Garden Gate Plant Shop Update
by Alda Krinsman, Plant Shop Manager
The Garden Gate Plant Shop has been busy with shoppers since we opened in April, but we still have a great selection of perennials and woody plants to add to your garden now and this fall. There is no time like the present to think about any changes and additions you would like to make to your garden.
Early fall is a great time to plant evergreen shrubs so they can become established before winter. We have a great selection of both fall/winter and winter/spring blooming Camellias, including favorites like ‘Yuletide’ and ‘Jerry Hill.’ If you are looking for lower growing evergreen shrubs for the shade garden, we have a compact sweet box (Sarcococca) cultivar called ‘Sweet & Lo’™ which makes a great ground cover and has fragrant flowers. We also have a cultivar of Leucothoe axillaris called ‘ReJoyce’ and a compact variegated Leucothoe cultivar called ‘Paisley Pup’™.
We also have a large selection of deciduous shrubs, including: dwarf Fothergilla (Fothergilla gardenia); winterberry holly (Ilex verticillata) cultivars ‘Berry Heavy Red,’ ‘Berry Poppins,’ and ‘Mr. Poppins’; ‘Miss Muffin’ arrowwood Viburnum (Viburnum dentatum); and ‘Winterthur’ and ‘Brandywine’ cultivars of possumhaw Viburnum (Viburnum Nudum); ‘Ginger Wine’ ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius); Arctic Fire® red twig dogwood (Cornus sericea); and several cultivars of black chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa). For those seeking witch hazels, we will have a nice selection of witch hazel hybrids, most of which bloom in later winter or early spring. For the Hydrangea lovers, we will have two compact cultivars of Oakleaf Hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia) and new cultivars of smooth hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens), as well as a new cultivar of panicle Hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata) called ‘Limelight Prime’™.
If you are looking for flowering vines, we will also have one-gallon pots of three native flowering vines: cross vine (Bignonia capreolata), coral honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens), and Carolina jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens). All are sure to bloom next spring and summer.
So, if you are not finished planting (or even if you think you are), come check us out when you are in the neighborhood!
