by Becky Robert | Nov 28, 2013 | Garden Plants
Celebrate Thanksgiving with the latest garden-inspired design from Diane Mattis! Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you for supporting the efforts of the Scott Arboretum. This scan features some wonderful early winter interest plants. The dried flower heads are Hydrangea...
by Becky Robert | Sep 21, 2013 | Garden Plants
Our final Plant Sale inspired Blooms of the Season is enlivening the shade garden. Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Little Honey’ lightens up shade with unusually rich, golden yellow foliage. Shown here with the large leaves of hosta and the dainty white flowers of Euphorbia...
by Becky Robert | Sep 20, 2013 | Garden Plants, Happenings
The Scott Arboretum is awash in clematis. Over the past spring, we have increased our collection by 60%, adding over 50 new cultivars. Because of a cool, wet summer, these diminutive new additions are sprouting blooms and giving us a preview of their full potential....
by Becky Robert | Sep 19, 2013 | Garden Plants
This Blooms of the Season features three Plant Sale plants and the violet flowers of Clematis ‘Venosa Voilacea’. A true heirloom plant, ‘Venosa Voilacea’ was introduced in 1883. This beauty begins flowering mid-summer and produces varying violet and white patterned...
by Becky Robert | Sep 16, 2013 | Garden Plants
A reminder of wonderful spring blooms that can be found with the Plant Sale plant Edgeworthia chrysantha courtesy of Diane Mattis’ latest edition of Blooms of the Season. She features the pale yellow of early spring with Corylopsis parviflora and Stachyurus praecox...