Perennials

The perennials are still going strong, here are some that are still blooming or just looking great:



Helene Von Stein Lamb's Ear is doing very well and is available now.


Golden Moneywort (Lysimachia) is a very versatile perennial. It is a low-growing groundcover that has bright yellow leaves and darker yellow flowers. It can tolerate very wet soils and does well around ponds.


More Golden Monewort with Red Carpet Sedum on the left side and Waterperry Blue Veronica on the right.



Fireball Hardy Hibiscus has just started blooming. It has one of the biggest, reddest blooms with deep wine red maple-like foliage.



Crown Jewels Hardy Hibiscus is covered in buds. It has red-purple foliage similar to Fireball, but blooms white with a touch of pale pink and a deep red eye.


Crown Jewels Hardy Hibiscus Bloom


Another great perennial groundcover is Purple Poppy Mallow (Callirhoe involucrata). It has leaves similar to Geranium but stays very low and spreads easily. The flowers are bright pink-purple and are larger than most groundcover flowers.


We recently started carrying Blue Chip Butterfly Bush. It is a low-growing, compact, shrubby perennial with dark foliage an large clusters of bright blue-purple flowers.


Becky Daisy is a classic and looks so sweet in a mass. We have #1 pots and a crop of #2 pots that should be ready for sale in 1-2 weeks.


Angelique Yarrow is on its second round of bright red blooms. The flowers are a true red and will fade to a dusty pink as they mature.

Thank goodness for some green

We had a few warm days and the plants are starting to green up a little. This is what the Pink Drift Roses in the hoop house look like this week, even with the cold.







This is an example of rabbit damage on Burning Bush. The white spots along the stem are chew marks where new buds should be. I think the plants will still be ok, they will just take a little longer to leaf out.


This is what they should look like at this time of year, full of buds and ready to leaf out.



Finally, this is a photo of one of my favorite spring flowers....


Maples. If you look out over the tree blocks when the sun is shining, you can see the red showing up. It looks especially nice against a bright blue sky.

Snow

Here are a few photos from the nursery after the ice storm last year. I guess we have been lucky we haven't had any of this yet, but some real snow would be really nice. I know a lot of companies rely on snow removal in the winter and we are just not getting it.