Fast growing. Height to 20′. Width to 4-5′. Likes afternoon shade. Reddish, exfoliating bark adds additional interest.
Fast growing. Height 12-15′. Width 3-4′. Likes afternoon shade. Emerald green color holds well throughout winter. Densely compact, columnar form with twigs arranged in vertical planes.
Height 2’. Width 3’. Full Sun to part shade. Dark red foliage, which it features throughout the summer. Leaves change to orange, red and yellow in the fall months, and hold their color in full sun.
Height 3’-4’. Width 4’. This is a knockout in the landscape, with its bright yellow small leaves. Dense, small deciduous shrub that doesn’t fruit or flower too heavily.
Height 3’-4’. Width 2’. Full sun to part shade. Similar in shape to Helmond Pillar Barberry, but with bright golden foliage and red new growth. Burn-resistant yellow foliage turns bright orange-red in fall. Distinctive columnar habit adds an elegant vertical line to gardens.
Height 9’. Width 2’. Full sun to part shade. A narrow, upright boxwood, this plant is excellent as a hedge or vertical accent where space is minimal. It is evergreen and densely branched.
Height 4’-5’. Width 2’-3’. A vigorous evergreen shrub with bright green foliage that retains good color throughout winter. The upright, naturally cone-shaped habit makes it an excellent candidate for topiary forms, and a striking container or formal garden accent. Use in mass plantings to create either a free-form or a sculpted hedge.
Boxwood – Green Velvet Height 3’-4’. Width 3’-4’. A full-bodied boxwood well-suited for dense, low hedges. Foliage retains its rich green color throughout winter. Develops a vigorous, rounded form if not pruned. A wonderful evergreen that will provide year-round, cold-hardy color and structure in the garden.
Height 3’-4’. Width 3’-4’. An evergreen shrub with small, glossy, rich-green leaves. It grows naturally into a mound up to 5 feet tall and 3 or 4 feet across, but it is easily clipped and is mostly seen in gardens as a clipped hedge.
Height 6’-8’. Width 2’. It is freely branching from the base with ascending branches that bear gracefully arching fern-like leaves that are glossy green and to 5 inches long. In the fall they develop an attractive yellow fall color.
Height 12’-15’. Width 3’-4’. Dense glossy green foliage from the base creates an excellent screen in narrow spaces. Berries turn from cream to pink to red and then black. Yellow fall color.
Height 5’-6’. Width 6’-8’. Deciduous, rounded shrub with green, clean-looking foliage throughout the year that turns an exciting brilliant red in the fall. Orange-red seed coat is noticeable after leaf drop in late fall. Branches have corky wings on them.
Height 2’-3’. Width 2’-3’. This miniature butterfly bush has all the appeal in a smaller package! Flowers from mid summer to frost. Pruning is generally not needed, but may be trimmed in spring. Fragrant flowers. Deer resistant. Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
Weeping branches display striking pink stems and buds, surrounded by foliage mottled with white, green and pink highlights. The brightly colored stems provide excellent winter interest. This graceful tree/shrub is a delightful garden accent. Easily maintained at a smaller size with regular pruning. Deciduous.
Height 5’-6’. Width 5’-6’. Prized for its colorful stems, variegated foliage, and compact size, this dwarf dogwood has brilliant red winter stems and showy, light green leaves with creamy white margins, but at only two-thirds the size of many of its species. Use to provide multi-season interest in shrub borders, mass plantings, or as a …
Height 2’-3’. Width 2’-3’. A dwarf, rounded shrub with dull, deep red older stems and brighter red younger stems. White flower clusters and green foliage that turns reddish-purple in the fall.
Height 4’-6’. Width 3’-5’. Dense, lush, dark green foliage. Foliage is evergreen in warm winter climates. Formal appearance, without pruning.
Height 6’. Width 3’. Evergreen, dense, upright shrub. Leaves are green, with a creamy white to silvery white margin.
Height 4’-5’. Width 2’. Upright, compact habit. Dense, dramatic gold striping accents every leaf of this bright green leaves from crown to tip. Burgundy inflorescences turn beige with age providing an interesting winter accent.
Height 2’-3’. Width 2’-3’. A compact, densely mounded shrub with leaves to the ground. Excellent for a low formal border hedge. Green foliage turns yellow in fall. Yellow flowers are sterile.
Height 2’-3’. Width 6’-8’. A low, wide spreading, deciduous shrub or ground cover. Small yellow flowers arrive in early spring. Bright red and orange foliage in the fall.
Hydrangea – Annabelle Height 5’-6’. Width 6’-7’. Stunning pure white flowers, much larger than others of the species – up to 12 inches across! Blooms appear in late spring to summer, often continuing into fall. Strong, straight stems hold the huge flower heads up well, despite heavy rain. This full, lush shrub needs …
Height 2’-3’. Width 3’-4’. Dwarf panicle hydrangea, Bobo is engulfed by large white flowers in the summer. Flowers are held upright on strong stems and continue to grow and lengthen as they bloom. Blooms that cover plant to the ground, age to pink.
Hydrangea – Endless Summer Height 5’. Width 4’. Deciduous shrub well known for its ability to flower on old and new growth. Shades from blue to pink, depending on the acidity of the soil. Acidic soil-blue blooms and alkaline soil-pinker blooms.
Hydrangea – Little Lime Height 3’-5’. Width 3’-5’. Sibling of Limelight, Little Lime is a petite rounded shrub with lime green blooms opening on strong stems with no drooping. Excellent as a mass bold planting. Soft green flowers turn pink and burgundy in fall. Excellent for cutting.
Hydrangea – Vanilla Strawberry Height 6’-7’. Width 4’-5’. Enormous flower heads are a blend of vanilla and strawberry. The movement of color begins with vanilla-white becoming pink, ending with a strawberry-red as night temperatures drop. Upright growing, then cascade later in the season. Excellent for fresh or dried flower arrangements.
Height 8”-12”. Width 6’-10’. ‘Blue Chip’ has a particularly good blue color. If on a standard, this plant will eventually mound to 12″ or more before cascading down to the ground.
Juniper – Blue Star Height 2’. Width 3’-4’. Attractive sparkling blue foliage on dense, spreading branches. Creates a colorful contrast to purple and green foliage plants. Use in a rock garden or as a low border plant. Ideal for mass plantings in minimal-care landscapes.
Height 3’-5’. Width 2’-3’. A cool season clumping grass with narrow leaves that are dwarfed by flower stems which rise 2-4′ above the foliage. One of the earliest grasses to appear in the spring. One of the first grasses to show signs of life in the spring. Showy feathery plumes. Wheat colored seed heads are …
Height 5’-6’. Width 4’-6’. Broadleaf, evergreen shrub, commonly used for hedging. Lustrous medium to dark green leaves alternate on stems. White fragrant flowers appear in summer.
Height 4’. Width 4-6’. A compact shrub with glossy, dark green foliage and white blooms in spring. Makes an excellent low hedge.
Lilac – Miss Kim Height 4’-7’. Width 5’-7’. Fragrant lavender flowers appear in mid to late spring. Green foliage turns to an attractive burgundy color before falling to the ground in autumn.
Height 8’-15’. Width 6’-12’. A large, upright deciduous shrub with fragrant clusters of lilac colored blooms in mid-spring.
Height 8’-15’. Width 6’-12’. A magnificent spring blooming shrub featuring intensely fragrant white flowers in upright panicles; upright, multi-stemmed habit, very hardy.
Mugo Pine Slow growing. Height 3’- 4’. Width 5’-8’. Zone 3. Full Sun. Mounding, hardy wind proof conifer. Long needle-like leaves in rich, dark green bunches. Produces solitary or small clusters of reddish brown cones in summer. Dense, upright habit of growth. Excellent for form, texture and color in the garden. Prune off …
Height 4’-6’. Width 4’-6’. This is a deciduous compact rounded shrub. It’s leaves are bright yellow in spring and early summer and turn to greenish yellow as the season progresses.
Ninebark – Little Devil Height 3’-4’. Width 3’-4’. A compact upright shrub with burgundy leaves; features small pinkish-white spirea-like flowers followed by subtle reddish fruit, and interesting peeling papery bark; extremely tough and durable.
Height 5’-8’. Width 5’-8’. Has dark foliage and a compact growing habit. The attractive wine colored leaves will turn a pale yellow in fall. Pretty clusters of white flowers with a blush of pink will cover the shrub in early summer.
Height 10’-15’. Width 10’-15’. Evergreen shrub with an upright, slightly rounded habit. Leaves are glossy dark green above with bright bronzy-red new growth. White lacy flower clusters appear in early spring.
Potentilla Height 3’. Width 3’. A fine textured, small shrub covered with white flowers. Deciduous, dense, rounded habit. Foliage is green and turns to yellow-brown in the fall.
Height 8’. Width 6’. A fast growing, deciduous shrub with bright yellow foliage. Blooms with showy clusters of fragrant white flowers in late spring. Colors best in full sun.
Height 4’-5’. Width 4’-5’. Dwarf, compact, deciduous shrub. Rich green foliage with panicles of lightly scented white flowers if not pruned. Responds well to shearing making it and excellent choice as a low, formal hedge.
Height 4’-7’. Width 4’-7’. Gray-green, narrow-leaved, multi-branched, vigorous-but-not-invasive, deciduous shrub. Features an abundant bloom of yellow flowers from July to October.
Height 3’-5’. Width 3’-5’. Upright, grayish white stems and lobed, silvery gray leaves. In late summer and autumn Russian sage produces small, tubular lavender flowers. Flowering for two or three months.
Sandcherry Height 6’-10’. Width 5’-8’. Upright, deciduous shrub with reddish purple foliage that retains its color throughout the summer. Fragrant, solitary, white flowers with pink tints appear in spring after foliage emerges. Flowers may produce a sparse amount of black-ish purple fruits in July that birds enjoy.
Height 6’-8’. Width 2’-3’. Narrow columnar form with dark green foliage that stays year round. Small purple berries appear in fall with a male pollenizer nearby. Makes an elegant formal statement in the landscape.
Height 3’-4’. Width 4’-5’. Dense, rounded deciduous shrub with flat-headed, bright pink flower clusters in late spring. Leaves are bronzy reddish when young, maturing to blue-green, then changing to reddish again in the fall.
Height 2’-3’. Width 2’-3’. Blue Mist provides garden color from midsummer through fall. Also called blue beard and blue spirea, the plant earns its names from the fragrant, purple-blue flower spikes that adorn it for most of the summer season and that attract bees and butterflies.
Spirea – Magic Carpet Height 2’-3’. Width 2’-3’. Deciduous, rounded shrub with vibrant foliage. In the spring, it emerges orangish-red to reddish purple, then matures to a yellow golden color. In the fall it changes back to a colorful display of oranges and reds. Pink flowers cover the plant in late spring.
Height 2’-3’. Width 2’-3’. Dense, compact rounded mound of birch-like rounded leaves. Dark blue-green foliage is a beautiful background to white flowers that appear in late spring, early summer. Orange, red and purple fall color.
Height 2’-3’. Width 2’-3’. This compact, colorful small shrub is a staff favorite here at Nature Hills. With “glowing” color all season long, this shrub is very attractive and brings butterflies and hummingbirds to your landscape.The color show begins in early spring when vibrant, sunny-yellow, new foliage emerges. It will gradually turn lime-green.
Height 5’-6’. Width 4’-5’. Flowers are white and mature to clusters of bright red berries that are edible. New leaves are red tinged, with a brilliant fall foliage of deep red.
Weigela – Wine and Roses Height 4’-5’. Width 4’-6’. Abundant reddish pink blooms in April to June, and sporadically on new growth through October. Foliage is glossy green and burgundy-purple, turning very dark purple in the fall.
Height 4’. Width 6’. A dense, evergreen shrub with lustrous, dark green foliage that bronzes in the winter and has attractive red berries.
Height 10-12’. Width 3’-4’. A narrow, columnar plant with upright branches adorned with lustrous, dark green foliage. This evergreen, slow-grower will make an excellent hedge.
Height 2’-3’. Width 1’-2’. Striped foliage of creamy-white against dark green sword-shaped leaves. Spires of fragrant snow white blooms emerge in the summer.