Nursery

A very popular Juniper variety with a low spreading habit and attractive, soft green foliage. A compact version of Arcadia, which has proved hardy enough to withstand harsh winters (up to -40C).

Great groundcover for small areas and a wonderful addition to any landscape.

Light Requirement: Full Sun 

Mature Size:

• Height: 10"

• Width: 10'

Zone: 3

Aster 'Alert" is a compact mounding selection of our native New England aster.  During spring and summer, plants are clothed in gray-green leaves.  In fall foliage disappears beneath a starry mantle of crimson daisies. Plants are tough and adaptable to moist sunny sites in a variety of garden situations. This cultivar is known for its compact habit, disease resistance and eye-popping flower display.

Light Requirement: Full to Part Sun

Flowering Season:  Late Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 12"
  
• Spread: 16"
  

Zone: 3a

'Guacamole' Hosta is medium sized with rich coloured foliage, growing in a mound with broad leaves that are striated in texture. The 'Guacamole' Hosta is a relative of the 'Fragrant Bouquet' Hosta, and blooms in midsummer.

Light Requirement: Full hade to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 12 - 24"

• Width: 40 - 50"
  

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa. 

Cupids Dart (catananche) is a favorite of flower arrangers, the papery, bright blue dandelion-shaped blossoms are excellent for cutting, fresh or dried. An easy to grow perennial flower. These blue daisies look great in a flowerbed, and offer striking contrast to other flowers in the bed.

Once established, Cupid's Dart plants will grow for years with little attention. They are drought tolerant,  good in dried flower arrangements, and don't mind a little crowding. 

Light Requirement: Full to Part Sun

Flowering Season: All Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 24"
  
• Spread: 24"
  

Zone: 3a

Photo courtesy of Jeffries Nursery

 Light Requirement: Full Sun

Flowering Season: Early Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 12"
  
• Spread: 18"
  

Zone: 3

Photo courtesy of Ball Seed

Little Miss Sunshine is a dwarf goldenrod. This bright golden yellow bloomer makes an excellent border plant in a sunny area, as its spread is wider than it's height you can expect a dense mini hedge.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 12"
• Width: 12"

Zone 2

Photos courtesy of Bellwyck Horticolor

Creeping types are low-growing with a vine-like habit and make a great ground cover or in between stepping stones

Once established flowers bloom in late spring and early summer. They are also deer and rabbit resistant. 

 *Susceptible to root rot in wet, soggy soil. 

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 1"

• Width: 12"
• Zone  3

photo courtesy of Ball Seeds

A Proven Winner Rose Mallow, Berry Awesome is a very robust perennial that fills a lot of space in the garden. Find a place in your landscape where it will not be crowded by other plants, because it will quickly out compete your other perennials for space within a year or two. 

Do not prune it to keep it smaller, as this will remove the flower buds. Tender Zone 4 perennial so it will need heavy mulch before frost!

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

Deep Pink Colour

Zone 4

This bold new Iseli® introduction unites the genetics of two outstanding parents, ‘Montgomery’ and  ‘Hoopsi’.  Monty® has a classic conical Christmas tree shape with a strong leader as well as long, thin, bluest of blue needles. The small size and compact habit with shimmering frosty blue foliage makes this tree a versatile specimen for today’s small  landscapes.

Picea pungens Monty® (‘INMoHoop’ PP34,883)

A stunning pyramidal accent tree, featuring clusters of white flowers in spring followed by orange-red berries into winter; shiny gray bark, attractive compound leaves turn orange and red in fall; needs well-drained soil, resistant to fireblight.

The Black Hawk foliage is darker than the Russian.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 30'

• Width: 15'

Zone: 2

Photo and data courtesy of Jeffries Nurseries

Veitch’s Blue Echinops, also known as small globe thistle, is a standout in full-sun gardens. Its showy, true blue, golf ball-shaped flowers add a unique touch. This hardy, low-maintenance plant thrives in dry soils and low rainfall areas, becoming drought-tolerant once mature.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 24 - 36"

• Width: 18 - 24"

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

Burgundy Red

Zone 3b

Full sun

Image Courtesy of Clearview Hort.

‘Bowl of Beauty’ peony features 8-inch anemone-shaped blooms with rose-pink petals and a creamy yellow center. Strong, self-supporting stems, lush dark green foliage, delightful fragrance, and deer resistance make it perfect for borders, mixed beds, or cut flowers. Reaching 24–36 inches tall, this long-lived perennial provides striking, low-maintenance spring color for years.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Height: 24 - 36"

Width: 24 - 30"

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

A virtually hassle-free perennial, offering three months of vanilla-scented, white flowers in clean clusters from midsummer to early fall. Deadheading the flowers will stimulate another bloom cycle about a month after the first one. The flowers, which are heavily laden with nectar and pollen, are particularly attractive to hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, and other beneficial insects.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 18 - 24"

• Width: 18 - 24"

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

Use this large blue hosta to add color to your shade garden! Attractive, heart-shaped, thick and heavily corrugated blue leaves have wavy margins. Pale lavender flowers.

Upright shrub makes an excellent hedge and produces bluish-black berries in summer. Good red fall colour. Most often used in mass plantings or hedges. Pruning should be done in early spring before shrub leafs out.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 6 - 8'
• Width: 4 - 5'

Zone: 2

Photos courtesy of Jeffries Nursery

Brilliant flowers complement neat, attractive foliage. Wonderful as ground cover, in the rock garden, along walkways or cascading over stone walls. Easy to maintain. Thrives in hot, dry locations. Also called orange stonecrop.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Flowering Season: Late Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 6"
  
• Spread: 12"

Zone: 3A

Photos courtesy of Bellwyck Horticolor

Sunburst Double Coreopsis form a mound of leathery green leaves, bearing many upright stems of dbl. daisy type flowers for weeks starting in early summer. Removing faded flowers regularly will encourage blooming to continue into the fall.

Tolerant of hot, humid summer climates. Attractive to butterflies.

Light Requirement: Full to Part Sun

Flowering Season: Early Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 24"
  
• Spread: 24"
  

Zone: 3b

Easily grown in average, dry to medium moisture, well-drained soils in part shade to full shade. Best in medium moisture soils in part shade or to be planted in containers. Once established, it tolerates drought.

Spreads by stem fragments, rooting at the nodes, creeping stems, and seed. It can be somewhat invasive in optimum growing conditions.

If plants become leggy, shear back to 4-6 inches or to new fresh basal leaves in order to shape plants and to promote new foliage growth.

 Light Requirement: Part Sun

Flowering Season: Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 12"
  
• Spread: 24"
  

Zone: 4

Clustered Bell flower is upright and sturdy and makes for a good edging for any garden, Campanula are also known as 'Bell flowers' because of their distinct, upturned bell-shaped flowers. Can be invasive, so clip spent blooms before they go to seed.

 Light Requirement: Full to Part Sun

Flowering Season: Early Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 12"
  
• Spread: 18"
  

Zone: 3a

A great choice for first time gardeners as it is low maintenance and extremely drought tolerant. A sturdy addition to any northern climate garden. 

The variety gets is name from it's cushion-like, dome-shaped habit. In late spring, the pale green leaves are topped with bright chrome-yellow bracts. 

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Flowering Season: Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 16"
  
• Spread: 18"
  

Zone: 3b

Photos courtesy of Jeffries Nurseries

photo courtesy of  Ball Seed

The painted daisy grows as a perennial flowering plant. It closely resembles a classic daisy plant with fern-like leaves and a circle of petals surrounding a dense round centre. They thrive in six to eight hours of full sun and well-draining, moderately moist soil.

Mixed shades of red, pink, or white on ferny green foliage.

Photos courtesy of Jeffries Nurseries 

Garden Astilbe are a popular choice for shady gardens, where they perform well if given a rich, moist soil and regular watering. This selection has long, feathery plumes of deep lavender-mauve flowers, over a mound of elegant, lacy green leaves. Also thrives in tubs, or mixed containers. Excellent for cutting.

Fertilize in April and June.  Seed heads may be removed, or left on the plant for winter interest.

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa.

Mid-pink, spicy scented flowers bloom almost constantly on neat mounds of grass-green foliage. Excellent for edging, rock gardens and attracts butterflies. Propagation is prohibited. 

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Height: 10 - 12

Width: 20"

Zone: 3

Photo courtesy of Ball Horticultural Company

Strawberry Sundae^® Panicle Hydrangea is a perfect small hedge and wonderful in mass plantings with flowers that emerge creamy white in midsummer and change to pink as night temperatures cool down. With its compact habit, this hydrangea adds striking flowers to small spaces and is nicely proportioned fit underneath a windowsill. The strawberry pink color lasts well into fall, extending your hydrangea season until frost, and the blooms are excellent for fresh cut and dried flower arrangements.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Part Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 5'

• Width: 4'

Zone: 3

Photos courtesy of First Editions