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Spring Bulb Selection 2025

This is the list of flower bulbs that you can find at the nursery this spring for summer flowers. All of these bulbs are zone hardy except for the dahlias. The dahlia is the one bulb in this list that you need to dig up, properly store over winter and then plant again each spring. […]

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japanese maple selection 2025

Japanese Maple Selection 2025

Acer palmatum ‘Beni hime’ Japanese Maple A dwarf, shrubby tree with small, rounded star-shaped leaves. New growth is pinkish red with red margin and green veins. Remains both red and green through summer becoming more intensely red and purple in fall               Size: 5 x 4′ Growth rate: Slow Exposure: Part shade Zone: 5 Acer japonicum

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Buddleja

Buddleja

If you don’t already have a pollinator friendly garden started in your yard then there is no time like the present! Also known as summer lilac, Buddleja is a perfect offering for butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees! They also have a wonderful fragrance for us to enjoy. They range in size depending on your selection. If

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Rosa rose

Rosa

Each year we grow more and more excited for the arrival of roses in the Spring. The rosa bloom is a sure sign that spring is finally in the air! Roses need to be planted in plenty of sun and thankfully don’t mind our clay ridden and often sandy soil. In fact, a good rule

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Hydrangea

Hydrangea

Hydrangea is a wonderful flowering shrub to add to the garden this season! The name hydrangea comes from the Greek words “hydor” and “angos” which essentially translates to water vessel, a good name for these water lovers with their cup shaped flowers. These flowers can be presented in bouquets for different occasions around the world.

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Syringa

Lilac

Syringa When daffodils begin to emerge from their winter slumber, our noses become poised for the smell of sweet sweet Syringa, or as most of us know it, lilac. We know it won’t be long until we can enjoy their glorious flower clusters, packed with the intoxicating perfume of spring. Amidst our eager digging in

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Ribes Sanguineum

Flowering Currant

Ribes Sanguineum Have you ever been on a neighborhood stroll in the early spring and had your eye drawn to a nice pink flowering shrub? That shrub my fellow gardeners is red flowering currant! Or botanically known as, Ribes sanguineum! Say it with me, “RYE-beez san-GWIN-ee-um” now wasn’t that fun? Currants are a great shrub

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Physocarpus

Ninebark

Physocarpus Physocarpus, pronounced fye-so-car-pus or more commonly referred to as ninebark, is a perfect flowering shrub for this area. Ninebark is a summer bloomer that also bursts with fall color! It doesn’t end there either, folks. The bark of this deciduous shrub continues to provide a wonderful pop of color through the winter months. .

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Forsythia

Forsythia

Have you noticed a golden color appearing on the landscape after many months of cold winter weather? Usually sometime in March or April there is suddenly something warm and bright guiding us like a beacon of light out of winter and into spring. This, my fellow gardeners, is Forsythia! The colorful bloom is easy to

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