Description

A spreading evergreen, with soft, green foliage, easily maintained at any size with regular pruning. Grows 8-12″ per year. Shade to full sun.

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Trim to shape

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Description

Also known as Lily of the Valley shrub, Interstella features beautiful, bell-like, ruby-colored flowers in spring. Hundreds of dangling flowers rise above evergreen red and green foliage. Protect from windy conditions. Grows to around 3 ft. tall and wide. Full to part shade.

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White Spring Flowers

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Description

A full bodied evergreen well suited for foundation landscape plantings or hedges. Foliage retains its rich green color throughout winter. Dense, rounded form if left unsheared. Moderate growth rate, easily maintained at 3 to 4 ft. tall and wide. Full to part sun, but can tolerate shady condtions.

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Glossy Green Foliage

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Description

This broadleaf, evergreen shrub boasts a profusion of bright red berries each fall. Use China Boy Holly as a pollenizer. Grows 8-10″ per year, and can be maintained at 4 ft. tall and wide. Full sun to shade.

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Red Fall Berries

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Description

A colorful, dwarf evergreen shrub, with soft, golden green foliage in summer. Grows 2-4″ per year, reaching only 10-15″ tall and wide. Full to part sun.

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Golden foliage

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Description

A dwarf, slow growing evergreen shrub, with attractive silver-blue foliage. Grows slowly, at 4-6″ per year,reaching 2′ tall and 3′ wide. Full sun.

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Low blue groundcover

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Description

The smallest of these bright gold conifers with uniquely textured foliage. Produces a ground hugging mound that is truly mop-like, with stringy leaves. Evergreen. Full sun. Slow growing to under 3 feet tall, 4 feet wide.

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Description

An excellent dwarf evergreen shrub, producing a compact, perfectly round shape. Foliage is lacy, thread-like, blue-green and soft to the touch. Slow growing and a low maintenance shrub. Grows to 2-3 ft. tall and wide. Full to part sun.

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Description

An excellent narrow evergreen, good for screens and barriers in tight spaces. To develop a living fence, plant at 3-5 ft. spacings. Can grow to 15 ft. tall or more and 4-5 ft. wide, but can be maintained at lower heights with trimming. Full to part sun.

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Hedge evergreen

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Description

Highly resistant to Boxwood Blight, the excellent dwarf Boxwood, Little Missy has green foliage that persists all year round. Grows slowly to 2 ft. tall and 3 ft. wide. Sun or shade.

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