Some of our favorite plants for the season!
Spotlight Plants
Scentara Double Blue Lilac
Scentara Double Blue Lilac is a standout spring-blooming shrub known for its intensely fragrant, double-petaled blooms in soft lavender-blue tones. This hybrid lilac not only offers beautiful early-season color but also fills the garden with that classic lilac scent that signals spring has truly arrived. A member of the hyacinthiflora lilac group, Scentara Double Blue blooms earlier than common lilacs and produces full, double flowers that give it a more lush and layered appearance. The soft bluish-purple blossoms are packed with petals and look almost like miniature roses, making it a beautiful choice for borders, foundations, and cutting gardens. Native to hybrid parentage with strong genetics, this lilac was bred for cold hardiness and disease resistance, making it ideal for Southeastern Wisconsin’s climate. It thrives in USDA zones 2–8, which means it handles our long winters with...
Peony Shawnee Chief-Red
€œShawnee Chief € is a vigorous growing peony that produces a long-lasting cut flower that blooms in the early summer. By choosing a nice mixture of early, midseason, and late blooming varieties, you can have beautiful blooms in your garden for up to 6 weeks (about 1...
Whitespire Birch
When browsing a decorating magazine or viewing a picture of a majestic fireplace, you have possibly seen a well-stacked group of bold white logs with lovely grey crevasses in them. Or your neighbor has this great-looking 3 or 4 stemmed white-barked tree with crisp,...
Rainier Sweet Cherry
The Rainier Sweet Cherry has some of the most succulent Rainier cherries you have ever tasted. The super-sweet taste is just incredible crossing with the popular Black Tartarian. This is an outstanding cherry tree that produced large, delicious yellow fruit with dark...
Sonic Bloom Red Weigela
Who says you can't have your cake and eat it, too?? The Sonic Bloom Red Weigela is a gardener's dream. Lush, velvety-red flowers beginning to bloom in mid-spring will continue reblooming without needing to be deadheaded, that is until the first frost. Sunny to...
My Monet Weigela
Although most flowering shrubs need a full 5-6 hours of sun, this compact, little beauty is happiest growing in part sun. The My Monet Weigela takes on a mounded appearance reaching 12-18 € both in height and width. The colorful-green and creamy-white foliage...
Spilled Wine Weigela
In need of dramatic contrast against a light-colored background? Look no further. The Spilled Wine Weigela offers just that and so much more. Although smaller in stature with sprawling branches reaching out to 3' wide by only 2' high, this shrub demands attention....