Colleen's Top Picks

Bold, tropical blooms with a bush habit allow for versatility of use! This variety will be a success planted in ground, grown in small to large containers, in hanging baskets or used in mixed combinations with other sun-loving varieties.

Exposure: Full Sun

Height: 24 - 36" 

Width: 8 - 10" 

Boldly goes where no petunia has gone before…
Light years from usual! The Headliner Series may have the most distinctive blooms you’ve ever seen on this planet. Medium-vigor, mounded petunia is early flowering and features a dramatic colour range.

Exposure: Full Sun

Height: 10 - 16"

Width: 20 - 30"

Photos and Data Courtesy of Ball Horticulture- https://www.ballseed.com

FlowerFull^® Smooth Hydrangea stands out with bold blooms and sturdy upright stems that won’t flop in the wind and rain. With two-to-three times more blooms per season than other smooth hydrangeas, FlowerFull^® makes an outstanding focal point plant. Improved disease-resistance, low-maintenance and maturing at just three to four feet tall, it’s the perfect choice for small and big landscapes alike.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 3' - 4'

• Width: 4 - 5'

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of First Editions.

Bred for full sun these double flowering begonias are a great option in high-heat and sun conditions. Excellent fillers for pots and planters with a semi hanging habit.

Light Requirement: Full Sun, Part Sun

Mature Size:

• Height:   5 - 8"

• Width: 8 - 12"

Photos and Data Courtesy of Dummen Orange

A great choice to brighten up your shady areas of garden or patio! Each plant forms a symmetrical mound of dark green foliage. Within a few weeks, a profusion of double flowers creates an ever-blooming display of colour. 

Exposure: Shade, Partial Sun

Spacing: 10 - 12"

Height: 10 - 16" 

Width: 10 - 12" 

Photos and data courtesy of Ball

Precious and powerful like a Baby Dragon by Bloomin Easy, this improved Hardy Hydrangea delivers extraordinary flower power in a petite form for modern outdoor spaces. Blooms start cream and lime before igniting to a rich pink as summer fades to fall.

Light requirements: Part Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 3ft
• Spread: 3ft
  

 A great choice for rock gardens and natural-looking landscapes. The grass grows to nearly 3 feet tall and is low maintenance. The variegated foliage will turn from creamy white in summer to pink as the weather cools in fall and return to its creamy-white color again in spring as new blades grow.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Part Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 12 - 36"

• Width: 12 - 18"

Zone: 4

Photos and Data Courtesy of Ball Seed Company

Ornamental Grasses can add height, colour, and texture to flower beds and planters. In the correct conditions they can grow nearly a metre tall. They cannot handle our harsh winters.

Light Requirement: Part Sun to Sun

Flower Season: Spring, Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 30" - 36"
• Spread: 12" - 24"

 Photos and Data Courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com

The dark purple foliage compliments summertime combination containers and baskets as it arches over the edge of the containers and mingles well with other annuals.

The foliage is a nearly black-purple on top and a bright ruby on the leafs underside. 

Heat tolerant.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 8 - 12"

• Width: 12 - 18"

Photo courtesy of PAC Elsner / Westhoff – www.pac-elsner.com / www.westflowers.de

Dianthus grows bushy and fills your garden with colour and thick foliage. If you have a planter or flowerbed that's looking a little flat, dianthus is a wonderful addition to add depth and texture. A great pot filler!

Exposure: Full Sun

Height: 16 - 20" 

Width: 12 - 14" 

The Colourblaze series by Proven Winners is a quality coleus that makes a beautiful addition in both garden and planters. Available in a wide range of colours. Low maintenance and can be planted in either sun or shade.

Light Requirement: Sun or Shade

Flower Season: Spring, Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 2' - 3'4"
• Spread: 18" - 3'

Photos and Data Courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com

The Echinacea Sunseeker Series offers vibrant, sun-loving flowers in pink and purple, attracting pollinators and boosting wellness. Perfect for sunny gardens, these low-maintenance, drought-tolerant plants add beauty to any space.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Height: 18 - 24"

Width: 18 - 24"

A compact, upright cedar with lush green foliage, Baby Bear maintains a consistent shape without requiring pruning. Formerly known as Skinner's Dwarf Cedar.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 6' - 8'

• Width: 3' - 4'

Zone: 2

Photos courtesy of Jeffries Nursery

Eye-catching, bicolor, 6 to 8-in. (15 to 20-cm) flowers adorn the well-branched plants. This big-bloomed rudbeckia creates awesome landscapes and containers.

DENVER DAISY Rudbeckia is perfectly suited for hot, sunny areas with minimal moisture. They quickly develop in large bright blooms and are low maintenance 

Exposure: Full Sun

Height: 20 - 28" 

Width: 15 - 20"

This anemone grows 24 to 32 inches tall with single, light violet-pink flowers. It’s an extremely robust and vigorous plant that is best suited to naturalizing. This is a Creeping, Mounded, Thicket-forming perennial, meaning it can overwhelm other plants and may become a nuisance in a bed.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 24 - 32"

• Width: 6 -12"

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Jeffries Nursery

Abundant, small double petunia-like flowers all season on cascading growth; low maintenance.  The soft yellow flowers are a dream.

Light Requirement: Part Sun to Sun

Flower Season: Spring, Summer, Fall

Mature Size:

• Height: 6" - 10"
• Spread: 12" - 24"

Photos and Data Courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com

We love plants with interesting architecture, and this selection of our native Eastern arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis) takes skinny to the max with its sword-like silhouette. Use it to make an exclamation point in garden designs, or fit it into a very narrow bed. Certain to be iconic plant in well-designed landscapes everywhere, from the Shire to Shreveport.

Light Requirement: Partial Sun to Full Sun 

Mature Size:

• Height: 20'

• Width: 18"

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Proven Winners

This compact, early and continuous blooming rose is reminiscent of warm sunlight set against beautiful dark green glossy foliage. Gardeners will love its one-metre by one-metre size, low-maintenance and disease tolerance features.

Light Requirement: Full Sun 

Mature Size:

• Height: 3'

• Width: 3'

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Jeffries Nursery

'Komodo Dragon' Hosta forms a large mound, with dark blue-green leaves and shows a ruffled edge. In midsummer, 4 foot tall flowering stalks emerge bearing light lavender coloured, funnel shaped bloom.

Light Requirement: Full Shade to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 36"

• Width: 24 - 84" 

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa. 

Photos and Data Courtesy of Ball Seed

Coppery-orange foliage on well-branched plants.  Sun to shade tolerant and great in both landscapes and containers.

Light Requirement: Sun or Shade

Flower Season: Spring, Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 2' - 3'4"
• Spread: 18" - 2'

Photos and Data Courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com

Light Requirement: Full Shade to Partial Shade

Height: 32 - 36" 

Width: 36 - 40" 

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa

Beautiful, special mixed colors with unique color patterning, Very uniform in flowering and growth, compact. Excellent product for retail and landscape, Perfect for growing high density, packs, premium pots and larger containers.

Exposure: Full Sun

Height: 6 - 8" (15 - 20cm)

Width: 8 - 10" (20 - 25cm)

Photos and Data Courtesy of Ball Horticulture- https://www.ballseed.com