Buttonbush - Butterflies love them!

Cephalanthus occidentalis 

Tiny flowers stationed in a perfect globe with projecting style, like a mini disco ball!  Photo by Ross

Here's a nice shrub to know - especially if you're looking for a native plant to use in wet areas.  Buttonbush, a.k.a. Button Willow or Honey Bells, is a medium sized shrub with glossy leaves and a rather loose form. They are much like Summersweet (Clethra alnifolia) in that they are later in leafing out each spring, bloom around the same time and thrive in the same moist shady conditions. The flowers, seen here, are a big attraction to butterflies and develop into a nutlet that persists into the winter months. Great for naturalizing in low spots that are consistently moist or wet. We carry them in 3 gallon containers which make them excellent for wetland remediation. But you don't have to wait for them to show up on a list from the wetland commission...try them for any of your eco-loving customers with some wet areas of their own!

Annuals are 50% off!

Finish up your late summer 

containers at a fantastic price!

There's still a nice selection in Newtown.

(While supply lasts. Sale does not include Tropicals.)

Spotlight on Specimens

Cool bark on the Manchustriped Maple! 

Our 2.5-3" Acer tegmentosum 'Joe Witt' are generously graded (over 3" caliper!)

Looking for an unusual specimen? Ed says to take a look at Joe... 'Joe Witt' that is. One of the Snake Bark Maples, Acer tegmentosum is actually a Manchustriped Maple with some awesome green and white striped bark! Growing 20-30' it makes a nice medium-sized shade tree with year-round interest. Early to leaf out in spring, it has large 3-5 lobed, serrated, leaves that turn butter-yellow in fall. Striped bark appears light when viewed at a distance, awesome when backed by evergreens.

In its natural habitat its an understory tree, benefiting from dappled shade. Plant where it will get some protection from hot afternoon sun. The thin bark can be sensitive to winter sun scald so take some thought as to its siting. Like other understory trees, it's happiest in moist well-drained soil.

  

Take a look at this cool Snake Bark Maple in Newtown on your next visit.  

  

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Perennial HOT Picks!

Looking great and in very good supply!

Sedum kamtschaticum (Stonecrop)

Agastache 'Bolero' Nice plants are in full bloom with a delicate mauve flower that compliments the maroon-green foliage!  

Asclepias incarnata 'Ice Ballet' Pure white flowers on this cultivar of our native Swamp Milkweed. Full plants are in bloom now!

Dendranthemum 'Clara Curtis' These hardy mums are fully budded and just coming into bloom with pale rosey-pink daisy flowers.

Hemerocallis 'Barbara Mitchell' A wonderful re-blooming daylily with large peachy-pink ruffled flowers.

Weekly Special

Rudbeckia hirta Gloriosa Daisy  
 Buy 6 or more, get 10% off!

Clockwise from top left: Rubeckia hirta 'Indian Summer', Solidago 'Baby Gold', R. hirta 'Autumn Colors'

What an apt common name for these glorious plants!  Very long blooming, large flowers on stiff stems on this biennial Rudbeckia. They are best treated as annuals, so plant them in full sun wherever you need color without the worry of giving them 'enough room' for growing on. Choose from 'Indian Summer', 'Autumn Colors' (both seen here with some dwarf Goldenrod) or 'Denver Daisy' which has a black eye with a mohogany ring. Plant in large groups to make a big statement, in mixed containers or use for cut flowers. Start with 6 and I bet you'll be back for more!

Valid Sat. July 20th - Friday July 6th 

NOW!

Incoming and looking good!

A Green Hornet (Dwarf Lace Leaf Japanese Maple) heading out! There is still a wonderful selection of Lace Leafs in both yards and in all sizes! Red, burgundy, green and some variegated varieties) All will have striking fall color!

Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Cream Ball' look 'nice and neat' in their 10 gallon containers!

Liatris 'Kobold' and 'Alba'  (Blazing Star) are beautiful in their 2 gallon containers! Some are loaded with 12 and more stalks of freshly opened flowers!

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