shrubs

Summer Wine Ninebark is an nice choice for adding color to your landscape.  The Ninebark’s burgundy leaves contrast well with Boxwood and other evergreens.  This shrub needs a little bit more room in the landscape but is still easy to maintain and it is deer resistant making it an excellent choice to plant in Deertopia…

Part of the spectacular varieties of flowering magnolias, this larger growing shrub bursts with pink flowers in early spring.  You can also train this shrub into a small growing tree by “limbing up” (removing lower branches) to create a pronounced canopy. <back to flowering shrub library

Ann Magnolia flowers early in the spring with big beautiful pink flowers.  As the snow melts you will notice big fuzzy flower buds about to burst.  This plant is great for ushering in spring.  I like to plant this larger growing shrub surrounded with spring flowering bulbs around the base.  You can create a focal…

A good pick for woodland gardens drooping Laurel aka Leucothoe ( pronounced: le-coath-away)  works well in shady locations with well drained slightly acidic soils.  White flowers in the spring and maroon Autumn foliage, Leucothoe is a Native shrub in New York and grows throughout the Appalachian Mountain Range as far south as Georgia. <back to…

This amazing native shrub is perfect for sunny to shady locations in your garden and landscape.  Fiery new growth burns bright in early spring. Later pinkish flowers adorn the branches of this hardy shrub.  A good pick for upstate NY and the greater Hudson Valley Region. <back to shrub library