Plants of 2007 Plant Sale
Besides offering an unusual selection of great perennials, trees, shrubs, and houseplants, this year’s feature is a wide variety of hydrangeas. Click here to learn more about the Hydrangeas featured at the sale. Click here to read about some of our favorite plants available at the sale.
Outstanding Hydrangeas
Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris-The climbing hydrangea self-attaches to walls, fences, tree trunks, and buildings by means of rootlets along the stem. In July the plant is covered in sweetly fragrant, white, lace-cap flower heads. The fall color is a nice butter yellow. At the 2007 Sale we will be offering ‘Firefly’ a variegated introduction by local horticulturist, Dan Benarcik, and ‘Skylands Giant’.
Hydrangea arborescens-The smooth hydrangea is native to the eastern United States. In the wild it grows in deep shade, but in the garden it thrives in both shade and sun. In the summer it is covered with beautiful white, mop-head flowers. The buds emerge lime-green and throughout the summer transition to pure white. In the fall the ornamental heads turn tawny-brown. ‘Hayes Starburst’ a double-flowering selection, will be the featured smooth hydrangea at the Plant Sale.
Hydrangea aspera-This Chinese species differs from most hydrangeas in that the leaves have a very fuzzy surface. The flowers are comprised of many fertile flowers that have a slight lavender color. Unlike many hydrangeas, Hydrangea aspera tolerates drought conditions. The featured sale plant is ‘Rocklon’.
Hydrangea macrophylla-The bigleaf hydrangea is hugely popular for its summer display in gardens all over the world. Characterized by both lace-cap and mop-head or hortensia cultivars there is great diversity from dwarves to relatively large shrubs and colors ranging from white to blue and deep purple. The newest introductions even bloom on new wood, thus can be pruned hard and still have ample flowering that same year. Two exciting new Japanese cultivars will be offered, ‘Izu no hana’ and ‘Jogasaki’. We are also offering the stunning ‘Tokyo Delight’ with large white lace-cap flowers with smokey blue centers, as well as ‘Claudie’, ‘Shamrock’, and ‘Time After Time’.
Hydrangea paniculata-One of the finest of the old-fashioned shrubs is the panicle hydrangea. This upright shrub is covered in creamy white cones of flowers that sit atop the foliage in the summer. ‘Limelight’ has emerging lime-green flowers which fade to white, and Quick Fire ™ blooms early and matures to a pinkish-red.
Hydrangea quercifolia-Nothing but compliments can be heard abo
ut the oakleaf hydrangea. This native hydrangea has beautiful cone-shaped flower heads in the summer, wine-red fall color, and cinnamon flaking stems in the winter. We are excited to offer ‘Little Honey’ which is a diminutive form with butter-yellow summer foliage, Snow Queen® which is one of our favorite shrubs at the Arboretum, and Snowflake™ which has stunning, drooping panicles of double flowers.
Hydrangea serrata-This is the refined and more dimunitive version of the bigleaf hydrangea. For those who love the old fashioned hydrangea look, but don’t have the space we suggest trying ‘Kiyosumi’, ‘Midoriboshi temari’, or ‘Miyama yae murasaki’.
Some of Our Other Favorite Plants Available at the Sale
Woodies
Acer pseudosieboldianum
Broussonetia papyrifera 'Golden Shadow'
Calycanthus 'Venus'
Cercis canadensis 'Hearts of Gold'
Cedrus deodara 'Electric Blue'
Clematis 'Rooguchi'
Daphniphyllum humile
Edgeworthia chrysantha
Emmenopterys henryi
Gelsemium sempervirens 'Margarita'
Halesia diptera var. magniflora
Ilex [Red Beauty®] ='Rutzan'
Leptodermis oblonga
Liriodendron tulipifera 'Little Volunteer'
Magnolia grandiflora 'Kay Paris'
Nandina domestica [Sienna Sunrise™] = 'Monfar'
Poliothyrsis sinensis
Stachyurus praecox 'Issai'
Stewartia rostrata
Yucca aloifolia 'Variegata'
Perennials
Amsonia ' Seaford Skies'
Aruncus 'Misty Lace'
Athyrium niponicum var. pictum 'Pewter Lace'
Baptisia [Twilite Prairieblues™] = 'Twilite'
Begonia grandis 'Heron's Pirouette'
Carex siderosticha 'Lemon Zest'
Coreopsis 'Snowberry'
Corydalis 'Canary Feathers'
Disporopsis pernyi 'Shina no tsuki'
Disporum cantoniense 'Night Heron'
Echinacea purpurea 'Tiki Torch'
Hakonechloa macra ' Beni kaze'
Helleborus x ericsmithii 'Pink Beauty'
Hibiscus dasycalyx
Musa basjoo
Sanicula caerulescens
Saruma henryi
Syneilesis aconitifolia
Tricyrtis 'Kohaku'