Hallson Gardens

It's not white yarrow. I have that and that is not it.

Time travel and the suspension of disbelief....perfect excuses or anything is possible... take your pick.

They are the perfect understory tree. They will bloom and grow well in dappled and partly shady locations. I would trim the bottom growth so it is a single stem until it branches a couple feet up.

They are prettiest with a layered open structure, in my book.

Crap, I know that plant,but can't think of it just now. THe common name has the word "feather" in it I think...

John, never visit the Midwest...we all pronounce forsythia that way! I thnka lot of pronounciations are a bit of gardener regionalization, something like common names for plants.

Is it a possible reversion to the plant from which your patented parent was a sport?

Oh, Also Brandywine has good form and the flowers are incredible rose pink cabbage rose style flowers! As for your landscaper...it is not cost effective for him to run around shopping for one particular element for your landscape. Every nursery can not carry every cultivar, but any of these mentione...

I am fairly familiar with all those that you have on your list and could add a couple others that are also nice. I agree with everyone, Prairiefire is a fanatastic crab. My understanding, though, is that it is not a tree for a small space! Most nurseries get into ruts and order the same crabs again ...

I have been using fresh wood chips for a number of years to improve my fairly sandy soil on my actual garden beds. I live in an area where the very rain itself is alkaline so I am always trying to go to the acid. Surprisingly, the wood chips have not done much for that. I find the nitrogen grabbing ...

I've had one too for 3 years. Seems very slow to grow, has never bloomed, let alone set fruit of any kind. The deer buckthorn (local vernacular) has a rounded leaf versus the threadleaf and loads of black berries that the birds scatter and seem to germinate very quickly, without it appears stratific...

I've had the one with the white root, grated on a salad. I thnk that is the best way to use it.

"Goatsbeard" is probably a regional misnomer, I'm thinking of a plant that is NOT in the aruncus or sorbia family, but one more similar to a dandelion. I don't know the Latin for it though.

"Holy crap, Batman! Is this another scary trick from the Plant Puzzler, the mad genetic scientist who develops genetically modified plants!?!" Well, I've never seen it before, but based on its characteristics, it seems to have something in common with the native goatsbeard and the garden vegetable s...

What Stella di Oro is to daylilies, Pink Knockout is to roses. This is the one rose, everyone should and can grow.

Not only will the tiniest piece root, but it sets seed. Once you have it, you have to be religious about trying to control it. The Borateem (laundry additive stuff) changes the pH, but it takes light dusting applications about 6 weeks apart or it will kill grass. If you let your lawn get longer and ...

Sambucas don't seem particularly growthy and the PPAF cultivar are very slow to grow. If I was going for bird berries, I would look at viburnums, high bush cranberries. Viburnum Alfredo has a very nice pleated leaf. I like the sage green foliage of Mohican. THe flowers on nice, especially Onanadaga....

My first thought is it is some sort of abelia after the or petal part has dropped and the sepal remain. The leaf is right and the sepal on abelia chinensis are very showy and lok like that.

Whipping out the Dr. Michael Dirr "Manual of Woody Landscape Plants" (my herbaceous Bible)... "the Cleyera japonica is a related species". "Sometimes the Ternstroemia is sold as the other..." If the tips of the leaves are "blunted" or rounded it is ternstroemia, cleyera is decided pointed.The ternst...

You didn't mention the color of your house or trim or anything. I saw a juniper this last year named Bar Harbor that was very elegant, but lower growing. I also like the gold threadleaf arbs like Rheingold or Golden Mops. But for a deciduous fast grower Diabolo ninebark, Dart's Gold Ninebark, and Ca...

I have read Zone 0 average winter temps range down to -45...couldn't tell the difference today in "balmy" zone 4b/5a central Wisconsin!