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'Marshall's #2' is a naturally upright form of boxwood with medium-green leaves. It is more dense and has a smaller leaf than 'Marshall's #1.' Marshall varieties were found in Maryland and currently have little information available.

• Fast growth rate, 3 - 4" per year
• Takes well to pruning
• Deer resistant

'Newport Blue' is an evergreen shrub with dark green foliage. New growth emerges blue-green. This boxwood is suitable for traditional hedging and specimen planting.

• Tolerates heavy shade
• Takes well to pruning
• Natural columar form
• Deer resistant

This is an improved, fast-growing form of 'Winter Gem'. Its glossy evergreen foliage is attractive year-round, and it has excellent hardiness. This variety's more upright habit makes it great for hedging. Faster growth means it will fill in more quickly than other varieties.  Use it for edging or a low hedge in formal gardens.

• Evergreen.
• Deer resistant.
• Fast growing.
• Salt tolerant
• Used in landscapes and containers

‘Winter Gem’ is a round-shaped cultivar that is relatively vigorous. Great plant to fill space quickly. It has very vigorous growth habit that can get rather wiry but it can be controlled with a good pair of hedge shears. It tolerates a wide range of sites and uses. New foliage emerges a lime-green color and transitions to a deep, glossy green. It has a tendency to bronze when exposed to direct winter sun but the bronzing will quickly disappear in spring as temperatures rise and as new growth emerges.

• Evergreen
• Nice foundation plant or medium-sized hedge
• Deer resistant

‘Wintergreen’ is a vigorous, winter-hardy cultivar that is ideal when a medium to large foundation plant is desired. It is a great choice when you want to fill a space quickly. It is great for use in medium-sized hedges and is very tolerant of pruning or shearing. If left unpruned, a vigorous plant can become wiry but the plant will respond very well to hedge shears. It has a tendency to bronze when exposed to direct winter sun but the bronzing will quickly disappear as temperatures rise in spring and as new growth emerges.

• Evergreen
• Cold tolerant
• Deer resistant

** There are many cultivars in the nursery industry with the name ‘Wintergreen’. Some are very similar to this one and others are very different. When matching plants, be sure to check plant attributes and projected size before purchasing.

• Evergreen
• Holds its dark green color throughout winter, no bronzing
• Very compact and dense

Fine Line rhamnus has been a best-seller for years - and it just got a whole lot better! Introducing Fine Line Improved, a unique update that is lush and full, from tip to toe. This makes it an even better as a space-saving hedge, and gives it even more presence as a specimen. However you like to use this versatile-yet-exotic-looking, Fine Line Improved will do it even better than the original. Like the original, it sets far fewer fruits than weedy buckthorns, and among the fruits that do develop, only a very low percentage are capable of germination.

• Deciduous
• Drought tolerant, once established
• Great for a wide range of uses including narrow hedges or screens, accent specimen, patio planters, and combination planters. Good in perennial and shrub borders. Can be used to frame doors and pathways.
• Deer resistant

'Black Knight' is a butterfly bush cultivar which features almost black flowers. It is a deciduous shrub with an arching, spreading habit which typically grows 6-8' tall if not cut back in late winter and 4-5' tall if cut back. Features spike-like 4-10" long terminal clusters of very dark purple flowers which bloom from June to September and sometimes to first frost. Flowers are fragrant.

• Deciduous
• Attracts pollinators
• Tolerates rabbit, clay soil

This dwarf butterfly bush easily fits into smaller gardens, and blooms all summer long! If you have limited space, and want to attract butterflies and hummingbirds, this is the perfect plant. This delightfully charming shrub produces a profusion of lavender-blue flowers from early summer all the way until the first hard frost! 

• Deciduous
• Non-invasive and waterwise shrub for mass plantings, or accenting sunny beds and borders
• Deer resistant

A dwarf size showing blue flowers at a much earlier bloom time than other varieties, ensuring more color, beauty, and butterflies. Foliage has a silvery hue that looks right at home among flowering perennials and shrubs.

• Deciduous
• Drought tolerant, once established
• Perfect in the landscape as a border, groundcover, mass or container planting
• Attracts pollinators
• Deer resistant

This dwarf, wide spreading addition to the Lo & Behold series has pure white flowers which jump against a backdrop of silvery foliage. Not only seedless, it's also continuous blooming and requires no deadheading. Its neat, low spreading habit makes it the perfect ground covering plant.

• A good groundcover for mass plantings, perennial gardens, mixed borders
• Heat tolerant and drought tolerant, once established
• Attracts pollinators
• Deer resistant

Lo & Behold® 'Pink Micro Chip' is the smallest member yet of this series of award-winning dwarf butterfly bush. It's a tiny and tidy mound of orchid-pink flower spikes, with a cute pincushion-like habit that makes it perfect for including in perennial gardens. Earlier blooming than other butterfly bush, which means you get non stop color from early summer clear through frost. 

• Non-invasive
• Perfect for containers, as a groundcover, or in front of a larger shrub border
• Heat and drought tolerant, once established
• Attracts pollinators
• Deer and rabbit resistant

A low, wide-spreading charmer of a butterfly bush, Lo & Behold 'Purple Haze' has uniquely horizontal branches that produce an abundance of fragrant dark purple-blue flowers. The flowers radiate outward and downward like a pinwheel, and are continuous from mid summer to frost. It makes a great mass planting or foundation planting, or can be incorporated into perennial gardens and mixed borders.

• Good groundcover for mass plantings, perennial gardens, mixed borders
• Heat and drought tolerant, once established
• Attracts pollinators
• Deer resistant

• Fragrant flowers are a rich sangria- red
• Blooms in summer
• Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
• Great for wildlife gardens or as a shrub border
• Deer resistant and drought tolerant

• Deciduous, ornamental shrub with a semi-compact habit
• Drought and heat tolerant
• Great accent plant
• Vibrant white blooms – a summer-long re-bloomer
• Attracts bees, butterflies, hummingbirds