Planters' Choice

Weekly Picks! Friday, November 20, 2015

Hollywood Juniper (Juniperus chinensis 'Torulosa')

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Open Monday - Wednesday 8 am to 4:30 pm

CLOSED Thursday and Friday

Winter Hours: Mon - Fri. 8 am - 4:30 pm

A Simple Solution for the Landscape

Why Not Junipers?

Hollywood Junipers 8-10'

When deciding on an evergreen for a full sun site, Juniper is one that often gets overlooked. They're just the ticket for a low-maintenance, medium-sized evergreen complete with interesting berries, which attracts birds and tolerates a wide range of conditions including:

heat and drought once established
air pollution
clay soils
rocky, shallow soil
salt & shoreline conditions
deer
cold (Zone 4)

'Kaizuka' (aka Hollywood or Torulosa) has unique twisting branches on an irregular, upright form which gives it cool texture. This variety is a female form so there are plenty of berries for foraging birds. It will grow 15-30' high x 10-15' wide - big enough to use as a screen and distinctive enough as a focal point. Native to China, Japan and the Himalayas.

Other upright Junipers include 'Hetzi Columnaris', Iowa', 'Mountbatten' and 'Robusta Green'. Quantities are limited so please call for availability.

Fall Specials

Take advantage of some great savings while we still have availability!

Cleveland Select Pears (Pyrus calleryana)

50% Off

Ilex crenata container sizes

Japanese Holly

40% Off B&B Sizes

Carpinus betulus 4"	European Hornbeam
Cedrus atlantica	Blue Atlas Cedar
Fruiting trees (excludes Apples)	Fruit Trees
Ilex varieties (excludes I. opaca)	Holly
Juniper varieties	Juniper
Picea omorika	Serbian Spruce
Picea pungens 'Fastigiate', 'Fat Albert', 'Hoopsii'	Colorado Spruce
Pinus flexilis	Limber Pine
Prunus laurocerasus 'Schipkaensis'	Schipp Laurel (Cherry Laurel)

25% Off B&B Sizes

Cornus florida 'Cherokee Brave', 'Cherokee Chief', rubra	Flowering Dogwood
Fagus	Beech
Hamamelis	Witchhazel
Parrotia persica	Persian Ironwood
Picea orientalis 10/12', 12/14'	Oriental Spruce
Prunus cerasifera 'Krauter Vesuvius'	Purple Leaf Plum
Prunus subhirtella 'Pendula'	Pink Weeping Cherry
Pyrus calleryana 'Cleveland Select'	Flowering Pear
Ulmus americana	American Elm

20% Off

Spring Flowering Bulbs (in-stock only)

Camassia, Chionodoxa, Crocus, Hyacinth, Narcissus, Tulips and more

Focus on Bulbs

Spanish Bluebells

Spanish Bluebells (Hyacinthoides hispanica) are an underused spring bulb that should be planted more often. Basal, strap-like foliage forms neat clumps in spring and summer. In April to May, 8-12" tall flowering stems are topped with loose clusters of bell-shaped flowers in pastel blue, pink and white.

They are sweet enough planted in small groups in the perennial garden but will make more of an impact when planted in a mass, just like what the Brooklyn Botanic Garden did when they installed 45,000 in the Bluebell Wood. If that's the look you're going for, you don't have to plant them all at once - just start with a box or two!

(Boxes of 150 available in Newtown!) Plant them pointed end up, about 4" deep and 4-5" apart. They need a well-drained site in full sun to partial shade.

Fond of pastel blends? Check out the Mixed Anemones!

NOW!

We still have B&B deciduous flowering trees, assorted sizes of evergreen screening and many container shrubs, both flowering and evergreen, available for your fall plantings!

Fast growing, evergreen and native - fresh dug Eastern White Pine 5/6' & 6/7'. Plus a selection of larger Norway Spruce, Green Giant Arborvitae 14-16', Canadian Hemlock, Oriental Spruce 10-12', 12-14', Serbian Spruce and more.

There are plenty of container conifers in all sizes for your fall plantings. It's not too late to get these in the ground, just plant with a product like M-Roots, top-dress with mulch and pay attention to watering. It's just what the bleak winter landscape needs to warm it up!

There are some nice Crabapples all fruited up in the yard including this 'Red Jewel'. Snow-white flowers in spring and firm, cherry red fruit that lasts through the winter and into spring.

Have a Wonderful Weekend!

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Japanese Snowbell is a beautiful fine textured specimen tree. Its main feature is the summer display of white bell-shaped flowers that hang down below the foliage on long stems. The dark green leaves turn yellow with a hint of red in late fall. Once they drop, the small capsuled drupes seen here, hang on like fall ornaments. It has a rounded habit growing 20-30' high and wide. Native of China, Japan and Korea. Zone (5) 6

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