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View Rick and Stacey’s top 10 plants for various categories.
Rick's Top Proven Winners ColorChoice Shrubs
Oakleaf Hydrangea Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Gatsby’
Mountain Hydrangea Hydrangea serrata ‘Tuff Stuff’
Maidenhair Tree Ginkgo biloba ‘Skinny Fit’
Fothergilla intermedia ‘Legend of the Fall’
Landscape Roses ‘At Last’ and ‘Oso Easy’ series
Sweetspire Itea virginica ‘Little Henry’
Clematis ‘Sweet Summer Love’
Hydrangea Paniculata ‘Limelight Prime’
Quince Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Double Take’ Peach
Buddleia Butterfly Bush ‘Pugster’ series
Stacey's Top Proven Winners Color Choice Shrubs
Simply Scentsational calycanthus
‘Sweet Summer Love’ clematis
Legend of the Fall fothergilla
Paraplu Violet hibiscus
Invincibelle Lace smooth hydrangea
Gatsby Pink oakleaf hydrangea
Ginger Wine ninebark
Double Play Doozie spirea
Steady Eddy viburnum
Vinho Verde weigela
Rick's Top Proven Winners Perennials
Baptisia False Indigo ‘Decadence’ series
False Sunflower Heliopsis helianthoides ‘Tuscan Sun’
Ornamental Grass Switch Grass
‘Prairie Winds Totem Pole’
and ‘Niagra Falls’
Allium Ornamental Onion ‘Serendipity’
Nepeta faassenii Catmint ‘Cat’s Meow’
Rose Mallow Hibiscus ‘Summerific Cranberry Crush’
Japanese Anemome ‘Fall in Love Sweetly’
Meant to Bee™ ‘Royal Raspberry’
Fountain Grass Pennisetum alopecuroides Prairie Winds ‘Lemon Squeeze’
‘Sun King’ Golden Japanese Spikenard
Stacey's Top Proven Winners Perennials
Meant to Bee Queen Nectarine agastache
‘String Theory’ amsonia
Decadence Lemon Meringue baptisia
Tuscan Sun helopsis
Fun and Games ‘Eye Spy’ foamy bells
Summerific Cranberry Crush hibiscus
Summerific Evening Rose hibiscus
Pyromania ‘Flashpoint’ red hot poker
Pardon My Cerise bee balm
Prairie Winds Cheyenne Sky switch grass
Rick's Top Proven Winners Annuals
Verbena Meteor Shower
Salvia Rockin series ‘Playin the Blues’
Salvia Rockin series ‘Blue Suede Shoes’
Supertunia Vista series ‘Bubble Gum’
Canna Lily ‘Toucan’ series
Coleus ColorBlaze series ‘Sedona Sunset’
Euphorbia ‘Diamond Frost’
Pennisetum purpureum Graceful Grasses ‘Vertigo’
Gomphrena pulchella Pink Globe Amaranth ‘Truffula’
Plectranthus Proven Accents ‘Cerveza n’ Lime’
Stacey's Top Proven Winners Annuals
Endless Flirtation browallia
Vermillionaire cuphea
Hippo White polka dot plant
Luscious Royale Red Zone lantana
Gold Dust mecardonia
(when I can find it! Wish more garden centers offered this very cool plant)
Rockin’ Deep Purple salvia
Amazel basil
Catalina Grape-o-Licious wishbone flower
Orange A-Peel black-eyed Susan vine
Whirlwind Starlight fan flower
Rick's Top Deer Resistant Plants
Allium ‘Serendipity’
and ‘Globemaster’ as well as Schubertii and Christophii
Any of the Ornamental grasses! I consider them bullet proof! Miscanthus sinensis, Switch grass (Panicum) like
‘Totem Pole’
or
Feather-reed grass Calamagrostis
,
Pennisetum
,
Hakonechloa
and even the “sedges” like
Carex
.
Berberis Barberry ‘Sun-Joy’ series
Buddleia ‘Lo and Behold’ and ‘Pugster’
Nepeta Catmint ‘Cat’s Meow’ or ‘Cat’s Pajamas’
Aralia cordata ‘Sun King’
False Indigo Baptisia ‘Decadence’ series
Stachys byzantina Lamb’s ears
Evergreens: Juniper ‘Tortuga’ and ‘Aquavita’ as well as Microbiota Siberian Cypress Celtic Pride
Chaenomeles Double Take Quince
Stacey's Top Deer Resistant Plants
Sprinter boxwood
Sweet Romance lavender
Silphium perfoliatum, aka cup plant
Decadence baptisia
‘Blue Fortune’ Agastache
Laced Up elderberry
Simply Scentsational calycanthus
Milkweed
– all types
Pycnanthemum muticum, mountain mint
Ruby Anniversary abelia