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The Thundercloud Plum, Prunus cerasifera ‘Thundercloud’, displays fragrant, single pink flowers that bloom in spring before foliage emerges. It seldom bears fruit, but has beautiful, glossy, deep purple foliage throughout the growing season. Its fast growth rate and upright to upright-spreading nature quickly forms a 15 to 25-foot-tall, dense silhouette. Its dense crown forms into a round vase shape. Thundercloud is a highly decorative tree with beautiful foliage, so it’ll make an excellent tree for Japanese gardens, or just about anywhere you would like an extravagant, showy specimen tree. It prefers sandy or clay soils, and its water needs range from normal to moist. Enjoy this low maintenance tree that also tolerates deer and rabbits.

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The Thornless Cockspur Hawthorn, Crataegus crus-galli ‘inermis’, is a small, thornless tree with beautiful, single white flowers, abundant red fruit and silver-gray bark. The fruits are a bright red and are produced in masses, which provides excellent color in late summer and early fall. The glossy green foliage turns a showy orange in fall. This tree has a rounded growth habit and is very disease resistant. No major insect problems and resistance to rust diseases. The bark is exfoliates in thin gray strips, and provides winter interest. This tree provides a distinct horizontal accent to the landscape.

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Blueberry Legacy, Vaccinium ‘Legacy’, is vigorous, upright and is especially suited for the Southern U.S. The plants are high yielding and very consistent year after year. ‘Legacy’ has medium-sized fruit with a very superior flavor and sweetness. Rated as the highest flavor blueberry overall. Blueberries are extremely nutritious and have a high vitamin content. Blueberry Legacy is a new, very attractive landscape plant and a heavy producer of delicious fruit. The fruit ripens in August, and extends your blueberry season. The brilliant fall foliage is bright orange and stays on the bush into the winter The plants are resistant to stem blight disease. Fruit size is consistently medium to mostly large and very attractive. The fruit is great eaten fresh with fine flavor, firmness and appearance. It also exhibits a long shelf life for storage.

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The Decorative Dahlia Snow Country, ‘Dahlia’, a spring planted tuberous root, has velvety white flowers. This Dahlia produces masses of large blooms from July until frost. Dahlia’s and are ideal for cut flowers, borders, containers, and massings. They tend to bloom for long periods, and few plants offer as much variety and showy flowers as the Dahlia. They do best in well drained, humus rich soils.

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The Calibrachoa Million Bells Trailing Blue, ‘Calibrachoa hybrids’, is a fantastic annual hybrid from Proven Winners and is indispensable for use in containers and hanging baskets. The blue blooms are outstanding. Million Bells plants are compact, low growers with fine foliage and 1 in, trumpet-shaped blooms that open nonstop until hard frost without need of deadheading. You can expect hummingbirds to visit your garden when you plant Calibrachoa because they love the large trumpet shaped flowers and it’s good nectar source. The One-inch bell-shaped flowers bloom all season long to fill garden beds and cascade from containers. They are easy to grow and maintain. For zones 9-11, this plant can also be a perennial.

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