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The Twist-n-Shout, the latest release from the Endless Summer® Collection, is a hydrangea lovers dream come true. The first reblooming lacecap hydrangea can be in your garden next summer. A true re-bloomer that is hardy to Zone 4 and heat tolerant to Zone 9 makes this adaptable hydrangea a natural choice for your garden or outdoor focal point.

The Juniper Sea Green, 'Juniperus x pfitzeriana 'Sea Green', also known as Chinese Juniper, is an evergreen Juniper that makes a great hedge that provides winter interest. This Juniper is a compact shrub with a fountain-like, arching habit. The bright green, fine textured foliage forms a vase shaped six foot plant. The Sea Green is tolerant of many soils and weather conditions. Place this plant in well drained soil. Sea Green Junipers are used for accent plants, borders, windbreaks and screens.

Arcadia Juniper, Juniperus sabina 'Arcadia', is a popular evergreen that exhibits rich green, lacy-textured foliage and a semi-spreading growth habit. It is a grass-green selection with a mature height of one to one and a half feet, and it has good resist

Blue Star Juniper, Juniperus squamata 'Blue Star', displays a rich steel-blue foliage color that is extremely attractive on this low growing mounded plant. The starry foliage creates an excellent addition to the foundation landscape planting. Very adaptab

Hughes Juniper, Juniperus horizontalis 'Hughes', is a silvery-blue, low growing, spreading Juniper that is very popular because it adds color to the landscape planting year-round. Hughes Juniper has silvery blue foliage; distinct radial branching; holds b

Onondaga Viburnum, viburnum sargentii 'Onondaga', has young velvety foliage that is dark maroon, maturing to deep green with a purple tinge. The creamy white flat-topped flowers are 5" across with maroon centers. It produces sparse small red fruits. It makes a great screen or shrub border plant. This multistemmed shrub reaching 6 feet tall and is as wide. It requires full sun to full shade and prefers moist, well-drained soils of average fertility in full sun. It requires more watering than most viburnum. Onondaga is an excellent multi-season interest flowering shrub. This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds. Viburnum are one of the most outstanding group of shrubs for use in the landscape planting because they are hardy and resistant to serious pests.

Blue Forest Juniper, Juniperus sabina 'Blue Forest', is a distinctive groundcover-type evergreen that has very attractive silvery-blue foliage. The upright growing branches present the "look" of a miniature "blue forest" Looks great when planted above a

Maney Juniper, Juniperus chinensis 'Maneyi', is a semi-erect juniper that has an attractive blue cast to its foliage, along with gray-green berries in summer. It has a horizontal layered, irregular habit. This is one of the hardiest medium-sized evergreen

Buffalo Juniper, Juniperus sabina 'Buffalo', has soft, feathery, bright green foliage on low spreading branches that produces an interesting form, and it is an excellent groundcover plant for borders or mass plantings. Buffalo Juniper's feathery branches

Rhododendron - Roseum Elegans, Rhododendron 'Roseum Elegans', produces stunning lilac pink flowers in numerous rounded trusses on a vigorous, upright and spreading shrub. Ball-shaped truss holds about 20 flowers. It has olive green foliage and grows 5' in ten years. Rhododendrons are ornamental, acidic-soil loving broad-leaf evergreens. They grow best in partial shade. Plant in a location protected from strong winter winds. Roseum Elegans loves to be planted with pre-moistened peat moss, and well drained soil is a must! Use in mass, group or specimen for shrub borders, mixed borders, woodland gardens and shade gardens.

The Weigela Ruby Queen, 'Weigela 'Ruby Queen', a Proven Winners selection, is a sister plant to Midnight Wine and Wine and Roses and is taller than Midnight wine and shorter that wine and Roses. The foliage has the same dark purple color as its sisters. Use Ruby Queen in mixed borders or as an accent plant near doors and walkways. Place them in borders for the dark purple accent color. The pink flowers are a nice contrast to the purple foliage. Place this plant in well drained soil.

Dogwood - Cream Cracker, Cornus alba 'Cream Cracker' (PP12830), is a beautiful variegated dogwood shrub with excellent leaf spot resistance. The green leaves have a cream colored variegation on the older leaves, while the young leaves have a golden yellow margin. It displays a flat-topped cluster of small white flowers that bloom from spring until summer. Purplish-red stems are revealed in winter, which is a nice addition of color in the winter garden. Cream Cracker does well in moderate shade and is a slow grower. It prefers moist, well drained soil and tolerates moist to wet soil. Use in naturalizing moist areas or mass plantings. Attracts birds.