipendula Varieties

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**Filipendula rubra Venusta Magnifica ‘Queen of the Prarie’**

Astilbe-like, wide panicles of tiny, fragrant, pale pink flowers that bloom in early to mid summer.

USES:

Borders (rear), cottage gardens, native plant gardens, wild/naturalized areas, wet meadows or moist areas along streams or ponds.

This is a large plant for large gardens.
Can be spectacular, particularly when massed.
Great for naturalizing in moist meadows.
**A highlight of midsummer!**

Filipendula rubra
***Venusta Magnifica***
‘Queen of the Prarie’

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* Grows up to 8’ tall
*(usually shorter)*
* Pale Pink blooms June-
*Aug*
* Full sun to part shade
* ***Medium to wet soil***
* Native to moist soils but will
***do well in average or dry***
***soils.***

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Filipendula ‘Kahome’ (Dwarf Meadowsweet)

An upright, clump-forming perennial that typically grows only 8-12” tall and features branched, terminal, Astilbe-like panicles of tiny, fragrant, rosy pink flowers in summer.

USES:

Border fronts, cottage gardens, wild/naturalized areas, wet meadows or moist areas along streams or ponds. Dwarf size facilitates massing this plant as a ground cover.

filipendula ‘Kahome’
Meadowsweet

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* 8-12” tall
* Blooms June to July
* Full sun to part shade
* ***Medium to wet soil***

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Benefits

Attracts butterflies, pollinators and is deer resistant !

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[PLANT PROFILE] HOSTAS

July 5, 2023 Karen Logan

Hosta [illustration by karen blackerby logan]

30% OFF HOSTAS

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Hostas are a shade loving perennial with lavender or white blooms, which are popular among hummingbirds. Hostas are late to emerge in spring and partner up well with early blooming spring bulbs that will be passing by the time the Hosta emerges. Crocus, Muscari, Eranthis or Chionodoxa foliage will easily get covered by the Hosta foliage, hiding the foliage of those early spring bulbs as they die back. There are a variety of Hostas available, differing in their leaf color, shape, size, and texture. They are easy to maintain and are shade tolerate.

Hosta leaves are very beautiful from early summer through fall!

CARE

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* In spring when growth
emerges apply fertilizer
* Keep plant moist
* Place mulch around
***plant to retain moisture***
* ***Remove flower stalks***
***after bloom to***
***encourage new growth***
* In the fall, when frost
***turns the leaves brown,***
***cut back to the ground***
***and apply a little fresh***
***mulch or leaf mold over***
***the plant, like a blanket.***

DIVIDING HOSTA

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* Divide late in the
***season because the***
***leaves will get damaged***
***during the division***
***process.***
* Do not plant too deep
***after dividing. Same***
***level that it was before.***
* Add the ‘blanket’

***leaf mold or mulch***

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Texture, Shape

& Size

Hostas add a lot of dimension to your shade garden through their various shades of green, leaf sizes, textures and shapes.

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Deer do like to browse on Hosta foliage
Spray with Bobbex deer repellent

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[PLANT PROFILE] HEUCHERA

June 30, 2022 Karen Logan

HEUCHERA

(CORAL BELLS)

Heucheras are greatly appreciated as a foliage plant but they also bloom on long stems held above the foliage for 4-6 weeks every year. Heuchera sanguinea, one of the many species, is called Coral Bells because of its cerise flowers. It can be found in the warm, dry canyons of Mexico, New Mexico and Arizona. In the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States the plants grow best in shade.

Heuchera americana ‘Dales Strain’, the one we do from seed.

There are 37 species of Heuchera in the family saxifragaceae. Some of those include, Heuchera americana, Heuchera villosa, Heuchera micrantha, all native and can cross together as well.

One of our favorite cultivars is Heuchera villosa ‘Autumn Bride’. It is a native Heuchera with large green leaves and tall white flowers. It blends beautifully with other plants.
The Heuchera americana ‘Dales Strain’ is one of several we grow from seed. It makes a very nice ground cover underneath other shrubs.

Try planting ground covers instead of mulching. They are just as effective, if not more so, at keeping out the weeds!

There has been an explosion of cultivars of Heucheras in the last decade. Hybridization is common, due to the fact that the species often intergrade with one another. Heuchera crossed with tiarella produced Heucherellas. Overall, there are a multitude of hybrids between the various Heuchera species.

[PLANT PROFILE] SWEET WOODRUFF

May 11, 2022 Karen Logan

SWEET WOODRUFF

(Galium odoratum)

Sweet Woodruff is a lovely plant that will spread like a ground cover in your garden. It has small white flowers in spring through early summer. It’s vigorous but not aggressive and can coexist nicely with bulbs that will come right up through it. They spread stoloniferously by sending out stolons or side shoots just beneath the soil surface.

WHERE TO PLANT SWEET WOODRUFF

An ideal ground cover. Plant as a ground cover around shrubs.
A wonderful border accent in woodland gardens.
It thrives in rich garden soil, in part to full shade.

OTHER GROUNDCOVERS

Other ground covers that do well in shade include the more common evergreen pachysandra and Vinca minor, Periwinkle.
Pachysandra: We carry the Japanese spurge, pachysandra terminalis. Our favorite is the native one, Pachysandra procumbens.
Vinca: We carry Vinca minor Bowles, with the early summer blooming blue flowers and the white flowering Vinca minor. We also carry Illumination, a vinca cultivar with yellow variegated foliage and a blue flower.
Epimedium, barrenwort: Another less common groundcover that thrives in shade is Epimedium. Epimedium Spine Tingler is a cultivar that is available now. This year we also have Frohnleiten, Rubrum, Sulphureum, Niveum, Pink Champagne, Domino and Amber Queen, which won the RHA (Royal Horticultural Award) of Merit.
Ferns: Ferns can spread nicely like ground covers such as Matteuca struthiopteris (the Ostrich fern), Dennstaedtia punctiloba (Hay Scented Fern) and Onoclea sensibilis. Dennstaedtia punctiloba and Onoclea sensibilis are both hard to find. We don’t have either in stock right now.
Geum: The native Geum has been mentioned as a good ground cover. Geum triflorum has beautiful seed pods.
Thyme: Creeping and wooly thymes are ground covers we like to recommend for sun. Creeping thyme comes in white flowers (albiflorus), red flowers (coccineus) or pink chintz with pink flowers. We also carry creeping lemon and Elfin thyme.
Laurentia fluviatilis, Blue Star Creeper and Pratia: Two other interesting plants that spread like ground covers.
And there are plenty more!

SEDUMS 30% off

Sedums are terrific low maintenance plants which really stand out in late summer to fall.

SEDUM PLANT TYPES

SEDUMS AT VINEYARD GARDENS

Sedum blooms attract pollinators. Birds, butterflies and many insects love them!

PERENNIALS

FOR SHADE

SUMMER BLOOMING PERENNIALS FOR SHADE

DEER RESISTANT PERENNIALS FOR SHADE

PERENNIALS GROUNDCOVERS FOR SHADE

PERENNIAL

GROUNDCOVERS

Try planting ground covers at the base of your shrubs instead of mulching. Ground covers are very effective at keeping weeds out!

SUCCESSION GARDENING

This is an old concept that is being perfected at Great Dixter House and Gardens in England, where Andrew did an internship. This concept also serves to increase the biodiversity of the garden.

ROSES

ROSE VARIETIES

CLIMBING ROSES

David Austin Climbing Roses we carry:

SHRUB ROSES:

David Austin shrub Roses we carry:

GROUND COVER ROSES

ROSA RUGOSA

MINIATURE ROSES

ROSE CARE

Roses love full sun, well drained soil & manure!

Looking for something different? We have just touched the surface on rose varieties. To learn more come visit us at the nursery and we will surely find the perfect fit for your property!

FILIPENDULA

Filipendula Varieties

Filipendula rubra Venusta Magnifica ‘Queen of the Prarie’

USES:

**A highlight of midsummer!**

Filipendula ‘Kahome’ (Dwarf Meadowsweet)

USES:

Benefits

30% OFF HOSTAS

Hosta leaves are very beautiful from early summer through fall!

Texture, Shape

& Size

**Deer do like to browse on Hosta foliage**Spray with Bobbex deer repellent

HEUCHERA

(CORAL BELLS)

Try planting ground covers instead of mulching. They are just as effective, if not more so, at keeping out the weeds!

SWEET WOODRUFF

(Galium odoratum)

WHERE TO PLANT SWEET WOODRUFF

OTHER GROUNDCOVERS

And there are plenty more!

Try planting ground covers at the base of your shrubs instead of mulching. Ground covers are very effective at keeping weeds out!

**Filipendula rubra Venusta Magnifica ‘Queen of the Prarie’**

A highlight of midsummer!

Deer do like to browse on Hosta foliage
Spray with Bobbex deer repellent