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Below are our Top 7 Picks for Memorial Day 

This collection features 7 of our favorite plants that are a great addition to your garden this time of year. As the warm days of spring transition into the vibrant season of summer, a carefully curated collection of these seven plants can enhance your garden's beauty and functionality, not only featured together but separately. This season, consider incorporating blossoming Hydrangeas, A beautiful Europa Japanese Astilbe plant, Fragrant Jasmine, Pink Muhly Grass, A lush Giant Leopard Plant, or stunning Gardenias. With bold and diverse colors, the attraction to pollinators like bees and butterflies, adding texture and visual interest, these plants are some that we think are essential for a thriving garden ecosystem.

 

1. Frost Proof Gardenia | GARDENIA JASMINOIDES 'FROST PROOF'

Frost Proof Gardenia is an upright evergreen shrub noted for its thick, glossy dark green leaves and extremely fragrant semi-double white flowers. These flowers either bloom throughout the year if the temperature doesn’t dip below 60 degrees F or in late spring to early summer.  Prefers partial sun, acidic, and moist well-drained soils.  Tolerates more direct sun than other gardenias, and flower buds resist frost damage.

 

2. Europa Japanese Astilbe | ASTILBE JAPONICA 'EUROPA'

Europa Japanese Astilbe is a clumping herbaceous perennial with deeply divided dark green fern-like foliage.  Feathery tufts of light pink panicles bloom above the leaves in late spring into summer.  Flowers best in part shade and rich, moist soils.  Astilbe are deer and rabbit resistant.

 

3. Proven Winners® Limelight® Hydrangea | HYDRANGEA PANICULATA 'LIMELIGHT'

Limelight Hydrangea is a fast-growing upright deciduous shrub noted for its dense cone-shaped panicles and mixed yellow and green fall color.  These large 8” panicles bloom white, mature to lime-green, and then acquire rose-pink tones before eventually fading to beige as its leaves turn.  The flowers bloom all summer into fall and are very attractive to butterflies.  Best bloom in partial sun and rich, moist well-drained soils. 

 

4. Confederate Jasmine, Star Jasmine | TRACHELOSPERMUM JASMINOIDES

Confederate Jasmine is a hardy evergreen perennial vine that can be used for climbing or a groundcover.  The thick blanket of glossy foliage emerges purple-bronze and matures to dark green before turning bronze-red in fall.  Fragrant white flowers that age to cream bloom from late spring into summer. Grows best with partial sun and well-drained soils.  Drought tolerant once established.

To learn more about the Confederate Jasmine read this blog post.

 

5. Giant Leopard Plant | FARFUGIUM JAPONICUM 'GIGANTEUM'

Giant Leopard Plant, also know as a 'Tractor Seat Plant', is a bold herbaceous perennial with massive glossy round dark green leaves that can be as much as 18" across on tall stems.  Yellow daisy-like flowers bloom on stalks in late summer into fall.  Best performance in part shade rich, moist, and well-drained soil.  Drought tolerant.

 

6. First Editions® Strawberry Sundae® Hydrangea | HYDRANGEA PANICULATA 'RENSUN' PP 25,438

Strawberry Sundae Hydrangea is a compact deciduous shrub and flowers both on old and new wood.  The heavy panicles arch the branches as they bloom white and mature pink, then red and persist until frost attracting butterflies.  While it can tolerate full sun, its best blooms are in part sun and rich, moist well-drained acidic soils.

 

7. Pink Muhly Grass | MUHLENBERGIA CAPILLARIS

Pink Muhly Grass is a delicate looking ornamental grass that forms dense clumps of upright grass-like foliage.  The narrow dark green foliage is topped with fluffy pink plumes bloom above the foliage in late summer and fall and tan seed heads persist into winter.  Best color in full sun and moist well-drained soil.  

Muhlenbergia capillaris acts as a host plant for several moth and butterfly species, as well as provides habitat for traveling butterflies.