New plants for 2018 Trees Acer griseum x maximowiczianum ‘Cinnamon Girl’ – New hybrid Paperbark maple with outstanding year around interest. This tree has cool fissured and peeling brown bark and clean foliage turning brilliant orange/red in the fall. Easy to grow and adaptable for use in most garden locations. Grows 20-25 feet tall and wide. Cornus x ‘Rosey Teacups’ - A new disease resistant dogwood with clean foliage and excellent pink early summer bloom. The flowers are cupped up a bit for an attractive and unique look. Use as a nice specimen tree in the landscape located in sun to part shade. Grows 15 to 20 feet tall and wide. Cornus kousa ‘Scarlet Fire’ – Outstanding Dogwood out of the Rutgers breeding program. Disease resistant with bright fuchsia pink bracts in early summer. The flowers are followed by red fruits for wildlife and persist into fall for additional garden interest. Grows 20-25 feet tall and wide. Styrax japonica ‘Evening Light’ – A fabulous new variety of Japanese Snowbell that has purple to violet foliage! Dark leaves are followed by a nice fragrant light pink to white flower in late spring – often blooming a bit in the fall as well. This is a tidy garden tree growing to 15 feet tall and 10 feet wide. An easy to grow NW tree. Acer circinatum ‘Three Cheers’ - A new selection of our native Vine Maple with wonderful upright and tidy shape/structure. These easy-to-grow garden trees will now fit into a tighter spot for focal point/upright structure without all the side branching, growing 15 feet tall or so & only 6 feet wide. Acer circinatum ‘Plum Passion’ – Newer native type Vine Maple with outstanding red fall color. It will have a nice mix of purple/burgundy foliage with green over summer – especially when planted in sun. Grows about 15’ tall and 8’ feet wide. Takes full sun or part shade. Acer palmatum ‘Mini Maple’ - A new miniature seedling maple that is perfect for container growing and bonsai. This is a seedling discovered off of “Mikawa Yatsubusa” and is now available to home gardeners. I have had one in a pot for 7 years and it is barely a foot tall and wide with no pruning. Outstanding fall color, branch structure and count on 2-3 feet tall and wide long term, smaller in pots. Acer palmatum ‘Radiant’ – Newer outstanding variegated Japanese Maple for gardeners. Consistent, stunning white/pink/green foliage color. Perfect for part shade to shade spots in the garden as a focal point or to use as a container specimen. Grows 10 feet tall by 6 feet wide with age. Acer palmatum x pseudosieboldianum – The Jack Frost Maples: Arctic Jade, Ice Dragon, and North Wind - Hybrid Japanese maples with all the color, structure and dependability of traditional maples with the added hardiness of 30 degrees below zero! Arctic Jade grows 20’ x 15’, had leaves like Acer japonicum, and outstanding red/orange fall color. Ice Dragon grows like a lace leaf specimen (10’ tall and 12’ wide), leafing out red/orange, turning green with excellent heat tolerance in summer, and then lighting up the fall with yellow/orange/red. North Wind is the hardiest of the bunch, growing 20’ x 15’ and offering bright orange/red color even through cold spells in the fall. Perennials/Vines West Country Series of Lupine – Three new flavors in the series: Blacksmith, Desert Sun, and Persian Slipper - These Lupines are simply amazing! Brilliant flowers in bicolor are sturdy and bloom a long time if deadheaded regularly. Blacksmith has deep purple/white flowers, Desert Sun is a bright sunny yellow, and Persian Slipper blooms a soft lavender/white flower. Great for pollinators! Senecio ‘Angel Wings’ – New and exciting flavor of Dusty Miller! It has silky silver foliage and excellent texture to add in combination with other annuals and perennials. Offers a great container accent to use from spring through fall. Grows 12-18” tall and 12” wide. These are zone 8 so they will need some winter protection to keep year to year. Heuchera ‘Plum Crazy’ – Do you have “Hechera-itis” like I do? Then there are always new ones for the garden to try! Plum Crazy is a cute little grower with dark purple base color mottled with silver highlights. The hummingbirds will also like the small sprays of white flowers. Grows 12” tall and 18” wide and likes full or part sun. Use in containers as well! Created by Trevor Cameron, C.P.H For Sunnyside Nursery (V.2018) Euphorbia ‘Galaxy Glow’ – A new hardy Euphorbia flavor that emerges with pinkish foliage and fades into green. Flowers emerge greenish and turn a hot pink from early spring to summer. These drought tolerant beauties grow 2’ tall and 3’ wide. Bergenia ‘Dragon Fly Angel Kiss’ – A fabulous new Bergenia that blooms pink in early spring, has glossy green summer foliage and turns a fiery red for the winter months. The blooms are also double flowers on short stalks that tend to not break. Use in Part Shade or Shade gardens for a low evergreen border perennial or utilize in containers as well. Hakonechloa ‘Sun Flare’ – A newer flavor of Japanese Forest Grass with stunning yellow base color and deep red tips. Grows 18” tall and wide and will spread and naturalize easily. Best in part shade or shade. Deciduous so no blades over winter. Dianthus ‘American Pie Series’ – Great new fragrant old fashioned Dianthus with long stems and big ol’ blooms! Look for ‘Bumbleberry’, ‘Georgia Peach’, and ‘Key Lime’ this year. Unique colored blooms on a classic rockery perennial. Campanula ‘Adansa Pink’ – Classic Campanula with extended bloom season. Easy to grow, forms nice clumps of foliage with small star shaped pink blooms on long stalks. Grows 12” tall and 24” wide and enjoys full sun or part sun along garden borders. Erica ‘Eva Gold’ – Irish Heath flavor with bright magenta flowers from winter to early spring. Foliage is awesome on these – emerges bright yellow and matures to green over summer. Easy to grow and drought tolerant. Grows 2’ tall and 2’ wide. Erysimum ‘Winter Party’ – This perennial has an extremely long blooming season, bloom coral/orange with pruple/rose with slight fragrance. Grows 18” tall and wide and likes good drainage in the garden in full or part sun. Crocosmia ‘Diabolito’ – Monbretias like these are vivid bloomers that are great for attracting Hummingbirds and Pollinators. This is not ‘Lucifer’ - compact blades under 2’ and vivid red flowers. These naturalize easily and offer long summer bloom in the garden in full sun or part sun. Agastache ‘Kudos Coral’ – A new addition to the Hyssop collection of varieties. Drought tolerant & long blooming these are perfect Hummingbird & Pollinator magnets! Use in the perennial garden with good drainage in full sun and enjoy a whole season of color. Compact growth to 18”. Helleborus ‘Penny’s Pink’ – A new Hellebore with outstanding mottled evergreen mottled foliage and bright pink flowers in winter and spring. These are drought tolerant and easy to grow. Perfect in part shade and shade gardens for a pop of winter color. Grow 18” tall and 2’ wide. Echinacea ‘Sombrero Sangrita’ – The newest additional to the Sombrero series of Coneflowers – perfect drought tolerant little compact summer blooming machines. Easy to grow with ruby red flowers all summer long, 18” tall and wide. Plant them in mass or mix with other colors. Salvias: ‘Ember Wish’, ‘Love and Wishes’, and ‘Pitcheri Azurea’ - These are summer blooming Salvias perfect for Hummingbirds in the garden. In the garden make sure they have good drainage to grow as perennial – otherwise use them like I do in containers for long season of color. Ember Wish is zone 8, coral color, and 3 to 4 feet tall. Love and Wishes blooms purplish pink, is zone 8, and grows 3 to 4 feet as well. Azurea is a pitcher sage, vivid blue, grows 3 to 5 feet tall and is zone 6. Clematis ‘Boulevard Series’ – Outstanding new line of patio clematis perfect for growing in pots or in smaller spaces in the landscape. They offer a long season of bloom in a compact vine. Lots of colors out there but look a couple of new ones like ‘Daiyu’(dark pink) and ‘Nubia’(bright red). These will grow to a tidier 6’ in height or so and thrive in contianers. Edibles Actinidia ‘Sweet and Solo’ – A new Kiwi that is self-fertile and fuzzy! Needs full sun and will grow 15-20’. It will need some support or a structure to climb as Kiwi gets large with age! But now you don’t have to worry about the he vine and the she vine doing their thing Vaccinium x ‘Native Blue’ - A cool new blueberry specie with bluish foliage and sweet dark berries to harvest in late summer. This one has cool foliage and bark a well – a bit like Manzanita to some extent. Grows 18” tall and 2 to 3 feet wide. Best in sun and good for the birds! Created by Trevor Cameron, C.P.H For Sunnyside Nursery (V.2018) Vaccinium x ‘Razz’ – A blueberry that tasted like a Raspberry? Yep – here it is! This is a traditional Northern Highbush flavor that grows to 5 feet tall, ripens Mid-season and loves our acidic soils and moisture. This one just tastes like a Raspberry! Shrubs Helwingia chinensis ‘Pearly Twirly – A cool new Zone 7 shrub from Dan Hinkley – the world plant hunter. It is a graceful upright shrub growing to 5’ or so with willowy foliage and cool little white flowers that sit on the foliage.