Proven Winners - Shrubs

The Incrediball Hydrangea is an improved version of the classic 'Annabelle' with even bigger blooms! This shrub is easy to grow and with its strong, sturdy stems.

Plant in a sunny location for best blooms, place mulch to reduce water loss, and prune for optimal growth.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 5'

• Width: 5'

Zone: 3

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A dwarf version of the popular 'Limelight', Little Lime® delivers the same vibrant lime-green blooms in a compact, easy-to-grow form. Flowers start fresh green, gradually turning soft pink as summer fades into fall. Its sturdy stems hold blooms upright, making it great for garden beds, borders, or containers. A reliable bloomer that brings bold colour and structure to sunny landscapes.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Part Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 3-5'
• Width: 3-5'

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Don't settle for lilacs that bloom just once a year - get Bloomerang^® lilac and enjoy months of blooms instead of just weeks.

Bloomerang Purple lilac is the original reblooming lilac. It blooms in spring along with other lilacs, takes a brief rest to put on new growth, then blooms again from mid-summer through fall. A bit smaller than other lilacs, Bloomerang also has a nice, rounded shape that looks great anywhere you plant it in the landscape. Star-like flowers are a beautiful shade of classic lilac purple and are sweetly scented.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 6'

• Width: 6'

Zone: 3

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Small refined dark maroon foliage with a dense branching habit provides an attractive addition to the landscape, Pinkish-white spring blooms contrasts nicely with foliage. Low maintenance plant, but does benefit from pruning in late fall and early spring. 

Can be pruned in all seasons, makes a great hedge.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 3' - 4'

• Width: 3' - 4'

Zone: 3

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This dwarf panicle hydrangea will turn heads! Bobo^® hydrangea is engulfed by large white flowers in summer. The flowers are held upright on strong stems, and continue to grow and lengthen as they bloom. No flopping, unlike some panicle hydrangeas! As blooms age, they turn pink. 

Light Requirement: Part Sun to Full Sun

Height: 30 -36"

Width: 36 - 48"

Zone: 3

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A feast for the eyes from spring through autumn!

Winecraft Black^® is the first Proven Winners smokebush, so you know it must be special. In spring, round leaves emerge rich purple but as summer's heat comes on, they turn a deep near-black tone and finally light up in an array of reds and oranges in fall. In early summer, large, soft panicles of bloom appear that become the misty "smoke" that makes this such a popular landscape plant. Unlike other smokebush, it naturally has a rounded, dwarf habit which means that finally, every landscape has room for this unique plant.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 10'

• Width: 8'

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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

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Light Requirement: Full Sun to part Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 2' - 3'

• Width: 2' - 3'

Zone: 4a

Cesky Gold^® dwarf birch is an exceptionally cold-tolerant dwarf birch. New growth appears in sunset hues of yellow, red, and orange, and cheerful chartreuse foliage carries the plant through the entire season. Allow to grow naturally, where its attractive, fan-like habit can be enjoyed, or prune it into a shape, like a low hedge.

Light Requirement: Partial Sun to Full Sun

Height: 24 - 48"

Width: 18 - 26"

Zone: 2

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Spirea is an old landscape staple, so what could one do that could possible earn it superlatives? Well, seedless and non-invasive would be a start; non-stop blooming would be even better. And these are exactly what makes Double Play Doozie spirea the most beautiful, innovative, ground-breaking spirea bush to ever grace a landscape. Like all of the Double Play^® spirea series, the show begins in early spring, when the foliage emerges in blazing brilliant color - in this case, deep red. By late spring, the flowers begin to emerge, a bright, glowing purple-red that truly sings in the landscape. And as summer comes on, the show doesn't stop: it just keeps flowering, and flowering, and flowering. Because it produces no seeds, it puts all of its energy into flowering! It does it all with the same good looks, drought tolerance, and deer resistance that you expect from a spirea plant, too. 

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Height: 24 - 36"

Width: 24 - 36"

Zone: 3

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Bold, bright, and beautiful: that's Winecraft Gold^™ smokebush. Round, waxy leaves emerge a sunny orange, soon take on a golden hue, then mature to a cheerful chartreuse for the season. In early summer, cloud-like green flower clusters cover the plant, and these turn into the pink "smoke" plumes that earn the plant its name. Naturally grows with a dense, oval shape that's ideal for adding a spot of bright color to partially shaded or sunny areas. 

Light Requirement: Part Sun to Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 6'

• Width: 6'

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Mockorange is a delightfully old-fashioned plant that has unfortunately fallen out of favor, mostly due to its enormous size. Illuminati Tower^® mockorange stands to breathe new life into this classic favorite, though, combining a landscape-friendly size with a totally unique space-saving habit. It naturally grows in a very narrow, upright way, each sturdy stem a stack of rugged, deep green leaves that looks like a four-sided tower. In late spring/early summer, hundreds of fragrant white flowers emerge from between the leaves for striking show that truly celebrates the season. 

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 5' - 6'

• Width: 3' - 4'

Zone: 4

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Enjoy all the glory of a burning bush without any worry about invasiveness. Fire Ball Seedless^™ euonymus is crimson in fall and seedless all year long. It is the only sterile, non-invasive burning bush on the market! Its mature size is very manageable, and like its contemporary fellows, it responds well to a trim. It is best used as a specimen or hedge.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Height: 60 - 84"

Width: 60 - 84"

Zone: 4

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Years’ worth of work have led to this dream come true! While you may have seen other orange potentillas, none of them hold their color through the summer like Happy Face^® Orange. Its little blooms are a cheerful creamsicle hue and they actually stay that way. They arrive in incredible quantities all throughout the growing season. No matter the growing conditions. Potentilla gets a sad wrap as a parking lot plant, but that’s just because it is so dang reliable. No worries about deer, drought, or salt. It’s ready to feed pollinators wherever you plant it, as edging, groundcover, or as a mass planting in the border.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Shade

Height: 18 - 30"

Width: 24 - 36"

Zone: 3

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This new and interesting evergreen breaks up the monotony of the landscape. With an attractive tear drop shape, Cheer Drops^® easily transforms any garden from drab to darling. No shaping is needed as it maintains its fun shape naturally. Fresh green foliage remains bright year-round.

Light Requirement: Partial Sun to Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 8 - 18'

• Width: 6 - 8'

Zone: 3

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Stately color in two extremes. The first is a refreshing bright green and cream, with hints of pale pink on the margins. The second is in fall when the whole plant erupts into a fabulous burgundy and hot pink duo. Even the stems are burgundy! If you’ve ever seen a tri-color beech, Sgt. Pepper^™ dogwood is a lot like that, but in a much easier to use form. With its large size, it makes a great anchor for the garden. You can position it at the back of the garden to work as a foundation plant, breaking up the straight lines of a building with its rounded form. It would also make an incredible hedge or specimen plant.

Light Requirement: Part Shade to Sun 

Mature Size:

• Height: 6'

• Width: 8'

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Don't settle for lilacs that bloom just once a year - get Bloomerang^® lilac and enjoy months of blooms instead of just weeks.

Bloomerang Ballet lilac is a reblooming lilac. It blooms in spring along with other lilacs, takes a brief rest to put on new growth, then blooms again from mid-summer through fall. A bit smaller than other lilacs, Bloomerang also has a nice, rounded shape that looks great anywhere you plant it in the landscape. Star-like flowers are a beautiful shade of classic lilac purple and are sweetly scented.

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 6'

• Width: 6'

Zone: 3

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Light Requirement: Full Sun

Height: 3 - 5'

Width: 3 - 5'

Zone: 3

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