John's shrub picks for 2010

Evergreen Shrubs Pricing 2011

Flowering Shrubs Pricing 2011

Vines and Ground Cover Pricing 2011

New Twist and Shout Hydrangea

Twist & Shout Hydrangea Get Ready to Twist and Shout The excitement is growing for the newest member of the Endless Summer Hydrangea Series. This is not your ordinary dancing shrub. The Piz azz your garden is craving will come alive like nothing Chubby Checker dreamed. So come on baby, twist again into the endless night with this new flowering combo. Gorgeous season long blooms will keep dancing on your garden floor. The deep green foliage will emerge crowned with beautiful lace capped flowers. Coloration is blue to pink depending on your soil acidity twist. A little aluminum sulfate can twang this thing into a pink/blue combo unmatched in a flowering shrub bouquet. Line up at Sherbondys for Twist and Shout cause the Big Box Stores didn't get invited to this dance.

Spirea Gold Mound is an old plant, but is still one of the best gold foliaged spireas. It can be brutally pruned about anytime of the year and it will come right back. Cut them all the way to the ground in the spring and you will not be disappointed. It grows 4 feet by 4 feet if left unpruned so use it on the back side of a crimson barberry spirea border and you will enjoy great color all summer. Fertilize it after pruning

Ninebark Summerwine has great crimson red foliage and is a vigorous grower. The plant grows 5-6 feet tall and gives a strong color statement. Pinkish white button like flowers adorn the plant in the spring. Use as a hedge or specimen accent plant.

Juniper Saybrook has that great gold look all year. Some junipers fade with the summer, but this one keeps its great color all year. Saybrook grows 3 feet tall and 4 to 5 feet across. Another great golden ground hugger is a plant named Mother Lode Juniper. It hugs the ground and makes bold statement in any landscape.

Cheyenne Privet is the best screening hedge I have found. It is a vigorous grower to 15 feet and spreads 4 to 5 feet. If you want a nice tight hedge that can be pruned to 4 or 5 feet or left alone, then plant Cheyenne. It was developed in Wyoming so you know it is hardy here. A pretty white fragrant flower develops in the summer.

Gro-low Sumac is growing in mass quantities in my shade garden. The deer do not like it and I love the aromatic foliage. It grows to 3 feet tall and spreads out nicely. There are no flowers on this plant but it is easily accented with hostas or impatiens. It just makes a nice eye appealing mass planting in the sun or shade garden.

Viburnum Korean Spice has a spring flower fragrance all its own. This shrub has handsome foliage and tends to be a slow grower. Korean spice was not sold for a long time because it was so difficult to propagate, but the nursery industry has a handle on the plant and it is a sure winner. It grows 5 feet tall with dark green leathery foliage and has excellent fall color with red fruit turning to black.

Hydrangea Blushing Bride has flowers that are 6 inches across with light pink blushing flowers. You will fall in love with this nice reblooming hydrangea that makes for great summer bouquets. . The shrub grows 3 to 6 feet tall.