Winter has arrived in Southern Indiana and we have stopped shipping trees and shrubs until early Spring.
All orders placed after 11/18/11 will be shipped in early March, 2012. All orders will be processed and held until our spring shipping begins. Thanks for your interest. Pat
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Weigela WINE & ROSES Weigela WINE & ROSES® has changed Weigela forever! The rich dark burgundy foliage is much darker than that of older varieties like Java Red. It contrasts beautifully with the rosy-pink flowers, making for a high impact display in the garden. This variety produces copious amounts of flowers in spring, and will re-bloom throughout the summer. WINE & ROSES® can be enjoyed as either an accent plant or used for a dramatic mass planting. It is fast growing and trouble free, making it an easy way to add season long color to the garden. The richly colored foliage makes its branches an excellent addition to cut flower bouquets. If you want intense colored foliage throughout the growing season then this is the plant for you. The color is amazing! Intense rosy-pink colored flowers jump against the dark burgundy-purple rich foliage! Wine & Roses shines from spring to fall by combining colorful foliage and intensely colored, funnel shaped flowers. The dark purple foliage is so attractive; it is being sold and used as a cut branch in the thriving European floral market. Floral designers are combining Wine & Roses with more traditional cut flowers like roses, baby's breath and chrysanthemums to create uniquely beautiful flower bouquets. Wine & Roses is a natural addition to floral bouquets because of its unique color and lasting ability. You can easily combine it with common perennials found in your garden. Try combining Wine & Roses with either Shasta Daisy, Siberian Iris, Globe Thistle, or Russian Sage. The results will simply amaze you. As a garden shrub Wine & Roses is strong grower with no serious insect of disease problems. Reaching a mature height of four to five feet, it may be easily trimmed to maintain lower height. It can be used as a hedge, as a foundation plant or it can be effectively integrated into a shrub or perennial border to provide season long color. It's also perfect for use in a Hummingbird garden or cut flower garden. Like many perennials, a light shearing after it blooms in mid-spring will often be rewarded with a second bloom. To achieve its best foliage color it is essential to plant Wine & Roses in full sun. Sunlight brings out the dark pigments that gives Wine and Roses it dark purple leaf color. Bloom Time: Spring flush with additional flowering through the summer and fall. Bloom Color: Deep rosy pink Foliage Color: Dark burgundy purple Size: 4-5 feet tall and wide Exposure: Full sun for best color One gallon size plants.
Price: $10.50
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Fun Plant FactsAn African bugleweed synthesises in its tissues a substance similar to the hormone that controls the development of caterpillars. If a caterpillar is persuaded, experimentally, to ingest that substance, then when it turns into a butterfly it will develop two heads and die. -David Attenborough, The Private Life of Plants, p70 84% of a raw apple and 96% of a raw cucumber is water. A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows. A pineapple is a berry. Arrowroot, an antidote for poisoned arrows, is used as a thickener in cooking (so if you ever get shot with a poison arrow, do not go to a doctor, look in your kitchen cabinet. Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis sativa (marijuana) on their plantations. In the Netherlands, in 1634, a collector paid 1,000 pounds of cheese, four oxen, eight pigs, 12 sheep, a bed, and a suit of clothes for a single bulb of the Viceroy tulip. No species of wild plant produces a flower or blossom that is absolutely black, and so far, none has been developed artificially. Peanuts are beans. Quinine, one of the most important drugs known to man, is obtained from the dried bark of an evergreen tree native to South America. The California redwood - coast redwood and giant sequoia - are the tallest and largest living organism in the world. The largest single flower is the Rafflesia or "corpse flower". They are generally 3 feet in diameter with the record being 42 inches. The oldest living thing in existence is not a giant redwood, but a bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California, dated to be aged 4,600 years old. The rose family of plants, in addition to flowers, gives us apples, pears, plums, cherries, almonds, peaches and apricots. Asparagus is a member of the lily family, which also includes onions, leeks, and garlic. The bright orange color of carrots tell you they are an excellent source of Vitamin A which is important for good eyesight, especially at night. Vitamin A helps your body fight infection, and keeps your skin and hair healthy. Onions contain a mild antibiotic that fights infections, soothes burns, tames bee stings and relieves the itch of athletes foot. One bushel of corn will sweeten more than 400 cans of pop. These facts are gathered from the internet and may or may not be true. |
