A Grower Perspective

 Today we had a customer buy several Chamaecyparis thyoides ‘Heather Bun’ which look absolutely great right now. They are a dusty plum color and have a soft and fluffy appearance. (to learn more about this plant, click here) When we asked our customer what he had planned for them, he described a mounding, informal hedge of heatherbun as a backdrop for heather. You might recall heather (Calluna) is a low growing shrub that echoes the soft and mounding shape of ‘Heather Bun.’  The combination sounded so great I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it! So why not try this combination in your yard? We have calluna vulgaris ‘Robert Champan’ (see below, in the foreground) that would make a great companion to ‘Heather Bun.’ All this heather talk is reminding me of the movie “Heathers” from 1988. If you haven’t seen this movie, I highly recommend it. And if you have seen the movie, then you should know that the plants, heather and ‘Heather Bun’, are far better behaved than their movie counterparts. All they will ask of you is full sun and well-drained soil- and you won’t have to worry about the popular crowd.

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 We had a customer call the other day looking for a columnar tree to fill a specific location between buildings. It got us thinking about all of the trees that we have in the nursery that are super narrow but grow tall without large, spreading heads. These trees are great to line driveways or provide a strong vertical element in an otherwise low, shruby landscape.


Here are our suggestions for columnar trees:

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 Very exciting news: Our new crop of #1 blueberries are available! Blueberries are one of our most popular sellers- and for good reason. Blueberries are delicious and blueberry plants are beautiful additions to your landscape. ‘Legacy’ blueberry, for example, is evergreen in our area, but many varieties have wonderful fall foliage, like ‘Patriot’, that has red, orange and yellow fall color. Blueberry plants are a great addition even in small gardens where space is limited; ‘Top Hat’ is a small plant that grows only one to two feet high. ‘Chandler’ blueberry is one of the most popular varieties, and its berries are the largest blueberries in the world.

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