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SUGGESTED RETAIL PRICE $2.50 Proven Winners® ColorChoice® Gardening Simplified Flowering Shrubs 1 | Proven Winners® A Better Garden Starts with a Better Plant™ No matter what your level of skill or your desired level of skill, we think you should come home to a beautiful garden. That’s why we produce Gardening Simplified. In Gardening Simplified, you’ll find advice on shopping for plants and some simple tips on how and when to plant your new purchases. You’ll also find plenty of information about our plant varieties and an invitation to join our online community for more detailed advice. We think everyone deserves a better garden. So let’s get started on yours! SUGGESTED RETAIL PRICE $2.50 Proven Winners® ColorChoice® Gardening Simplified Flowering Shrubs On the Cover Patty and her grand-daughter admire a ‘Limelight’ hydrangea. Cityline® Berlin hydrangea is in the white Proven Winners container. 1 | Learn more about hydrangeas on pages 28-37. | 2 Contents Design Tips from the Pros page 10 Reblooming Azaleas Bloom-A-Thon®, page 15 Plants Resources 14 Flowering Shrubs 4 A Better Garden Starts with a Better Plant 54 Evergreen Shrubs 5 Award Winners 58 Vines 6 How to Shop for Plants How and When to Plant Hydrangea 101 7 Plant Tags Explained page 28 8 Seasons of Interest 9 What Do Plant People Mean... 10 Design Tips from the Pros 12 Online Resources Articles 59 Cold Hardiness Map 25 What About Deer? Sun or Shade 27 Meet the Plant Hunter 60 Plant Specifics 28 Hydrangea 101 66 Common Name to Botanical Name 33 Cutting & Drying Hydrangeas Reference Index 37 Invincibelle® Spirit and BCRF 67 Shopping List 39 Pruning & Watering 44 Breeder Profile 57 Container Gardening 3 | A Better Garden Starts with a Better Plant Not just any plant can be a Proven Winner. Proven Winners® plants have longer lasting color, better disease resistance, and easy maintenance requirements. The result is a beautiful garden with less work for you. So how do we choose plants for the Proven Winners brand? We work with plant breeders from around the world to select the best introductions. From breeder to garden center, it can take eight to ten years for a new plant to get to you. And the breeder has often spent at least that much time on the plant before Bob Head ® contacting us! Breeder of Bloom-A-Thon azaleas Proven Winners’ experts trial new plants in a variety of growing conditions and don’t hesitate to put a new plant to the test. For example, when testing new roses, we never spray them. This helps us to identify the most disease-resistant varieties. The goal, of course, is to offer better plants to you. This can mean plants with more color – either reblooming flowers or colorful foliage. Or seedless varieties that won’t litter your garden with unwanted seedlings. Dwarf plants are also desirable, since they require less pruning. Dr. Shim Breeder of Lil’ Kim™ hibiscus No matter what, the goal is to offer you a better plant. Oso Easy® Paprika Rose Chris Warner Gold Medal, Rose Hills International Rose Trials Breeder of Oso Easy® roses | 4 A Better Garden Award Winners While we’re confident in our selections, it’s always nice to hear Starts with a Better Plant that other people like them, too. Here are just a few of the Proven Winners shrubs that have won awards: ‘Miss Ruby’ Butterfly Bush Lo & Behold® ‘Blue Chip’ Wine & Roses® Weigela #1 Royal Horticultural Society Butterfly Bush – Showstopper Plant, Multiple, including the Pennsylvania Buddleia Trials JC Raulston Arboretum Horticultural Society Gold Medal ‘Limelight’ Hydrangea Summer Wine® Ninebark Oso Happy® Petit Pink Rose Multiple, including, Missouri Botanical Theodore Klein Award from the Kentucky American Rose Society Award Garden ‘Plant of Merit’ Nursery & Landscape Association of Excellence Coppertina™ Ninebark Lavender Chiffon™ Chardonnay Pearls® Deutzia Cut Flower of the Year from the Rose of Sharon – multiple, including Way Hot 100, Garden Design Magazine American Society of Specialty Cut the Mail Order Gardening Association Flower Growers Green Thumb Award 5 | How to Shop for Plants Off to the garden center? reward you by blooming Great! Whether you’ve when you get it home. got a shopping list or are It’s also worth looking hoping for some in-store at plants that aren’t in inspiration, we’ve got bloom at all. If you visit some tips for making a the garden center only in good purchase. May and buy only plants in bloom, you’ll miss out Size isn’t the most on months of early spring, important thing. Look for summer, and fall color in plants with good structure your garden. – lots of branching and symmetrical. Consider the overall health of the plant. Take a look at the roots. Unless it’s a yellow-leafed It’s OK to gently ease the variety, you want to see will hold the soil that’s Flowers aren’t everything. plant out of the container healthy green leaves. The in the container. A root- While it’s always tempting to take a look. You want soil should be moist, and bound plant will have to buy a plant that’s to see lots of healthy there should not be pests roots circling around the loaded with flowers, a white or light brown or weeds in the container. roots. A well-rooted plant perimeter of the pot, and plant with flower buds very little soil. waiting to open will How and When to Plant Soil. What kind of soil When To Plant. Flowering How To Plant. Dig a hole How To Water. Water the do you have? Dig a hole shrubs can be planted about twice the size of the plant, first moistening the about the size of a one- almost any time of the container, and loosen the soil, then soaking it well. gallon plant container year, although you roots. Remove any tags You may need to do this and fill it with water. If will need to be or wires and position every day for the first week it drains away in about extra diligent about the plant in the hole. or so, then gradually wean an hour, you have very watering if you plant Fill the hole with soil, the plant off of frequent well-drained, sandy soil. If them during the heat pausing about halfway watering so it develops the water takes a couple of summer. Any newly full to reposition the a nice, deep root system. hours to drain, you’re planted shrub will plant if necessary. You will likely need to in luck. You have the need regular watering Unless the soil is water the plant at least moist, well-drained soils during its first season very poor, do not add once a week during its first gardeners want. If your in your garden. After compost or other season in your garden, hole takes more than four that, most shrubs organic material but once established, hours to drain, you have will do well without to the hole. most shrubs will do well poorly drained soil. Poorly supplemental without watering. drained soil and heavy clay watering. soils can be challenging to plants and should be amended before investing in plants. | 6 Plant Tags Explained Hardy Hydrangea Little Lime™ 1 Variety Name: An easy to Bigleaf Hydrangea Let’s Dance® remember name that is used to Azalea Big Easy ™ Bollywood distinguish this plant from others like it. There are many different varieties of Weigela, but only one Wine & Roses ®. 2 Common Name: A casual name COLOR CHOICE for the plant used by gardeners. These are often colorful and descriptive, COLOR CHOICE but can vary from place to place. COLOR CHOICE Common names may be used for more than one type of plant, which is why horticulturists prefer botanic names. There is a lot of information on plant tags that can be confusing to gardeners. Understanding plant tags can help you select the 3 Botanic Name: The formal best plants for your garden and learn how to take care of them. Latin name for the plant. It includes the plant genus and species. This name Many gardeners save plant tags for future reference. They are is universal, so a gardener in Japan will helpful if you should have a question about the plant in the know exactly what a German gardener future, both for the information they contain and because is talking about. Referencing this they provide the precise name of the plant should you wish to name for online searches or in books search for information online. may result in quicker, more accurate information. 4 Cultivar Name: Sometimes 4 5 6 7 8 this is the same as the variety name. It is the name of this particular plant clone. Every plant with this name is 1 ™ Little Lime the same genetically. 2 Hydrangea 5 Plant Patent Numbers: 3 H. paniculata ‘Jane’ pp#22,330, cbr#5914 The propagation of, and/or the sale of plant parts is prohibited without a license. USDA 3, AHS 8, 3-5 feet Just like other inventors, plant breeders La propagation ou la vente de parties de plantes est interdite sans permis. Esta prohibita la propagacion y/o venta de partes vegetales sin licencia. can protect their work with patents. It is illegal to propagate a patented Proven Winners® ColorChoice® shrubs are bred and selected by expert horticultur- ists to give you lots of color without all the work. Choosing the right plants is our plant without permission. The phrases job. Enjoying them is yours. Find out more at www.provenwinners.com ppaf and cbraf indicate that a patent application has been submitted.
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